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Shortly after Spence had leaked ''Music of the Spheres'' in December 2017, Spence and his friend Landon Davis acquired the poems, and started work on a collection called ''Music of the Spheres: Golden Age Anthology'', which combined ''Seven Heavens, Seven Hells'' and other content related to ''Music of the Spheres'' into a package complete with art, videos, and audio. Their first video was released on July 7, 2018, and they stated they would release more once ''The Music of Destiny, Volume 1'' vinyl collection shipped in late 2018 to those who purchased them. <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mrDRsB6O_0</ref> The rest of the poems were released to the public on February 22, 2019. <ref>https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2019/02/23/the-music-of-the-spheres-a-poetic-adventure-resumes/</ref> | Shortly after Spence had leaked ''Music of the Spheres'' in December 2017, Spence and his friend Landon Davis acquired the poems, and started work on a collection called ''Music of the Spheres: Golden Age Anthology'', which combined ''Seven Heavens, Seven Hells'' and other content related to ''Music of the Spheres'' into a package complete with art, videos, and audio. Their first video was released on July 7, 2018, and they stated they would release more once ''The Music of Destiny, Volume 1'' vinyl collection shipped in late 2018 to those who purchased them. <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mrDRsB6O_0</ref> The rest of the poems were released to the public on February 22, 2019. <ref>https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2019/02/23/the-music-of-the-spheres-a-poetic-adventure-resumes/</ref> | ||
In terms of the layout of the poetry, there are fourteen poems arranged in seven pairs. Each poem draws influences from Ward's book ''[http://www.planetnarnia.com/ Planet Narnia]'', and the poems are arranged in a format called a roundel, where each poem has a main phrase that is repeated throughout (for instance, The Moon's phrase is "The Moon is Full). | In terms of the layout of the poetry, there are fourteen poems arranged in seven pairs. Each poem draws influences from Ward's book ''[http://www.planetnarnia.com/ Planet Narnia]'', and the poems are arranged in a format called a roundel, where each poem has a main phrase that is repeated throughout (for instance, The Moon's phrase is "The Moon is Full"). | ||
Every two poems are 'opposing pairs'. According to Guite, "Each of the seven spheres has a certain cluster of associations and influences, Venus with Love, Mars with war and martial valour, the Sun with gold, but also poetry and inspiration etc. But equally it is possible for each of these celestial influences to become corrupted and malign, for, as St. Augustine says, good is primal and evil is always a corruption of some original good."<ref>https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2018/07/07/the-music-of-the-spheres-a-poetic-adventure/</ref> As such, the first poem of the opposing pair is diurnal, or the 'heavenly' sphere, and the second in the pair is the nocturnal, or the 'hellish' sphere. | Every two poems are 'opposing pairs'. According to Guite, "Each of the seven spheres has a certain cluster of associations and influences, Venus with Love, Mars with war and martial valour, the Sun with gold, but also poetry and inspiration etc. But equally it is possible for each of these celestial influences to become corrupted and malign, for, as St. Augustine says, good is primal and evil is always a corruption of some original good."<ref>https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2018/07/07/the-music-of-the-spheres-a-poetic-adventure/</ref> As such, the first poem of the opposing pair is diurnal, or the 'heavenly' sphere, and the second in the pair is the nocturnal, or the 'hellish' sphere. | ||