Session 6: Triads
February 10th
Last week we studied the basic form and concrete examples of the law of threefoldness. This week we will look at triads in their operation as the fundamental laws that combine to form different worlds.
In the higher worlds the laws have a quality of enabling. In the lower worlds this changes to limitation. One of the central keys to transformation is learning to recognize the influence of these laws, learning how to escape from the limitations caused by the more conditioned laws, and learning how to come under the liberating action of laws in higher worlds.
All of this might seem very abstract and theoretical, much like the hundreds of laws we are subject to in our daily lives, but which seldom impact us. But when we are arrested and put in jail, understanding how these restrictive laws operate can suddenly become a matter of life or death. For the serious seeker understanding cosmic laws is already a life and death matter.
Tables and Diagrams:
Table of Examples of the Law of Threefoldness
Diagram of Linked Triads (with explanation)
Fundamental Triad of Function, Being and Will
The Six Fundamental Triads and Their Negative Counterparts
The Triad of Evolution Through the Worlds
Readings:
Gurdjieff on the Law of Threefoldness... from In Search of the Miraculous (HTML)
J. G. Bennett on the Reconciling Force in History
(PDF) 7 pages
J. G. Bennett on Relationships (The Law of Threefoldness)
(Word Doc) 14 pages
J. G. Bennett talk on the Triad (PDF) 19 pages
Tony Blake talk on the Triad (PDF) 6 pages
Nicoll on the study of the three forces in oneself (HTML) 1 page
Talks by Tim White:
The Passive Do (HTML)
The MI-FA Interval: Decision (HTML)
Harnel Aoot (Word Doc) 14 pages
Active DO (Word Doc) 14 pages
Identity (Word Doc) 14 pages
Order (HTML)
Ken Pledge paper on Harnel_Miatznel (PDF) 11 pages