"No motion can take place without causing sound. This must be equally true of atomic and planetary movements, and all that lies between. All sounds that appear to the senses as different must obviously vibrate in some universal medium which permits movement and unifies their seeming diversity. It is the actual presence of such a medium in man which enables him to perceive that which music is the expression of. Notes and chords are merely alphabetical symbols. These are classified and combined to express ideas as truly as words are combined to convey the thought that lies beyond them.
It has been said that" The Universe is built by number". This is obvious truth when all natural forces and elements are conceived of as modes of vibration (as they actually are) blending and inter blending in the universal etheric medium, according to the immutable law of harmonious ratios. Why should the etheric world be thought of as an abstraction or a far-off possibility? It is in reality a nearer thing in life than its comparatively trifling contents. All our thoughts and feelings move in it as their medium, and the process of self-conquest is nothing more than to live in this our universal home, and harmonize dissociated thoughts and feelings into musical symphonies."
William A. Dunn, Music and Life (The Theosophical Path, Volume 1, no. 1)
LADYBIRD LADYBIRD-One of my personal favourites from the voluminous and ever fragrant Ladybird Books library
While the series grows exponentially with each passing day, it's the classics which always calls the discerning reader home to those innocent far off days of yore