L’Examen Trinitaire (The Threefold Examination) * Embodied Action (Part 3)
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- Aug 15
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Editorial Avenue No. 23: 15th August 2025
"Was I sleeping, while the others suffered?Am I sleeping now?Tomorrow, when I wake up, or think I do, what shall I say of today? That with Estragon my friend, at this place, until the fall of night, I waited for Godot?”
— Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1952)
The first part of the Threefold Examination showed us the importance of engaging in modes of thinking that are as ethical as possible. The five techniques introduced a sequence of steps to ensure that the space we reserve for our mental state remains pure and intact. We came to understand that the path to genuine benevolence begins with thought, for it is thought that determines both the action and the meaning we assign to that action. For instance, a person does not become a cannibal merely because survival instincts took over in extreme conditions. Rather, such a person becomes capable of the act only after reconstructing a mental framework in which the dehumanisation of the other becomes sufficiently acceptable to justify it. This may seem like an extreme example. Yet, in everyday life, we already witness this through the dehumanising effects of micro-aggressions: racism, bullying, fear of difference, the denigration of strangers on social media, and so on. All of this reveals a corruption of thought itself, hence the initial need for an internal court of judgement that allows us to examine the very way we think.
The second part of the Threefold Examination introduced us to the notion of Meaning. We can think — but thought is always moderated by the meaning we assign to it. Paradoxically, even evil carries meaning, though that meaning is always morally unacceptable. In the series The Walking Dead, for instance, one of the protagonists (Carol) makes the irreversible decision to kill a child (Lizzie) after the latter develops a distorted view of the Walkers (zombies). To Lizzie, the Walkers are no longer violent beings but friendly persons who live forever. She thus kills her own sister, believing it would allow them to play together for eternity.
These two tragedies reveal a chilling yet necessary truth for our own growth: meaning itself can become corrupted and lead us to accept horror in our thoughts. From this we learn, once again, that (i) thought alone is not sufficient, and (ii) meaning, left to feed upon itself, may become distorted. Is there then a way to ensure we remain truly Human despite the dysfunctions of society? It is from this perspective that we now turn to the third and final part of the Threefold Examination: embodied action.
The notion of embodied action here does not refer to a capacity to impose moral perfection on oneself at all times. Rather, it points to the expression of a balanced alignment between our way of thinking, the meaning we assign to those thoughts, and the behaviours that follow. When these three elements are harmonised, they take the form of embodied action or the final test of humanisation. Such action is neither mechanical (“I have a duty to others”) nor utilitarian (“the other exists to satisfy my impulses”). Embodied action is the ultimate expression of one’s fidelity to the Highest Good even when the contexts we find ourselves in strongly push us towards despair or surrender. Returning to the example of Carol and Lizzie: was the murder, in the horrific context they were living in, justifiable? To respond, we must clarify the reasoning that follows from Part Two, where we already presented meaning as the highest point in a hierarchy.
This divine hierarchy represents the vertical order of reality, an order in which each level (thought, meaning, action) is aligned with a Supreme Good, which transcends personal desire, cultural constructs, and even our individual moral justifications. This hierarchy is not a dogma, but a referential axis that allows human beings to orient themselves toward something greater than their own interpretations. But meaning that becomes severed from this foundational verticality - as in the tragic ontological disorientation of twelve-year-old Lizzie - becomes nothing more than a product of environment and surrounding collective narratives. In other words, Lizzie ceases to humanise herself. She no longer interprets the world in relation to the Highest Good, but according to what feels right to her. Meaning, in Lizzie - and in any human being undergoing similar disorientation - becomes a permissive authority. If instead she had been framed within her divine axis, meaning would have served as a discerning force.
Embodied action, the third key in the Threefold Examination, reveals that humanism manifests as Presence or the visible form of action emerging from thought that has been examined (and therefore rendered ethical) and guided by meaning toward something greater than the individual (meaning when framed by the Hierarchy). A person aligned with the three flames of the Threefold Examination thus becomes a witness to the expression of the Highest Good on Earth and they become this not through discourse, but in their very form.
To conclude,, we return to the striking quotation from Waiting for Godot. The characters speak aloud, speculate, reflect but remain paralysed by an endless wait for Godot. They are anchored in symbolism without ever moving toward manifestation. Our final lesson, then, is this: When nothing is done, nothing can be known.
Thought must be confronted by reality in order to produce knowledge.Meaning must be symbolised in the real so that it may be revealed.And embodied action must test the thresholds of horror for unlike thought or meaning, it is the one that acts in the real world with unwavering fidelity to the Highest Good. This is where the Threefold Examination surpasses what Beckett’s theatre proposes. A being aligned with the Threefold structure no longer waits for Godot; They act in His name, to preserve the divine current within humanity, even when all else collapses.
*L'examen trinitaire is a technique whose name is being preserved in French as it was channelled as such.
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End note:
Our monthly editorials are pure channellings received from Heaven. The administrative team responsible for their transcription has the duty to publish each of these editorials on the fifteenth of each month. This date is symbolic as it aligns with the 15th of September 2023, official birth date of the web platform of the Centre accredited under the name "God Save Me". More than just being an editorial, "The Editorial Avenue" is a sacred avenue that is opened up to humanity in order to allow all to reconnect with the Light as God cares for everyone.
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