Eduard de Boer: XI. 'Ad Auream Futuram' from the Oratorio Toward a Golden Future, op. 103
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XI. Ad Auream Futuram (Towards a Golden Future), for soprano, tenor, baritone, children's voice and orchestra
I see the transformation humanity is currently in as a kind of birth canal to a new, better world. This is the theme of the final movement, where texts from the Corpus Hermeticum are supplemented by lines of poetry by Franz Custos, who has also added some Latin lines in the spirit of Hermetic philosophy.
To add to this concluding section: I base my view that we will eventually face a golden future partly on the Hermetic ideas, which state that man, consisting of light and life, is in fact divine and the soul immortal. I have also read many books on life after death, such as Life in the World Unseen (https://www.ghostcircle.com/wp-conten...) and A Wanderer in the Spirit Lands (https://sacred-texts.com/eso/wsl/inde...) and listened to or read many testimonies of so-called ‘near-death experiences’. According to these books, the collective development of human consciousness will eventually lead to the point that entities that feed off our negative feelings, such as fear, sadness or anger, will no longer be able to exist here, for lack of sustenance. To mention an example, one day the insight will come that war can never bring about anything positive because negative energy always leads to negative results. The recently unleashed wars show that we have not yet reached that point. At the same time, things like the greatly increased interest in spirituality show that our collective consciousness is growing, and it is my impression that the pandemic outbreak has given a powerful impetus to this development. All in all, we are not there yet, and it looks like we are in for a difficult time in the short term; but we are nevertheless on the right track.
The text of the lyrics, including explanatory footnotes, can be read in the preface to the vocal score: https://www.eduarddeboer.org/oratorio..., pages xx - xxii. This movement starts at page 98.
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