THE LAW OF THREE (66) Who Is The Third One?

THE LAW OF THREE (66)

WHO IS THE THIRD ONE?

WHO IS THE THIRD who walks always beside you?

When I count, there are only you and I together

But when I look ahead up the white road

There is always another one walking beside you

Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded

I do not know whether a man or a woman

-But who is that on the other side of you?

"The Waste Land" T.S. Eliot

According to the law of three, every phenomenon and event in creation is the work of three independent forces: active, passive, reconciling. A dual perception is only aware of one or two forces: the initiating force and the resisting force. Awareness of the presence and action of a third force requires developing a non dual perception. It is from a dual perspective when Sta. Teresa of Avila says: "We pray to God as if He was absent."

Duality is the world of thinking governed by the the illusion that 'I can do'.  St. Paul said : " I do not understand what I do, for what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do." 

The eye of duality is unaware of  presence and action of a third or independent force,  The Upanishades speaks of an underlying

presence which makes the action possible: "That which makes the eye see, but needs no I to see, that alone is Spirit" 

The seer that sees though all eyes cannot be seen*, but it can be revealed in the suddenly insight that we are neither the seer nor the seen, but the seeing which enables the seer and seen to unite in an indivisible seeing.  The experience detaches from our identification with the"doing of the action" to the "contemplation of the action."

* "The observer that can be observed in not the observer." Dvid Finkelstain.