Joscelyn Godwin, Professor of Music at Colgate University, is the author of The Harmony of Spheres, Arktos: The Polar Myth, The Theosophical Enlightenment, and many other books on music and esoteric traditions.

Preface and Acknowledgments



Part I Ascending Parnassus

1 The Marvelous effects of Music

2 Hearing Secret Harmonies



Part II The Great Work

3 Music Alchemy

4 Music and the Currents of Time



Part III The Music of the Spheres

1 The Cosmological Framework

2 Planet-Scales, Type a

3 Modern Schemes: Titius-Bode and Goldschmidt

4 Planet-Scales, Type B

5 Planets, Tones, and the Days of the Week

6 Planet-Scales, Type C

7 Systems with Movable Tones: Eriugena, Anselmi

8 Kepler's Planetary Music

9 Intervals and the Astrological Aspects

10 Tone-Zodiacs

11 Angelic Orders and Muses: The Great Chain of Being

12 The Three Means

13 Gurdjieff's Law of Octaves

14 The Harmonics Series and its Symbolism

15 The Subharmonic Series

16 The Lambdoma and the Pyhagorean Table

17 Beyond Manifestation: 1/1 and 0/0



Notes



Bibliography of Works Cited