ARTIKLER

The Harmony of the spheres or kotodama in the light of the occident and the orient - as found in aikido by M. Ushiba and in the eurythmy by R. Steiner.

The spiritual word or mantra of AEIOU and the first sound of A

The Italian philosopher PYTHAGORAS (500-580 BC) founded a school where mathematic was one of the mane disciplines. However mathematics was for him only formulas of rhythm and tones.

The word was just the manifestation of THE MUSIC OG THE SPHERES.

As such all manifestations in the universe, nature and man, was the result of mathematical and geometrical laws – or spiritual words or imaginations.

The Law of 3

In the occident the alphabet describes a number of letters – from A to Z or from Alpha to Omega.

Transcultural human based this understanding on the Law of tree. AUM in India and IAO in greeck

The Hebrew talks of the Thre arcane mothers – Aleph, Shin and Mem.

Aleph (A) as a sound coming from the troth. Shin (S) coming form the teats and Mem (M) as coming from the leaps.

The sound A was to the Hebrew the sound of Air – Shin was the sound of firer and Men the sound of water.

In transculural concepts the Law of tree was known as Brahma, Vishnu, Siva in India – and in Egypt as Osiris, Icic and Hourus – later in Europ as Father, Mother and Son.

The first sound or letter is as such A – This sound is the first letter in many important words – and telling us about the primary quality of this sound. We have the word ALphabet and from Arabic comes importance words as ALgabra - Alkymi and most of all Allah.

We also have the sound AI – in aikido – the sound AUM – and the sound AMEN.

The Law of 5.

The geometrical form Pentagram became known as the number of man – referring to him as a “star” – interesting – that the pentagram to day is used in most muslin and Christian’s national flags as a symbol.

AEIOU.

All these sound are what we call vocals – that is sound of continual life. Where as consonants have a forming or limiting quality.

Looking at the body we cane pensive these qualities in basically to lines strength and a curved line or open and closed form. Musical spiking this is the sounds of major and minor.

In the human body we cane perceive 3 qualities – movements, sensations and character.

I see aikido exercises as an emanation of these 3 qualities. What we call aikido “techniques”

and harmony. However if aikido only were dancing that would be enough. What often are missing is character, the impulse that goes further than movement and sensation. We could call it moral imagination – the ability to stop the mind from wondering around in daydreaming.

So by trying to express the word A in aikido exercises we bring forth the A movement, sensation and character in body, mind and spirit and as such we becomes In harmony with, nature and cosmos.

To understand the spiritual dimension of sacred words such as AEIOU, is to me kotodama
or mantra meditation and spiritual movments.