NASCENT UNIVERSALITY
Universality is generally understood as the quality or state of being universal, as a wholeness without limit or exception, of any entity or group or collection of parts. The dictionary tells us that the noun universality was first used, with this meaning, in the 15th century.
So, what does it mean to speak of a new universality? And why are the words universal and universality appearing increasingly in modern literature from such diverse fields of thought, research and contemplation as faith and spirituality, science and technology, medicine and healing – to name just a small fraction of the fields in which there is a growing fascination with universality and the universal? And how does all of this relate to our shared work in Triangles?
Wisdom teachings suggest that a new more living sense of universal Oneness is arising in human consciousness at this time. Indeed, Alice Bailey refers to this new sensitivity as an intuitive quality of mind and heart that carries the waters of life. These healing waters are the primary nutrients for the culture of synthesis that is becoming rooted in the substance of human creativity and thought - preparing for the time when it can fully emerge as a flourishing universal global civilization.
It is common to refer to this period in human affairs as a transitional time, sometimes using the metaphor of a transition between the Piscean Age to the Aquarian Age. The growing sensitivity to the wholeness of Life is the clearest evidence that Aquarian energies are impacting our very being. Consider how much stronger this sensitivity is now than, say, the early years of the twentieth century. It is most obvious in the ‘new’ sciences of ecology and systems research, but these inter-disciplinary fields of knowledge penetrate into all the specialized disciplines, and are transforming modern faith, mythology, spirituality and the encounter with the sacred. At the heart of many of the outer sciences of whole systems studies, there are now a core group of those who think of the Whole as having a living Presence, with its own integrity, identity and purpose – what the ancient Greeks referred to as Telos.
Movements of organized and structured prayer and meditation, like the Triangles network, play a vital part in humanity’s gradual awakening to the sense of universal Oneness. They do this, as much as anything else, by acting as a subtle transformer in the ecology of thought – providing a subtle anchor for incoming waters of life to flow through each individual triangle and the entire network of all active Triangles, then radiating those life-giving energies throughout the environment of human thought.
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