song of heaven

  • The Song of Joy dominates the Rigveda’s 6th Sukta

    Let’s continue our conversation about the Rigveda’s Sixth Sukta by reviewing the verse we ended on last time. That verse is Rv 1.6.5, rather than Rv 1.6.6, as per Max Muller, the 19th-century Oxford orientalist credited with restoring the Rigveda to its original metric form. In so doing, he divided Rv. 1.6.4 into two lines,…

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  • The Holy Stream of Sound

    “Holy Stream of Sound” is the phrase used by the historical Jesus to describe the ever-present echo of God’s Voice we hear with our inner ears. We know this from a teaching attributed to Jesus in the Essene Gospel of Peace, a largely unknown 3rd-century text discovered in the Secret Library of the Vatican in…

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