The Outer Network
At the recent Triangles Forum in London, there came a thought-provoking question
from the audience: “What evidence is there that Triangles works?”
Because Triangles
is such a subjective activity, perhaps we don't consider what impact it has on outer
levels. Yet the Triangles network is a spiritual power source for service, a vast
reservoir of light and goodwill waiting to be tapped in creative ways by all who
envision a better world. If we look around us, we can begin to detect the signs that
this process is taking place.
Maybe one of the most significant signs of the effectiveness of Triangles work is
the emergence into human thinking of the meaning and importance of inter-connecting
networks. This is now a key concept in fields as diverse as economics, communications
and ecology. We live in a networked age, where even the act of forming new relationships
is spoken of as ‘networking.’ This metaphor is an apt one, and particularly
when it
describes the linking of two or more individuals or groups for the purpose of serving
others, as this is a more faithful reflection of the purpose of the inner network. In
the books of Alice Bailey, this connection between the Triangles and the Goodwill work
is underlined.
Indeed, co-ordinated networks of serving groups are increasingly meeting needs
on all levels. There are groups, such as units of service*, that are sensitive to
the new spiritual ideas currently seeking to emerge, and which can aid this process
through their meditation and educational outreach; there are UN Agencies and major
international non-governmental organisations that are embodying the main conditioning
ideas—such as human rights and sustainable development—which humanity is
currently seeking to implement; and there are national and local civil society
organisations that are working out these ideas in detail ‘on the ground.’
As an example, one idea that the light and goodwill in the network have clarified is
peace. It is now recognised that its highest meaning is not a passive absence of
conflict, but an actively maintained dynamic equilibrium among diverse peoples. In
this sense, it really means right human relations. Governments, and the major
intergovernmental and non-governmental agencies, seek to implement this idea through
mediation in areas of cultural, economic or religious tension. Armies, previously seen
as instruments of national security, may now be used as peacemakers, peacebuilders, and
peacekeepers. And national and local groups play a vital role, by actively maintaining
lines of communication between opposing parties.
In this work of receiving new ideas and working them out, the Triangles network acts as a
kind of spiritual antenna, picking up signals from higher sources and transmitting them
into human consciousness. Any idea that is radiant with light and magnetised by goodwill
will automatically be attracted by the network. The magic of this process is that we need
not be fully conscious of this process, and of the content of the attracted ideas, for it
to work. What we must seek to maintain at the forefront of our minds and hearts are the
simple yet crucial properties of the network—light and goodwill. By intensifying our
purpose to serve the whole of humanity, and by deepening our love for all people
everywhere, we co-creatively strengthen the network, making it an ever more valuable
tool for building a better world on every level, from the realms of thought to the
realms of action.
*A term often used to denote groups co-operating with the work of Triangles
and World Goodwill, but which could be used to describe any group of people of goodwill
whose aim is to serve humanity.
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