A New Spiritual Science
The dialogue now occurring between scientific and religious communities is a sign
of the transformation taking place in modern thought. Leading thinkers from the
sciences and from the different religious traditions are publishing articles and
books in this field. There are regular conferences, a wide range of web sites, and
many popular new courses in the sciences and theology at universities around the world.
This spirit of dialogue reflects an openness to fresh thinking and a new inclusive
spirit within the religions and the sciences. In religious terms, it is a sign of a
very healthy searching, enquiring atmosphere. There is a sense of wanting to come to
grips with the nature of God and the sacred in a modern, multi-cultural, multi-faith,
‘scientific’ world. For inclusively minded believers, religion is emerging
as spiritual science—with a willingness to explore disciplines and practices
from different traditions, seeking out those that have a recognised effectiveness in
enhancing and nourishing strong, healthy relations between the human and the divine.
‘Spiritual science’ means, surely, a clear, intuitive, intelligent approach
to the invocation of the divine. What seems to work? What, in all the religious, mystical
and esoteric traditions, seems to work in invoking higher spiritual energies and
co-ordinating these energies into the psyche of individual and community in such a way
that universal values grow and mature?
This takes religion into the laboratory. Not, to be sure, the materialist scientists’
lab, but the place where consciousness is examined with scientific discipline and detachment.
In the Latin derivation of the word, labo–ratory refers to a place of work and prayer.
In our Triangles work we can see ourselves, all of us in the network, as active participants
in this religious and scientific laboratory. When we take our seat each day to link in magical
threes with our colleagues, the idea of taking part in a scientific experiment might bring a
new quality to our work. It might help us to imagine the subtle lines of relationship that
weave our threes into the planetary garment of light and goodwill that we have created over
the years. In time, science will develop ways of measuring the frequency, the sound, the
radiatory and magnetic qualities of this lighted garment that hovers over the worlds of mind
and heart. Imagine the instruments that might measure the usefulness of the network as a
medium for the invocation of higher energies. And imagine how much we would learn from these
instruments about invocation itself. We could learn to organise soul qualities in such an
intelligent and clearly defined manner that they would be sure to evoke a response from the
Great Ones on the inner side of life.
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