The
Feeling Reaches
its Original Home
Opposite
Tendencies
of the Two Musical
Forces of Knowing
Even in the Harmony
The
Absolute
Tone-Substance
Harmonizes Feeling
and Understanding
Unity of Feeling and
Understanding
The
Dispute of
Feeling and
Understanding
beyond Space and
Time
In the cognitive process in music the feeling floated into higher and higher fields of insight, and it proceeded by wish and by will towards unity. And when it finally reached the supreme musical world of the harmony, the feeling immediately recognized its original home which the unity in selfawareness indeed is.
Even
on the level of the harmony, feeling and understanding, the two forces of
knowing, are still divergent by their very nature; more so, through the all-nourishing
qualities of our selfawareness these two tools of cognition are infinitely
strengthened in this perfect musical force-field so that only now they can
truly live their respective character in its full value.
Thus, in this absolute musical force-field, feeling and understanding diverge
with utmost strength – away from each other, as it were.
The level of the harmony is also the field of the absolute tone-substance – the field of the inner breath of music, of our innermost cosmic breath of life; and by cognizing the harmony, our experience of the absolute sound-substance has reached its supreme, its perfect value.
The
forces of the absolute sound-substance, which vibrate almightily in the depth
of our mind, move in an even higher order than did the forces of feeling and
understanding, and for this reason they turn out to be stronger than those.
So, by virtue of the laws of a higher order, the absolute sound-substance
is able to keep feeling and understanding united on the level of the harmony,
because it permeates and unites these forces, striving apart with a fervent
will of life, with the qualities of the harmony.
This unification of our forces of feeling and understanding, so completely divergent by their very nature, brings about a true union, a genuine connection between these forces. This results in the playfulness of a debate which is held with utmost lucidity by feeling and understanding.
Hence,
the term “debate” here refers not so much to those unpleasant consequences
which inevitably arise in the field of incomplete knowledge of truth when
opinions diverge.
As explained above, such divergence was integrated so skilfully through the
unifying effect of the absolute sound-substance, that now, within the absolute
sphere of the harmony – beyond space and time – the diverging and
the converging of feeling and understanding have become a unity themselves.
