In par­ticu­lar, the proc­ess of cog­ni­tion relies on the mu­si­cal enliv­en­ment and stimu­la­tion of our self-aware­ness, which is achieved through our tools of cog­ni­tion, feel­ing and un­der­stand­ing, and which gradu­ally puts us lis­ten­ers into the role of a crea­tor of mu­sic.

The in­te­gra­tion of these three si­mul­ta­ne­ous proc­esses in the proc­ess of gain­ing knowl­edge makes up the en­tirety of our gain­ing knowl­edge in mu­sic.
And at dif­fer­ent times of the whole proc­ess, some­times the one, and some­times the other of these three proc­esses domi­nates.

At the be­gin­ning of eve­ry hear­ing proc­ess in a con­cert of clas­si­cal mu­sic, first of all the outer hear­ing domi­nates, and only then the pro­jec­tion of the acous­tic tone pat­tern in our men­tal space.

But very gradu­ally the in­tel­lec­tual fac­ulty of dis­crimi­na­tion of our un­der­stand­ing and the in­tel­lec­tual fac­ulty of syn­the­sis of our feel­ing gain in­flu­ence, and we enter the in­ner crea­tive worlds of mu­sic – first the in­ner sound-spaces, then the motif-spaces, then the se­quence-spaces, and fi­nally the in­fi­nite space of the har­mony.

In this moment, our in­ner breath is stimu­lated by the in­ner breath of the mu­sic to flow, and its enli­ven­ing winds permeate our mind and make it vibrate as the ab­so­lu­te sound-sub­stance.

As soon as our mind has struc­tur­ally been raised in this man­ner to the value of com­pre­hen­sive cos­mic func­tion, its proc­ess of know­ing also as­sumes the func­tion of cos­mic achieve­ment: on the level of unity we per­ceive all the di­ver­sity of mu­sic as a dy­namic con­tin­uum be­yond space and time, and we ex­peri­ence eve­ry in­di­vid­ual as­pect as an in­te­gra­tive part of the whole.

Only now our self-con­scious­ness gains the sym­pa­thetic, life-sup­port­ing en­vi­ron­ment which it needs for its per­sonal free un­fold­ment, and it be­gins to stir deep within us; it be­comes crea­tively ac­tive and en­ters the realms of our mind which swing in unity.

In this moment our self-con­scious­ness as­sumes the free rul­er­ship over our tools of cog­ni­tion, as­sumes the co­or­di­nated rul­er­ship over feel­ing and un­der­stand­ing and de­ter­mines with these, as its for­ma­tive forces, all fur­ther mu­si­cal de­vel­op­ment.