Music As Holy Ascent

So long ago Music brought Heaven close to Earth, and gave suffering humanity Joy, as they labored every day and night for masters who cared only for what sword and spear achieved. Some laborers conceived higher hopes, and nurtured them in an atmosphere of inner freedom. And Music blessed that nascent freedom with the gift of spirit flight. Music is both Ascent and Descent, and both directions are heavenward. Today, laborers no longer, we are the Adepts who can bring Heaven down or raise seekers to the empyrean. With GRUPPEN we announce our mission; STIMMUNG purges souls of the ascendents, and CARRE celebrates their bonding as a visionaries. INORI is the praise-song that makes all one. STERNKLANG links our individual minds with the Cosmic Mind, as we ascend beyond planetary knowledge. SATURDAY from LIGHT frees us from sensory limitations. Through LIGHTS - WATERS we open our hearts to love, and through MANTRA we open our minds to gnosis. With MICHAELION we look back at Earth with deepest love. LIGHT - PICTURES show us the first wonders of our new existence. HARLEQUIN teaches us the laughing wisdom that replaces the Aeschylean wisdom gained only through suffering. We experience MICHAEL'S HOMECOMING as our homecoming, and MICHAEL'S JOURNEY AROUND THE EARTH will be our memory of mortality. We will soon join the ANGELIC PROCESSION, for which Stockhausen has composed a new Heavenly score for our apotheosis.