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In the second degree we are taught of the 7 Liberal Arts. The argument could easily made that they can be seen as a progression of wisdom. Upon understanding common language and grammar one can express thought and clearly convey ideas. With this skill in hand, one is then able to use that language to give depth and persuasion to their words from which we get rhetoric. Moving on from there, rhetoric must be tested and can be used to logically argue a point if the next liberal art is utilized. With logic in tow, the language of the universe, founded upon logic, can then be understood in the form of mathematics. Math, when coupled with the three dimensional world in which we live, gives way to geometry in explaining shapes. These shapes however are static. In terms of engineering, the next progression from static is to dynamic and understanding the way in which things move. What grander movements are there to understand than those of the heavenly bodies, and thus we have astronomy.
But what of music? It's is beautiful, it speaks to our emotions, it can be translated in a mathematical fashion, but as art, it is not dictated by logic and therefore seems to fall out of line with the rest. Furthermore, the order that the arts are given to us in make music all the more enigmatic. It seems to be an unfinished tangent, and even then is rather clumsy when attempting to insert it into the progression of the others.
Were the creators of the ritual needing a seventh and therefore tossed this in, even though it is a poor fit? If so, why the importance of 7? Were the arts given out of order indicating that after understanding the fabric of the cosmos that one should then look inward to the soul and how it is moved by music? Or does it stand in its rightful place yet is misunderstood?
What are your thoughts, brothers?
But what of music? It's is beautiful, it speaks to our emotions, it can be translated in a mathematical fashion, but as art, it is not dictated by logic and therefore seems to fall out of line with the rest. Furthermore, the order that the arts are given to us in make music all the more enigmatic. It seems to be an unfinished tangent, and even then is rather clumsy when attempting to insert it into the progression of the others.
Were the creators of the ritual needing a seventh and therefore tossed this in, even though it is a poor fit? If so, why the importance of 7? Were the arts given out of order indicating that after understanding the fabric of the cosmos that one should then look inward to the soul and how it is moved by music? Or does it stand in its rightful place yet is misunderstood?
What are your thoughts, brothers?