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[[File:Frederic Chopin photo.jpeg|thumb|Frederick Chopin, daguerreotype by Bisson [c. 1849]]] | [[File:Frederic Chopin photo.jpeg|thumb|left|Frederick Chopin, daguerreotype by Bisson [c. 1849]]] | ||
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'''Frederick Chopin''' was born in 1809 of French-Polish origin. | '''Frederick Chopin''' was born in 1809 of French-Polish origin. | ||
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Some people hear in the music of Chopin what they call the indefinable sadness of his music, where laughter is disguising a heart of tears. But I hear the triumph of the flame of mastery<ref>Pisces is the two o’clock line of the [[cosmic clock]], the quality of God mastery.</ref> over sorrow. And all the sorrows and the burdens, the revolutions, the persecutions of the Polish people are made into a triumph in the waters and the fires of freedom. It is this genius that Chopin captured through meditation upon the [[angel deva]] of Poland, the [[Christ consciousness]], the [[causal body|causal bodies]] of all of her people. | Some people hear in the music of Chopin what they call the indefinable sadness of his music, where laughter is disguising a heart of tears. But I hear the triumph of the flame of mastery<ref>Pisces is the two o’clock line of the [[cosmic clock]], the quality of God mastery.</ref> over sorrow. And all the sorrows and the burdens, the revolutions, the persecutions of the Polish people are made into a triumph in the waters and the fires of freedom. It is this genius that Chopin captured through meditation upon the [[angel deva]] of Poland, the [[Christ consciousness]], the [[causal body|causal bodies]] of all of her people. | ||
There are ten or more polonaise which he wrote, inspired by the great patriotic poets of his day. They are a music that expands our sense of freedom in the finite, that is a bridge to our sense of freedom in the infinite. George Sand said of Chopin, “He was a lover of an | There are ten or more polonaise which he wrote, inspired by the great patriotic poets of his day. They are a music that expands our sense of freedom in the finite, that is a bridge to our sense of freedom in the infinite. George Sand said of Chopin, “He was a lover of an Impossible so shadowy and so near the stellar regions.”<ref>Hal A. Lingerman, ''The Healing Energies of Music'' (Wheaton, Ill.: Quest Books, 1995), p. 163.</ref> | ||
As this music was taken from the genius of the Christ consciousness, so it gives back to a people who become burdened by the human consciousness their lost identity, their very soul. And so the music of Chopin has been the very soul of Poland, which has given them the dignity and the worth to stand before any foe, any army, and to say, “You shall not trample upon the fires of freedom.” | As this music was taken from the genius of the Christ consciousness, so it gives back to a people who become burdened by the human consciousness their lost identity, their very soul. And so the music of Chopin has been the very soul of Poland, which has given them the dignity and the worth to stand before any foe, any army, and to say, “You shall not trample upon the fires of freedom.” | ||
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Elizabeth Clare Prophet, September 30, 1973. | Elizabeth Clare Prophet, September 30, 1973. | ||
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