But now that we have ar­rived at the field of crea­tive mu­sic lis­ten­ing and, as free mu­sic crea­tors, look out from the realm of the har­mony to the rela­tive mu­si­cal worlds of the se­quences and mo­tifs, and also see the tones at the ho­ri­zon of the outer mu­sic, then sud­denly the same se­quences, which we had thought so real be­fore, and more so the mo­tifs and par­ticu­larly the tones, now appear rather un­real and com­pletely in­sig­nifi­cant com­pared with our to­tal mu­si­cal ex­peri­ence in the unlim­ited field of the ab­so­lu­te Now, in the im­meas­ur­able mu­si­cal force-field of the pure har­mony.

Seen from this new stand­point of crea­tive mu­sic lis­ten­ing, the rela­tive worlds of mu­sic, valued so high be­fore, now appear to the new­born tone-crea­tor as ex­tremely lim­ited, oth­er­worldly mirages – mere sug­ges­tions of mu­si­cal ex­pres­sion, with an ex­tremely lim­ited power of ex­pres­sion.

And to him, this lim­ited mu­si­cal ex­pressiveness is just a spark, at best, of the im­meas­ur­able fire of ab­so­lu­te mu­sic which he ex­peri­ences within him­self – a spark which, to him, ap­pears com­pletely forlorn in the outer rela­tive field of the bustle of mu­si­cal ac­tiv­ity.

And still we are grate­ful to the spark; for, just as a sin­gle ray of sun­light es­tab­lishes the ex­is­tence of the great sun and points out the di­rec­tion to it, like­wise this small, in­sig­nifi­cant spark once en­abled us to infer the ex­is­tence of a deeper mu­si­cal mean­ing.
And in the course of our proc­ess of gain­ing knowl­edge in mu­sic, the in­creas­ing radi­ance of this spark – glimmering faintly at first, and glow­ing stronger all the time – showed us the way to­wards the mu­si­cal truth, to­wards the radi­ant truth of mu­sic.