Com­pre­hend­ing the mu­si­cal se­quence and, si­mul­ta­ne­ously, dis­tin­guishing many dif­fer­ent courses of life as rep­re­sented in the po­lyph­ony break the lis­tener’s limi­ta­tions of his purely in­di­vid­ual con­sid­era­tion of the path and thus frees him, step by step, from the bond­age to the ex­peri­ence of only one sin­gle life-path; for, when com­pre­hend­ing the mu­si­cal se­quence, the lis­tener be­comes aware of the many, pos­si­bly in­fi­nitely many si­mul­ta­ne­ous life-paths, and his bond­age to an in­di­vid­ual life-path dis­solves; in that man­ner he also gains re­lief from the emo­tional burden of the de­sire for per­sonal gain.

In the mu­si­cal se­quence-spaces, the lis­tener con­sciously un­folds into a so­cial be­ing; be­cause in the se­quence-worlds he over­looks the sum of in­di­vid­ual life-paths un­der the as­pect of one com­mon, mani­fold life-pat­tern, and within his per­sonal ex­peri­ence he there­fore reaches the level of knowl­edge of higher mu­si­cal or­der: he sees with the eyes of a true so­ci­olo­gist.

Thus, the lis­tener iden­ti­fies the vari­ous life-paths in their mani­fold de­vel­op­ment de­scribed by the melo­dies of poly­phonic mu­sic as the simultaneity of an in­fi­nitely long course of life which now pro­ceeds as if in seg­ments, in pe­ri­ods of life, in a great blaze of col­ours.

Even­tu­ally, with an even greater den­sity of per­sonal ex­peri­ence of the mani­fold ways, the lis­tener reaches an in­fi­nitely long life-path in the moment of the ab­so­lu­te Now.