The Power of Invocation

Triangles Webinar December 7, 2020

Invocation

                                                                                                Steve Nation

The visualization we have just worked with ends with the image of spiritual energies pouring into humanity through all the great continents and peoples ..all the cultures and nations … to enliven and enrich centers of group service. Lighted energies pouring into these group centers, helping them to focus and refine their understanding of the way forward for humanity, for all humanity; allowing the group fields to become beacons of light for others; and thereby helping human beings to freely choose new ways forward in economics, education, religion, culture and the arts.

We are clearly living in remarkable times. Crises abound as humanity begins to address the problems that have arisen from a repression of the Real and an over-focus on the material and the superficial. This has led to a serious neglect of values of kindness, goodness, truth, beauty, justice, sharing. 

Yet, as was beautifully portrayed during the three ZOOM conferences hosted by World Goodwill in November, the spiritual dynamics of the crises facing humanity are leading to a renaissance of lighted thought and action in every area of life –  the conferences explored some of the practical ways this is working out in the field of international cooperation.

One of the clearest signs of the spiritual nature of the crises of our times is that a great stirring is taking place in the consciousness of all people. This is not a time for sleeping! 

Humanity itself is becoming invocative – crying out to the previously suppressed powers of light and goodness buried deeply within every human heart. Spirituality and religion are undergoing something of a renaissance. 

This is a situation that is especially relevant to those who work in Triangles. After all the essential element of this practice – almost the defining element – is the formation of an organized network of invocation. Groups of three agree to link every day to use the Great Invocation, and invoke higher energies of light and love; visualizing those energies flowing through the global net of triangles to impact human thought and action; feeding, strengthening and empowering the forces of goodwill in the world.  

So, it is useful to hold in mind this idea that the triangles each of us is a part of are essentially triangles of invocation calling on the higher energies of the Rishis, Saints, Ancestors and Masters of all traditions: Let Light stream forth into human minds; Let Love stream forth into human hearts; Let purpose guide all little human wills; and Let the Plan of Love and Light work out through the actions and lives and societies of the human race.  

There is power in groups of three using the will to regularly link in thought to form a triangle to invoke light and goodwill. That’s a fairly short sentence, but its worth thinking about the depth of will, persistence, and faith that are required in the triangles work. It is humbling to think of triangles that have been maintained over decades.

Imagine this network of groups of three; each group developing and honing their skills in invocation over time. Each of the 3 points has their own spiritual path; their own meditation or prayer practice; their own approach to the ancient wisdom. Over time in the higher subtle worlds the three become a group – a unit of lighted intention and purpose. Each of the 3 points has their own living sense of the depth and the meaning of the crisis in human affairs. 

Triangles workers include many who understand something of meditation and have developed a capacity to focus and concentrate the mind.   When using the Great Invocation, it has been suggested that such workers begin with a meditative concentration and alignment: consciously bridging between levels of mind – the concrete mind; the loving mind of the soul; the higher abstract mind; associated as it is with the intuitive sense of the heart – the refined buddhic qualities of the higher astral.  Over time we learn to establish an attitude of concentration, spiritual direction and receptivity. We might think of this as building a silent, concentrated focus culminating in a state of spiritual tension. Active silence! But then, having established this alignment, the meditator is advised to PRAY and through prayer to establish a clear relationship with the mass of humanity – the millions of people who form the nations of the world – all with their individual rights – their divine essence .. their deep prayers and often unspoken spiritual needs  .. with this alignment the three meditators, working together as a group, as a triangle, can then lift that deep cry of humanity into the focus of the Great Invocation. [DINAII 188]