At the time of caves, man
used music associated with dances, as gratefulness for
the abundance of hunting, the fertility of the land and
the victories in war.
As time went by, David -
the second King of the Hebrews - did a lot to cultivate
music among the Hebrews.
In Rome, at the time of
Augustus, the most sought after Roman physician was
Cornelius Celio, who prescribed musical auditions as a
sedative. (Augustus was a title given by the Roman
Senate to Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, great-nephew
of Julius Caesar, whom he adopted as a son).
In ancient Greece, music
was indicated as a remedy for all ills.
The Arabs believed in the
effectiveness of sounds in preventing and fighting
diseases. They believed that the sounds produced by the
four strings of the lute had the gift of healing. It was
said that each string of the lute corresponded to one of
the fundamental elements: water, fire, earth and air.
Schumann, a German
composer (1810-1856), felt Beethoven (1770-1827) - also
German - at his side when composing his compositions.
The Brazilian doctor and
composer Joubert de Carvalho, (1900-1977) author of
songs like Maringa and Tai, in the same
way that he felt hungry and thirsty, he felt music and
poetry come together, as a universal manifestation.
Rosemary Brown
(1916-2001), an English housewife who had no musical
knowledge, received more than 400 music scores from
Spirits like Liszt (most frequent contact), Beethoven,
Mozart, Bach, Grieg, Chopin, Schubert, Brahms, Schumann,
Debussy, Berlioz, Rachmaninoff, among others. Some made
contact frequently, others appeared only a few times. It
all started at age seven, when Liszt promised that when
she was an adult, he would give her a gift through
music.
This is how mediumship
gives us the opportunity to continue to admire the art
of great composers, great writers, great poets, who did
not die - just changed plans - bringing us their art, in
the same style they had, when they were embodied.
This fact intrigues
unbelievers and materialists. They argue that if great
composers, great writers, great poets progress, why
would they stay attached to their old styles, when they
could (in the case of poets) pass poetry in modern style
to Earth?
If they want, they will
do it, but their intention is to dictate compositions,
writings or poetry to the Earth in the same style they
had in life, to better reach those who identify with
them and worship their memory, through the works they
left in Earth.
Another interesting side
in mediumistic poetry is the fact that a disincarnated
poet dictates poems through various mediums, from
different cultural levels, maintaining the same style.
Thus, one cannot doubt that it sure is that particular
poet. An example of this are the poems of Castro Alves
(the Spirit), dictated to mediums like Francisco Candido
Xavier, Jorge Rizzini, Waldo Vieira and Dolores Bacelar.
The same Spirit, different mediums, but the same
unmistakable style.
Having reached this
point, let us see the interesting subject in the
Spiritist Magazine by Allan Kardec, in the December 1860
edition: it presents an interesting communication of the
Spirit of Alfred de Musset, through the medium Miss.
Eugenie.
- What will be the
influence of poetry on Spiritism?
- Poetry is the balm that
is applied to wounds. Poetry was given to man as the
heavenly manna. All poets are mediums that God sent to
Earth to regenerate His people a little and not let them
become completely brutalized, because what is there more
beautiful, that speaks more to the soul than poetry?
- Painting, sculpture,
architecture, and poetry were, one by one, influenced by
pagan and Christian ideas. Can you say if, after the
pagan and Christian arts, one day there will be a
Spiritist Art?
- You ask a question that
answers itself: the worm is the worm; he becomes a
silkworm; then, a butterfly. What is there more light,
more graceful, than a butterfly? So! The pagan Art is
the worm; the Christian Art is the cocoon; the Spiritist
Art will be the butterfly.
We highlight excerpts
from the explanation of the mentioned issue of the
Spiritist Magazine about the content of this
communication.
"The Christian Art had to
be inspired by the terrible trials of the martyrs and
put on the severity of its maternal origin; the
Spiritist Art, represented by the butterfly, will be
inspired by the vaporous and splendid pictures of the
future existence that will be unveiled; the soul - that
the Christian Art had focused on admiration and fear –
will be full of joy, the song of joy after the battle.
When we say that the
Spiritist Art will someday be a new art, we mean that
the Spiritist ideas and beliefs will give the genius’
productions a particular stamp, as happened with the
Christian ideas and beliefs; this does not mean that the
Christian affairs will fall into disrepute - far from
it; but when a field is covered with the harvested cobs,
the reaper will reap elsewhere, and will reap abundantly
in the field of Spiritism. He has already done so, no
doubt, but not in the way he will do later on, when he
is encouraged and excited by the general approval. When
these ideas are popularized, and this will not take
long, because the blind of the current generation daily
disappear from the scene by force of things and the new
generation will have less prejudices. Painting more than
once was inspired by ideas of this kind; poetry, above
all, is full of them; but they are isolated, lost in the
crowd. The time will come when they will make
masterpieces emerge, and Spiritist Art will have its
Rafael and Miguel Angelo, as pagan art had its Apelles
and its Phidias".
Spiritist Art, in its
greatest expression, will be highly developed in the
period of social regeneration, the last of the six
periods because Spiritism has passed and will pass,
determined by Allan Kardec (Spiritist Magazine, December
1863). The periods are: that of curiosity, with the
turning tables; the philosophical, with The Book of
Spirits; the struggle, with the Auto-da-Fé de
Barcelona: the religious, the intermediary and that
of social regeneration.
The period of social
regeneration will take place when the Earth moves from
the world of atonement and testing to the category of
the world of regeneration. It is when the Humanity that
will populate the Earth will be composed of people who
only wish good.
It is important to
prepare the Earth for that period that will one day
come. For it will be the people who are currently
engaged in the practice of goodness, who will have the
opportunity to return to Earth in a next reincarnation,
to continue to develop the good work they have done
here, in favor of the progress of the Earth itself. As
for those who, today, are barbarizing and spreading
violence, the vast majority of them will no longer be
able to return here, going to reincarnate in a backward
world, which is in accordance with the evolution they
have achieved. It is not that, in these cases, the
Spirit regresses. In its path, it never regresses. In
this case, the Spirit remains in the steady state in
which it finds itself, to follow its journey from there,
towards its evolution.
In the so-called period
of social regeneration, Christian values will prevail,
based on charity, humility and love of neighbor. Men
will unfurl only the flag of union and solidarity.
Deeply harmonized with Nature and the Divine Laws, man
will be connected to flora, ecology, and respect for
animals. You will find that institutions are made to
serve man. And it will be against the rigid, inflexible
institution, which never changes, which has been the
same thing for millennia, or for tens of years; who
doesn't absorb anyone's experience, who doesn't care
about someone else's experience.
The man of the future is
a man who has grown up, he is an adult man. There is no
need for anyone to tell him: do this. You know exactly
what is essential to him. It is much more connected to
spiritual things. His heroes are personalities like
Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Teilhard de Chardin.
The man of the future is
the one who presents all the characteristics of the good
man, explicit in The Book of Spirits, by Allan
Kardec, question 918: who practices the law of justice,
love and charity in its most complete purity; does good
for good; he is good, human and benevolent; considers
gifts as deposits, to be used for good; treats everyone
with kindness and benevolence; is forgiving of others'
weaknesses; he is not vindictive; respects the rights of
others, as you would like them to respect yours.
These are the Spirits
that will contribute to the regeneration of Humanity.
However, according to Genesis, this regeneration
does not require the complete renewal of the Spirits,
but the modification in their moral dispositions, which
operates in all who are willing.
Formed by better Spirits
or ancient Spirits that have improved, says Genesis that
"the result is always the same. As long as they are more
willing, there is always a renewal. Thus, according to
their natural willingness, incarnated Spirits form two
categories: On the one hand, the laggards, who leave; on
the other, the progressives, who arrive. The state of
society's customs will therefore be within a people, a
race, or the whole world, in relation to that of the two
categories that predominated".
Chapter 18 of the book Genesis,
by Allan Kardec, the item Signs of the Times,
says that ”the generation that disappears will take its
mistakes and losses; the generation that emerges,
recovered in a purer source, imbued with healthier ideas,
will impress the ascension world with a movement towards
moral progress that will assimilate the new phase of
human evolution".
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