Bridging Between Worlds

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The following talk was given in the Triangles webinar on June 18, 2018:

The great writer, Jean Jacques Rousseau has said there are limits to this outer, physical world in which we live, limits to what we can do.  But he said that to the world of imagination, the inner worlds, no such limits are known.

But access to this inner world of the imagination is cramped by much of contemporary life for scientists have proven that which we know from our own experience, that the ability to create and to imagine requires time and space in order for these qualities to flower.  But today, the constraints on our time and space by chasing after a fragile economic security, the stress and consequent ills that can sap our strength, leave many people with little energy with which to imagine anything outside the daily reality and its demands.  

But the ability to dream, to imagine, to create, to extend the contours of the mind and to radiate that vision through one’s very being, this is what Triangles workers do every day. It is this creative process which releases the life force of Aquarius through the network and it is this life-giving energy which aids humanity to create and build the new world--a world structured upon the good, the true and the beautiful.

Triangles is one of the means of aiding this process of bridging into this future world for it provides a bridge between that inner group, that group of knowers who “serve as Aquarius indicates” and humanity.  Through the network we can together touch the fringe or periphery of this center of love. For this notion of distance, of separation between planes is, in reality, related not to space and distance but rather to states of consciousness and to a dissonant or harmonious response to those subtler vibratory states. This harmonious response can eventually be achieved as the separating veils, the blockages within consciousness, are overcome, permitting a progressive revelation into that which begins to reveal itself.

As ancient scripture from the   Upanishads beautifully expresses this point, “As one not knowing that a golden treasure lies buried beneath his feet may walk over it again and again, yet never find it, so all beings live every moment in the city of Brahman, yet never find him because of the veil of illusion by which he is concealed Chondogya 8.3.2).” The work we do together in Triangles is more a process of bridging within ourselves and constructing out of ourselves as does the spider, forging those strands that will link us with the inner source.  

This growing ability to connect with the true self begins to reveal the inner world in all that surrounds us.  This ability was simply put by Plotinus, the third century philosopher who wrote, ”Everything in the world is full of signs.  The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other.  Everything breathes together. “

As we build our bridges within consciousness and so release light and goodwill into the world we help humanity become more accustomed to a higher altitude, to the Aquarian life force, and thereby aid the effort of preparing human consciousness for the coming externalisation.

Of course the key to the bridging work comes from the establishing of an inner alignment. There is a well-known maxim which states that “in order to tread the path one must become that path itself.”  That path is of course the rainbow bridge, the antahkarana, the inner bridge in Sanskrit, that path built out of the very substance of consciousness itself.

The path is endless.  It is helpful to realize this from the start of the journey. There is no end point, no ultimate destination, only the call to follow the path of service in whatever direction it might lead. It is said that this path reaches from the individual seeker to the very heart of the universe” and that Nirvana itself is only its beginning.

Our opening mantram brings simply highlights key features of the Triangles work -- a reaching up into the light and bringing it down to meet the need--a reaching into the silent place and bringing from thence the gift of understanding. Our work together is to establish a center of light within the world--a center that is increasingly being used to illumine human consciousness and provide solace to so many who are suffering at this time. What is the gift of understanding? In one regard it could be understood as the providing of a vision, a vision of hope and faith that there is a better world on the horizon despite the outer chaos.

Bridge-builders are mediators, they are translators--helping those who cleave to the left or the right, to the dark or the light to be brought together through the mediating middle principle of the soul’s light.  

A poem by Rabindranath Tagore captures the nature of children who in many ways live between worlds and are, therefore, symbols of the soul and its purity and unfettered nature. Children bring joy and freedom of creative expression and release them freely into the world. The poem is called “On the Seashore.”

“On the seashore of endless worlds children meet.

The infinite sky is motionless overhead and the restless water is boisterous. On the seashore of endless worlds the children meet with shouts and dances.

They build their houses with sand, and they play with empty shells. With withered leaves they weave their boats and smilingly float them on the vast deep. Children have their play on the seashore of worlds.

They know not how to swim, they know not how to cast nets. Pearl-fishers dive for pearls, merchants sail in their ships, while children gather pebbles and scatter them again. They seek not for hidden treasures, they know not how to cast nets.

The sea surges up with laughter, and pale gleams the smile of the sea-beach. Death-dealing waves sing meaningless ballads to the children, even like a mother while rocking her baby's cradle. The sea plays with children, and pale gleams the smile of the sea-beach.

On the seashore of endless worlds children meet. Tempest roams in the pathless sky, ships are wrecked in the trackless water, death is abroad and children play. On the seashore of endless worlds is the great meeting of children. “

Kathy Newburn