A MAP OF LIFE Ghost is the Third Person of the Trinity, co-eternal and co-equal with the Father and the Son. I have said that God acts upon creatures in His Unity, rather than in His Trinity. Yet we have His own warrant for associating certain of these actions with one or other of the Three Persons. The Father v/e say creates, the Son redeems, the Holy Ghost sanctifies. The principle of this “appropriation” is quite clear: the external operations of God can be particularly attributed to one Divine Person rather than another if they are especially bound up with the Relation of that Person within the Godhead ; that is the Persons may be spoken of as having relations to mankind similar to their relations within the Godhead. Thus, because the Son is brought forth by an act of the Divine Intellect, the works of wisdom are especially attributed to Him. Because the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Divine Will, the works of Holiness are attributed to Him (since holiness is of the will as wisdom is of the intellect) and so also are God’s gifts to men (since the Holy Ghost is Love, and gifts are the expression of love) . The operation of the Holy Ghost within the Mystical Body will be treated later. In thus setting down some of the elements of what God has revealed to us of His own innermost life, it is clear that the mystery remains, but it is mystery in the sense indicated earlier in this chapter — the reconciliation remains invisible to us, but it is rather the invisibility that comes from too much light than 88