Not sure if this is mentioned in the literature, but language seems to be founded on this law: subject (active), object (passive), verb (neutralizing/reconciling). Nifty, huh?
And a trinity of sixes is the 'mark of the best'. Weird. I still don't understand why.Barbara said:Time and Space are examples of a pair of trinities which make up the Law of Six. It could be equally said that nothing exists in our Universe unless it is a property of the Law of Six.
Three forces In esoteric science the first law is called the Law Of Three or the Three Principles or the Three Forces. This law of three is defined as:
'All that exists, exists as a result of the converging action on the same point at the same time of the three forces: PASSIVE, ACTIVE, and NEUTRALIZING.'
Every phenomenon, on whatever scale, from molecular to cosmic phenomenon, is the result of the combination or the meeting of three different and opposing forces.
Contemporary science recognizes the existence of two forces for the production of a phenomenon: positive and negative, force and resistance, male and female, etc. But the third force is rarely recognized because it is only with the help of the third force can the first two produce what may be called a phenomenon, no matter in what sphere.
These three forces reflect the basic conditions of the creation of the Universe. They represent the manifestation, inside the created universe, of the three conditions as conceived by the non-manifest Divinity in the pre-existance of the world.
Passive force is the derivative of the STATIC condition.
Active force is the derivative of the DYNAMIC condition.
Neutralizing force ensures the maintenance or Equilibrium in all the universe, on every plane, at every step. This third force is also the UNSEEN force that brings the other two forces together to complete any event or phenomenon.
Mouravieff states in Gnosis Vol.I
"Life in the universe is nothing but a perpetual process of creation in every domain, on every plane, and at every step. In addition, for every event, large or small, important or insignificant, an act analogous to the First Creation of the entire Universe is produced, with all proportions maintained. In this act, the three forces act as a replica of the three conditions which conceived the created universe before the manifestation."
However these forces: active, passive, and neutralizing are merely names.
P.D. Ouspensky states:
"In reality all three forces are equally active and appear as active, passive, and neutralizing, only at their meeting points, that is to say, only in relation to one another at a given moment. The first two are more or less comprehensible to us and the third may sometimes be discovered either at the point of application of the forces, or in the 'medium,' or in the 'result.' But speaking in general, the third force is not easily accessible to direct observation and understanding. The reason for this is to be found in the functional limitations of man's psychological activity and in the fundamental categories of our perception of the phenomenal world, that is, in our sensation of space and time resulting from these limitations. People cannot perceive and observe the third force directly any more than they can spatially perceive the fourth dimension.
"But by studying himself, the manifestations of his thought, consciousness, activity -- his habits, desires, etc.--man may learn to observe and to see in himself the action of the three forces. Let us suppose, for instance, that a man decides to work on himself in order to change certain of his characteristics, to attain a higher level of being.
His desire, his initiative, is the ACTIVE force.
The inertia of his habitual psychological life which shows opposition to his initiative will be the PASSIVE or the negative force.
The two forces will either counterbalance one another, or the opposing will completely conquer the other, but, at the same time, become too weak for any further action. Thus the two forces, will, as it were, revolve one around the other, one absorbing the other and producing no result whatever. This may continue for a lifetime. A man may feel desire and initiative, but all this initiative may be absorbed in overcoming the habitual inertia of life, leaving nothing for the purpose to which the initiative ought to be directed. And so it may go on until the third or NEUTRALIZING force makes its appearance, in the form, for instance, of NEW KNOWLEDGE, showing at once the advantage or the possible results or the necessity of work on oneself and, in this way, supporting and strengthening the initiative. Then the initiative, with the support of this third force, may conquer inertia and the man become active in the desired direction."
The example Ouspensky gave above relates to these three forces working in man's PSYCHE. However, as already stated, these three forces are reflected on all planes, whether they be spiritual, psychological, or physical.
In physics we can view the three forces in terms of color theory. If we can view the three primary colors in the color spectrum then if we can view blue as the active force with the shorter wavelength and the higher frequency and if we view red as passive force with the longer wavelength and the lower frequency then we may view yellow as the mediating force with the intermediate frequency. From these three primary colors the derivations of all possible colors result from the combinations of these three. Or on a more practical level we can view the three forces in the baking of bread. We have flour, fire, and water. In this example we can see flour as the conductor of the passive force, we can see fire as the conductor of the active force and we can see water as the conductor of the neutralizing force. The three forces are all brought together by the PROCESS of the "baking of the bread." The water or the "third force" is what MEDIATES this process.
We can also view these three forces from the perspective of microbiology in the manufacture of proteins. The DNA is in the nucleus of the cell, but the proteins are made in the ribosomes, which are microscopic structures in the cytoplasm of the cell, which surrounds the nucleus. RNA carries the blueprint for making the proteins from the DNA in the nucleus to the ribosomes. So the RNA acts as a messenger, carrying instructions from the DNA to the ribosomes. Thus we can view the RNA as the conductor of the mediating force which carries the "active information" from the DNA into the "passive ribosomes". The three forces are all brought together in the process we call the "manufacture of proteins".
It always must be remembered that the characteristics of the three forces depend, not upon the phenomenon through which they manifest, but upon their RELATION to each other. For example using the example given above with colors, the wavelength of red is PASSIVE in relation to the phenomena of color, but on the contrary is ACTIVE in relation to the phenomena of heat, which belongs to the octave below the octave of color (infrared radiation) and because red heat is more intense then black heat. Thus all objects and energies which exist in the world are constantly changing places from the point of view of the law of three, acting as instruments, now active, now of passive, and now of mediating force. It is this constant flux and change which makes the law of three so elusive to our perception, and makes it necessary to take each example separately, apart from all others.
I kind of combined stuff from various sources. That graphic above relating the octave to the Enneagram is from Wikipedia and it's a straight from Gurdjieff thing.dantem said:Hi John, have you developed all the above by yourself or are you following a specific source (apart 'Gurdjieff')?