One, Two Three -- Reality!
Posted June 8, 2001
All is one. Most everybody with a spiritual bent is familiar with this idea. Most everyone who meditates has meditated on the Allness of the One.
The paradox is that one is also a point, which has no mass or density, which is really nothing until two appears to make of it a line.
For one to manifest, to become visible, another one is necessary making two. And yet two is an impossibility, a purely theoretical concept because as soon as you have two, you also have the relationship between them, automatically constellating a three.
Three is a magical number because it is the first real number with any substance.
If you apply this to Tarot, there is no essential difference between the Fool (Card Zero) and the Magician (Card I). Card II, the High Priestess, is a card of mystery, which makes perfect sense since her reality has an illusory quality that no other number has. Card III is the Empress, giving credence to the notion that when one manifests, it does so as a mother-God. At the basis of life are the ideas of fertility, nurturance and sensuality. Not a bad trinity, if you ask me.
If you apply this to the Christian Trinity, the Holy Spirit signifies the concept of relationship that results in what we call reality. Meditate on that one for a while.
When you bring another one into relationship with the three, you get four, the number of physical manifestation. In Tarot, this is the Emperor. Solidity. Power with an altogether different flavor.
Another way to look at this is as three with the relationship among them creating the fourth. No matter what number you have after one, there is always that additional element of relationship, showing that we are, indeed, more than the sum of our parts. Relationship is the dynamic component of reality, which just happens to coincide with the Hindu concept of Shakti.
So why do you think it is we have so much trouble getting along?
.Talk to me!
