The Shoreless Sea of the Indivisible All

“Life is drawn from below, and from above the source renews itself, the sea is always full and spreads its waters everywhere.” Thus the deity is compared to a shoreless sea, to water which is “the fountain of life”.*

In the most mundane sense, we refer to space as the empty container of physical relationship. Yet, it is neither empty nor solely physical; it is a shoreless sea encompassing every plane and including the life and lives which dwell thereon. Space is therefore an entity, the Life which pours through the diversity of creation. Despite this diversity, it remains one and indivisible – a paradox to the purely concrete mind. This Life is independent of its creation yet the means whereby it is sustained – immanent in all forms yet transcendent in nature. Space thus is First or Causeless Cause, that which gives rise to spirit and the whole world of manifestation. It is a great symbol of absolute reality. It is also the absolute container of all that is whether manifested or unmanifested. In the purely abstract sense, it is the Great Breath, the perpetual and ceaseless motion of the universe, eternity itself – formless, immutable, eternal, the one invisible and unknowable deity.

These primordial waters of space, the Great Deep, are the archetypal Mother – water being a common symbol of nourishment and the source of life. These waters of abstract space in the highest sense are referred to as Akâsa, a primordial substance also called the Celestial Virgin-Mother of the visible universe. It is the diversification of this matter which produces every dimension on every plane.

In manifestation, this becomes the etheric web thrilling throughout every minute atom of the “shoreless sea” of space, connecting every manifested form with every other. The ether is a manifested web of life, and it affirms the fact of the one Life expressed in inconceivable diversity. This web permeates and connects every plane and therefore is key to the unimpeded relationship and wisdom which the Plan seeks to manifest. The Triangles network works within the great fabric of this web of life spanning the material, the psychological, and the spiritual. To truly work within the fabric of space, Triangles workers take their stand within this shoreless sea extending their consciousness in every direction: above, below, within, and without. But it is the group nature of the effort which truly produces that “movement upon the face of the waters” whereby Heaven manifests on Earth and Earth is raised up into Heaven.

Space, as a great symbol and ever-present fact, is our best means of comprehending the One Life, its origin, purpose, and more importantly how we, as Triangles workers, can cooperate with it.

*Zohar iii., 290 as quoted in The Secret Doctrine, Vol. I, 356