{The Trinity in History}[20th March 1988]

[Redbook5:107][19880320:1650e]{The Trinity in History}[20th March 1988]

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*The identification of God the Son with the Jesus Christ of the New Testament; and of God the Father with the God of the Jews of the Old Testament – leads one to speculate that the perception of God the Spirit arises from earlier periods of Human awareness. Having said that, the Old Testament does not necessarily support this view with early references to the Spirit – although there may be some.**

I mention this because it ties in to an extent with the progression suggested earlier,*** since Hinduism appears to be aware of a single originating Spirit or force, which it then differentiates according to observations and speculations on the nature of the World and Humanity.****

*ref [[Redbook5:77][19880316:1300p]{God's Man [continued]}[16th March 1988]] p77 [and see recent journal entries before the last previous journal entry.]

**['In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.' (A/KJV) Genesis 1:1-2 – only the first two verses of the entire Jewish and Christian Bibles!]

***ref [[Redbook5:99-100][19880320:1220b]{Hinduism, Yantra}[20th March 1988]] p100

****On the other hand, at least one of the early heresies postulated 3 ages – of the Father, of the Son, and of the Spirit. It could be a cycle, of course, starting with the Spirit as well.... <891008>

[Joachim of Fiore (c. 1135 – 1202), Italian theologian and eschatologist.]

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