Music and Catholicism in a Nut Shell

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Music and Catholicism in a Nut Shell

The eight great stages of light in God’s Plan, from the Flood to the New Creation, are like the ascending scale of joy, C up to C in key of C. When you get to the octave, you return to where you were. Noah’s world was destroyed by water, the last world shall be destroyed by fire.

The eight great stages of sin that were respectively redeemed by the above, are like a descending scale of sorrow, from Am, down to Am, and when you get to Am, you return to where you were: In Noah’s Day, the whole world was wicked, sparing a remnant, too, at the end of the world, in the Great Apostasy, most of man shall be wicked, sparing a remnant of Gentiles and most Jews.

The history of the Church’s illuminative way, the last 1700 years, is like a sorrowful ascending scale, Am up to Am, because, the Church ascends in doctrinal knowledge, but it is sad, because at each source of truth, some great portion of humanity rejects that development. The five notes of discord that you cross in this scale, are like the five great sources of truth that are also the sources of these discords:

Trinity and Incarnation: Islam
Peter: the Schism
General Bishops and Tradition: Protestantism
Scripture: Enlightenment
Reason: Modern Secular Apostasy

The sacramental life of the married deacon who is holy unto death is a like joyful descending scale, C down to C, for it is joyful because he grows in God’s grace by the seven sacraments, but it is a descent towards physical death, for no sooner do we come out of the womb, than we are dying because of Adam’s sin.

And if C is the deacon’s natural birth, and B, the first sacrament, Baptism, his SECOND birth, then the five discordant notes you need to pass at various stages, perfectly mark the five sacraments that require one to pass through an imperfect channel to receive, a priest, who is imperfect, a sinner.

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The Anti-Scales of Music, the scales of the Lies of the Fall

The Anti-Illuminative Scale

If the ascending minor scale images the illuminative way of the Church, which is ascending because it an ascent of probing Diivne Mystery and Knowledge and sad because the world rejects these mysteries at every stage, the mockery of this scale, while still retaining the positiioning of the relative notes of discord, can only exist, relative to the key as DESCENDING and JOYFUL. This can, again, be seen most easily in key of C on the piano, where the white keys are the pure notes, and the five black keys are the notes of discord. The ascending minor scale is them Am up to Am. The first Am was pagan Rome, anti-Baptism, and the last Am is our current age, again anti-Baptism, the modern minor secular apostasy. Bflat is the source of Trinity and Incarnation, down to Aflat is reason, attacked just before the sun sets again in our modern godless age, which no longer even listens to Reason

Again, the only way to have the placement of the black keys in the same order in a different scale, is, by symmetry, to branch down from Gmaj to Gmaj. What separates the symmetry is Aflat, reason.

Now in general history, the descending scale from Am to Am is the eight great stages of darkness. The first two, remember, in our theology model, are the two great lies of the fall, Am, anti-Baptism, the world’s rejection of knowing and loving God. This was the wickedness of Noah’s day. Gmaj was the second lie, anti-Marital Disposition toward God, materialism, choosing the Creation over marriage to the Creator, or the tower of Babel.

Returning to the anti-scale of illuminative way, Gmaj down to Gmaj, the scale is joyful but unresolved (the only way to resolve a scale is to end in C or Am). Just as pagan Rome and our current godless age are anti-Baptism, they are also both anti-Marraige toward God, man living for material things rather than the world to come. For the children of the evil one, these are happy things. It is materialism that satiates the desire of the one who does not care about God. That is how seculars view the last 2000 years. Things were good in pagan Rome, because there was material grandeure and advancement. Then the bs of religion entered the world for almost 1700 years, but finally, we have gotten rid of all that garbage of God and hell and heaven, and salvation, and we can get back to material progress and glory. Hence, the story of pagan Rome to present starts out happy and ends happy, for the children of the world. (whereas, again, for the Church, it starts in sorrow and ends in sorrow).

Hence, the SUBJECTIVE view of the fall is seen in the JOY of Gmaj down to Gmaj.

But OBJECTIVELY, what is happening, that is, in GOD’s eyes? The world is DESCENDING, they are FALLING, they are progressively rejecting, in some sense, more and more of God’s riches.

Note, also, the scale is unresolved, for ending in Gmaj keeps you hanging. For a scale to have full resolution of finality, you need to end in C or Am, the base major and minor notes of the key of C. Too, anti-Marriage, or materialism, can never satiate the desires of the heart, only God. No amount of pleasures, possessions, or accomplishments can ever quench your thirst for true meaning and fulfillment. Only the Creator, and eternal marriage to Him, can bring you to the ecstasy without end, and none of any number of Creations.

The Anti-Sacramental Scale, the Rejection of Grace

As for the Sacramental life, this has to do with Grace. The same argumentation can apply. So that just as the symmetry disordant note placement of Am up to Am is reflected over the axis of Reason, Aflat, with Gmaj down to Gmaj, so the sacramental scale of C down to C, which descends just left of the island of the two black keys, in between which is Dm, the Sacrament of Holy Orders, finds its symmetric counterpart to ASCEND just RIGHT of the same two black keys. That is effectively Em to Em.

Naturally, the ascent of Em up to Em will reflect the Anti-Deacon, the one who rejects the totality of the Sacramental graces of the Church. In this case, obviously, Em up to Em is sad. In this case, THIS it the OBJECTIVE reality. For each rejection of a sacrament or its principle is great sorrow for the Lord. God desires to give us His grace and redeem us, and when man repeatedly rejects it, it grieves His Infinite heart. When we reach the final sacramental rejection, the scoffing at the Anointing of the Sick, it is effectively the rejection of the necessity to repent unto the end, even when God finally calls. Actually, also, Em in the key of C, while not fully resolving a scale, does have a certain finality to it, a partial resolution. When the disposition of final impenitence is carried beyond death, it simply solidifies what already began and was chosen in life. Heaven begins on earth, as does hell.

Hell is final, no turning back, hence, the sense of finality in Em. But it still is unresolved, there is no rest in hell, for one does not have God, the greatest torture.

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As for a SUBJECTIVE aspect from the perspective of the fall, the scale nevertheless ASCENDS, too the dragon said, I will ascend above the Most High. Also, let us “build a tower to Heaven” [Babel]. The child of the evil one, in rejecting grace and repentance, considers himself to rise above the so called shackles of religion and morality, to build his material paradise.

PS, Reason, or Aflat, divides by symmetry the llluminative and anti-illuminative scales, and reason indeed separates the child of the devil from the child of God, for reason testifies to God, hence, the Church defines, the Creator can be known from the things He has made, de Fide, Vatican I

also, we have seen Holy Orders separates the Sacramental scale from its antithesis. Holy Orders establishes the main sources of truth and grace, for truth and grace are primarily mediated now the Christ is gone. But the scoffing one says, why doesn’t God show me Himself directly, or give me grace directly? Then, I’ll believe

Hope this makes sense!