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11. TRIMURTHY
Father
Spirit
Thus, we have three persons within one with relationships. This defines property and gives us the Saguna Brahman - God who can be known. Thus, we have three persons whose properties are different yet forming a unity of essence. This is the realm of the Divine so far. These three define the absolutes since there is none besides. These three define the morals - what is "good", what is right, what is "truth" and what is beauty. This is the Christian stand.
This is what the early Hinduism stood for too since it was the direct teaching of the Thomas Christians of the period in India.
Something happened in the third century that distorted the image. The later development of Hindu theology seems to violate all these defining of ultimate reality, as this Triune God began to quarrel causing uncertainty in these definition. Literally, this is the Fall in the Christian sense. The Hindu Trinity fell from its pristine position. Each began to act selfishly. This provided a fourth principle to come in as beyond this Trinity in the form of Devi Sakti (Female Creative Power). There was something that these gods wanted and were which was beyond within them. They did not form the end of the existence. There were laws and principles over which they had no control and wanted to have those - Self Egotism. The centrality of the concept of Trinity is Love or for better word Agape. When this self-giving love is missing, that produces the fall. The event that happened in the Garden of Eden. "I want to be like God". Hinduism actually succumbed to this loosing the original concept of Trinity as God falling back into polytheism with a series of gods fighting each other
Kether, Chokmah and Binah are the Father, Son and Holy Spirit as they are drawn in the Tree of Life of the Hebraic Mysteries. I have used the Tree Symbolism only for convenience. These systematic
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