LAW OF THREE (54)
THE I OR THE WILL
"We have various, of what
Gurdjieff called, 'centres' or 'intelligences'; but, ordinarily,
these are in 'discord' They do not agree with each other in what
they see or want. They are at cross purposes. The aim of 'work on
oneself' was to clean up the centres and bring them into a
co-operative state. It is so that they then coalesce and create
something new, this is to create or realise one's true 'I'."
Gurdjieff's psychology
From the perspective of the Law of
Three we may consider a car to be a three-fold unit in which three
independent and mutually necessary forces give rise to an instrument
capable of operating in the world of time and space. In this
example the accelerator is the active force, the brakes the resisting
force and the steering wheel the neutralising force. When these
three powers are in tune, the driver, that is, the true I or the
will, can direct the car in the direction he choses. We may
consider the driver to be a 5th force which can only operate when the
three sides of the triad are brought into a co-operative state (a triadic unit or No.4)
Why the 5th force?
Gurdjieff's example of Man nos.
1,2,3,4,5 etc, (blog 47) may help to answer this question.
According to his scheme man number 5 can only manifest when Man, nos.
l,2,3 are in balance giving rise to Man No.4. When the three have
become one, at Man no 4, Man no. 5, a true "individual" or
'will' can operate.
Another useful example of three forces
giving rise to one unit or 'articulation' can be found in the arising
of understanding. In the arising of understanding, when sensations
(no.l) feelings (no2) and thoughts (no.3) have become one,
'understanding' (no.4) , then the I or the will (no.5) can enter and
act.
Metaphorically speaking...
If I can manage my three energy centres
I can manage everything else. If I cannot, then everything is hard
and has to be forced. If I do not know that the engine can take a
car from one place to another, I push it, and this is how most of
us do things: we push our machine about like a person pushing a
motorcar, and then it can easily happen that the steering wheel is
out of reach.
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