To spiritual sense, the earth is at all times resonant with music and vibrant with color. There are musicians who have heard this earth music which is inaudible to most men, this song which the planet sings as she paces in her orbit around the Sun. joining her voice to that of the great Star Angels who have sung since the morning of the world. There are artists who have seen colors which their pigments could not reproduce upon canvas, colors to which their fellowmen were blind. Yet lacking esoteric knowledge, creative artists have not, for the most part, observed that their inspired visions and creative ecstasies flow with the seasons. The esotericist, however, knows that just as the outer world is a panorama of changing forms, so the world inwardly perceived by spiritual sense puts on and off innumerable veils of varieated color and floating webs of music as season passes into season, each season having its own keynote, its own basic color and harmony of colors. Of the four Sacred Seasons, two ray forth brilliant and vivid hues attuned to the majestic and forthright notes of a major symphony — these are the Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice; and two ray forth soft and luminous hues attuned to the tender tones of a minor symphony these are Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice.
In each of the four Sacred Seasons there are two predominant color notes, one manifesting on the subjective or inner plane and the other on the objective or outer plane. The inner plane colors are Red in the Spring, Blue in Summer, Gold in Autumn and White in Winter. The outer plane colors are a Silvery Green in Spring, Gold in Summer, Blue in Autumn and White in Winter.
At the Autumn Equinox the radiant Christ Force enters the earth. The Lighted Way follows this Force as it traverses the mental and desire realms and descends deep into the globe. Music descriptive of the season is the magic fire music of Wagner's Die Walkure, by which Brunhilde, the Virgin of Truth, was put to sleep and surrounded by a wall of fire.
To find music descriptive of the Winter Solstice, the keynote of which is Love, we turn to the Shubert and Bach-Gounod Ave Marias, which are a far-off echo of the glorious chant of the Arch angel Gabriel and his hosts of ministering Angels. In them is sound ed the soul note of the divine Mary, the most advanced feminine Initiate of all time. Now the Love Light penetrates the heart of the planet, and the qualified Disciple comes face to face with the Christ and receives His benediction: "Well done, thou good and faithful servant. enter thou into the joy of thy Lord!"
With the Spring Equinox the Path of Light leads into the upper spiritual realms of the planet, to the magnificent theme of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus, which is the soul chant of the Initiate who is laying aside the natural body and putting on the body celestial.
The Ninth Symphony, Beethoven's crowning work, belongs to the Summer Solstice. This is not merely planetary, this is cosmic music. It literally draws down to earth the powers of the great universe. The true meaning and purpose of this majestic symphony will only be comprehended by the musicologist of the future, as he is initiated into the mysteries of cosmic forces and the music of the spheres.
Even while the multitudes remain deaf and blind to these cosmic forces in which our planet hangs as in an iridescent net, they respond to their physical impact, and therefore human activities show a rhyth mic pattern consonant with the stellar configurations. In spring and summer men seek the open and pursue the interests of the objective sense life. In autumn and winter they turn to the subjective, but actually more substantial pleasures belonging to the soul life. The educational system follows this cosmic pattern, making allowance for relaxation in spring and summer and for application to study in the fall and winter.
Many writers along occult lines have given the story of the four solar Festivals from a purely physical point of view: that is, as a nature myth. To interpret their uniquely Christian and spiritual significance is the task of those belonging to the School of the New Age Mysteries; and to this task we reverently dedicate this book.
— Corinne Heline
