The Triangle of Spirituality

Color index (RGB model)

Red force. Green direction. Blue introversion of awareness, concentration. White force + direction + concentration, meaning a conscious spiritual exertion, which leads to the enlightenment of the mind and the absolute spiritual awareness. Black atrophy; lack of awareness. Gray neutral.

The three divisions of the spiritual process

Preface

I feel that the spiritual process requires another kind of energy than that of the creative process, an energy which is less mannerist and more sincere. The energy of high spiritual awareness is not merely an expression of emotions and thought patterns as in the superficial mundane awareness.

Note The term ‘Ego’ within the following context refers to its absolute meaning as it is regarded in Buddhism or other monotheistic beliefs, rather than it’s narrow and limited Froidian definition.

II

The dual consciousness. As a rule, most people who write in Latin letters will not write the word “I” with a non capital letter. To me, that’s a symbol of the primal ego instinct, which consolidated over time into an archetypical perception that the “I” is extremely important and that it needs to be glorified and polished constantly in the eyes of others.
Therefore, the red letter represents the active energy of the spiritually aware rational being, engaged in some sort of spiritual process, while as the opposite black letter represents the lack of spiritual awareness to self-importance and self-image, hence the blind slavery to the capriciousness of the Ego.

Note, that not any self-awareness constitutes spiritual awareness. All rational beings are self-aware – that is the essence of being a rational being. However, spiritual awareness encompasses a greater capacity of mind and much greater broadness and depth of thought, due to the process of neglection of the Ego, which in turn narrows the mind’s innate infinite capacity and limits the spirit’s natural unfathomable abilities.

I?

The actual active element of the spiritual process, the investigating consciousness, the penetrating awareness, hence spiritual awareness. A symbol of one’s honest investigation of the “I” concept and the illusion it webs. The barrier of unawareness to the slavery of self-importance and self-image is getting broken and the true essence of the ego is gradually revealed.

In the formative aspect, the dual consciousness is depicted in smaller scale than that of the investigating consciousness, in order to symbolize that one who is undergoing an active spiritual process is greater and nobler than the one which remains a slave to his limitless appetite for the illusion of self-image.
The sharpening awareness of the spiritual striver allows humility to pierce through due to one’s direct experience of his futility facing these mighty forces, which bind him to his self-image and self-importance.

i

The completion of the spiritual process – the liberated mind, the non-dual consciousness, free from conditioning, conceptions and charged emotions, meaning free from ego and the lava of instinctual desires it fuels and which defines its existence.
Such a mind no longer needs to glorify itself by artificial means, hence the non-conformist depiction of the “I” with a non capital letter – a symbol of such an enlightened awareness. The striving for such a state of spiritual awareness is the essence of life. That significance is therefore depicted by its position in the triangle and its formational weight, as well as by the aspiration of the vertex towards the infinite white beyond.

Governing motion

Cyclic movement between the different states of awareness happens naturally, for that is the nature of any spiritual process – you don’t “just get there” all at once. Nevertheless, a mind which does not explore, investigate and purify itself (by meditative means, I might add), is not open to the possibility of the infinite spiritual awareness and therefore there is no direct passage from the dual state of existence to the absolute awareness, but only vice versa.

I also believe that from the state of absolute awareness, there could occur a breakthrough of no-return out of the boundaries of the i, however the path leading to that stage of maturity is still very long.