The reconciling principle that resolves opposition and creates new possibilities.
“The vow of poverty is to live as much from the word which comes from the mouth of God as from the bread which enters the mouth of man.” Meditations on the Tarot The Foundation: True Poverty as Receptivity “The vow of poverty is the practice of inner emptiness, which...
A simple life poem in the Consent Cycle series of Wisdom Poems Part 1: The Ocean's Consent May the vastness I am make space for the vessel you are. May I hold you without dissolving your shape, receive your weight, honor your heading. May my depths deepen...
WB: This Impression is a very deep, rich, and advanced curation of Cynthia Bourgeault’s synthesis of three massive cosmological systems (Boehme, Gurdjieff, Teilhard) around a single fundamental question in spiritual work: What is the energy of love? A previous...
“This unity of opposites, this reconciling force, is a third thing, a Third Force, connecting both opposites and yet different from either.” Maurice Nicoll The Cross as Unity of Opposites “The Cross is the union of two pairs of opposites, and the practice of the Cross...
A wisdom poem on the origin of evil Keeper of the Shards: a Cycle of Consent OrientationA heart holds what opposes.Without collapse, without erasure.The still point, where friction births manifestation.This is true.Evil loose in the streets.The window shatters on the...
“Mechanical goodness is useless in the Work, but conscious, active goodness gives you force.” Maurice Nicoll Goodness as Transformation "If you come back to Jacob Boehme's statement and his insight, his jaw-dropping insight—that goodness, fundamental goodness, that...
from the teachings of Cynthia BourgeaultSacred Servants: Evening Benedictions and Blessings May you rest, knowing your grief tonight carries the essence of love, the prima materia from which new worlds are shaped.May your heartbreak for this frightened planet be...
The Law of Three: from the primordial ground of arising to accepting the tensions of daily life. “Third force has its genesis in bearing the tension of emergence.” Cynthia Bourgeault Origins of Manifestation "Tensioning both for Teilhard de Chardin and for Boehme is...
The ‘both and’ paradox of nondualism: “The capacity to bear paradox without the need to immediately resolve it is an essential midwife in a situation. So much of spiritual practice really hovers around increasing our skill in doing that.” Cynthia Bourgeault The Limits...
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...
The Law of Three Forces of Creation: active, passive, and reconciling. The Teachings say that the Law of Three and the Law of Seven are the two great templates for all manifestation, down through the Ray of Creation, from Origin to the lowly peanut butter sandwich I...