That's not entertainment
The initial spiritual idea, that music was an explanation of the divine universe, has a long and distinguished history. The symmetry of numbers presents itself as both an attractive way to account for an underlying structure in apparently chaotic nature and a fitting way to think of the beauty of God's creative mind; the important idea of music as perceptible numbers, which exemplifies this symmetry, thus stretches through history from Pythagoras and his followers to Plato , Boethius , the Corpus Hermeticum , the Camerati , Vincenzo Galileli , Ficino , Fludd , Kircher , Newton and Freemasonry . The writings of Hindemith, Schoenberg, and Stockhausen are not far removed from it either. The idea of music as being essentially entertainment was as alien to such people's attitudes as the idea of philosophy or psychology being essentially entertaining today. That is Jonathan Harvey writing in his exploration of music and spirituality In Quest of Spirit *. My first two photos were t