Three Ways to the Centre
Saturn Path as a Resurrection Force
Our entire sensory experience takes place within two fields: Space, and Time.
All that we are is rooted in the entirety of what is. The IS-ness of our experience is vast, many of the things that we wish were not as they are, remain ‘simply being,’ as they are. Many of the things that we worry will not be there when we come to need them, also remain part of our daily experience. Our identity, as incarnate personalities arises from this fact. Out of the totality of experience, I find myself as a constant. Steiner picks up on Rosicrucian tradition when he refers to this as “Ex Deo Nascimur” ‘from God we have our being.’ Some theologians also comment that this God, the entirety of “everything that IS,” Space itself, is the Father aspect of the Trinity.
All that we do happens in time. There is nothing that we do in this world that does not unfold in the doing. The deeds we do in the world bring our experience of self into connection with the nature of the world-being. Whether I plant a flower, pick an apple, design a new machine or take part in a war, all that I do connects me with the flow of time as it unfolds in the world-all. Like the rising and setting of the sun, some things I do begin stuff, others end it. A meal is a good example of things being brought into existence and then destroyed. Once I begin to act in the world, I am no longer such a constant, my own identity gets a little lost in this process, transforms, becomes reframed. In that same Rosicrucian tradition, this process is referred to as “In Christo Morimur.” ‘Within the Christ-nature, death of myself becomes life of the Spirit.’ Logos, the creative process, Time itself, is the Creator of this aspect of life.
From this arises a third element: The ongoing transformation of my understanding and relationship with the world and everything in it. Considered fully, we realise there is nothing in existence that is not in relationship with myself. Even the act of cognition changes whatever I consider. The very act of taking things into consideration is the act of entering into relationship with them. A new future arises for me and for everything in this process. I discover the Creator potential acting within myself – or more truthfully, acting in the space-between, of myself and the Other. This realisation that I am one pole of a world in which constant change is the unchanging/ongoing nature of all that IS, brings me into a renewed (resurrected) relationship with myself, as much as with everything else. The simple identity that arises through finding myself in space has morphed through taking up action, through doing deeds in the world. My uncomplicated centre-of-being has entered into a relational reality in which everything changes as I change, and I change as I engage with the being-nature of everything else. This is the third condition of self, emerging from the third aspect of the Trinity, expressed in the Rosicrucian tradition as “Per Spiritum Sanctum Reviviscimus.” ‘In the Spirit’s Universal Thoughts, the soul awakens.’ Our true nature as co-Creators becomes a joyful responsibility, through which we enter into a prayerful relationship with everything in the hope of adequately fulfilling this cosmic responsibility.
The classic spiritual path begins with study. The student learns some of the spiritual truths that inspire the soul to change the way it engages with the world. What we learn through this study settles into the Father principle, it becomes an expanded perception of the vast spiritual spaces within which we exist. Soon we decide to put this into practice, give some time to meditations and exercises, and strengthen our ability to live within what we are learning. As we become more firmly centred in our sense of the Father/space and the Son/time, more firm-footed on our path, we begin to notice the relational aspect of reality that previously we were thrown about by – we become a fish in the river rather than a stick upon its surface. This ability to hold or to rest in our own centre, coupled with the growing ability to notice within our own soul, how the world is relating to us, rather than reacting to it from our patterns, forms the basis for renewed types of group work or even one-to-one relationships. The nature of the Saturn Path then becomes visible as a pair, or a circle, of people who are resting in their centre and speaking from there into the space-between. This deed creates a new type of common space, open to The Spirit.
The space between people who are not rested in their own individual centre becomes a reactive conversation, with individuals either assisting or opposing each other. Both actions create reactions: Chaos, and attempts to control the chaos, become the norm. By contrast, a space where people have found their centre becomes one of equal sharing. No-one needs to correct, improve or assist anyone else because they are simply in relationship, no longer in the ‘change-the-world’ stage. Where individuals practice this, the space itself becomes alive with that Holy Spirit, The Spirit’s Universal Thoughts Hold Sway, renewed insight becomes available to all.
Even as the Father holds the past in its right order, and the Son holds sway over this present moment, the rhythms of change and development in the world, the future is the domain of the Holy Spirit. What emerges in a Saturn circle is a renewed possibility for every individual. A renewed possibility for the space itself. That which seeks to come into the world is eased and enabled by this action of sitting, centred, in circle.
Read: The Golden Key
