This was the teaching of the
ancient Chinese and Egyptians, as well as of ancient Aryans. The
doctrine of the 'music of the spheres' first saw the light here in
India, and not in Greece or Italy, whither it was brought by
Pythagoras after he had studied under the Indian Gymnosophists.
And most certainly this great philosopher--who revealed to the
world the heliocentric system before Copernicus and Galileo--knew
better than anyone else how dependent are the least sounds in
nature on Akasha and its interrelations. One of the four Vedas,
namely, the Sama-Veda, entirely consists of hymns. This is a
collection of mantrams sung during the sacrifices to the gods,
that is to say, to the elements. Our ancient priests were hardly
acquainted with the modern methods of chemistry and physics; but,
to make up for it, they knew a good deal which has not as yet been
thought of by modern scientists. So it is not to be wondered at
that, sometimes, our priests, so perfectly acquainted with natural
sciences as they were, forced the elementary gods, or rather the
blind forces of nature, to answer their prayers by various portents.
Every sound of these mantrams has its meaning, its importance,
and stands exactly where it ought to stand; and, having a raison
d'etre, it does not fail to produce its effect. Remember Professor
Leslie, who says that the science of sound is the most subtle,
the most unseizable and the most complicated of all the series
of physical sciences.
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