Why are we called Third Aspect?
In literature, religion
and philosophy, there are many references to a Third Aspect,
either to life or a particular situation. Sometimes, it
refers to a phase change from one state to another:
“The Third aspect of
God's Personality is Active Intelligence.”
Dr Joshua David Stone, The Personality of God
The third aspect
is often something we take for granted or overlook, and yet
it is crucial to a real understanding of the situation.”
Anon, Saros Philosopher
“When we perform any
skillful deed, this automatically protects us from performing
any unskillful ones. This substitution of skilful action in the
place of unskilful is the third aspect of the perfection of
morality. “
Extract from The Graduated Path to Liberation
by Geshe Rabten Rinpoche (Buddist Teacher)
“The third aspect of
the mind is reasoning, judging. The man who has the faculty of
reasoning and of justice is sought by everyone. He is the one to
depend upon and to accept advice from. This faculty will show in
all he says and does, and it will win for him many who are
attracted by it.”
Extract from the Magnetism of Mind, Sufi
Healing Order
A fascinating book,
A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe,
by Michael
Schneider, describes how a Third Element or Aspect is
pivotal to life and change.
“We’re constantly exposed to threeness. Every whole event is
inherently comprised of a trinity of two opposites and an
outside third element that brings about a new whole. Physicists
call this trinity an “action, reaction and result”.
Philosophers call it a “thesis, antithesis and synthesis”. The
three elements together form a greater new thesis which, in
turn, induces it’s opposite and is ready for a greater
synthesis, examples of this in everyday life are easy to find:
