The Power Of Goodwill

In so far as it is considered at all by intelligent thinkers and commentators on human affairs, goodwill is rarely thought of as a quality of will. One of the tasks of the Triangles network is to change this. Typically, this might be understood as an educational challenge: teaching in schools and universities and more informal settings, accompanied by research and study to generate publications, ideas and theories which might spark national and global conversations.

The Triangles network uses a different method: through thought, visualization and the concentrated use of the Great Invocation, participants create geometric patterns of relationship in the etheric realm through which divine energies of light and love radiate into the mental atmosphere, nurturing and stimulating all the potencies of goodwill that naturally exist.

In every human community, no matter how large or small, people apply varying degrees of will to their lives: the will to survive, the will to persist in the face of hardship, the will to improve one’s own life or the life of the family. Will drives activity.

Just as the will is often applied for selfish and even positively harmful purposes, it is also often used to advance goodness, beauty and truth. Usually it is driven by a complex mixture of motives. The quality of goodwill finds expression in any community at varying levels of refinement from a rare, concentrated will-to-good, and even a will-to-love, through to the more widespread simple, natural will for a comfortable harmony to prevail and the best possible outcome in any situation.

When the quality of goodwill in all of its shades, subtleties, and degrees of refinement is noticed, valued and positively empowered in a community, it can be fused into a united and working potency. When it is ignored, or treated as if it is simply a sentiment, goodwill can appear to be a passive force. But when it is valued and creatively nurtured it emerges as the greatest treasure of a community (or a family or a nation), and an enormously positive energy.

There are plenty of examples of waves of goodwill spreading through a community, initiating countless acts of kindness and goodness. This is the power of goodwill in action. Often this happens in response to collective grief or crisis (sometimes these waves of goodwill are so powerful that they reach out to embrace the global community) but it can also be triggered by design: one example on a global level is the annual celebration of the UN International Day of Peace on September 21, when millions of people give expression to their vision of the One Life through countless acts of goodwill.