Solfeggio frequencies

The series of frequencies that make up the Solfeggio scale comes from the book Healing codes for the biological apocalypse, written by Leonard G. Horowitz, a dentist and author, and Joseph S. Puleo, a naturopathic doctor and herbalist. In this book, Puleo recounts several incidents and visions that transformed his life and led him down a path that was more mystical than scientific. He says he was intuitively guided to examine the Book of Numbers, the fourth book of the Jewish Torah and the Christian Bible. In chapter 7 of the Book, between verses 12 and 83, Dr. Puleo used a Pythagorean method to reduce the numbers in the verses to their whole numbers and discovered a pattern of six repeating codes. According to him, this pattern reveals a series of six electromagnetic sound frequencies that correspond to the six missing tones of the ancient Solfeggio scale: 396 Hz, 417 Hz, 528 Hz, 639 Hz, 741 Hz, 852 Hz.

According to Puleo’s insights, the Solfeggio frequencies contain the six pure tonal notes that were once used to make up the ancient musical scale, until they were allegedly altered by the Catholic Church and Pope Gregory I (better known as “Gregory the Great”), who was in office from 590 to 604 AD. The Church claims to have “lost” 152 of these incredible ancient Gregorian chants. One of these sacred chants, however, known as the “Hymn to St. John the Baptist,” has resurfaced and features all six solfège notes.

“The origin of what is now called solfeggio… comes from a medieval hymn to John the Baptist which had this peculiarity: the first six verses of the music began respectively on the first six successive notes of the scale, and therefore the first syllable of each verse was sung on a note one degree higher than the first syllable of the verse which preceded it.” (Willi Apel, Gregorian Chant).

Solfeggio frequencies have generated a lot of interest among sound healers and frequency work enthusiasts. Thousands of articles have been written on the subject and many list the benefits that these frequencies are said to bring. Below is an illustrative table where I summarize the frequencies and the information associated with each of them.

The discovery of this series of frequencies is based on Puleo’s intuitive abilities rather than on scientific research or historical findings. 

If we decide to follow Puleo’s intuition then we have a series of frequencies mathematically connected with sacred writings and capable of unlocking the secret potential of the human being, as well as a discovery of considerable historical-musical importance.

As much as I am inclined to accept the mystical nature of the events narrated, there is something that my analytical part struggles to accept. 

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz is the name of the German physicist, born in 1858, who was the first to experimentally demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic waves, from whose name the unit of measurement used to measure frequency derives.

The idea that any frequency precisely expressed numerically in a unit of measurement coined in the nineteenth century was known in the Middle Ages and codified within the Bible is simply nonsensical. The only loophole I can find is that Puleo intuitively received instructions on how to work out the frequency numbers that correspond to the tones once used in Gregorian chants.

I find the book in question fascinating but I have doubts as to whether these frequencies were once the tones used in Gregorian chants. What do you think about it? Leave a comment.

https://books.google.com/books?id=8PjxAAzSK8sC

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Healing_Codes_for_the_Biological_Apocaly/t79VPwAACAAJ?hl=en&bshm=rime/1