Text: Beats arising from the overtones of Compound Tones. In music it is considered a beat when the resultant numbers are small. The 156 and 112 of the first series is not considered a beat frequency as is the 56 in the lower series. However, these tones are generated and constitute a new tone resulting from the generator tones. Only the first six partials are shown. The actual number of partials are infinite and consequently there are many more beats present even though they are not heard or measured. To complicate matters even more, these beat tones will also become generators themselves and create secondary, tertiary, etc. orders of beats. This is taken to be the Jacob's Ladder of the Bible and also demonstrates "as above - so below" and that all things are connected.

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