For Herbort, Stockhausen's inclusion of both old and new, illustrated by the juxtaposition of texts from " Litanei 97 " ( " I do not make MY music, but / only relay the vibrations I receive; " and " Now comes the difficult leap : / no longer to transmit man-made signals, / music, tintinnabulation, / but rather vibrations which come / from a higher sphere, directly effective; / not higher above us, outside of us, / but higher IN US AND OUTSIDE " ) and from " Vision ", the closing scene of " Donnerstag aus Licht " from 1980 ( " to bring celestial music to humans / and human music to the celestial beings, / so that Man may listen to GOD / and GOD may hear his children " ) invokes the conundrum of Gretchenfrage.
