...as in MUSIC so in LIFE by the very Reverend AT Jazz
...these words and their analogues are a maxim i was to find again and again in my researches throughout the ages: as above, so below; as in heaven, so on earth; as in music, so in life seems to be the oldest way of noting the similarities, and dare i say, resonance between states. The Law of Octaves, in the field of Chemistry, discovered by John Newlands notes the similarity of chemical elements when arranged according to atomic weight, that is to say, every eighth element displays the same physical and chemical properties. We've all struggled with that Table of Elements, arranged in a weird box arrangement (based on chronology of discovery rather than anything else), trying to remember seemingly random data dotted throughout. When arranged in a circle, or more precisely, a spiral (there's that spiral again) alle ist klar. In music also, everything is related to the octave. On a piano keyboard for instance, whichever white note you start on, every eighth white note above
