To be present in third force is to unite the opposites.
“The primary opposites were called by an ancient Mediterranean school love and hate—or attraction and repulsion. What was meant was that there is a force that unites and an opposite force that separates and that these two forces lie behind all things. When love or desire for union is uppermost all things tend to come together, and creation appears. When hate and strife predominate all things break up and vanish.” Maurice Nicoll, Psychological Commentaries, p327
“The same process will affect human affairs. As love cosmically gains the upper hand people will unite: as hate grows they will separate and be scattered. This view is really the same as that expressed in Ecclesiastes where it is said that there is a time for gathering and a time for scattering, etc. only it is expressed in terms of a vast pendulum-swing and not in terms of lesser and even little pendulums. In both statements what is meant is that the tendencies of things are not the same at different times.” Commentaries, p327
“There is a phrase in the Work to this effect: Life divides and the Work unites. I think you will agree with me that through the influences of the Work, which are different from the influences of life, a great many of you have been brought together and held in a certain relationship to one another which would have been impossible in life.” Commentaries, p742
“You have only to look round to-day, in this so-called time of peace, to see how life disunites people and forms fresh quarrels, fresh antagonisms in every direction. Then you will understand why it is said that life is a disruptive force and that the Work is a uniting force.” Commentaries, p780
“The struggle between Yes or No is not solved by going either with Yes or with No. A third factor has to be found which becomes something quite different which we can only describe as Yes and No. You will remember Third Force unites the opposites and contains something of them both and yet is neither of them.” Commentaries, p785-86
“A man may have some knowledge of truth, but unless he values it, unless he feels some delight in it, it cannot affect him. It cannot act on him, for a man unites with truth only through his love, as it were, and in this way his being is changed.” Commentaries, p1743
“[The Hermit] knows how to say ‘no’ to the tendencies aiming at false peace—those of transcendental indifference, subjugation and nihilism—just as he knows how to say ‘yes’ to everything which aims at the true peace of unity in diversity.
He knows how to say ‘yes’ and ‘no’ —these two magical words of the will, by means of which the will is strong, and without which it goes to sleep. ‘Yes and no’—this is the very life of the will, its supreme and unique law.” Valentin Tomberg, Meditations on the Tarot, p224.
Logion 106
Yeshua says...
When you are able to transform two into one,
then you will become a "Son of Humanity,"
and it will be possible for you
to say to a mountain, "Move," and it will move.
See also the Impression on Opposites II.
Page numbers for Maurice Nicoll refer to Psychological Commentaries on the Teachings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Eureka Editions:2020) unless stated otherwise.
Quotations from the Gospel of Thomas are from Lynn C Bauman, Ward J Bauman, Cynthia Bourgeault, The Luminous Gospels (Praxis 2008)
Valentin Tomberg, Meditations on the Tarot, Jeremy Tarcher, 1985
Read the Impression introducing the Gospel of Thomas.
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