Triangles and the Birth and Growth of the Christ Consciousness

Triangles and the Birth and Growth of the Christ Consciousness

Wendy Boyd

We are told that in the Aquarian age the emphasis will be on group initiation and not individual initiation as has been the case in the Piscean age. The First Initiation has been described as “the birth of the Christ in the cave of the heart” a beautifully evocative description which many of us resonate with. Along with this description we are told that “the form that the Christ is to occupy has been constructed and now that form is to be vivified and indwelt. The Christ life enters, and the form becomes alive.” Is this not what we are doing with the creation of triangles? Constructing a form for the Christ consciousness to work through and vivifying the work with the power of the love-wisdom which we have been initiated into.

Initiation is no longer concerned with the degree of initiate we are or think we may be, this is academic, a detail. What is important is what we do with the gift of initiation, the new energy and awareness it brings with it. There are those who relate to Initiation as a type of death, certainly there is a convincing case for this given the number of testimonials left by the various saints and holy men and women who trod that path long ago. A long-ago time when the individual was the focus of attention at the centre of the experience called initiation – today it is the group that stands at the centre of the experience, aided by the 7th Ray of ordered and practical magic that says “Behold, I make all things new.”

I prefer to think of initiation as a resurrection, a resurgence, a renaissance of the human spirit, aware, awake, and animated. In other words, very alive and despite the personality problems most of us are grappling with – well that is just material or grist-for-the mill that brings us closer to the next initiation as we work through our karma and transform it into dharma.

When three people create a triangle together it becomes vivified and indwelt by the Christ consciousness through the trinity of three people. Our group work together then is a way of giving birth to the Christ life in the world. The shape of the triangle can be seen as an archway through which the Christ will reappear, and as more of humanity take the First Initiation, whether they know of this work or not the archway will have to expand to allow in the tide of the new life as it sweeps through, irresistibly, and irrevocably washing clean the old and revealing the new.

When the waters break the birth pangs begin, there is pain, there is crisis, there is fear, and yet an extraordinary joy awaits after the deluge is over. On the theme of birth, I have been asking myself the question if the Triangles project were to be perceived as a pregnancy, what stage of pregnancy would it be at today?

This may appear to be a contradictory question-cum statement since its conception and birth have already taken place – it exists in the world, the birth of the Christ-light as an idea ensouled in form is fully present and has been activated, in you, in me, and in the biomorphic life of the triangles we have created together. Nevertheless, there is still work to be done and if it is true that a time of crises is also a time of opportunity, then our participation in the triangles work is a heart-felt response to that opportunity. Not least because our responses keep the heart at the centre of the work beating to the rhythm of the Christ at the heart centre of the spiritual Hierarchy.

How many times do we read and hear that ‘we live in a time of transition’? We are at a critical point concerning how humanity navigates this transition, are we moving forward or standing still; it is very much hanging in the balance, yes, “We are hanging in the balance of a perfectly finished plan, like every sparrow fallen like every grain of sand” (from a song by Bob Dylan).

There are many levels and angles to the triangles work, many ways of looking at it as is demonstrated by the week-by-week presentations given. This is why I have referred to it as ‘biomorphic’ for it exists as your perception sees it, shapes, and directs it. The triangle itself is static potential, full of potency in wait for the precipitation, the ‘quickening’ or signal that triggers movement and later birth. It has the potential to conceive, to birth, and to spiritualise matter. This process is reminiscent of the Keynote in Virgo: “I am the Mother and the Child. I, God, I matter am.” Here is another triplicity, a significant triangular relationship which concerns “bringing into manifestation thereby the hidden man of the heart, the Christ within, the soul, the group conscious man.”

To get back to my question concerning the stage of pregnancy the triangles as a living being might be at - it is the stage or experience of the quickening that can be sensed - that is to say that despite the grade of initiation the individual or group may have taken that is behind us now. We must look at what is in front of us. Now is the time of the quickening that signals the First Initiation for the rest of the human family. ‘The birth of the Christ in the cave of the heart of humanity’ is imminent and may be the very movement required to ensure that the transition earlier spoken of is not breached or becomes a still birth but is delivered safely into a new world. The Triangles work can serve as the spiritual midwife in this process.

As with the mysterious inner world of growth much is happening on the inside that we cannot yet see on the outside; for such is life in time and space that it is always in a state of the form catching up with the experience. We can see this dynamic being played out in our own spiritual practice that makes us cast a judgement that the fruits of our labour are just not ripening rapidly enough. When in fact as a Buddhist proverb says, “Sitting still, doing nothing Spring comes and the grass grows by itself. ”This is of course referring to cultivating a state of mind that is centred in trust based on having done the groundwork, it does not advocate sitting on one's laurels and doing nothing.

In a time of transition, we can become impatient, despondent, and worst of all discouraged. Regarding the latter we will need all our courage to go forward, and to take the triangles work to new levels and dimensions – to raise the perception of a flat one-dimensional triangle into a multi-dimensional vehicle that can travel everywhere confident in its direction to reach the appointed destination at all four corners of the Earth.

It might therefore be said that the triangles initiative is in a continual state of becoming, and like the foetus in the womb we wait for signs of its quickening that tell us that although it may not be as apparent as we would like it to be it is nevertheless very much alive and kicking.

In casting one’s mind back to the group of triangle workers who first initiated this project, or more to the point those spiritual midwives who were instrumental in bringing it into the world, we may get a sense of the progress that has been made as well as a sense of the changing conditions of the world into which the work itself has had to adapt to.

Looking back to its first incision, there was no technology as such through which the triangles work could be furthered, no internet and no Zoom, and although there may have been certain advantages to this, it is difficult to imagine that they could outweigh the advantages of the uses of technology today. There is a parallel here with the changing world into which babies are born today, and the world into which the esoteric service of triangles is being delivered and fostered. For even before birth the safety of the unborn child is monitored by technical equipment, its gender can be foretold, and significant problems detected.

Whereas in the past it was the ‘quickening’ that the mother experienced and relied on as a sign that all was well and progressing as it should be, now the use of high frequency sound waves known as ultra scan can do this and much more. No matter the uses of modern technology pregnant mothers still place a higher value on the human experience of the quickening as it creates that primary sense of bonding and telepathic communication between mother and child that can never be broken.

Likewise, there exists a telepathic relationship between the ashram, one's soul, and the personality which is also sensitive to the spiritual quickening which stirs the group into action on the earthly plane.