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1. TForms 1901, p. 80.
2. Taimni 1969, p. 277.
3. "The fundamental theory of Indian classical music, as indeed of all Indian art and poetry, is grounded in the theory of Nada Brahman or Shabda Brahman and is linked with the Vedic religion."[14]
4. Melton 2001c, p. 1076.
5. Taimni mentioned "patterns which are called Chladni's figures" that prove the creative ability of sound.[16]
6. Godwin.
7. Taimni stated that "thoughts, feelings, emotions", by their very nature, are vibrations in the "matter of the subtler planes", and they generate forms that can be seen "objectively".[13]
8. Forms created by music, strictly speaking, are not thought-forms, but, nevertheless, they do not arise without "the thought of the composer".[17] Later, Leadbeater explained that mental, astral, and etheric structures are built up "by the influence of sound", and that "forms, created by the performers of the music, must not be confounded with the magnificent thought-form which the composer himself made as the expression of his own music in the higher worlds."[18]
9. Gary Lachman called Besant and Leadbeater's music-forms "the synaesthetic forms created by music".[19]
10. Chessa 2012, p. 104.
11. The Mahatma Letters argue that music is "the most divine and spiritual of arts".[1][21]
12. Kuhn 1992, p. 113.
13. Leland 2011, p. 61.
14. Leland 2011.
15. "[Blavatsky] possessed great natural musical talents."[25]
16. According to Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, paranormal music varies from inspired performances of mediums and compositions dictated by "spirit musicians" to music that sounds without any visible material source.[26]
17. Sinnett 1886, p. 87.
18. Sinnett 1886, p. 108.
19. Kuhn 1992, p. 106.
20. Melton 2001b.
21. Godwin 1994, p. 202.
22. Bailly 1912.
23. WorldCat.
24. His first step as a publisher was the publication of the famous Kabbalah book Sefer Yetzirah.[33]
25. The spiritist seances were also held here, often with the participation of Debussy and Satie. They played their music on the piano placed in the back room.[33]
26. Librairie.
27. Painblanc.
28. Pasler 2007, p. 85.
29. Churton 2016, Ch. 1.
30. Manen 1912.
31. Bailly's Le Chant des Voyelles for women's choir, flutes and harps "was first performed in early June 1906". Bailly wrote in foreword to his score that "the accompaniment by Harps and Double Flutes, the latter scarcely found outside the cases of large museums, can be replaced by a harmonium (also flute, English horn)".[39]
32. Bailly 1900.
33. Pasler 2007, p. 253.
34. Pasler 2007, p. 254.
35. Khan later gave "several lectures on music and philosophy". In 1914, he spoke at the congress of the International Musical Society.[42]
36. МЭ 1981.
37. Scott 1969.
38. Melton 2001d.
39. Scott stated that "his personal contact" with the mahatmas began in 1919-20.(Tame, 1984)
40. Scott 1917, p. 115.
41. Godwin 1991, p. 38.
42. French 2000, p. 729.
43. Scott believed that the "depictive value of music over and above that of literature, drama, painting and poetry, consists in its total lack of restrictedness, and in its direct appeal to the intuition or subconscious".[48]
44. Hull 1919, p. 179.
45. Mann 1913.
46. In 1905, MacCarthy was allowed to participate in a work of the Esoteric Section of the Theosophical Society.[51]
47. Making Britain.
48. BBC Press release 2007.
49. Mansell 2016, MacCarthy.
50. Conference, p. 17.
51. Archivio.
52. Hahn.
53. Notizie.
54. Teosofia.
55. Commenting on this illustration, the researchers of esotericism wrote that, according to the Theosophists, Wagner's organ music produces on the astral plane the "weird mountains in pink, green and red".(Gettings, 1979)
56. Lachman 2002, p. 135.
57. Hanegraaff 2013, p. 153.
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59. Scott 1969, Ch. 14.
60. In Prof. Wouter Hanegraaff's opinion, it can be unequivocally stated that esotericism had "a major influence" on compositions of Alexander Scriabin.[61]
61. Шабанова 2017, p. 107.
62. Scriabin considered Blavatsky's attempt to unite religion, philosophy, and science into one teaching as "quite reasonable and successful".[65]
63. Шумилин 2009, p. 69.
64. Шумилин 2009, p. 67.
65. These 5 volumes, which belonged to the composer, are stored in Scriabin State Memorial Museum (ru) with a lot of notes and underscores, which testifies to a thorough study of the text. He noted more than 500 fragments in these volumes.[68]
66. Шумилин 2009, p. 109.
67. It should be noted that Scriabin did not consider himself the Theosophist and categorically objected to the promotion of Theosophy through his work.[70]
68. Шумилин 2009, pp. 60, 69.
69. Екимовский 1987, p. 275.
70. "He was very much a mystic and indeed his first symphony composed in 1900 has a choral finale that glorifies art as a form of religion."[73]
71. Godwin 1987, Skryabin.
72. Lachman 2002.
73. Шабанова 2017, p. 106.
74. Scriabin's Mysterium had to surpass "even the greatest ambitions of Wagner".[76] For his project, the composer used as a basis the concept of cosmogenesis and anthropogenesis, presented in Blavatsky's Theosophy.[77]
75. Scott 1969, Ch. 21.
76. Composer Arnold Bax was his brother.
77. Planets.
78. МЭ 1982a.
79. Conference, p. 7.
80. МЭ 1978.
81. TForms 1901.
82. Leadbeater 1913.
83. Chessa 2012, pp. 113, 163–64.
84. Chessa 2012, p. 225.
85. Conference, p. 16.
86. МЭ 1976.
87. Messiaen created the "system of transformation of the bird whistles, appeals, screams, jubili on musical instruments with an equal temperament". See, for example, compositions Oiseaux exotiques (fr) (1956), Catalogue d'oiseaux (1959).[88]
88. Екимовский 1987, pp. 72, 144–45.
89. Dingle 2007, p. 108.
90. Cytowic 2002, p. 310.
91. Messiaen thinked in color not only individual chords, but whole "harmonic-timbre fields".[92]
92. Екимовский 1987, p. 238.
93. He called Mozart a "source of colour-pleasure".[94]
94. Савенко 1995, p. 35.
95. МЭ 1982b.
96. Hanegraaff pointed out that creativity of Stockhausen is an "ultimate example of how avant-garde music can be wholly grounded in an esoteric worldview".[97]
97. Godwin 1998.
98. Savenko called his theatrical super cycle Light "the most ambitious" of the [realized] musical projects.[99]
99. Godwin 1987, Ch. 1.
100. Dmitry Shumilin wrote that Scriabin's "ideas influence" was quite noticeable in the work of Stockhausen.[101]
101. Erlewine1.
102. Weigel 2017, p. 159.
103. Bailey 1925, Contents.
104. Erlewine2.
105. Кастальский 2003.
106. Mills 2010, p. 115.
107. Mills 2010, p. 123.
108. Tame 1984.
109. Mills 2010, pp. 181, 356, 383.
110. Drury 1985, p. 60.
111. In Hanegraaff's opinion, progress of rock music was exerted by the fashion of "alternative spiritualities" that emerged in the 1960s due to the "influences from Oriental as well as Western esoteric traditions".[97]