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Notable & Quotable: "The entire microcosm is replete with harmonic concurrences. The long strings of nucleic acid in DNA are structured precisely according to the Pythagorean Tetractys, the fourfold subdivision of the octave (octave, fifth, fourth and major second). The Pythagoreans attributed magic power to the Tetractys and called it sacred. This same structure is almost ubiquitous in those mysterious processes whereby inorganic structures are transformed into organic life. The four oxygen atoms, for instance, that surround the phosphorus atom vibrate in the Tetractys! Lama Govinda's Word [...] has to be understood literally: 'Each atom is constantly singing a song, and each moment this song creates dense or fine forms of greater or lesser materiality' [...]

"[Rudolf] Haase has pointed out that the 'law of constant and multiple proportions' known from chemistry leads to numerical proportions that are harmonics, and remarked that, since it 'forms the basis for all chemical formulas, the formula idiom of chemistry can be understood as a giant catalogue of harmonical proportions.'

"Here we have left the realm of atoms (and atomic particles) and entered that of molecules."

Joachim-Ernst Berendt, The World Is Sound--Nada Brahma: Music and the Landscape of Consciousness (Destiny Books, 1991)