March 5th. What I read today.

Excerpts from The Mystery of Sound.

The life absolute from which has sprung all that is felt, seen, and perceived, and into which all merges in time, is a silent, motionless, and eternal life which among the Sufis is called zat.

Every motion that springs forth from this silent life is a vibration and a creator of vibrations.

As motion causes motion, so the silent life becomes active in a certain part and creates every moment more and more activity, losing thereby the peace of the original silent life.

Man is not only formed of vibrations, but he lives and moves in them;they surround him as the fish is surrounded by water.

The vibratory activity is the basis of sensation and the source f all pleasure and pain; its cessation is the opposite of sensation. All sensations are caused by a certain garde of activity of vibration.

If there were no rhytm , if it were not for the law of rhythm, we would not have distinct forms and intelligent conditions.

Harmonious forms are manifestations if a right rhythm, and inharmonious forms are manifestations of a disorder in rhythm.

...by controlling this rhythm one can prolong one's life, and also that by neglecting this rhythm one can shorten it.

What repulses or attracts us in a person is a very often his rhythm. One person is rhytmic, and his influence is soothing;another is out of rhythm, and he upsets everybody.

By being regular one maintains rhythm in everything one does, and an irregular person will always find himself lost, because he cannot accomplish anything from want of rhythm.


I can't think of a more beautiful rhythm than the rhythm of silence. In this case,Silence becomes such a relevant term. Silence is the rhytmic sound of the virgin vibrations.