Text adapted by the composer
I. Anima Mundi (Chorus)
Anima mundi fiat lux, enthusiasmus jubilate!
[Soul of the world let there be light, god in you shout for joy!]
II. Morning Stars (Soprano solo)
The morning stars sang together, and shouted for joy!
— Book of Job
III. The Plant (Alto solo)
Does not the plant turn its buds and leaves to the light, does it not send its roots where it finds
nourishment, and its tendrils where it finds support? Does it not close its petals at night?
Does it not open them in sunshine?
— Friedrich Paulsen
Interlude No. 1 [The Sun]
IV. Stones (Tenor solo)
A stone is not indifferent to other stones. On the level of its understanding, it plays
its part according to the measure of its capacity. As true of stones as of men.
— Schiller
V. Life and Reason (Chorus)
Nothing that is destitute itself of life and reason, can generate a being possessed
of life and reason; but the world does generate beings possessed of life and reason;
the world therefore is not itself destitute of life and reason.
— Zeno the Stoic
VI. The strong, unceasing impulse (Bass solo)
The strong, unceasing impulse with which the waters hurry to the ocean,
the persistency with which the magnet ever turns to the North, the readiness
with which iron flies to the magnet, the eagerness with which the poles seek to be
reunited, and which, like human desire, is increased by obstacles as well as the
choice with which bodies repel and attract, combine and separate, when they are
emancipated from the bonds of rigidity. — Schopenhauer
Interlude No. 2 [The Moon]
VII. One Breath (Soprano I, II, Alto)
There is one breath pervading the whole cosmos like soul, uniting us.
— Sextus Empiricus
VIII. All Things (Bass solo, Tenor solo, Chorus)
All things are bound together. All things connect. What happens to the Earth,
happens to it's Children. Man has not woven the Web of Life. What Man does
to the Web, he does to himself.
— Chief Seattle
Interlude No. 3 [The Stars]
IX. As in the Seed (Soprano I, II, Alto, Tenor, Bass)
As in the seed is contained the picture, or pattern, of the tree which bore the fruit,
Man is likewise capable of the perfect harmonization by which the large world is
governed; Man's Soul being the sun of his being and the Light thereof, just as the
sun arising in the East and setting in the West gives light unto the world, and is
soul of that world.
— Paracelsus
X. The Final Oneness (Chorus and Soloists)
(S)he who knows the secret melody that bears the inner into the outer, who knows
the singing of the spheres, (s)he is full of the power of God. For in them are three:
Anima mundi divinitas. They rise and join, unite themselves, the great rapture is
born: the final oneness of all things!
— Martin Buber
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