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Trinity
I have learned that just as man may touch the earth with his feet, so on the wings of aspiration may he soar to
celestial heights. Like those of old, he may walk the earth and talk with God and the more he does so, the more
difficult it will be for him to discover where Universal Life ends and where individual existence begins. When man
forms an alliance with God through spiritual understanding, the boundary line between God and man disappears.
When this point is reached, man will know what Jesus meant when He said, `I and my Father are one.'
The tendency to personalize all things has degraded that which is called the Blessed Trinity into the impossible
conception of three in one, when it can be best understood as the Omnipresence, Omnipotence, Omniscience of
the Universal Mind, God. As long as men consider the Blessed Trinity as three persons in one and as something that
must be accepted even though it cannot be explained, they will dwell in the wilderness of superstition and thus, of
doubt and fear.
If the triune nature of God is spiritual rather than physical, then the trinity in man must be seen from a mental
rather than from a material point of view. One of the wise philosophers has said, `Despising everything else, a wise
man should strive after knowledge of self, for there is no knowledge that is higher, or that brings more satisfaction
of power, than knowledge of his own being.' If a man knows his real Self, he cannot do otherwise than discover his
latent possibilities, his concealed powers, and his dormant faculties. Of what avail, if a man should `gain the whole
world and lose his own soul?' His soul is his spiritual self and, if he truly discovers his spiritual self, he can build a
whole world if he is serving his fellow men by so doing. I have learned that he who would attain the ultimate goal
must search the depths of his real Self and there he will find God, the fullness of all good. It is because man is a
trinity in unity—composed of spirit, soul, and body—that, in a state of spiritual ignorance, he has the tendency to
think on a level with the lowest degree of his nature, which is the physical.
The ignorant man looks to his body for all the pleasure he gets and there comes a time when he gets from the
senses all the pain that he can stand. What he does not learn through wisdom he must learn through woe and, after
repeated experiences, he will not deny that wisdom is the better way. Jesus, Osiris, and Buddha said that with all
our understanding, we must get wisdom.
I have learned that just as man may touch the earth with his feet, so on the wings of aspiration may he soar to
celestial heights. Like those of old, he may walk the earth and talk with God and the more he does so, the more
difficult it will be for him to discover where Universal Life ends and where individual existence begins. When man
forms an alliance with God through spiritual understanding, the boundary line between God and man disappears.
When this point is reached, man will know what Jesus meant when He said, `I and my Father are one.'
The tendency to personalize all things has degraded that which is called the Blessed Trinity into the impossible
conception of three in one, when it can be best understood as the Omnipresence, Omnipotence, Omniscience of
the Universal Mind, God. As long as men consider the Blessed Trinity as three persons in one and as something that
must be accepted even though it cannot be explained, they will dwell in the wilderness of superstition and thus, of
doubt and fear.
If the triune nature of God is spiritual rather than physical, then the trinity in man must be seen from a mental
rather than from a material point of view. One of the wise philosophers has said, `Despising everything else, a wise
man should strive after knowledge of self, for there is no knowledge that is higher, or that brings more satisfaction
of power, than knowledge of his own being.' If a man knows his real Self, he cannot do otherwise than discover his
latent possibilities, his concealed powers, and his dormant faculties. Of what avail, if a man should `gain the whole
world and lose his own soul?' His soul is his spiritual self and, if he truly discovers his spiritual self, he can build a
whole world if he is serving his fellow men by so doing. I have learned that he who would attain the ultimate goal
must search the depths of his real Self and there he will find God, the fullness of all good. It is because man is a
trinity in unity—composed of spirit, soul, and body—that, in a state of spiritual ignorance, he has the tendency to
think on a level with the lowest degree of his nature, which is the physical.
The ignorant man looks to his body for all the pleasure he gets and there comes a time when he gets from the
senses all the pain that he can stand. What he does not learn through wisdom he must learn through woe and, after
repeated experiences, he will not deny that wisdom is the better way. Jesus, Osiris, and Buddha said that with all
our understanding, we must get wisdom.