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Newsvine - Music, Symbolism, Magic and Manipulation
These same principles were well understood by magicians, alchemists and proponents of hermetic thought. Early hermeticists viewed the world in accordance with the principle “as above, so below”. In their worldview, all of creation was a holistic, interconnected unit, whose binding element was the principle of harmony. This principle was one which they could easily test, through the use of stringed instruments. When two strings were tuned to the same frequency, when one was plucked, the other would vibrate in what appeared to be ’sympathy’. What we understand is that the plucked string causes the air surrounding it to vibrate, which then causes the second string to vibrate, assuming that both strings have been ‘harmonically attuned.’