Music

In the Urantia Book

Among primitives

• Human musicians on Urantia have elevated musical taste from the barbarous monotony of early ancestors towards higher levels of sound appreciation. 44:1.12
• Tuneful syncopation symbolizes the evolution from primitive monotony to expressive harmony, catering more to the senses than to intellect. 44:1.13
• Music saw little progress until the arrival of the Adamites, who greatly enhanced human beauty and contributed humor, art, adventure, and manufacture to every nation they journeyed to. 66:5.24 74:6.7 78:5.8
• Music, originating in worship chants, enmothers nonreligious culture. 92:3.6

Evolution of music

• Appreciation of music on Urantia is both physical and spiritual, with a steady improvement over thousands of years towards higher levels of sound appreciation. 44:1.12-15
• It's better if Adam and Eve had survived, for then music in reality would flourish, with the power to transform whole nations and the entire civilized world. 44:1.15
• The hunger of the soul cannot be satisfied with physical pleasures; the love of home and children is not augmented by the unwise pursuit of pleasure or music as it cannot elevate the soul or nourish the spirit. 84:8.4
• Music expresses the tempo of emotions in a supermathematical harmony with the eternal melody of Infinity. 195:7.20
• Amid mourning, Jesus brought the girl back to life with a flute played. 152:1.1
• Love, the secret of beneficial association between personalities, cannot appreciatingly know music through mathematical deduction, even though music is a form of mathematical rhythm. 12:9.2
• The gift of harmony, occurring only once in 1000 mortals, has the power to transform the world through the universal language of music. 44:1.15
• Beauty, rhythm, and harmony are intellectually associated, spiritually akin, and philosophically interconnected. 44:7.2
• Tuneful syncopation signifies the evolution from primitive musical monotony to later-day musicians' expressionful harmony, requiring the exertion of higher intellectual powers for full appreciation. 44:1.13
• Jesus, a skillful harpist from an early age, exchanged dairy products for lessons, promoting musical interests among his peers, before sadly having to sell his harp for his brother's schooling. 123:6.5 126:1.6 127:4.10
• Even within the limited range of mortal hearing, the realm of morontia melodies remains inconceivable. 44:1.1
• The majority react to music with material muscles, but human musicians have elevated sound appreciation from barbarous monotony to higher levels over thousands of years. 44:1.12
• Peacetime military training in music is a voluntary pursuit for enlistees in continental nations. 72:11.3
• A real musician's perfected spiritual thoughts could change the course of a nation, bursting forth in the melodies of Havona. 44:1.8

Celestial music

• Angels understand and greatly appreciate our real music and art, sharing in our emotions and struggles. 38:2.1
• The music of Urantia pales in comparison to the celestial harmonies heard by our musicians' celestial associates, leaving only fragments of these morontia melodies recorded as mere musical notes. 44:1.14
• There are over one hundred thousand modes analogous to our music instruments, representing different forms of sound, color, and energy manipulation in an attempt to approach celestial harmony. 44:1.10
• Harmony, the universal code of spirit communication, is the key to unlocking the seven levels of melodious association. (44:1.11,15)
• Morontia functions are often executed in rhythm, enhancing efficiency and pleasure for both morontia and spirit beings. 44:4.11
• There is a vastness of range and a soul of expression beyond human comprehension in the morontia and spirit melodies, not material sound waves but spirit pulsations received by celestial personalities. 44:1.1

Bible parallels

Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.

• Healing Jairus' daughter 152:1.1 — Mt 9:23-25; Mk 5:35-43; Lk 8:49-55.

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