The Sacred in Science
The theme The Sacred in Science is one of a series of articles this
year exploring the spiritual dimension in four distinct, yet interrelated disciplines:
Science, Literature, Music, and Art. We all recognise that the nature of God is
expressed through form in different ways. To the scientist, perhaps, the most sublime
truth would be the discovery of an equation or mathematical formula, which would
explain the mystery of the physical universe; to the writer or poet, words in their
eloquent, imaginative, cascading and intuitive flow convey the essence of divinity;
to the artist, the balance and interrelationship of form and colour, light and shadow,
express the innate beauty and sanctity of life; and to the musician, the harmony of
sound, its subtleties, nuances and ordered rhythm reflect the ‘music of the spheres’.
So, with these and other thoughts in mind let us explore the sacred in the first of
these four expressions of human creativity.
To many, scientific thinking is a relatively new phenomenon in the life of humanity.
But, of course, this is far from the truth. Ancient civilisations have come and gone,
and given to the world of human thought new insights and perspectives on the ‘outer
garment of God’. In ancient China, the Yih King (I Ching), or Book of Changes, observed
that God is a pure mathematician and expresses Himself through the outer form, based
upon number and geometric design. The ancient Egyptian, Greek, Hindu, Islamic, and
Jewish scholars, amongst others, too, reflected upon great and fundamental scientific
problems, such as the nature of light.
Just as the human mind can convey the highest, noblest archetypal ideas, so
correspondingly can it reflect the basest. Likewise, science, per se, can either be
an instrument for revealing the sacred, wisely harnessing the resources of the natural
world for the betterment of the many, or it can be used as a means to serve the
materialistic, separative nature. In the eyes of many, science has fallen into
disrepute, and is regarded as amoral and destructive of the environment. This, in part,
is no doubt true; yet, there is some remarkable visionary work being carried forward
by the scientific community. One example of this is the attempt to bridge the divide
between science and religion. This fusion of thought, of rational scientific analysis
with spiritual, experiential thinking will, in time, contribute to a visionary,
universal spiritual science. Their combined resources will eventually meet on common
ground, for what the scientist describes as energy, the spiritual thinker calls God.
In recent years a number of visionary scientists, and other intuitive thinkers have
attempted to blend Eastern Philosophy and Western scientific thinking. Fritjof Capra,
Claude Curling, Paul Davies, James Lovelock, Lynn Margulis, Ravi Ravindra, Rupert
Sheldrake, and Gary Zukav are just some of the pioneers who have helped to span
the divide between science and religion, and offered new insights and spiritually
focused perspectives upon God, the universe and humanity. No doubt the next great
scientific frontier will reveal the etheric, the matrix or pattern upon which the
outer, physical world is circumscribed. Perhaps, too, the ‘jewel in the crown’
of scientific thinking, the Holy Grail of modern physics, the discovery of the
‘theory of everything’ will take a quantum leap forward with the discovery
of the etheric nature of the universe. These revelations will have profound effects in
other scientific disciplines such as medicine and psychology, for the interrelationship
of energy and form is focused through the etheric.
In many ways, the practice of Triangles is both a spiritual and a scientific technique.
Spiritual, because its rationale is to elevate human consciousness to a higher awareness
of reality; and, scientific, because it draws upon the use and direction of energy for
a specific purpose. In time, the science of invocation and of evocation, the conscious
manipulation of energy for spiritual purposes, will herald the dawn of a new, enlightened
era where science and religion will co-exist side-by-side in harmonious symbiosis. Each
will offer its own unique perspective and experience to lead humanity into a golden era
of scientific spiritual discovery, for in their hands “the form of the new
civilisation is being constructed.”
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