Why the Focus on Goodwill? - June 2018

The Triangles network was founded in the 1930s with the idea that, as more and more people linked together to serve in groups of three, the network would become an energetic carrier (a grid) through which energies of light and goodwill would flow out into the arena of human relationships. Today, the network is so well established that participants invoke these energies, radiating them outwards through their own individual triangles and on through the net of the countless other individual triangles around the globe. The network has truly become an energetic field, constantly pumping light and goodwill into all areas of relationship – personal and family relations as well as community, national and international relations.

The irradiation of the mind of humanity with energies of light seems like an obvious service for spiritual workers. After all light reveals the way forward. It enables us to ‘see’ beyond the external dimensions of time and space into the quality and beingness of the ‘other’ and the timeless. Through light all is ultimately revealed. As light flows into consciousness, human beings see the wholeness and indivisibility of life in all its subtleties and manifestations. And as vision changes, behavior is transformed.

But why the focus on goodwill? It seems almost superficial. Why not, for example, visualize the love-related qualities associated with the soul? Qualities like compassion or wisdom, or the high energy of the will-to-good?

Through goodwill the triple energies of the soul (light, love and the will-to-good) are anchored into human activities amongst large numbers of people, transforming cultures and communities. Love can be thought of as a potency of radiation that is a result of self-forgetfulness. It is a power that heals, transforms and empowers. The will-to-good can be likened to a spiritual fire where will reflects the still, quiet purpose of the Divine Self. These are qualities that are developed in any discipleship approach to spirituality.

Those on the discipleship path are the pioneers pushing evolution. But it is through the more basic and simple energy of goodwill that the atmosphere of relationships in any community is sweetened so that cooperation can flourish.  In any community or group of people there are always those who embody goodwill – who are natural, almost instinctive harmonizers, who see the best in others and who live their life with an uncomplicated benign attitude. The spiritual pioneers, the disciples and disciples in training of all faiths and backgrounds, have the responsibility to mobilize, organize and help provide direction for the large numbers of people of goodwill. In the Triangles work we seek to sustain and vivify that most basic energy of good heartedness: goodwill.