>>24572322 (OP)
>>24572327
>>24572339
>>24572498
>>24573159
Very bold, sweeping metaphysical claim of mine here, I admit it, but it could be because the triad, or perhaps *A* Triad, is intrinsic to the world in some way, or to conceptual thought.
A basic conceptual idea is of opposites, or contraries. Hot and then cold, day and then night, good and bad. Also spatial directions, up and down, left and right. Basic things like that.
But that’s not fully complete. There’s also the possibility (shown in much of human thought and experience) of a center point between them, or some type of reconciliation between them. So we now get:
+
-
0,
Or,
Positive
Negative
Neutral (zero)
or,
Affirming
Denying
Reconciling (Neutralizing)
forces. Of course this could be considered the basis of dialectical thought, from Socrates to the Hegel-influenced formulation of thesis/antithesis/synthesis.
One mystical teaching has it that this describes three forces inherent to the manifested universe itself. An affirming force (creating, developing, adding to, increasing, or building up), a denying force (disintegrative, destructive, smashing, breaking apart, wearing away), and a reconciling or neutralizing force (which could manifest as preserving something, or on the other hand as finding a balance between the destruction and creation of anything, or affirmation or negation of anything). This matches up interestingly well with the trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva.
This teaching also claims that the formulation of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, or the Holy Trinity, is also a derivation and symbolization of this same idea of what could be called the Law of Three.
Specifically, this is from the Gurdjieff
Fourth Way teachings, which he claims to have gotten from some very primordial tradition.
