Sound Mysticism in Christianity

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James Bean spiritualawakening

Spiritual Awakening & Sant Mat Fellowship

 

 

SOUND MYSTICISM IN CHRISTIANITY (SHABDA & NADA YOGA MEDITATION)

 

Across the many centuries and around the world, mystics, in the

scriptures they left behind, recorded experiences with the inner Sound.

Encountering the Sound Current of the Godhead might be as subtle as hearing

a faint tone or hum in meditation, or as blissful as becoming one with an

angelic, cosmic symphony on a higher plane of existence -- an experience

beyond what earthly language is truly capable of conveying.

 

Naam Bhakti,

 

James

 

IN GNOSTIC CHRISTIANITY

 

" Who else is Christ but the Sound of God. " ( " Acts of John " )

 

" It is He to whom the universe has come; they were silent before Him

and have not told of Him, for He is beyond speech, beyond thought. So This

is the First Fountain; it is He whose Voice has penetrated in every place --

this is the First Sound vibrating until the universe feels and understands. "

( " The Gospel of the Gnostics, " Duncan Greenlees, Theosophical Publishing

House, Madras, India)

 

JESUS RESTORES THE HEARING OF A DEAF MAN, AN UNKNOWN GOSPEL

 

" And Jesus departed unto another village where he found a man who was

deaf from birth. And this man did not believe in the sound of rushing wind,

or the thunder, or the cries of the beasts, or the birds which do complain

of their hunger and their hurt, nor did he believe that others heard all

these things. Hearing the deaf man speak, Jesus felt great compassion, and

he breathed into his ears a deep breath and spake a few words no man

understood, and at that moment, the ears opened, and the man did hear for

the first time. "

 

" And now the man rejoiced with overwhelming gladness in the sounds

that he before denied were real. And he said unto Jesus, 'Now, I hear all

things, great one; it is exceedingly joyful!' And Jesus perceiving his

great joy and happy to see the man glad, said unto him: 'Yes, you hear much,

but you hear not all things. For I say to you, Canst thou hear the sighing

of the prisoner in chains, and the slave in bondage to evil men, or the

language of the birds or the beasts of the forest when they commune with

each other? Or canst thou hear the voices and singing of holy angels before

God? Think now, how much thou canst not hear and be thee humble in thy lack

of knowledge and understanding, for I tell ye, earthly man hears only with

ears of flesh, but the man of God knoweth what others hear not.' " ( " Humane

Gospel of Jesus, Edenite Society " )

 

" And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters,

then like a loud peal of thunder. Then the sound I heard was like that of

harpists playing their harps. " ( " Book of Revelation " )

 

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN, THE GERMAN MYSTIC

 

" To the Trinity be praise! God is Music, God is Life that nurtures

every creature in its kind. "

 

RICHARD ROLLE, AN ENGLISH MYSTIC

 

" When Christ wishes it ... he receive within himself the song sent

into him from the heavens, and his meditation is changed into melody, and

his spirit lingers in marvelous harmony. " ( " The Fire of Love and the

Mending of Life " )

 

ESSENE GOSPEL OF PEACE, VOLUME FOUR

 

" In the beginning was the the Sound, the Sound was with God, the

Sound was God. I tell you truly, when we are born, we enter the world with

the Sound of God in our ears, even the singing of the vast chorus of the

sky, and the holy chant of the stars in their fixed rounds; it is the Holy

Stream of Sound that traverses the vault of stars and crosses the endless

kingdom of the heavenly Father. It is ever in our ears, so do we hear it

not. Listen for it, then, in the silence......... " ( " Essene Gospel of

Peace, " IV, Edmond Bordeaux Szekely, IBS Books)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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