PHYSIOLOGY. I / I 



2864. The metals are the ear of nature, the salt her tf 

 tongue, the resin her nose, the earth her hand. 



2865. The power or capacity excited by sonorous 

 figures of covibrating according to the same laws, con- 

 stitutes Hearing ; the phenomenon is called Sound. 

 Hearing is a primary motion in the musculo-osseous sys- 

 tem of the ear, which is communicated to the auditory 

 nerve. The auditory sense is aether-sense, metal-sense. 

 Hearing is magnetizing. 



2866. The sonorous figures are formed in the auditory 

 organ, and even in the auditory nerves, just as they have 

 been represented upon an infinitely small scale in the 

 air. The nerve becomes in hearing a sonorous figure. 



2867. It is not the mere motion in the auditory organs 

 which produces the sensation of sound; the nerve certainly 

 perceives each movement in the ears, because none is 

 possible apart from or without primary motion ; only 

 such a motion is no sound, but only a noise. What has 

 been written in the tingling metal according to eternal 

 laws, is transcribed or copied in the auditory nerve ; it 

 is only this writing, but no massive motion of the air, 

 which is legible by the nerve. 



2868. Melody is a retrogression of the matter into 

 aether, of the formed world into the primary world ; 

 through melody is the spirit of the world revealed. The 

 ear is the first liberation of the animal from all terrestrial 

 matter ; through the ear the animal becomes for the first 

 time spiritual. 



2869. Melody is the voice of the universe, whereby it 

 proclaims its scheme, or its innermost essence. Hence 

 the wondrous, mysterious action of harmony, the secret 

 sovereignty of music. Music is the expression of the 

 ardent desire to revert to the primary idea. It makes 

 man unconsciously yearn after a condition which he 

 knoweth not ; it transports him unconsciously into this 

 condition of divine repose and godly bliss. 



Speech. 



2870. That which melodizes proclaims its spirit : the 

 melody of animals displays their internal law. 



