HOLY TRINITY
The principle of trinity is found in all the world’s religions:
THE CHRISTIAN HOLY TRINITY
The Christian Holy Trinity is seen as: God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son or Christ Consciousness.
Within the Christian teachings Holy Trinity is worshipped through a number of rituals:
Worship and praise are offered ‘to God through Jesus Christ in the Holy Spirit’.
Blessings and baptisms are given ‘In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit’.
Prayers are given to three-in-one
‘Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, World without end. Amen.’
The Trinity also expresses the way Christians relate to God:
Worshipping the Father
Following the example given by the Son
Acknowledging the Holy Spirit that lives in each and every of us It is interesting that the Muslims see the fact that the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Spirit is God can only mean that Christians believe in three Gods. In fact the concept of Trinity is in their view heretical for God is One God.
The doctrine of Christian Trinity resembles the Hindu Trimurti.
HINDU TRIMURTI
The Hindu Trimurti where Brahman is also Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, yet all three is ultimately Brahman.
The three major Hindu Gods are Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva – Creator, Sustenance and Destroyer.
The Hindu Trinity represents the Divine in its threefold nature.
Each part of the Trinity contains and includes the others.
Each God in the Trinity: Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva have their consorts. Brahma’s consort is Saraswati, the Goddess of knowledge, Vishnu’s consort is Lakshmi, the Goddess of delight, beauty and love, Shiva’s consort is Parvati(or Kali), the Goddess of transformation and destruction.
The Hindu trinity’s origin can also be found in Babylon, where it might have been incorporated into the Kabbalah, with the Jewish names of the ‘sephiroths’.
SUPERNAL TRIAD WITHIN KABBALAH
The Supernal Triad within Kabbalah’s Tree of Life of Kether (Divine Consciousness), Chokmah (The Son in relation to Kether as its Father, it is the active, male principle of existence) and Binah that embodies the primal female energies. Under this trinity is the Abyss with the rest of the manifestation.
Above the Abyss is the realm of ideas. Kether represents the initial spark, Chokmah is the flame that extends out and Binah holds the flame.
Chokmah and Binah are El and Eloha, the creator God and Goddess of Kabbalah, together in Divine Union they are Elohim. Kether is neither masculine nor feminine, it just is.
Before the beginning of creation there was only En Sof. En Sof was everything, and no-thing.
As the energy of En Sof became a concentrated spark of light, it became Kether(the Source). In the same instant, there was energy moving in all directions (the Big Bang). This dynamic expansion is Chokmah(Life Force). The energy is channelled following precise Universal laws towards manifestation. This womb that channels and directs the light is Binah(Primordial Mother).
OTHER TRINITIES
THE EGYPTIAN TRINITY
The Egyptian trinity consists of a transcendental God Amun that also manifests as Ra and Ptah. Ra has a daughter Maat (Wisdom, Knowledge) that is a consort or sister of God Thot (Divine Word or Logos of Ra). This was soon replaced with Osiris, Isis and Horus.
THE GREEK TRINITY
The Greek Trinity consists of Zeus (the God), Poisedon (the Brother) and Hercules (the Son).
THE BABYLONIAN HOLY TRINITY
The Babylonian Holy Trinity consists of Ninki (later became Ishtar) the mother, Enki (later became Namakh) the father and Marduk , the son. Three animal icons associated with the three Sun ‘Gods’ are: the Lion for the Goddess, the Bull for the Father and the Dragon for the Son.
SACRED VEDIC ENERGY MANIFESTATIONS
Tamas (inertia, darkness, destruction), Rajas (preservation, movement, dynamic) and Satvas (creation, existence, order, purity).
Tao manifests as Yin and Yang.
SPIRAL OF LIFE – is a deeply mystical symbol of Trinity.
SPIRAL OF LIFE
It represents:
- Unity of body, mind and spirit.
- Interplay of birth, growth and death.
It is a symbolic representation of primordial forces that materialize in magical, mysterious fashion while obeying precise universal laws.
The Tree of Life starts with a triad.
From this primordial triangle proceed all of the other figures, shapes, forms, all other numbers, the magic of manifestation.