When music as a healing agent becomes more generally recognized, it will perhaps be utilized more extensively in the earlier stage mental cases than with any other. It is quite naturally felt that such patients can be reached more immediately and effectively than patients afflicted with physical ailments. Man's threefold body is linked to the threefold spirit by means of the mind. As previously stated, each of these vehicles or principles sound a keynote of its own. If these notes be altered so as to create a dissonance between the bodies great enough to cause a rupture between any two of them, the result is some form of mental derangement.
In idiocy it is the harmonious connection between the etheric and desire bodies that is disturbed. The etheric body is under Aquarius and is keyed to A-major, 3 sharps; the desire body is under Capricorn, keyed to G-major, 1 sharp. The mind is under Sagittarius, F-major, 1 flat. The spirit is under Leo and keved to B-flat major, 2 flats.
When a break occurs between the desire body and the mind the result is a raving maniac. A break between the mind and the spirit has the effect of rendering the victim virtually devoid of conscience. It produces the clever, cunning mind, the soulless person capable of committing the most unspeakable crimes.
Music in the related keys will prove beneficial in the treat ment of these various forms of mental aberration. From the type of insanity may be diagnosed the nature of the mental break after which the case can be beneficially treated by music in the keys corresponding to the afflicted vehicles. The keynote of the threefold body of humanity at large is B-major, and is correlated to Pisces. The note of the spirit, as previously observed, is A-sharp major (Leo).
As we have already observed, the body of man is keyed to the entire range of the chromatic scale. With disease comes a dissonance between the tones. This is particularly noticeable in insanity.
The atmosphere surrounding a hospital for the insane is permeated with the dissonances of broken notes. A sensitive is acutely conscious of this fact and of its debilitating effect upon highly sensitized patients. Naturally this retards the recovery of such inmates. Here is to be found one important reason for the slow response to treatment in many cases. Scientific application of musico-therapy can do much to remedy this condition.
As already observed, F is the keynote of the earth. It is also the notes of the mental signs Gemini and Sagittarius (F-sharp and F-natural, respecitvely). This fact points to the prime pur pose of man’s evolution on earth which is the development of the power of mind. The attainment of universal intelligence and the identification with divine mind is his goal.
When the vibrational activity of a certain organ departs from its normal condition and the accustomed rhythm is broken, disease results. The mind, being a creative instrument and the channel through which the powers of the spirit work upon the body, is capable of becoming the principal agent in any form of healing. Since this is so, musical treatment should in all cases be directed first of all to quieting the mind, establishing it in harmony, and then quickening its powers for the work it is called upon to do in the healing of any physical ailment. This can best be accomplished by playing chords in the scale of F and F-sharp.
A body ailment is not always indicated in the horoscope by the sign governing the part afflicted. Sometimes it is denoted by the opposite sign, since the forces of the opposites intermingle in the body. For example, Taurus and Scorpio are opposing signs, the first ruling the throat, the latter the organs of generation. Consequently throat trouble may come from afflictions in either Taurus or Scorpio. That it comes from Scorpio in many cases is particularly evident in adolescents. At the age of puberty when the forces of Scorpio are especially active, the reaction of the throat is decidedly marked, one way or another. In boys it makes for a change in voice. Sometimes the nature of the configuration is such that the throat ailment passes with adolescence; at other times the trouble is accentuated.
The close relationship existing between opposite signs appears musically in their respective keynotes. For instance, in the two signs above considered, Taurus and Scorpio, the former sounds the note of E-flat and the latter E-natural.
Music in the key of E carries the quality of purity and healing through regeneration, E-flat being more effective for Egos in feminine bodies and E-sharp for those in masculine form. In view of these facts it is well to select music in the key of E for children passing through their second septenary, when the desire body unfolds its power from latency into dynamic expression.
Healing will be permanent only when based on and in accord with man’s spiritual nature and constitution. Throat ailments, for instance, will pass with man’s regeneration. And not only this, but the throat will then become the center of the creative force which now functions at the base of the spine. Its functions will have been lifted to a higher level. The spoken word will then carry the power of direct creation. Thus it was that God created heaven and earth, and all therein. Man, made in His image, will some day do no less.
Gemini governs the lungs and also the forces of the human mind as distinguished from the higher or divine mind. Inharmony of bodily rhythm will ultimately externalize itself in the physical body. Tuberculosis, for example, may be traced to pronounced materialistic thinking in lives past. Sagittarius, the opposite sign of Gemini, governs the base of the spine and the sacral bones. It is in this portion of the body that the spiritual fires are first lighted to burn away the dross of the lower nature and extract therefrom that pure essence which becomes the living waters of eternal life referred to by Jesus. Sagittarius also governs the awakened or Christed mind, a state following men tal purification and the redemption of the body. To repeat, Gemini sounds the keynote of F-sharp and Sagittarius, F-natural. The office of the key of F is to open up the avenues for forces of mental purification and regeneration just as the powers of E work for the cleansing and redemption of the physical body.
Another pair of opposites are Cancer and Capricorn, the former ruling the stomach, the latter the knees. Afflications of the stomach result from unbridled appetites in the past and diseases of the limbs from unrighteous living. Spiritually, Capricorn elevates man to the place where the Christ consciousness is born within him and Cancer promotes him to the transcendant glories of Initiation. The keynote of Cancer is G-sharp and that of Capricorn is G-natural. The key of G releases the forces of spiritual illumination. The initial pitch is sounded in the simple or natural key; the subjective qualities released by the sign are contacted in man by the flats and the objective qualities are released and contacted in a similar way through the sharps.
Aries governs the head with its various organs, and Libra, its opposite sign, the kidneys. Spiritually interpreted, Aries releases the highest impulses of the spirit and Libra builds the wisdom that is of the soul. The keynote of Aries is D-flat and that of Libra is D-natural. D is therefore a harmonic incantation which releases a renewal of spiritual force for man’s restoration when afflictions center in the organs governed by these signs.
Virgo governs the intestines, and its opposite sign, Pisces, the feet. The keynote of Virgo is service through chastity and that of Pisces is service through unity. The keynote of Virgo is C-major; Pisces, B-major. The musical impulses of Virgo-Pisces manifest through the tones of B and C and sound a call to service. Healing for afflictions of these two signs is most easily effected in their fundamental spiritual features through service rendered to others. These ailments are seldom of such a nature as to prevent service of some kind, though a special effort of the will is sometimes necessary for accomplishment. The vibrations of the note B will also aid in developing the power of the will.
Leo governs the heart, and its opposite polarity, Aquarius, the ankles. The keynote of Leo is A-sharp; Aquarius, A-natural. The motive power of Leo is love; of Aquarius, mentality. Their combination on the highest plane of manifestation will produce the superman of the coming Aquarian Age. To achieve this union of heart and mind is a difficult process and usually in volves adjustments not possible without suffering temporary inharmonies.
The keynote of A breathes forth a radiant force which man can translate at its highest into true humility and compassion. When this quality of Leo and Aquarius becomes dominant in the life of man the ills which now afflict the personal life, both mental and physical, will pass away. This is the supreme truth conveyed in the musical message of A.
— Corinne Heline
