I have Kerry Livgren's autobiography "The Seeds of Change." Livegren does become a Christian, but not until several years after "The Pinnacle." He writes it is " a song that described my attempt to grasp the unattainable....I found that I was moving from one philosophy to another, but nothing could rid me of the emptiness I felt or provide real meaning and satisfaction. "Knowledge and reason change like the season, a jester's promenade." The promenade of of human philosophies and religions was beginning to look like a huge insipid joke. My only consolation was in my worship of music 'The answer is that sweat refrain.'"
To put that quote in context of the book, he later states that he was wrong to worship music. He came to believe that it was a means of worship, not something to be worshipped itself.
I have Kerry Livgren's autobiography "The Seeds of Change." Livegren does become a Christian, but not until several years after "The Pinnacle." He writes it is " a song that described my attempt to grasp the unattainable....I found that I was moving from one philosophy to another, but nothing could rid me of the emptiness I felt or provide real meaning and satisfaction. "Knowledge and reason change like the season, a jester's promenade." The promenade of of human philosophies and religions was beginning to look like a huge insipid joke. My only consolation was in my worship of music 'The answer is that sweat refrain.'"
To put that quote in context of the book, he later states that he was wrong to worship music. He came to believe that it was a means of worship, not something to be worshipped itself.