The word angle does not mean anything at all, it
only equates with an ever-changing formula
which lies behind every level of reality.
If you try to define an angle, the definition
becomes the form created by the angle, but
not the angle itself.
An angle can't be defined and has no form because
it is the formula behind creation which depends
on a relationship between things. An example
would be that nothing could exist in our reality
unless we are able to sense it in some way,
therefore there is a relationship between
us sensing something and that same something
- this relationship is an angle.
The nearest we can get to defining an angle is to
say it exists as the subjective relationship
between two objective realities, in this case
between ourselves and the something we are
aware of through our sensory perception. "Being
aware of something" is the subjective conscious
quality of the angle, the energy which empowers
its manifestation into our reality by its
power of connection. Therefore an angle has
two poles, in this case the seer and the seen,
but neither are the angle because the angle
remains as the relationship which separates
the negative and positive polarities which
we view as separate but are in fact opposing
poles of the same angle.
Such an angle, composed of both polarities, will
function on its own once it has appropriated
the necessary energy from our personal consciousness,
taking form as a prejudice, a pre-judgement,
an opinion based on the other angles operating
when this one first entered our awareness
and appropriated some of our consciousness:
and which at some future point will have to
be reclaimed, redeemed, or transmuted. Everything
we see is coloured and distorted by what we
feel or think about what we see, because it
is natural for our minds to connect with similar
experiences in our past.
You must appreciate I am only describing one "something"
about angles here with these examples, they
also function as angular relationships between
events, objects, between planets even, and
of course often arise as coincidences and
flashes of inspiration.
Everything that has a name is an angle in manifestation,
but if it is "unidentifiable" then it is a
true angle of potential, a real angle.
A real angle is something that just happens
or appears out of the blue, or is the background
to a situation - all those indescribable coincidences
which we view as unconnected life events.
There is a hidden connection behind everything
we experience during our lives which gives
us the continuity of existence. However once
something is named it becomes crystallized
into a set pattern and begins its descent
into distortion. It's angle will then attract
attention from our consciousness and assume
a named identity.
Most of our personal angles are subconscious influences
in our lives which have become automatic responses
- these are angles based on habit, or a learnt
skill. They form our character and most are
needed in some form or other, but most also
become distorted to a greater or lesser extent
by outside influences. They are based on our
natal horoscope, and they are developed or
distorted according to our response to certain
changes that occur in the cosmos, such as
planetary transits.
Angles exist on every level, but their natural level
is the 3rd and 4th planes, and they are especially
related to the 3rd and 4th Rays. They exist
as mere potentialities on the 3rd level, but
react with our consciousness on the 4th level
because this is the etheric level of angles
in motion known as the buddhic or intuitional
plane, and the link or bridge to the framework
on which the lower levels of reality are built
- the etheric web. Once angles become activated
on the 4th plane they begin their descent
through the lower 3 worlds as they assume
an identity as a thought on the mental plane,
an emotion on the astral plane and a realization
into manifestation on the physical plane which
is our normal reality of everyday awareness.
Therefore angles exist on every level but they are
also the bridges or barriers between the physical
and the astral and other levels of awareness,
or states of energy.
Learning how to work with angles allows us to use
the etheric energies repsonsible for our reality
both creatively and effectively. Knowing that
the two poles of any angle are called Intention
and Substance helps us appreciate how to resolve
the polarity of each unnecessary situation,
and by knowing that an angle works subjectively,
we can make it objective and release some
of its power. Or we can continue to let an
angle obsess us, and instead of using the
pure conscious energy of our Soul to guide
us we can continue to work with the consciousness
trapped in our angles, staying in the old
world instead of moving into the new one.
Therefore angles exist everywhere, all the way up
to the Monadic. In Lucille Cedercran's work
she refers to the idea of the etheric web that encloses our world of angular reality
as Selah, similar to the world soul, and the
Soul/ Christ consciousness which empowers
it to work with the Divine Plan she calls
See-La-Aum. The etheric web is a collective
term for one example of angles: by their very
nature angles can't act alone but are always
involved hierarchically with other angles.
However, angles are also part of the devic realm.
They are created by devas in a similar way
to how we create thought-forms, although devas
consciously create angles according to Divine
Purpose, rather than the random thoughts humans
are especially good at.
Although devas are "beings", to us they manifest
as intelligent energy, and we only become
aware of their influence in our everyday lives
through angles, because devas can't function
on their own below the buddhic. Our lives
"happen" because of the devic patterning that
originates on the buddhic/ intuitional plane,
and which accomplishes its intent by giving
structure to the elementals of the lower 3
worlds or planes.
Therefore the devas intelligently organize the patterns
or formulas of the angles in accord with the
Divine Plan, but they cannot organize the
elemental lives on each plane to create matter
in the three lower worlds until they have
attracted the human conscious energy necessary
to create any physical manifestation.
This view of angles corresponds quite well to "devas
of appearance", the phrase used by Lucille
Cedercrans in her work (see Nature Of The
Soul*). According to LC we become obsessed
by those devas of appearance which we connect
with consciously, although often unknowingly,
through the etheric web of angles responsible
for their manifestation - and we do this by
tuning into them. This fine tuning process
creates our life experience.
We each have a multitude of personal angles or devas
of appearance which collectively form one
angle which is our persona that bears our
name. Thinking about something, talking about
something, feeling something, a something
to which a name can be attached, connects
our devas of appearance to the etheric web,
and tunes that part of us - that particular
angle - to all the other angles which resonate
with it, that have some oblique connection
with its name. This then becomes one of our
obsessions; and a devic/elemental life which
is part of our physical being has identified
itself with its archetypal intent to which
it is linked through its hierarchical connections.
From that time on it will be an obsessive
influence in our lives.
And if you consider everything in our life is an
angle or a deva of appearance, and everyone
of them has either a receptive or projective
connection to their greater archetypes, then
you can see how individuals can either creatively
contribute to the angle of public opinion,
or become obsessed by its deva of appearance.
It's a question of identification, either with our
Soul consciousness that exists as our outer
etheric shell on the buddhic plane and uses
its angles creatively; or with our personality,
which derives its energy from the angles themselves
to give us a life of habit and routine at
the mercy of the reality of the common denominator
of human awareness, sharing the obsessive
negativity that is perpetrating itself in
the minds of men today: a process which soon
becomes self-propagating by feeding on the
conscious energy of its angular relationships.
Once we start thinking in terms of angles or obsessive
devas of appearance, we begin to distance
ourselves from some of the views we held previously.
We realize that recognition of negativity
is right and correct, but to dwell on such
things is to add energy to this illusion -
good thoughts will be consumed by this monster
as easily as bad thoughts. This is because
in energy terms this polarity doesn't count:
giving any kind of attention to something
gives it's angle energy, and traps part of
our consciousness.
We also begin to see other people in a different
light. We begin to develop an awareness of
their real selves trapped in a set of angles
which may not resonate with ours, but seeing
beyond that false barrier we become aware
that both ourselves and the other person are
doing the best we can with the angles we chose
before incarnation.
Seeing people as Souls really does make us become
more aware of why people do certain things
in a certain way, including ourselves, and
it makes it far easier not to judge others
when we realize that the only reason any situation
of reality is happening to us is because an
angle is connecting us to it. As Souls we
have brought this angular event to us so that
our Soul can use the experience to render
some of the negativity that may surround it
into a resolved situation within the etheric
world of Soul.
"You are what all happenings happen in.
What happens must happen so remain
unaffected as Peace. Be Peaceful and
this Peace will Spread. What rises from
Peace is Peace and what rises from
confusion is confusion. So Be Peace
and
give this to the Universe, it is all
you
should do."
- Papaji
* "The Nature Of The Soul" by Lucille Cedercrans,
publ by Wisdom Impressions
