Spirit & Sound Texts March-April 1996

There is a strong correlation between our thoughts, our voice, and breath. Through voice and breath, the mental energy created by our thoughts can be given manifestation within our lives. Voice is a manifestation of breath, and breath is life itself while we are within the physical. Breath is audible. It is a word itself. It is the life behind the words.
Our voice is our most creative and musical instrument. It has great power to touch our lives and the lives of others. With our voice and the words we use, we can lighten another's load. We can help someone to feel as if they are walking in God's shadow. We can also use our voice to cut the legs out from others and make them feel as if their life were a living Hell.
The more we learn to link the use of breath, mind, and voice, the greater our own power in life. As we increase our awareness of their power, and as we learn to control their use, we open ourselves to worlds that once were merely the product of an overly active imagination.

Ted Andrews, Sacred Sounds, Llewellyn Publications, 1993

A French engineer, Professor Gavraud, became fascinated by sound and, intrigued by the whole range of low freuencies produced by the French police whistle with a pea in it, he built a giant six foot version of it powered by compressed air. The unfortunate technician who first tested this whistle died instantly, a post mortem revealing that his internal organs had been thoroughly scrambled by the sound."

Lawrence Blair: Rhythms of Vision , p. 117.

. . . each time a new soul descends into the ocean of the manifested realm, it generates a vibration which is communicated to the entire cosmic ocean which means all created realms, entirely and heavenly, physical and super-physical. As each of these vibrations bring into resonance a host of consonent tones throughout the universal, their unimaginable interferences produce globally the symphony of the spheres referred to by Pythagoras. Each creature . . . is a crystillization of a part of this symphony of vibrations. Thus we are like a sound petrified in solid matter and which continues indefinitely to resound in this matter."

Pir Vilayat Khan quoting from the Hekaloth, a Hebrew esoteric book on the Heavenly Spheres: Toward the One, p. 229.

Music is considered a vital source of spiritual transformation, and vibrations are recognized as cosmic manifestations of a spiritual principle. The Lamas (of Tibet) have developed a science as well as an art of sound. They carefully cultivate sensitivity to musical pitch and tone and to the moods thereby created which they believe have the power to heal or, if misused, cause illness, according to the vibrations involved."

Dom Cyril von K. Krasinski Die Geistige Erde quoted by Elsie Mitchell in Sun Buddhas, Moon suddhas (Salem, MA, John Weatherhill, Inc.,1980)