DEMONSTRATING FIDELITY
Let’s reflect on the term fidelity and look at its different uses. We will then look at how this quality plays a part in the work of Triangles.
The most common usage concerns the relationship between two people: we swear fidelity between spouses at marriage. In the field of political commitment, we speak of loyalty to a party, to a cause, to an ideal. In all cases, fidelity implies commitment, responsibility and constancy. In the music industry, the term High Fidelity is used to describe the sonic precision of a recording, faithful to the original sound of the instrument.
In physics, we talk about resonance quality: a resonant system can accumulate energy if it is applied in a periodic form, close to the resonance frequency. Let’s transpose this principle to the service of Triangles: when we meditate, our personality becomes a kind of sounding board for the subtle vibrations transmitted by the spiritual soul. As the fruit of meditation, a thought-form will be more or less faithful to the quality that the soul wants to transmit to its instrument, the personality.
We have talked about high fidelity in terms of sound. We can also understand it in terms of light. To explain the transmission of light from an elevated source to the physical plane, let’s use a metaphor based on the traditional technique of photography: Before the arrival of digital technology, photography was made from light-sensitive film placed in the camera's black box. After exposure, the film (the negative) was placed on an enlarger, i.e. a slide projector mounted on a column. The light emitted by a built-in lamp passed through the negative and, if it was in focus, the image projected onto the photosensitive paper was faithful to reality, otherwise it was blurred.
This metaphor invites us to do our own fine-tuning when we are engaged with other collaborators in the work of Triangles. In this spiritual work, we carry essential energies: light, love and Divine will. The more we reflect on the exact meanings of these energies, with the determination to apply them in our daily lives to build right human relationships, the more faithful we will be to the divine model that synthesises them. By intuition, we sense the purity of this model (remember Plato's conception that every object around us is a reflection of a pure idea in the spiritual world).
We can also imagine what the world would be like if right human relations were always at work. And if our thinking is clear enough about this, together we build, not an unrealistic utopia, but an inspiring new vision for humanity. So, by applying this vision with high fidelity in our daily lives, we are helping to improve the world.
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