mrmalco
11th December 2010, 11:05
Solfeggio tones are beautiful and healthful and I've been involved in related work for over 40 years, so this is not an attack. But some corrections are needed to the cultural 'cladding' that has been wrapped around an interesting modern discovery. Yes 'modern' not ancient.
Drs Horowitz and Puello (and all who follow them) claim that the Solfeggio frequencies are derived from the intervals at the start of each line in Paul the Deacon's Hymn for the Feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist, decoded into exact numbers via a Cabalistic reading of the Book of Numbers, chapter 7, verses 12-83.
1: That chapter has only 24 verses. So perhaps someone is passing on a misprint - also the division of the Bible into chapters and verses happened way more than 300 years after Paul, who wrote in the 800s AD. These points are not necessarily crucially undermining but illustrate a general woolliness. For more specific stuff read on ...
2: Hertz = cycles per second.
Seconds were not standardised until the 1600s. The ancient world (Mesopotamia) had the abstract numerical concept for 'second' but no method of actually measuring one. Even the ancient measurement of hours was relative to the light-duration of the particular day, not to an invariable. It was only very recently that anyone would have a hope of tuning to a frequency that is 528 times finer that a second!
2a: Exact frequency calibration of any kind has only become possible since the emergence of electrically governed mechanisms.
3: Dr Puello is said to have discovered the numbers by a systematic Cabalistic system. Now, that's interesting because it can be shown that the three number sets 1-4-7, 2-5-8 and 3-6-9 (with their internal recombinations) can indeed be used to decode ALL number series (except primes) within which 9s have been cast out. Dr Puello's discovery therefore looks to be a special case example of this more general rule ... more an artifact of the process used than an indicator of intrinsic content. (I had already come across these number sets in work on characteristics of all Lucas number series and wished to publish interim findings in my book - Patterns of Eternity. But the publisher said to leave this topic for my next book, which should appear next autumn.)
4: Other woolly stuff that gets quoted ... e.g. that the hymn 'Ut queant laxis' was, for a long time lost, and some un-named 'Church expert' had to be approached about it, and that he became secretive. Perhaps the 'expert' just couldn't be bothered getting into discussion with someone trying to attach a conspiratorial mystery to something has been part of the latin liturgy throughout the 1200+ years since it was written. It can be found on page 1504 of the standard Liber Usualis. We used to sing it during Vespers on June 24 at the theological college where I studied 50 years ago.
It is unnecessary to try to validate an interesting modern discovery, such as the Solfeggio is, by calling it ancient and dressing it up in Emperor's clothes. It gives sceptical rationalists an excuse to rubbish work based on it, which is a very great pity.
You may be interested to search you-tube for 'patterns of eternity'.
Drs Horowitz and Puello (and all who follow them) claim that the Solfeggio frequencies are derived from the intervals at the start of each line in Paul the Deacon's Hymn for the Feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist, decoded into exact numbers via a Cabalistic reading of the Book of Numbers, chapter 7, verses 12-83.
1: That chapter has only 24 verses. So perhaps someone is passing on a misprint - also the division of the Bible into chapters and verses happened way more than 300 years after Paul, who wrote in the 800s AD. These points are not necessarily crucially undermining but illustrate a general woolliness. For more specific stuff read on ...
2: Hertz = cycles per second.
Seconds were not standardised until the 1600s. The ancient world (Mesopotamia) had the abstract numerical concept for 'second' but no method of actually measuring one. Even the ancient measurement of hours was relative to the light-duration of the particular day, not to an invariable. It was only very recently that anyone would have a hope of tuning to a frequency that is 528 times finer that a second!
2a: Exact frequency calibration of any kind has only become possible since the emergence of electrically governed mechanisms.
3: Dr Puello is said to have discovered the numbers by a systematic Cabalistic system. Now, that's interesting because it can be shown that the three number sets 1-4-7, 2-5-8 and 3-6-9 (with their internal recombinations) can indeed be used to decode ALL number series (except primes) within which 9s have been cast out. Dr Puello's discovery therefore looks to be a special case example of this more general rule ... more an artifact of the process used than an indicator of intrinsic content. (I had already come across these number sets in work on characteristics of all Lucas number series and wished to publish interim findings in my book - Patterns of Eternity. But the publisher said to leave this topic for my next book, which should appear next autumn.)
4: Other woolly stuff that gets quoted ... e.g. that the hymn 'Ut queant laxis' was, for a long time lost, and some un-named 'Church expert' had to be approached about it, and that he became secretive. Perhaps the 'expert' just couldn't be bothered getting into discussion with someone trying to attach a conspiratorial mystery to something has been part of the latin liturgy throughout the 1200+ years since it was written. It can be found on page 1504 of the standard Liber Usualis. We used to sing it during Vespers on June 24 at the theological college where I studied 50 years ago.
It is unnecessary to try to validate an interesting modern discovery, such as the Solfeggio is, by calling it ancient and dressing it up in Emperor's clothes. It gives sceptical rationalists an excuse to rubbish work based on it, which is a very great pity.
You may be interested to search you-tube for 'patterns of eternity'.