{"id":18040,"date":"2019-05-16T09:32:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T13:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=18040"},"modified":"2019-05-16T09:32:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T13:32:56","slug":"the-law-of-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=18040","title":{"rendered":"The Law of Three"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Trinity: Part 2<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cac.org\/the-law-of-three-2019-05-16\/\"><strong>The Law of Three<\/strong><\/a><br>\n<strong>Thursday, May 16, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C_90_NAbv3k\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p><em>Cynthia Bourgeault, one of our core faculty members and an Episcopal <\/em><em>priest, has helped Christianity rediscover the powerful model of the \u201cLaw of Three.\u201d This was originally developed by the Armenian-born spiritual teacher G. I. Gurdjieff (1866\u20131949) who saw it comprising what he called the \u201cLaws of World Creation and World Maintenance.\u201d Based on Trinity as flow and movement, this \u201claw\u201d describes the ways in which different elements work to create change and ongoing evolution. Today I\u2019ll share a brief introduction from Cynthia\u2019s work, but I invite you to read her full book <\/em>The Holy Trinity and the Law of Three:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From a metaphysical standpoint, the Trinity is primarily about process. It encapsulates a paradigm of change and transformation based on an ancient metaphysical principle known as the Law of Three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[The basic foundational principles are:]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>In every new arising there are three forces involved: affirming, denying, and reconciling.<\/li><li>The interweaving of the three produces a fourth in a new dimension.<\/li><li>Affirming, denying, and reconciling are not fixed points or permanent essence attributes, but can and do shift and must be discerned situationally. . . .<\/li><li>Solutions to impasses or sticking points generally come by learning how to spot and mediate third force, which is present in every situation but generally hidden. . . .<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s consider a simple example. A seed, as Jesus said, \u201cunless it falls into the ground and dies, remains a single seed.\u201d [John 12:24] If this seed does fall into the ground, it enters a sacred transformative process. <em>Seed<\/em>, the first or \u201caffirming\u201d force, meets <em>ground,<\/em> the second or \u201cdenying\u201d force (and at that, it has to be <em>moist<\/em> ground, water being its most critical first component). But even in this encounter, nothing will happen until<em> sunlight<\/em>, the third or \u201creconciling\u201d force, enters the equation. Then among the three they generate a <em>sprout, <\/em>which is the actualization of the possibility latent in the seed\u2014and a whole new \u201cfield\u201d of possibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Actually, the entire Paschal Mystery can be seen to play itself out as a fairly straightforward configuration of the Law of Three. If you assign <em>affirming <\/em>as Jesus, the human teacher of the path of love; <em>denying<\/em> as the crucifixion and the forces of hatred driving it; and <em>reconciling <\/em>as the principle of self-emptying, or kenotic love willingly engaged, then the <em>fourth<\/em> or <em>new arising<\/em>, which is inescapably revealed through this weaving, is the Kingdom of Heaven, visibly manifest in the very midst of all the human cruelty and brokenness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trinity: Part 2 The Law of Three Thursday, May 16, 2019 Cynthia Bourgeault, one of our core faculty members and an Episcopal priest, has helped Christianity rediscover the powerful model of the \u201cLaw of Three.\u201d This was originally developed by the Armenian-born spiritual teacher G. I. Gurdjieff (1866\u20131949) who saw it comprising what he called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18040"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18041,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18040\/revisions\/18041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}