March 28, 2006
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A Prince of Darkness
“What did he fear? It was not a fear or dread, It was a nothing that he
knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was a nothing too. It was
only that and light was all it needed and a certain cleanness and
order. Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y
pues nada y nada y pues nada. Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy
name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give
us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas
and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail
nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.”– From Ernest Hemingway,
“A Clean, Well-Lighted Place““By groping toward the light
we are made to realize
how deep the darkness
is around us.”
— Arthur Koestler,
The Call Girls: A Tragi-Comedy,
Random House, 1973,
page 118From a review of
Teilhard de Chardin’s
The Phenomenon of Man:“It would have been
a great disappointment
to me if Vibration did not
somewhere make itself felt,
for all scientific mystics
either vibrate in person
or find themselves
resonant with cosmic
vibrations….”“He’s good.”
“Good? He’s the fucking
Prince of Darkness!”— Paul Newman
and Jack Warden
in “The Verdict“
Sanskrit (transliterated) – nada:
the universal sound, vibration.“So Nada Brahma means not only:
God the Creator is sound; but also
(and above all), Creation,
the cosmos, the world, is sound.
And: Sound is the world.”— Joachim-Ernst Berendt,
author of Nada Brahma
“This book is the outcome of
a course given at Harvard
first by G. W. Mackey….”— Lynn H. Loomis, 1953, preface to
An Introduction to
Abstract Harmonic AnalysisFor more on Mackey and Harvard, see
the Log24 entries of March 14-17.
