SUCH HARMONY IS IN IMMORTAL SOULS

When we are receptive to ideas put forward by those who have bridged the gap between the Universal Soul and the ordinary thinking mind, we become aware of a subtle force drawing us into dimensions of thought and feeling that are above and beyond the ordinary, and we find ourselves for a little while dwelling in a space which reveals deeper meaning and which is . . . Ohhh! so very far away from the noise and distractions of daily living.

Here is a very short passage written by one who was, without doubt, so inspired.
Lorenzo is speaking to his love, Jessica:

‘And bring your music forth into the air.

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank

Here we will sit and let the sounds of music

Creep in our ears.

Soft stillness and the night

Become the touches of sweet harmony.

Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven

Is thick inlaid of patens of bright gold

There is not the smallest orb which thou beholdest

But in his motion like an angel sings,

Still choiring to the young-eye Cherubims;

Such harmony is in immortal souls,

But whilst this muddy vesture of decay

Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.

Come, ho, and wake Diana with a hymn!

With sweetest touches pierce your mistress ear, 

and draw her home with music.’

Perhaps the poet is alluding to That which lives within the heart of all; to that transcendental space within which dwells the Highest that we are. He compares the harmony of the immortal soul with music in the air, with the sweet calm of moonlight upon the river bank in the soft stillness of night, and with the celestial motion and music of the spheres. Such harmony is, indeed, in immortal souls, he says, and the muddy vesture of decay which is our physical body, does indeed, close it in so that we cannot hear it. Lorenzo invokes the goddess Diana (the soul) to bestow a glimpse of the higher dimensions in all its sovereignty, supremacy, impassibility and divine indifference to earthly matters. He summons the goddess to pierce the ear of Jessica and draw her home with her (heavenly) music. How beautiful!

Is the author encouraging us to invoke those higher forces that ever exist within us?