On Thursday May 28th, 2014 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will

review the 2008 book "The Music of Pythagoras" by musicologist Kitty

Ferguson. This is a wonderfully erudite and deeply meaningful book on

the accomplishments, and lasting influence of the most important of the

pre-Socratean philosophers, and perhaps the most important ancient

avatar of the Western Esoteric Tradition. As a musicologist Ferguson is

able to fully expound on the master's development of "The Music of the

Spheres" from mythical Orpheus through Kepler to Close Encounters of the

Third Kind (we can all whistle that one). The Pythagorean harmonious

universe of music, mathematics, and geometry has been re-validated in

modern times with the advent of new theories in quantum physics. It was,

of course, the bed rock of Qabalah, Alchemy and Magick. We will

demonstrate some applications of the Pythagorean magical scale used to

activate psychic centers (chakras) and discuss the employment of these

techniques in magical operations. So tune in, tune up and we'll sing

along with the planets.