MADE VISIBLE BY LIGHT
Transparency is very much in the news these days, particularly in relation to the realms of government, politics and business. Yet it also plays a key role in Triangles work, or in any spiritually inspired program of service. In one sense, this is about being real with oneself and with trusted colleagues, recognizing shadows transparently, working through glamours and vulnerabilities in the personality, and viewing them in relation to the more inclusive and lighted energies of the soul. Through the transformation process, these higher energies become transparently present for all to see – shining through thoughts, words, speech and actions without pretense or contrivance.
In another sense, the “entire evolutionary process” can be conceived as the “working out of the inter-relation between God and His world”. Matter can then be seen to be destined to become a pure, “transparent medium for the revelation of divinity”.1 In the Triangles work, the three participants link together for no other purpose than service of the whole by irradiating human consciousness with the energies of soul and spirit. Any sense of a separate self with its individual desires, needs and wishes are, for the time at least, put aside so that the lighted, loving energies of divinity may shine freely into and through the realms of time and space, without interruption or resistance. The network is designed to function as a transparent medium to let in the light.
In optics, a transparent medium transmits light without any appreciable scattering. Glass and water, for example, let light through as if they were made of nothing, even though they are “full of atoms”.2 The deeper, loving mind has something of this quality and there are today significant numbers of people undergoing training in meditation with the goal of aligning with this transparent level of mind. When all the distractions of a self-centered and hyperactive mind are exposed to the light during regular periods of meditation, it as if the veils that inhibit appreciation of and alignment with the spiritual realm begin to part – a rent within the veil widens. As the mind becomes still, poised and focused, direct or intuitive knowledge and wise understanding become possible – something of the magnificence of life can then be sensed, “not theoretically, but in vibrating response to its existence”.3
When intuitive understanding renders a truth transparent it changes our orientation to life – allowing us to look out on the world through a new lens, transforming the way we live. Hermann Keyserling suggests that all the phenomena of life and events can be seen as symbols. And every symbol that is an ultimate expression of a conscious state “is in itself transparent for another deeper one, and so on into eternity; for all things in the sense-connexion of life are inwardly connected, and their depths have their roots in God”.4
- Alice Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, p.626
- https://www.universeofparticles.com/light-travelling-through-a-transparent-medium/
- Alice Bailey, Glamour: A World Problem, p.181
- Hermann Keyserling, The Recovery of Truth, pp.91-92
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