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FORMS BUILT BY MUSIC
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the forms built by different pieces of music under
different conditions, so that the most that can be done
within any reasonable compass is to give a few examples
of the leading types. It has been decided for the pur-
poses of this book to limit these to three, to take types
of music presenting readily recognisable contrasts, and
for the sake of simplicity in comparison to present them
all as they appeared when played upon the same
instrument—a very fine church organ. In each of our
Plates the church shows as well as the thought-form
which towers far into the air above it; and it should be
remembered that though the drawings are on very
different scales the church is the same in all three cases,
and consequently the relative size of the sound-form can
easily be calculated. The actual height of the tower of
the church is just under a hundred feet, so it will be seen
that the sound-form produced by a powerful organ is
enormous in size.
Such forms remain as coherent erections for some
considerable time—an hour or two at least; and during
all that time they are radiating forth their characteristic
vibrations in every direction, just as our thought-forms
do; and if the music be good, the effect of those vibra-
tions cannot but be uplifting to every man upon whose
vehicles they play. Thus the community owes a very
real debt of gratitude to the musician who pours forth
such helpful influences, for he may affect for good
hundreds whom he never saw and will never know
upon the physical plane.
Mendelssohn.—The first of such forms, a comparatively
small and simple one, is drawn for us in Plate M. It
will be seen that we have here a shape roughly repre-
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the forms built by different pieces of music under
different conditions, so that the most that can be done
within any reasonable compass is to give a few examples
of the leading types. It has been decided for the pur-
poses of this book to limit these to three, to take types
of music presenting readily recognisable contrasts, and
for the sake of simplicity in comparison to present them
all as they appeared when played upon the same
instrument—a very fine church organ. In each of our
Plates the church shows as well as the thought-form
which towers far into the air above it; and it should be
remembered that though the drawings are on very
different scales the church is the same in all three cases,
and consequently the relative size of the sound-form can
easily be calculated. The actual height of the tower of
the church is just under a hundred feet, so it will be seen
that the sound-form produced by a powerful organ is
enormous in size.
Such forms remain as coherent erections for some
considerable time—an hour or two at least; and during
all that time they are radiating forth their characteristic
vibrations in every direction, just as our thought-forms
do; and if the music be good, the effect of those vibra-
tions cannot but be uplifting to every man upon whose
vehicles they play. Thus the community owes a very
real debt of gratitude to the musician who pours forth
such helpful influences, for he may affect for good
hundreds whom he never saw and will never know
upon the physical plane.
Mendelssohn.—The first of such forms, a comparatively
small and simple one, is drawn for us in Plate M. It
will be seen that we have here a shape roughly repre-
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