harmony

• concord › keynote of Havona

27:4.2Har­mony is the keynote of the cen­tral uni­verse, and de­tectable or­der pre­vails on Par­a­dise. Proper con­duct is es­sen­tial to prog­ress by way of knowl­edge, through phi­los­o­phy, to the spir­i­tual heights of spon­ta­neous wor­ship. There is a di­vine tech­nique in the ap­proach to Di­vin­ity; and the ac­quire­ment of this tech­nique must await the pil­grims’ ar­rival on Par­a­dise. The spirit of it has been im­parted on the cir­cles of Ha­vona, but the fi­nal touches of the train­ing of the pil­grims of time can be ap­plied only af­ter they ac­tu­ally at­tain the Isle of Light.

• music › universal code of spirit communication

44:1.11Har­mony, the mu­sic of the seven lev­els of melo­di­ous as­so­ci­a­tion, is the one uni­ver­sal code of spirit com­mu­ni­ca­tion. Mu­sic, such as Uran­tia mor­tals un­der­stand, at­tains its high­est ex­pres­sion in the schools of Je­ru­sem, the sys­tem head­quar­ters, where semi­ma­te­rial be­ings are taught the har­monies of sound. Mor­tals do not re­act to the other forms of mor­ontia mel­ody and ce­les­tial har­mony.

• music › speech of Havona

44:1.15While you have as­sem­bled some beau­ti­ful mel­o­dies on Uran­tia, you have not pro­gressed mu­si­cally nearly so far as many of your neigh­bor­ing plan­ets in Sa­ta­nia. If Adam and Eve had only sur­vived, then would you have had mu­sic in re­al­ity; but the gift of har­mony, so large in their na­tures, has been so di­luted by strains of un­mu­si­cal ten­den­cies that only once in a thou­sand mor­tal lives is there any great ap­pre­ci­a­tion of har­mon­ics. But be not dis­cour­aged; some day a real mu­si­cian may ap­pear on Uran­tia, and whole peo­ples will be en­thralled by the mag­nif­i­cent strains of his mel­o­dies. One such hu­man be­ing could for­ever change the course of a whole na­tion, even the en­tire civ­i­lized world. It is lit­er­ally true, “mel­ody has power a whole world to trans­form.” For­ever, mu­sic will re­main the uni­ver­sal lan­guage of men, an­gels, and spir­its. Har­mony is the speech of Ha­vona.

• concord › evolve out of chaos

117:7.17The per­fected grand uni­verse of those fu­ture days will be vastly dif­fer­ent from what it is at pres­ent. Gone will be the thrilling ad­ven­tures of the or­ga­ni­za­tion of the galax­ies of space, the plant­ing of life on the un­cer­tain worlds of time, and the evolv­ing of har­mony out of chaos, beauty out of po­ten­tials, truth out of mean­ings, and good­ness out of val­ues. The time uni­verses will have achieved the ful­fill­ment of fi­nite des­tiny! And per­haps for a space there will be rest, re­lax­ation from the age­long strug­gle for evo­lu­tion­ary per­fec­tion. But not for long! Cer­tainly, surely, and in­ex­orably the enigma of the emerg­ing De­ity of God the Ul­ti­mate will chal­lenge these per­fected cit­i­zens of the set­tled uni­verses just as their strug­gling evo­lu­tion­ary fore­bears were once chal­lenged by the quest for God the Su­preme. The cur­tain of cos­mic des­tiny will draw back to re­veal the tran­scen­dent grandeur of the al­lur­ing ab­so­nite quest for the at­tain­ment of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther on those new and higher lev­els re­vealed in the ul­ti­mate of crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence.

• concord › without sacrifice of free personality originality

141:5.1One of the most event­ful of all the evening con­fer­ences at Am­athus was the ses­sion hav­ing to do with the dis­cus­sion of spir­i­tual unity. James Zeb­e­dee had asked, “Mas­ter, how shall we learn to see alike and thereby en­joy more har­mony among our­selves?” When Je­sus heard this ques­tion, he was stirred within his spirit, so much so that he replied: “James, James, when did I teach you that you should all see alike? I have come into the world to pro­claim spir­i­tual lib­erty to the end that mor­tals may be em­pow­ered to live in­di­vid­ual lives of orig­i­nal­ity and free­dom be­fore God. I do not de­sire that so­cial har­mony and fra­ter­nal peace shall be pur­chased by the sac­ri­fice of free per­son­al­ity and spir­i­tual orig­i­nal­ity. What I re­quire of you, my apos­tles, is spirit unity—and that you can ex­pe­ri­ence in the joy of your united ded­i­ca­tion to the whole­hearted do­ing of the will of my Fa­ther in heaven. You do not have to see alike or feel alike or even think alike in or­der spir­i­tu­ally to be alike. Spir­i­tual unity is de­rived from the con­scious­ness that each of you is in­dwelt, and in­creas­ingly dom­i­nated, by the spirit gift of the heav­enly Fa­ther. Your apos­tolic har­mony must grow out of the fact that the spirit hope of each of you is iden­ti­cal in ori­gin, na­ture, and des­tiny.