Trust and Brotherhood

The word that designates the goal of this year [1] ideal, is defined by its mother word idea, which is essentially (in the original sounds of letters) the motion [ i ] of light [ d ], proposing to remember that its own sound transmits motive and luminous energy. This thought alone has the power to direct and illuminate our days.

Here we want to expound another essential word and concept, trust, because it is the force that allows you to respond to the driving energy of the idea.

The Teaching of Agni Yoga honors it by placing it among “the highest concepts” [2], citing it in about one hundred and fifty passages, of which here are some flashes that reveal some features:

[…] And above all remember the Lotus of Trust, day and night. [3]

[…] Trust is the most powerful lever of the cosmic Heart.

The Magnet also projects its current with this medium. [4]

Urusvati knows that the radiation of trust is beautiful. On that basis stands the mountain of faithfulness, which adorns the universe. In it coexist the best aspects of life: love, beauty, devotion, courage, wisdom. [5]

[…] Speaking of cooperation and Brotherhood We must insist on trust – without which the rhythm cannot be created […] There is no other way for the heart to shine with victory. It is difficult to avoid falling prey to fatigue if the heart is without light. [6]

Light, in fact, is the sound that emanates from the word faith-trust (fiducia in Latin), because the Indo-European root from which it derives, *DHI-, is as follows: “continuing [ i ] transfer [ h ] of light [ d ]” from which derived the Sanskrit dhi, religious thought, meditation; the Greek theorìa, observation, speculation; Latin fiducia.

The linguist Rendich writes about the Indo-European relationship between “light” and “religious thought”: ” […] this relationship was seen, in heaven, as Light = God, and on earth as Light = Intellect of heavenly Love“. [7]

In an attempt to summarize the steps of the Teaching, self-confidence and mutual trust between collaborators are indispensable and blessed in action, but they are only particular aspects of a concept of infinitely wider scope: faith-trust is tension, fire, magnetic current, the result of direct knowledge or intuition, generation of rhythm. Trust connects the elements of the Universe, connects the Hierarchy to men and these to Them, directing human beings to a cooperative relationship with the Guides, also making them sensitive to the harmonious relationship with the other kingdoms of nature.

It is important to foster awareness of the strength of trust, in order not to “lose the dates”, since the current Goal “Construction of ideals” is the one that is primarily nourished by it: we know that Vortex 5.6 conveys great creative fervor, since it has the power to promote the creation of luminous thoughts, immaterial and living stones to be placed at the foundation of the new Culture to which we aspire, so that they become one of the ideal heritage of humanity.

Here is a passage that seals the connection between the trust and unity of Brotherhood:

[…] Sow, and have no doubts about the viability of the seeds.

The basis of Brotherhood is trust in work. [8]

The idea of Brotherhood is so fundamental that it has been and will be investigated from multiple perspectives in this blog: in this context, since the etymosophical analysis was still lacking, we intend to add another piece to this exploration, analyzing its linguistic root. The word derives from “brother”, from the late Latin fratellus, diminutive of frater: it originates from the Indo-European etymology *BHRATR-, which expresses the idea of ​​supporting through energy, of sustaining, of nourishing, in which the components: [ tṛ ] “he”, [ hṛ ] “who brings”, [ b ] “with energy”, “he who supports”. From this root came the Sanskrit bhrātr “he who supports”, the Greek phràter, “member of a fratrìa/fraternity”, the Latin frater, brother. At the beginning, therefore, there is the idea of ​​support, of transmitting energy — an idea preserved in Sanskrit and in Greek as fratrìa was a kind of confraternity — while centuries later, in Latin, the limiting concept of blood relationship was fixed. The Greek language even distinguished the blood brother – called adelphòs, “born from the same uterus” – from the phràter, “member of a partnership” [9]. As in the term “father” the initial sound p (pater in Latin, later f) indicates “the purifier”, in the word “brother” the initial sound of the root b indicates “vital energy”, the same as the Greek term bìos, life. It is also the same etymology as Brahman and Brahma ! [10]

At the root of the word “brother” therefore pulsates the sound of the universal energy that gives life to everything, supporting manifestation at every level, which highlights the narrow limitation of the later meaning that debases it, restricting it to the parental relationship on the physical plane.

It is also true that the word “Brotherhood”, through the abstraction of the term from which it derives, reveals its spiritual life, with an elevation that expands the “perfume” of the original etymology, whose sacred ancestral meaning is in some way preserved in the various Indo-European languages ​​in the use of designating as “brothers” those who are linked by some commonality (ideals, faith, religious orders, cultural values, etc.) [11].

It is indeed the inspiration to a spiritual fraternity that embraces the Cosmos to pervade the Canticle of the Creatures of Saint Francis, the first important poetic text at the base of the Italian language:

[…] Praised be You, my Lord, with all Your creatures, especially Great Brother Sun

Who is the day, and through Whom You give us Light.

And He is beautiful and radiant with great splendour.

and bears a likeness of You, Most High One.

Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the Stars,

In Heaven You formed Them, clear and precious and beautiful, […]

Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister Bodily Death […]

It is up to us as builders of the Ideals or flags of Light that originate from the Idea of ​​Brotherhood, to turn our gaze and give ear to the future, spreading the seeds of the New with trust and commitment, orienting ourselves in accordance with the rhythms of the celestial Intelligences, to contribute to the growth of right relationships between us as humans and to the harmonious relationship between all worlds.

We commit ourselves to do it not on the wings of a mystical impetus, but collaborating in an ordered group (see The human Group toward a planetary System and Order The Planetary System) for the foundation of a new Humanism which has at its base a unitary Thought that embraces the sevenfold reality of both Heaven and Earth.

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[1] In the 49 years cycle of the Plan the Goal of this year 5.6 is: “Construction of Ideals”. See also 2020 Solar Rituality and Ephemerides.

[2] Community, § 221

[3] Leaves of Morya’s Garden X I, § 369

[4] Infinite I, §129

[5] Supermundane § 619

[6] Brotherhood, § 71

[7] Franco Rendich, Comparative Etymological Dictionary of classical Indo-European languages. Indo-European- Sanskrit-Greek-Latin, Palombi Editori, 2010, p. 189, note 1

[8] Brotherhood § 258

[9] Franco Rendich, Op. Cit., P. 73

[10] Ibidem, p. 278, 257, 262

[11] The “spirit of brotherhood” limited to men is mentioned in the first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.