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When he performed at La Scala, the triumph of his genius was described in this way: | When he performed at La Scala, the triumph of his genius was described in this way: | ||
<blockquote>That which is properly the spirit, the very breath of genius, can only be experienced, not described. Imagine a thin figure, with narrow shoulders, his hair falling over his face and down his neck, an extraordinarily spiritual face, expressive, pale, most interesting; an eye that reflects every thought, glittering in conversation or full of good will.... When he sits down at the piano he first passes his hand through his hair, then his glance grows fixed, his breast calm; only his head and the expression of his face show the emotions he is experiencing. It is impossible to give any description of his playing; one must have heard him.<ref>Ibid. | <blockquote>That which is properly the spirit, the very breath of genius, can only be experienced, not described. Imagine a thin figure, with narrow shoulders, his hair falling over his face and down his neck, an extraordinarily spiritual face, expressive, pale, most interesting; an eye that reflects every thought, glittering in conversation or full of good will.... When he sits down at the piano he first passes his hand through his hair, then his glance grows fixed, his breast calm; only his head and the expression of his face show the emotions he is experiencing. It is impossible to give any description of his playing; one must have heard him.<ref>Ibid., pp. 72–73.</ref></blockquote> | ||
He was referred to by his devotees as having the face of a man-angel and a possessing a miraculous life. His features, the lift of his head and shoulders together with the untrammeled height to which his genius soared won for him the aptly descriptive title of the Dauntless Eagle. | He was referred to by his devotees as having the face of a man-angel and a possessing a miraculous life. His features, the lift of his head and shoulders together with the untrammeled height to which his genius soared won for him the aptly descriptive title of the Dauntless Eagle. | ||
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In “Un Sospiro” (“A Breath”) we hear the action of Liszt’s focalizing the energies of the Holy Spirit. According to the ascended masters, the definition of genius is one who breaks all existing forms and evolves a new form, like an iconoclast, but in breaking the old forms and evolving new forms the genius is always in alignment with [[cosmic law]]. | In “Un Sospiro” (“A Breath”) we hear the action of Liszt’s focalizing the energies of the Holy Spirit. According to the ascended masters, the definition of genius is one who breaks all existing forms and evolves a new form, like an iconoclast, but in breaking the old forms and evolving new forms the genius is always in alignment with [[cosmic law]]. | ||
We have all kinds of people in our society today who can break old forms, but they don’t know how to build anything else in its place. We have lot of people know how to tear down and criticize, but the great geniuses in every age have been those who have taken the entire wave of existing structures and preserved the best, leveled the worst, and started a whole new form. | We have all kinds of people in our society today who can break old forms, but they don’t know how to build anything else in its place. We have lot of people who know how to tear down and criticize, but the great geniuses in every age have been those who have taken the entire wave of existing structures and preserved the best, leveled the worst, and started a whole new form. | ||
You take [[Abraham]], you take [[Moses]], you take [[Jesus]] standing up against the entire tradition of the misuses of the Sanhedrin, the Sadducees and the Pharisees. He starts | You take [[Abraham]], you take [[Moses]], you take [[Jesus]] standing up against the entire tradition of the misuses of the Sanhedrin, the Sadducees and the Pharisees. He starts a whole new wave, another cycle, another age, another level of Cosmos. This is genius, this is greatness in every field. We can note it today and in past centuries in the great musicians, and we know that the perversion of genius is tearing down without being able to contact the next spiral higher. | ||
=== Christus === | === Christus === | ||