The Trinity

[ivanb]

I would like this post on the Trinity to remain a work in progress. It is a subject I am embracing as a metaphor, grappling with its many corridors and chambers that conceal its true nature. In doing so, we may rediscover our greater purpose and awareness—now obscured by misconceptions, partisan views of reality, and obstructions. These barriers, sometimes deliberate but often born of ignorance, have led us away from knowledge once taught and practiced widely by adepts, before the principal teachings became exoteric and lost their depth in the public domain.

Today, in the modern world, we may be ready to reevaluate our condition in all its aspects. By reconditioning the psyche, embracing a full range of experience and intention, we can cultivate balance and expand awareness across the full spectrum of consciousness—liberating ourselves from the many perceptual entrapments that confine our true nature.

 

[ivanb]

Hildegard of Bingen on the Trinity
Hildegard, the 12th-century mystic and theologian, wove the mystery of the Trinity throughout her visionary writings and music. She rendered it through luminous metaphors—light, life, sound, and divine compassion—drawn from the depth of her revelations.

Key Work – Scivias
In her great theological work Scivias (completed c. 1151–1152), Hildegard described visions of the Godhead, among them the figure of the “Man in Sapphire Blue,” symbolizing Christ’s eternal place within the Trinity.

Musical Composition – Laus Trinitati
She also gave voice to the mystery in her antiphon Laus Trinitati (“Praise to the Trinity”), where the Trinity is celebrated as the fountain of life, the harmony of sound, and the source of creation—its unity expressed in living vitality.

Theological Approach
Through both prose and song, Hildegard conveyed a theology at once orthodox and creative, shaped not by speculation alone but by her direct mystical experience of the divine mystery.

I believe synchronicity is vital in aligning our intentions and nature with divine order. By receiving and contemplating the works of great visionary teachers, we may attune ourselves to their intentions and, in turn, project our own nature toward their level of consciousness. In this spirit, I am including the musical works of Hildegard of Bingen.

 

[T.C.]

What do you mean by “Trinity”?

 

[ivanb]

What do you mean by “Trinit

The Trinity, or rather the Holy Trinity, is not limited to Christianity but is a universal archetype found across many traditions dating back to antiquity. It represents the structure of creation, the order of consciousness, and the balance of polar opposites united by a third principle. This principle is an axiom that requires careful attention in how we perceive external reality and, importantly, our personal psychology.I plan to explore this topic and will be posting my reflections, supported by the works of great scholars, mystics, and imagery, as time permits. I am pleased to share what I know and what I will be exploring. At present, I am gathering my thoughts and materials for a deeper study. Thank you for your interest, and I look forward to addressing your inquiries.

 

[Palinurus]

I may be just naive but from a rather young age onward I've always perceived the Trinity as a neatly encapsulated time reference, i.e. Past (Father), Present (Son) and Future (Ghost). How I came to that opinion is lost in the mists of the past; I simply don't remember.

 

[BHelmet]

I may be just naive but from a rather young age onward I've always perceived the Trinity as a neatly encapsulated time reference, i.e. Past (Father), Present (Son) and Future (Ghost). How I came to that opinion is lost in the mists of the past; I simply don't remember.

You could reverse that and it would be just as meaningful and valid like a palindrome which is part of what makes it a trinity: ghost of the past, son evolving in the present into the future father.

Positive neutral negative.
Conscious awareness of self manifesting in Space implying the existence of another.
So many angles to the trinity.
Right, equilateral and isosceles.
Yes, no, maybe. Be, do, have.
Light, dark, shadow.

 

[Ruth]

The Trinity, or rather the Holy Trinity, is not limited to Christianity but is a universal archetype found across many traditions dating back to antiquity. It represents the structure of creation, the order of consciousness, and the balance of polar opposites united by a third principle. This principle is an axiom that requires careful attention in how we perceive external reality and, importantly, our personal psychology.I plan to explore this topic and will be posting my reflections, supported by the works of great scholars, mystics, and imagery, as time permits. I am pleased to share what I know and what I will be exploring. At present, I am gathering my thoughts and materials for a deeper study. Thank you for your interest, and I look forward to addressing your inquiries.

Mind, Body, Spirit? Not really 3 separate things, but 3 things that go into making a whole? Each can be looked at separately, I suppose, but they are interdependent on each other.

 

[BlueKiwi]

This was discussed in a now 13 year old baked noodles thread Here

Relevant excerpt from a post on this thread Here

Nothing doesn't exist, which is the same thing as saying something does. This is the inevitability.
But pure undifferentiated being, isness, is then perfectly equal to nothing, there being nothing else (literally - the only other is nothing which is not an other since it's nothing - even saying "it's nothing" is off target, and since there's no target, we can't even say that!).

This inevitability, the true nature of all, is what the Buddhists try and refer to by sunyata, emptiness. The German philosopher Martin Heidegger tried to approach it too, and everyone in the West called him a nihilist because he seemed to be saying Being was Nothing because it wasn't a being itself but Being - it was only the Kyoto school of Japanese philosophers with a background in zen who got it. It's also the Ain Soph of Qabbalah.

Thus, Being is just a projection of Nothing, and Nothing is just a projection of Being. 0=1
This gives us the 2, the proto-dualistic interplay between Being and Nothing (it's not the real dualistic interplay yet, because remember, we're talking about nothing, there aren't really two yet, just the one). And the 3 which is the necessary third element to differentiate them - consciousness, which is at the same time a synthesis of being and nothing since it is neither a being itself nor is it nothing.

So the Trinity from this may be :

1. Nothing
2. Being
3. Consciousness