LAW OF THREE (35) In The I Am of God

LAW OF THREE (35)

IN THE I AM OF GOD

"God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of His life in us." Thomas Keating

In Centering Prayer "We are invited to give God a chance to experience Himself in our humanity, in our difficulties, in our weakness, in our addictions, in our sins." by consenting to God's presence and action.

A dual perception persuades us spiritual salvation depends entirely on our "good works." but  "good works" are hard to achieve.

St. Paul recognises that: "For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do " Romans 7:15:25

An example of the play of the contradictory forces of love-hate, good-bad...etc. locking us into states of anxiety, frustration and guilt. 

Guilt is a trick of he ego   If guilt lasts more than half a minute, it is neurotic guilt states T.K.   "Pervasive, prolonged, paralysed guilt - that is the superego- That is our emotional judgement of what is right and wrong..."

Managing the contradictions and tricks of the talkative ego may lead us to a sudden revelation:

I am not in the "I am" of myself,  but in the "I AM" of God" Thomas Keatting-

LAW OF THREE (34) Why? What? How?

LAW OF THREE (34)

WHAT? HOW? WHY?

"Yes" is of the mind . "No" is of the body. The reconciling is of the emotions. Body knows the "how" of things. Mind knows the "what" of things. Emotion, plus mind and body, understands the "why" of things. Scientists are interested in the "how" of things, not in the "why" of things. S. Nott

Understanding phenomena requires the answer to three questions : what?

How? Why?

The Law of Three identifies 3 forces: "why"is the active force of the action; "How" is the resisting force of the action, and "what" (or thus) is the reconciling or outcome of the action.

The active force refers to the initiation of an action, the resisting force refers to its process , and the reconciling force refers to the result or the thus of the action.

As simple example:

Building of a house

i Why? We want to built a house because we need shelter, etc. (+);

ii How? Refers to site, materials, labour, cost, etc. or conditions to build the house (-)

iii What? The final outcome or the thus of the action: here is the house!! (=)

Finding ordinary examples of the play of What, How, and Why in the material world is not difficult. But there are perennial inner inner questions ever active since mankind acquired self reflective consciousness:

What is Man?  How did Man come to be?  Why of Man?

What am I?  How did I come to be?  Why am I ?

What is this creation?  How did it come about?  What (why) is its purpose?

LAW OF THREE (33) The Third Force

THE LAW OF THREE (33)

THE THIRD FORCE

"We have no conception of a pure affirmation that does not depend upon a denial. Neither can we conceive a receptive impulse (resisting) that could sustain its own character except in opposition to an affirmation. Nor can we visualise a reconciling impulse that does not need the presence of opposing forces to elicit its quality. P.O. Ouspensky

THE THIRD OR CONNECTING FORCE

1 The three forces in a triad are interdependent.  

2 Two forces cancel each other. No movement is possible.  Only the entering of a third force gives  movement to a triad.

The 3rd force enters to complete a triad when the triad needs to move forward to overcome stagnation.  The 3rd force enters in the form of information.   When the information comes from memory the movement will be repetitive.  When the information arses from a new insight a new understanding will ensue an the triad will move in a non repetitive direction.  The new information could could be an inspired insight, coming form of deeper source, and will lead the triad into a new unchartered direction.  .

"...be quiet, until the appropriate action arises by itself."  Tao-te-king. Chap 15

THE LAW OF THREE (32) Welcoming Obstacles (The Enneagram)

THE LAW OF THREE (32) WELCOMING OBSTACLES (THE ENNEAGRAM)

LIKES AND DISLIKES 

"If we were deprived of like and dislike - if we had no polar nature at all - we shouldn't have anything from which to draw force. It is like the poles of a magnet. In order to get force from the poles of a magnet you have to hold yourself right in the field of action of its two poles. In the same way, in order to get force out of the dualism of our nature we have to hold ourselves in the field of it - not let ourselves be drawn to one side or the other, because this simply neutralises their polar force" J.G. Bennett

WELCOMING OBSTACLES

A wisdom teacher suggested that the game of golf was invented by someone who wanted to remind people of what life is like. "The game called golf consists in getting a little ball into a hole while at the same time overcoming all kinds of pitfalls and obstacles that prevent the ball getting into a hole too easily."

Our lives compare to a game of golf. The tensions provoked by the obstacles or hazards we encounter are part of the mechanism required to generate the energy necessary for life. Our freedom consists in the ability not to be drawn to either one side or the other of the two poles of duality (good-bad. like-dislike, pleasure-pain) and develop the capacity to bring into a conflicting situation the power of reconciliation and new direction..

TRAPPED BETWEEN TWO FORCES

Those familiar with the Enneagram* (the circle of 9 points) will note the inner triangle which is formed by the numbers 3-6-9. Numbers 3-6-9 refer to the three independent sources of energy which keep the wheel of creation "going round" (active-passive-reconciling)

Point 3 refers to the force or impulse of habit. Habit ensures repeating patterns of behaviour without the need to be conscious of them.  (i.e like driving a car)

Point 6 refers to the force of emotional responses: the likes-dislikes  If we like fish and chips and our good friends prepared cooked snails for dinner our emotional mechanism, point 6, is triggered. 

Point 9 refers to the power of choice and decision. Rarely this power is acted by the True Self. The power of choice is normally lawfully exercised by the ego who lends its power to one of the opposing forces of duality to avoid atrophy. (see L3:5).

Only when No 9 does not allow itself to be drawn to one side or the other of our polar nature can our true will (True Self) free itself from dualistic domination and act as a true agent of reconciliation,

* Gurdjieff and Ouspensky