VIII. TRUTH three times focussed without contradiction? Apart from these elements that can be grasped by the human mind, what did God reveal in regard to the Trinity? Is human nature one? Yet does each man have his own mind and his own will? Is the Divine nature one? Does each Person have His own mind and His own will? Is there, then, but one God? Are the three Persons separate? Are They distinct? What is this distinction in three Persons each possessing the totality of one and the same nature? What is the relation between the First and the Second Persons? What two terms do the Gospels use for it? How do the handicaps of human language and the idea of time interfere with our understanding of the idea of generation? Bring out as well as you can the ideas of Divine generation and human generation. Explain as well as you can the second term applied to the Second Person by the Gospels,— the notion of the Word. How, through this notion of the Word, is the Second Person shown to be the perfect image of the First? What exists between the Father and the Son (the Thinker and the Thought)? Is it the Thought or the act of thinking which we conceive as the Second Person? Can love likewise produce a “term” within the lover? Explain how. Explain, then, how the love of the Father for the Son and the love of the Son for the Father can be subsistent, can be a Person, the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity. Is the “procession” of the Holy 165