Omitted Text - 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord
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Query: 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord
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The essence of astronomical movements—the dance of the planets, and hence the highest musical order—was their regularity (once again our “reg” idea), “a predictable cycle of changes, itself unchanging.”[1] Miller[2] (1986: p. 57) added: “the stability and uniformity of the patterns of motions detected in the heavens revealed the existence of an archetypal Mind governing both the psychological and physical dynamics of the temporal cosmos.” It thus reinforced a faith in authority—on earth as well as in the heavens. [Omitted text: (See [tk] on the Persian kings being authoritarian in their art.)]
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- ↑ James L. Miller, Measures of Wisdom: The Cosmic Dance in Classical and Christian Antiquity (Toronto: 1986), p. 57.
- ↑ James L. Miller, Measures of Wisdom: The Cosmic Dance in Classical and Christian Antiquity (Toronto: 1986), p. 57.
