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January 13th, 2003
Santa Cruz, California
Received by F.A.B.
I am here, Beethoven.
I know you feel that the first message
you received on the relationship between the artistic and the spiritual,
did not come through clearly enough. But you must understand that
the problem wasn't your lack of condition or mine - we were both
in a high spiritual state. No, the problem was simply that this
is a difficult thing for a mortal to understand because you have
no exact equivalents in words for the realities of what you call
"art" in the spirit world, and particularly the higher
spheres.
For, from one point of view, everything we experience here in
the
Celestial Heavens is art, since the power exists to create our environment
exactly as we choose. And this does not mean that everything is
evanescent
and flimsy; on the contrary, there is even more solidity than in
your earth
life. It is creativity taken to its ultimate conclusion, and since
we have
no sin or error, literally everything we produce is perfect and
beautiful. I
know it is hard for mortals to understand this, but it is so.
In your poetry, you saw the utter futility in trying to literally
evoke the Celestial Heavens. Yet, through your choice of soulful
words, we feel you did capture at least the mood of exaltation and
sheer, utter happiness - never anything to mar the joyful experience
of knowing that our happiness will continue to all eternity.
So, rather than attempting to describe the artistic and the spiritual
head-on, I have decided upon a more indirect approach, while still
sticking
to the subject.
And so, when one of us gets the desire to give a concert, we send
out
"invitations" by thought-transference. We all know that
when this occurs, it
is divinely inspired, and that we're all in for a treat. So, a group
assembles either in a room or on a lawn, and enjoys the concert.
As has been
said before, all Celestial spirits have the gift of music, and can
discern
the divinely inspired makeup of whatever music is played. Obviously,
there
is no rivalry, since everyone gets a chance both to make music and
to
listen. We all have an unspoken understanding, a given, that all
who compose
or play music do so according to divine inspiration. And, of course,
since
we all have the New Birth of the soul, we are attuned to the elements
of the
divine that permeate the music.
I know you have wondered about what happens to a Celestial spirit
musically who was gifted musically on earth. Well, there is no hierarchy
of
value. Of course, in the mortal life, not everyone possesses or
manifests a
musical gift, so a great musical composer certainly deserves prominence
and
attention on earth, since the music produced is rare and beautiful.
But in
the Celestial Heavens, every musical expression is permeated with
the
soulful sound and inspiration of the New Birth. So how can any music
produced this way be inferior?
I know that on earth you have many soulful people who, though
they want
to, cannot manifest great music. But to souls like these, I say,
in the
Celestial Heavens, everyone has musical gifts, whether of singing
or
performance. In the case of the individual who manifested no musical
talent
on earth, the good news is that music is often a way of life here,
and
everyone participates.
However, because of the uniqueness of personality of individual
souls,
there actually are some Celestial spirits who feel almost consumed
with
music. I am one of them. It is part of my personality. I will describe
this
more fully in a future message.
As these messages unfold, you will have a clearer
idea of the subject at hand.
Love, Beethoven
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