EVERY MAN A TRINITY

THE TRINITY. — While there is no perfect illustration of the Trinity,yet since we are made in the image of God, our own souls

would naturally give us the best idea, and make certain its

possibility. 

    Each of us is one kind of " three in one." Each soul is a unit, yet it consists of intellect and sensibilities and will. And every

difficulty in understanding the divine Trinity is found in this lesser

trinity, which we know to be a fact. So that while this does not

explain the Trinity, nor solve the mystery, it proves that there need be

no necessary contradiction.

A PHYSICAL TRINITY, LIGHT. —Prof. Lewis Wright concludes his excellent volume on Light, by a chapter on light as "a physical

trinity." 

    1. THE ETHER. — Scientists "tell us of an intangible, invisible Ether, which cannot be touched or tasted or contained or measured, or weighed, but yet is every where ; which contains within itself the most. essential properties of Matter, fluid and solid ; and which yet is not Matter, though it can communicate its own motions to Matter." 

      He believes in this Ether which he has never seen, and never will see, because without it he can explain no solitary phenomenon around him, while with it and its motions he can explain everything."

GOD THE FATHER. — "The Christian believes in an eternal, immortal, invisible, inconceivable, infinite Essence, the one Source and Father of all."

2. UNION WITH MATTER. — "The Ether is invisible, inconceivable, unknown to us, unless Matter, to make it visible, be in its path." " In this form it can be limited, and contained, and measured and weighed." "In it the Ether may become, as it were, incarnated."

THE WORD MADE FLESH.— The Christian believes that the first essential Being has in a mysterious way become embodied in a Second, who is the brightness of His glory and the visible Image of His person.

3. ENERGY, " a motion in the Ether," "a mysterious energy which

also takes protean forms, but which in one form or other is doing all the physical work of the universe."

THE HOLY SPIRIT. — This Christian believes that the first two " work or act by and through a third mysterious Energy whose operations assume many forms, who does all things, alike in matter and spirit."

" Light embodies them all." " There are these three, and these only ;

each distinct and separate ; and yet the three making up One, a

mysterious unity which cannot be dissolved."

NOTE: The Trinity was present on earth in at least three occasions in Scripture - The Beginning of Creation in Genesis 1, the Baptism of Christ, and the Transfiguration. There is an excellent book that studies the scientific nature of the Trinity in all the Universe by Dr. Nathan R, Woods, Trinity in the Universe, 1874. This book is available on Amazon and also in digital format from the Internet Archive. (Bishop Jerry Ogles)