Silence—A Priceless Gift
To cultivate the silence of the inner planes in the heart and mind is one of the most
difficult injunctions before us, so caught up are we in the business of the world.
Some might well claim it impossible of achievement without retiring to a quiet
retreat; and indeed, there is a current proliferation of such places, offering a
welcome break from the frantic pace of daily life for periods of quiet reflection,
inner searching and communion with the soul
Most of us spend the majority of our time amongst the jarring vibrations of suburbia
and the city, but this need not prove an insuperable barrier to the cultivation of
inner serenity. For the silence we are seeking is not so much a state of mystical
rapture in the far away hills, but more a state of supreme spiritual tension
through which the dynamic potencies of the soul can move into our daily lives. It
is achieved by an intense desire to align ourselves with the soul's purpose and
an equally intense desire to love and serve those who need our help. This
concentrated effort trains our capacity to listen to both the voice of the soul
and the cry of humanity, and relate them to one another.
Therefore, the silence that we cultivate in meditation goes hand in hand with
increasing powers of concentration. In fact, we could say that we are concentrating
the very essence of our being, drawing it in to a point of creative potential. This
is a transmuting power that can and should then be applied to our intelligent work
in the world, serving, lifting and conferring on others the priceless gift of
silence. From the angle of the form nature, the soul's contemplation is indeed a
silent one, but from within this well of silence the music of creativity flows,
carrying the power and beauty of renewal into the words necessary for the fulfillment
of service.
If we are to leave the group of “those who talk” to seek a deeper
understanding of the conditioning forces that underlie people and events, we need
to join those who wield the laws of silence. Only when these have been mastered,
and the voices of selfish desire fall away can we enter the circle of those who
live within the secret quiet place. They use not words and yet their sound goes
forth and when they speak-and speak they do-people listen.1
Through Triangles, we are cultivating a silence that transforms us into a mediating
link between emerging ideas and expressed truth. The Triangles network is the carrier
for the sound of invocation, and in the silence that follows the use of the Great
Invocation, the work is carried out.
1Discipleship in the New Age, Vol II, adapted.
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