MM#11:

The Best Things Come In Threes

Sure, no one says that. It’s not a thing. It’s just a fun header to get this piece going.

Ever since childhood I have been fascinated by patterns. Big picture, life-affirming patterns.

Like the four elements we know as fire, water, air and earth.

Or another system that my childhood upbringing in Catholicism called the “Trinity.”

For those who may not be familiar with this concept, the Trinity is a way that this old timey religion describes the “one God,” but in three parts:

The Father
The Son
The Holy Spirit

To break it down, the Father represents God on high in the heavens above.

The Son of course is Jesus, the son of God, who came to earth to teach and heal.

But then what’s this Holy Spirit thing? It was always more mysterious to me as a child. In fact, it has always been harder to conceive of…

I’ve been pondering these types of ideas all of my life, even since I left my childhood faith. I have been on a spiritual quest to find understanding and truth in ways I could describe, even codify in symbols or systems.

It’s a quest I have always followed with all of my heart.

Body, Mind and Soul

Ah, and heart has a lot to do with it. You may even try to wedge the idea of “heart” into one of those three parts.

Where would you place heart? Is it actually a fourth aspect of us?

I thought that way for some time. Yet the idea of three keeps coming up in almost all spiritual texts, teachings and practices. Why?

We could all have our own concept of this and discuss it at length, I am sure. Let me share with you how I see it:

The Mind is the Father. It comprises the intellect and conscious thought. This is the place of our thinking mind, the talkative inner monologue we have all day, every day within our brain, as we conceive it.

The Body is the Son. It is the physical form and the subconscious mind. This is the part of us that operates all of bodily functions like breathing and blood circulation, sleep and digestion, cell growth and healing, etc.

The Soul, then, best defines the part of the Trinity called the Holy Spirit. Ah, this makes more sense than some nameless thing! The soul, or Holy Spirit, is the element of our consciousness that exists outside of our body and mind. It is the energy of our eternal being, that comes before and after our life in form. It incarnates us.

It can also be described as the Superconscious Mind. This goes beyond the old psychologies of conscious and subconscious thought. This speaks more to religion, spirituality, and metaphysics. This is the realm of spirit, the soul, the aura, the subtle body, the energy body, the Divine Self, the True Self, the Christed Self.

Still with me? Mostly? Good.

The Impetus For a New Understanding

So what compelled me to write this post is that my mind has mused over these ideas for so long and I have finally found a full resonance with the concepts. I have fashioned it anew in the best way that I have found it.

Many traditions throughout time have described the spiritual or immaterial or nonphysical in terms of a triangle.

Even one of my favorite childhood games series, “The Legend of Zelda,” began to describe the famous Triforce of Power in terms of its three aspects, or three “Goddesses,” that created the world of Hyrule. In one incarnation of the series, “The Ocarina of Time,” The goddesses possessed spell powers of fire, wind, and love. Wind could of course represent air and love (or healing) is often given to the realm of water.

So the three elements of air, fire, and water represent a trinity force.

The physical world, or material world, is depicted as the solid, stable shape of the square. The physical realm is given the element of earth by most standards.

The life that we live is best described as spiritual beings inhabiting physical forms. Souls in bodies. In my study of the Tarot of Marseilles I learned that the concept is shown in symbolic form, where a triangle within a square represents the spiritualization of matter.

In other words, the three divine Trinity elements of air, fire, and water within the fourth, earthly element of physical form.

So that Trinity idea is rampant.

And we can have this model:

The Father, the Intellect, the Conscious Mind. Air.
The Son, the Body, the Subconscious Mind. Water. (Think the “waters of the subconscious.”)
The Holy Spirit, the Soul, the Superconscious Mind. Fire.

Together they form the complete picture of the consciousness we experience in our being.

But often what we ignore is how to tie them together.

And how do we do that?

Tying the Strings Together

First I will say a big clue in all of this is the Soul.

I wrote yesterday about how much time we focus on the intellectual pursuits and busyness of life and the day-to-day. And how we may put focus into our physical body and physical experience, yes. This may be by choice, or sometimes it becomes forced upon us when our body breaks down and begs us for attention and the need to heal.

But still we often neglect the third aspect. Many of us, maybe not all of us…

We often don’t listen enough to our soul! We don’t stop to smell the roses, literally. We don’t quiet the conscious mind or relax the body enough to hear the soul. Except in those small moments when the soul shouts through as insight or inspiration.

But meditating and find solitude and quiet, even for brief periods of 15-30 minutes a day, can make a huge difference in contacting the soul more regularly and with greater benefit than most of us may know.

Unless we already DO meditate and know the benefit. And many who meditate regularly will LAUD the practice, claiming their health and relationships and even much of their success in business and life has come from this simple daily routine.

Because with communion with the soul we learn of our true desires, our goals and dreams, and we find ways to follow through on them in the best ways.

Even as I write this I strive to build my daily routine of soul listening as well. So far I am loving it.

And let’s not forget other ways we hear our soul. Some people do so in how they cook a meal, or do business, or take a walk in nature. Some feel their soul through their art, their music, their dance. Personally I find my soul very easily whenever I write or sing.

So I truly, seriously urge you to find some way to make regular and meaningful contact with your soul. It can only benefit you and make you a more well-rounded, fully three-dimensional consciousness being.

Wait, Wait, What of Heart?

I brought up a question earlier and I still wish to explore it. Hopefully you remember and are seeking more on this topic as well.

What of heart? I said three than made it four somewhere along the way, too.

You see how I have grappled with this idea…

See, I used to want to transfer the Trinity idea, or what is also known as the “triune” of consciousness, onto a system that could include heart.

So I tried to work with mind, body, HEART and soul. This can be related to my other favorite system of correspondence, the four elements. Mind becomes Air; Body, Earth; Heart, Water; Soul, Fire.

From some perspectives this could work well. And as I said prior, the three “divine” elements given to air, fire, and water can be seen as inhabiting the fourth earthly form of body.

But now I have a different take:

What if Heart is the place where all three reside? It houses all of our consciousness and communicates between them?

This would be great, since it is called the “heart center.” Even the heart chakra tends to get a huge focus in energy healing and similar practices.

Think about it: The heart RESIDES in the BODY. The heart conveys FEELING to the MIND. And the heart HOUSES the SOUL.

When we wish to contact our soul, to really listen and feel it, we often tune into our heart chakra, our heart center. And this soul connection conveys wonderful feelings and wisdom to our mind and body. It is also loving and healing, that same purvey of Jesus, the son.

And what a wonderful way to think of ourselves…

Spiritual beings incorporating physical forms with a loving heart center.

We are so much more than flesh and bones.

We are so much more than we give ourselves credit for.

Don’t just be your body, or your mind, or even just your body/mind.

Be your SOUL, too.

Be the whole Divine You that you are!

God incarnated in form.

God as life.

We are made of God!

Thank you for reading. I hope this had some resonance with you and inspired a new way of viewing yourself, from a higher perspective than ever before.

Please share. And leave comments about what struck you most in reading this.

Truly many, many blessings to you all, you Divine Souls!

Matthew