The last time I heard Angels sing was in 1986. Of course, I could easily dispense with religious jargon and describe the event very differently. What I heard were subtle but distinct tonal harmonies on the threshold of audibility, remarkably similar to the synthesizer-generated tones I had just used to amplify the ethereal atmosphere in the worship sessions of a prayer conference over which I had presided as musical director.
What fascinated me was that these sounds remained in the atmosphere long after we had left the venue and the conference was closed. At first, I thought I was just imagining the sounds into existence. But others also claimed they heard it too. It followed us around. I believe we were hearing sounds from a window opened up in the God zone.
One could claim I was under the influence of an overly imaginative community. Of course, the only debatable element of that assertion would be the word ‘overly’. Philosophers long before Plato have sought to give language to the intuition that while thoughts are subtle things, they are indeed ‘things’ and as such, exist within a spectral range of tangibility and by certain whether spiritual, mental or physical processes, can travel the full spectrum of that range from ephemeral concept to concrete, realized fact. In other words, focused imagination is itself, or at the very least can be creative.
There is much to say about the range of subjective experience and the notion of objective reality, and I am a qualified witness, as an initiated practitioner of what in ancient Egypt would have been called the ‘mysteries’, and what today, depending on the orientation of the individual observer, could be called the ‘miraculous’, or the ‘paranormal’, or the ‘occult’, or the anomalous, and a few might proffer ‘the outright ludicrous’, but whether it is willingly admitted or not, the God-Zone is not just a plane of principles, but also of powers.
The particular element being focussed on in this post, as alluded to previously in The Art of Alliance is both (principle and power) : Harmony.
While harmony in theory indeed represents the governing principles of alignment, in practice, it not only displays creative genius but generates it. I have been too impressed, not only by scholars who found unmistakeable and uncanny similarities and resonances between the notes of the historiographers and ethnomusicologists of a certain period of national or regional development, but by my own experiences with music education and community development, to doubt the established connection between the two.
Music has been proven to alter the properties of inanimate elements like water, the growth and health of apparently non-cognitive plants; it definitively also has very palpable influence over people and the choices they make, and hence is often an instrument in the arsenal of skilful and subtle politicians. Harmonising people is not just a political skill, it is a political aim and a political outcome.
I have repeatedly found personally that the measure of harmonic skill in a particular people collective is a reliable reflection and indicator of their emotional intelligence and capacity to cohere in self determination. So much is this so, that I believe periods of social renaissance have been, and can be predicted by the mere presence and public celebration of the prodigious musical geniuses in their midst.
I for one, long before repeated grammy fame certified the uncommon and in many ways groundbreaking, once-in-a-generation musical talent of Jacob Collier, had recognized in his I HARM U series (of both prophetic pun and punch), which eventually propelled him towards the global attention now given, certain very powerful modalities with culture-shaping consequences for the generation that would listen.
That this also coincided with the appearance and operation within the UK of similarly groundbreaking and unprecedented spiritual practitioners and practices – for one, several adepts in Genealogical Prophecy (as demonstrated in Prophecy 5 … interestingly one of my most repeatedly viewed blogposts). … indeed one of the handful of prophets mentioned in Prophecy 1, equally versed in forensic as in genealogical prophecy, (predicting for example over a year in advance the exact date and manner of Margaret Thatcher’s death and the newspaper headlines that would accompany this signal historic point of reflection) who has to my awareness never once yet made a flawed or inaccurate public prophetic utterance, ( a truly rare phenomenon) now resides there and runs his international network from a London base. All these were harbingers not just of a spiritual awakening, but an explosion of creative destiny in the heart of a former center of oppression, not just for colonial subjects, but the masses also of her own citizenry.
How that city / kingdom responds to her prophets and poets of course will determine the longevity or short-windedness of these progressive social and spiritual movements. There is no more powerful an idea in scripture than the doctrine of Reconciliation, under which the soteriology of Atoning Redemption is subsumed, and without which the latter is reduced to dissociated, atomistic piety of little use to either God or human society, and only serves as crutch for religious egos and a platform on which to parade an elitist cloak of superiority donned by those who would conscript the name of God to rule.
YeKengalé 