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.

It is an enjoyable exercise to place things and ideas we want to examine in the center of this tetrahedron. 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:

A.    Create in your mind four labels, “Love”, “Intention”, “Integrity”, and “Attention”.

B.    Arrange them in a tetrahedron.

C.    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.

D.   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.

E.    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.

F.     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.