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Kamaloka and music
On July 23, 2023 By Ridzerd
After death man still carries his astral body for a time; and as long as he does so, until he lays it aside completely — you are familiar with this from my book Theosophy — there still exists in man after death a sort of memory — it is only a sort of memory — of earthly music. Thus, it comes about that whatever in life we receive of music continues to act like a memory of music after death — until about the time the astral body is laid aside. Then the earthly music is transformed in the life after death into the “music of the spheres,” and it remains as such until some time previous to the new birth.
The matter will be more comprehensible for you if you know that what man here on earth receives in the way of music plays a very important role in the shaping of his soul-organism after death. That organism is molded there during this period. This is, of course, the kamaloka time; and that is also the comforting feature of the kamaloka time: we can render easier this existence, which the Roman Catholics call purgatory, for human beings if we know that. Not, to be sure, by relieving them of their perception: that they must have; for they would remain imperfect if they could not observe the imperfect things they have done. But we furnish the possibility that the human being will be better formed in his next life if during that time after death, when he still has his astral body, he can have many memories of things musical.
Source: Rudolf Steiner – GA 302a – THE THREE FUNDAMENTAL FORCES IN EDUCATION – Stuttgart, 16 September 1920
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On July 23, 2023 By Ridzerd
After death man still carries his astral body for a time; and as long as he does so, until he lays it aside completely — you are familiar with this from my book Theosophy — there still exists in man after death a sort of memory — it is only a sort of memory — of earthly music. Thus, it comes about that whatever in life we receive of music continues to act like a memory of music after death — until about the time the astral body is laid aside. Then the earthly music is transformed in the life after death into the “music of the spheres,” and it remains as such until some time previous to the new birth.
The matter will be more comprehensible for you if you know that what man here on earth receives in the way of music plays a very important role in the shaping of his soul-organism after death. That organism is molded there during this period. This is, of course, the kamaloka time; and that is also the comforting feature of the kamaloka time: we can render easier this existence, which the Roman Catholics call purgatory, for human beings if we know that. Not, to be sure, by relieving them of their perception: that they must have; for they would remain imperfect if they could not observe the imperfect things they have done. But we furnish the possibility that the human being will be better formed in his next life if during that time after death, when he still has his astral body, he can have many memories of things musical.
Source: Rudolf Steiner – GA 302a – THE THREE FUNDAMENTAL FORCES IN EDUCATION – Stuttgart, 16 September 1920
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