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The title is taken from a Hindu story, where the infinite sky has jewels in it that join to each other and in each jewel is the reflection of every other jewel.
Aleister Crowley had a similar vision (in my opinion) in 1916, and wrote about as follows:
"... Each stage in the process was like the joy of a young
eagle soaring from height to height in ever increasing
sunlight as dawn breaks, foaming, over the purple hem of the
garment of ocean, and, when the many coloured rays of rose
and gold and green gathered themselves together and melted
into the orbed glory of the sun, with a rapture that shook
the soul with unimaginable ecstasy, that sphere of rushing
light was recognized as a common-place idea, accepted
unquestioningly and treated with drab indifference because
it had so long been assimilated as a natural and necessary
part of the order of Nature. At first I was shocked and
disgusted to discover that a series of brilliant researches
should culminate in a commonplace. But I soon understood
that what I had done was to live over again the triumphant
career of conquering humanity; that I had experienced in my
own person the succession of winged victories that had been
sealed by a treaty of peace whose clauses might be summed up
in some such trite expression as "Beauty depends upon form".
It would be quite impracticable to go fully into the
subject of this vision of the Star-Sponge, if only because
its ramifications are omniform. It must suffice to
reiterate that it has been the basis of most of my work for
the last five years, and to remind the reader that the
essential form of it is 'Nothingness with twinkles.'"
--- From Crowley's new comment to "Liber AL", Ch. I, v. 59.
(From http://www.digital-brilliance.com/kab/50gates.txt)
Both descriptions have been with me for over 30 years, and this comes the nearest, sound scape wise, as far as I can go at the moment.
Please let me know what you think about my musical idea and if it does the description justice in any way.
Aleister Crowley had a similar vision (in my opinion) in 1916, and wrote about as follows:
"... Each stage in the process was like the joy of a young
eagle soaring from height to height in ever increasing
sunlight as dawn breaks, foaming, over the purple hem of the
garment of ocean, and, when the many coloured rays of rose
and gold and green gathered themselves together and melted
into the orbed glory of the sun, with a rapture that shook
the soul with unimaginable ecstasy, that sphere of rushing
light was recognized as a common-place idea, accepted
unquestioningly and treated with drab indifference because
it had so long been assimilated as a natural and necessary
part of the order of Nature. At first I was shocked and
disgusted to discover that a series of brilliant researches
should culminate in a commonplace. But I soon understood
that what I had done was to live over again the triumphant
career of conquering humanity; that I had experienced in my
own person the succession of winged victories that had been
sealed by a treaty of peace whose clauses might be summed up
in some such trite expression as "Beauty depends upon form".
It would be quite impracticable to go fully into the
subject of this vision of the Star-Sponge, if only because
its ramifications are omniform. It must suffice to
reiterate that it has been the basis of most of my work for
the last five years, and to remind the reader that the
essential form of it is 'Nothingness with twinkles.'"
--- From Crowley's new comment to "Liber AL", Ch. I, v. 59.
(From http://www.digital-brilliance.com/kab/50gates.txt)
Both descriptions have been with me for over 30 years, and this comes the nearest, sound scape wise, as far as I can go at the moment.
Please let me know what you think about my musical idea and if it does the description justice in any way.
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michael2
this is your best post in awhile. such good sounds, i can definitely see the sun bouncing off the ocean. Paul, this may be your master work.