Harmonies of Heaven and Earth

Joscelyn Godwin explores music's effects on matter, living things, and human behavior. Turning to metaphysical accounts of the higher worlds and theories of celestial harmony, the author follows the path of musical inspiration on its descent to Earth, illuminating the archetypal currents that lie beneath Western musical history.

Joscelyn Godwin, Professor of Music at Colgate University, is the author of The Harmony of Spheres, Arktos: The Polar Myth, The Theosophical Enlightenment, and many other books on music and esoteric traditions.

Preface and Acknowledgments

Part I    Ascending Parnassus
1   The Marvelous effects of Music
2   Hearing Secret Harmonies

Part II  The Great Work
3   Music Alchemy
4   Music and the Currents of Time

Part III  The Music of the Spheres
1   The Cosmological Framework
2   Planet-Scales, Type a
3   Modern Schemes: Titius-Bode and Goldschmidt
4   Planet-Scales, Type B
5   Planets, Tones, and the Days of the Week
6   Planet-Scales, Type C
7   Systems with Movable Tones: Eriugena, Anselmi
8   Kepler's Planetary Music
9   Intervals and the Astrological Aspects
10  Tone-Zodiacs
11  Angelic Orders and Muses: The Great Chain of Being
12  The Three Means
13  Gurdjieff's Law of Octaves
14  The Harmonics Series and its Symbolism
15  The Subharmonic Series
16  The Lambdoma and the Pyhagorean Table
17  Beyond Manifestation: 1/1 and 0/0

Notes

Bibliography of Works Cited