Human musicians on Urantia have elevated musical taste from the barbarous monotony of early ancestors towards higher levels of sound appreciation. [1] Tuneful syncopation symbolizes the evolution from primitive monotony to expressive harmony, catering more to the senses than to intellect. [2]
Music saw little progress until the arrival of the Adamites, who greatly enhanced human beauty and contributed humor, art, adventure, and manufacture to every nation they journeyed to. [3] Music, originating in worship chants, enmothers nonreligious culture. [4]
Appreciation of music on Urantia is both physical and spiritual, with a steady improvement over thousands of years towards higher levels of sound appreciation. [5]
It's better if Adam and Eve had survived, for then music in reality would flourish, with the power to transform whole nations and the entire civilized world. [6]
The hunger of the soul cannot be satisfied with physical pleasures; the love of home and children is not augmented by the unwise pursuit of pleasure or music as it cannot elevate the soul or nourish the spirit. [7] Music expresses the tempo of emotions in a supermathematical harmony with the eternal melody of Infinity. [8] Amid mourning, Jesus brought the girl back to life with a flute played. [9]
Love, the secret of beneficial association between personalities, cannot appreciatingly know music through mathematical deduction, even though music is a form of mathematical rhythm. [10] The gift of harmony, occurring only once in 1000 mortals, has the power to transform the world through the universal language of music. [11] Beauty, rhythm, and harmony are intellectually associated, spiritually akin, and philosophically interconnected. [12]
Tuneful syncopation signifies the evolution from primitive musical monotony to later-day musicians' expressionful harmony, requiring the exertion of higher intellectual powers for full appreciation. [13]
Jesus, a skillful harpist from an early age, exchanged dairy products for lessons, promoting musical interests among his peers, before sadly having to sell his harp for his brother's schooling. [14] Even within the limited range of mortal hearing, the realm of morontia melodies remains inconceivable. [15]
The majority react to music with material muscles, but human musicians have elevated sound appreciation from barbarous monotony to higher levels over thousands of years. [16] Peacetime military training in music is a voluntary pursuit for enlistees in continental nations. [17] A real musician's perfected spiritual thoughts could change the course of a nation, bursting forth in the melodies of Havona. [18]
Angels understand and greatly appreciate our real music and art, sharing in our emotions and struggles. [19]
The music of Urantia pales in comparison to the celestial harmonies heard by our musicians' celestial associates, leaving only fragments of these morontia melodies recorded as mere musical notes. [20]
There are over one hundred thousand modes analogous to our music instruments, representing different forms of sound, color, and energy manipulation in an attempt to approach celestial harmony. [21] Harmony, the universal code of spirit communication, is the key to unlocking the seven levels of melodious association. [22] Morontia functions are often executed in rhythm, enhancing efficiency and pleasure for both morontia and spirit beings. [23]
There is a vastness of range and a soul of expression beyond human comprehension in the morontia and spirit melodies, not material sound waves but spirit pulsations received by celestial personalities. [24]