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The Tetrahedron of HOPE
Tetrahedrons are examples of “sacred geometry”.
Tetrahedrons are the simplest three-dimensional structures. Each one
has four faces of equal size, so the six edges are exactly the same
length, and the three angles at each of the four corners are
identical.
Putting things and ideas we want to examine in the
center of this tetrahedron is an enjoyable exercise. In this way,
that which we wish to study is held in the light of integrity,
intention, attention, and love.
Some may say that love is the greatest of these
four values, and attention is the least. For the purpose of the
exercise, let us hold everything of equal value. Wisdom traditions
tell us that when we let go of judgment, and hold everything of
equal value, that which we examine will show us of itself.
In this particular example, any object contained
within the tetrahedron is framed in love, integrity and intention.
It is backlit by attention. We can not see its features, only its
outlines; so let us pay attention to its form and look at what love,
integrity and intention see in the form. We can see the effect of
the relationship of its parts on it.
We can also see it as illuminated from above by
love, and supported from below by intention, attention and
integrity. Now we can examine the features of the object of our
attention and see the details that give rise to it. We can also
recognize the relationship of its parts to each other and to the
whole.
Balancing and integrating
all of the ways of seeing our object give us vision and insight into
it, and we find its truth. It now shows us of itself…, which may be
a far cry from what we initially thought it to be.
Please consider performing this exercise of
imagination employing the tetrahedron of HOPE to help hold a
person in a beautiful space of their potential:
- Create in your mind four labels, “Love”, “Intention”,
“Integrity”, and “Attention”.
- Arrange them in a tetrahedron.
- Take any one of them and raise it straight up above the other
three, so that the four form, with but little movement, and
virtually no effort, a four-sided, four-cornered, symmetrical,
geometric figure called a tetrahedron. Let the sides be open.
- Place the object of your thoughts in the center of the
tetrahedron. Hold it there and examine it through the window of the
three cornerstones that form the side you have chosen. See it
backlit by the light of the fourth cornerstone behind. Change the
face and the illuminator changes. New shadow-images emerge.
- Focus on the base and apex of the tetrahedron, and imagine
your object in its center, supported by the three cornerstones that
now form the base. Now imagine a light streaming into the
tetrahedron through the apex, illuminating the object it contains.
See what light and support do to what the structure contains.
Identify with it.
- Turn the tetrahedron onto another face, and let the support
flow from the new base, and the light enter through a new apex. New
light-images emerge.
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