It stands as the ultimate, timeless message of the Beatles, a song of healing for a wounded world. The group s performance of All You Need Is Love on a global television broadcast in June 1967 was perhaps their finest hour on the public stage. But as with any zenith, what followed could only be a descent. Cracks would develop that would finally shatter the band into pieces. The End Normally, of course, a Tarot reading is very different, but the important thing in this one is the Fab Four s relevance to metaphysical tradition and their legacy as lovable moptops turned psychedelicized gurus.
Some musicians are just entertainers and others are something more.
Prophetically, Non nobis solum, sed toti mundo nati , Not for ourselves alone, but for the whole world are we born, was the motto of the Liverpool Institute, boyhood school of the future Sir Paul. In a lazily atheist age, the Beatles are perhaps responsible for introducing more Westerners to a forgotten spiritual heritage than any mainstream organized religion. Sometimes deliberately, sometimes by happy accident, they put out messages that echoed the Great Teachers. Let it be, sang Paul, paraphrasing both a central tenet of Buddhism and the words spoken by the Virgin Mary at the Annunciation. I, He is Ours, We both are His.