GROWING TO MUSIC.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 13 July 1912, Page 10

GROWING TO MUSIC.

Does aa orb in motion like an angel sing? or, to put the question after the manner of the essayist in the magazine called Modern Astrology, does the movement of a planet through space create a noise? This writer quite agrees with Lorenzo that sound is made, but adds, like Lorenzo again, the qualification that we cannot hear it —the sound "would not he audible to our ears of the physical body." In the Rosicracian philosophy, the solar system is "the seven-stringed lyre of Apollo, the radiant Sun God," and the f;even planets are the strings. They emit different sounds as they pass through the various signs of the Zodiac, and therefore influence mankind in diverse manner. "Should the harmony fail for one single momejit, should there be the slightest discord in that heavenly band, this whole universe, as such must crumble." The building of worlds by music is illustrated by a reference to the building ..effects of sound m the sand figures of Chladni—also an instance is given of its destructive power.' '•A few years ago a band of musicians were rehearsing near an old ruin outside the city of Heidelburg, Germany. At one point in their exercises they came to an extremely high-nitched and long-continued note, and as they sounded it the massive wall of the" near-by ruin tumbled to the ground with a tremendous crash." For once the performers might boast that they quite literally "brought clown the house." Music has also been credited with bringing down the caterpillars. During a plague of them in an American State a woman noticed that when she blew her Ginner-horn a perfect rain of caterpillars fell from the infected trees. The town bands of the neighborhood were then employed as orchard protectors and whenever they played the caterpillars tell to the earth, where they could easily be_ destroyed, leaving the trees clear of the pest. From the cosmic harp to the killing of caterpillars, seems a curious descent; but a pleasant moral prescribes how music should pervade the building period of child life. During the first septenary epoch the child should be surrounded by music of the rt""ht kind, oy musical language—the swni" and rhythm of the nursery rhyme beinospecially valuable. "It does'not matter about the sense at all: what matters is the rhythm, the more the child has of that the healthier it will «rrow ' fao Modern Astrology ends by entire conformity with the efforts of "Mother