CREATING THE SACRED

In the midst of all the turmoil in today’s world, where essential spiritual teachings seem so blatantly ignored or violated, is there anything we can or should hold sacred? Where dogma, ritual and sacred religious spaces no longer function adequately and conventional religions seem to stimulate conflict rather than peace and brotherhood, does the concept ‘sacred’ still have meaning?

The turmoil we experience arises in the world of thought and ethics, from which physical conflicts stem following the principle that energy follows thought. It is a confusing time in which the old clashes fiercely with the new wherein we need to reconsider our purposes and values. However, particularly in science and art, we are finding many exciting developments, such as insights into the laws of nature, which challenge conventional cosmology and reveal new possibilities regarding energy and the oneness of life. This rethinking ultimately redefines our understanding of humanity's place within the whole. Another aspect of this is that we can understand life as active and conscious participants, not as observers with no connection to what we perceive. Ultra detached perception has characterised rational and materialistic science for a long time and has brought us much good. The old sciences held the principle of truth sacred, but we are now increasingly finding that, like everything else, the principle of truth is evolving, not static. Established concepts of truth and values are shifting as we find new ones that harmonize with the essence of the divine, the eternal flow of becoming, or expressly, with the evolution of consciousness. And, since the essence of human consciousness is experience, we find truth in the direct experience of our intuition. Now we can understand our universe as being holographic and humanity as active participants within it, co-determinators of its direction. This expanded group consciousness is the empowered and responsible freewill that characterizes the coming era and we can joyfully expect new and great things to happen.

That humans must strive to become gods was declared by Nietzsche, and the spiritual evolution of becoming co-creators with divinity is part of humanity’s sacred goal. This sacredness does not overcome us, nor is it given by the Divine grace of God in the passive sense. Instead, we strive to create it from the spark of divine fire within us. Humanity is becoming more actively group conscious through meditation, contemplation, abstract thinking and service – sacred mental tools. Triangles service is a part of the sacred concept of the Trinity, its geometry expresses the sanctity of life – ‘being’ and ‘non-being’ linked by the Triangle’s baseline and ‘becoming’ represented by its uppermost point, thus expressing the essence of the divine. It is a symbol of human oneness and divine communication embodied through love, intelligent understanding and will. The grace of God becomes a realisation of creative involvement, of enlightened intelligence, love and power, in other words, the will to service becomes sacred.