DISCUSSION OUTLINE FOR A MAP OF LIFE that appear to be at variance is false? How does the result clear up the sense of contradiction and furnish a stimulus to the mind? How may a doctrine that is a mystery be compared with an endless gallery or an inexhaustible well? How is the inexhaustibility of truth the greatest blessing for the mind? What, then, should be our approach to the mysteries of religion? The Doctrine of the Trinity What is the doctrine of the Trinity? Why is it the ultimate mystery? Why need it never have been taught apart from the Incarnation? Why, then, has God revealed it to us? What bearing has the distinction of Persons on man’s life? Inaccessible as the mystery is to the human mind, may certain elements of it be grasped by us, the matter of nature and person, for instance? (Turn back to Chapter V and review nature and person). Define nature and person. How are these two principles of action related in man? Can man (i) fathom the uttermost possibilities of these two principles in himself? (2) Does the fusion of the two principles in man at least suggest that this is not the only possibility? If in a finite nature “person” is seen as the center to which the actions of the rational nature are attributed, in an infinite nature might there not be more than one such center? Might not one single mind and one single will be 164