B862 <=> B864 [BTG XL Heptaparaparshinokh, p. 863]
“’Ekh . . . you, Koorfooristanian pantaloons, isn’t it all the same to you whether you have a mule or a hare for your farm work? Haven’t both of these animals four legs?’
“These contemporary favorites of yours of course do not know and do not even suspect that these two independent divisions of the octave into whole notes which they now have and which they called the Chinese and the Greek have as the basis of their arising two entirely different causes: the first, that is, the Chinese division, is, as I already said, the result of the thorough cognizance by the great learned twin brothers – unprecedented on Earth previously as well as subsequently – of the law of Heptaparaparshinokh; and the second, that is the Greek division, was made only on the basis of what is called the ‘restorials of voice’ which were in the voices of the beings-Greeks of that period, when this ‘five-tone Greek octave’ was composed.
“Almost as many of these restorials of the voice or as they are still sometimes named ‘light sounds of voice’ are formed among your favorites and until today are still formed, as there are independent groups into which they are divided and still continue to be divided, and this proceeds so because these light sounds of voice are in general formed among the beings from many outer as well as inner surrounding conditions not depending on them themselves, as for instance: geographical, hereditary, religious, and even from the ‘quality-of-nourishment’ and the ‘quality-of-reciprocal-influences,’ and so on and so forth.
“Your contemporary favorites of course cannot understand that however hard these same ancient Greeks tried, or, so to say, ‘however conscientious their attitude toward this matter,’ they could not with all their wish find in the division of the octave of sound into definite tones either more or less than these five whole notes, since the totality of all the conditions not depending on them, both inner and outer, gave them the possibility at the reproduction of their chanting to rely only on their five restorials of voice.