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Cirlot on music
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005891
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
A Dictionary of Symbols – J E Cirlot
In India, the sound of Krishna’s flute is the magical cause of the birth of the world. The pre-Hellenic maternal goddesses are depicted holding lyres, and with the same significance. There are other traditional doctrines which hold that sound was the first of all things to be created, and that which gave rise to all others, commencing with light, or alternatively with air and fire. An instance of this is the lament quoted in the Poimandres of Hermes Trismegistos