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with true order – with realities in the spiritual world.” (Arcana Coelestia 8337.2)
Did the true order and realities of the spiritual world come to fruition
in Handel’s Messiah? It was this enlightenment, made possible by the First
Advent, that could now begin to seep through to the human race. Resulting
first was the Age of Enlightenment, then the Biblically based Great Awakening,
simultaneously darkened by the Deistic movement vastating the then
Christian Church, leading up to a culmination of music. This was seen in the
Baroque turning deftly to the Classical in and with Handel’s Messiah. It was
shortly followed by the greatest liberation of music in Mozart, born in 1756
into the lap of the Post-Judgment world, with Haydn, C.P. Bach, Clementi et
alii bridging the transition gap.
The year 1750 is generally seen as the start of “classical music.” Beethoven
was waiting for the full effect of the New Heaven, opened by June 19, 1770, his
birth year. And, of course, the New Church on earth was established in 1787
from the New Heaven: “and peace, as in heaven, so upon the earth.”
The resurrected Lord’s new dual influx had been obscured by the dark
cloud interposed after Nicaea in 325 A.D., causing the “spiritual sun to set”
and making spiritual temptations impossible. (True Christian Religion 597) But
it was lifted by the 1757 Last Judgment, releasing that “seven-fold splendor”
(Divine Love and Wisdom 233) promised in Isaiah 30:25, 26: “the sun will be
seven-fold, as the light of seven days,” from the Lord’s transfiguration when
“His face shone as the sun and His raiment became as the light,” (Matthew
17:1, 2) and “His face was as the sun,” (Revelation 1.15), enlightening the “state
of the Church after the Lord’s Advent.” (Divine Love and Wisdom 233)
After His Resurrection, and renewed after 1757, the Divine Proceeding has
embraced both Divine Providence and the Holy Spirit, (Divine Providence 58).
Thus both “hands” of the Lord, the right hand or invisible Divine Providence,
and the left hand “the manifest” Holy Spirit, “showing plainly of the Father” –
i.e. explaining the Doctrine of the Lord, in the Heavenly Doctrines.
The new Divine Proceeding has been inspiring humanity with Divine
Truth for 2000 years now, causing the Age of
Enlightenment and Age of Reason, and after
1757, forever. Indeed, some say the Age of Reason
started with the experimentation of Roger Bacon
(1219-1294), down to today’s Hubble telescope
defining new galaxies and solar systems with
detected planets. These are all the things the
Lord saw as an infant when Abram was told
to “count the stars” – i.e. the Lord learned His
Handel’s own hand-written
own Divinity, a discovery signaled by adding to
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Abram’s name the Divine breath syllable H as in
performance of The Messiah.
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