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Rh And the worst thing about all these horrible fables was that they embodied a certain truth; and the attempt to disprove them was futile. Gentile philosophers were driven to distraction by the impossibility of making men disbelieve things which, though so pernicious, were somehow true to human experience.

Down into all this ghastly tangle of great truths and hideous faslehoods came the mighty reformers who organised the Trinity-doctrine. After an exhaustive and masterly study of the process by which good degenerates into evil, they discovered that falsehood comes by the dividedness of truth, and that the unification of all aspects of deity would infallibly purify each. It is hardly too bold a metaphor, if we say that, by the law of the Trinity, the various aspects of deity are to be prevented from slipping down-hill in various directions, by firmly linking them together at the top. The Hebrew Scriptures contain a record of canons, which, if observed, would set philosophy free to develop indefinitely, by forever preventing it from degenerating into debauch or folly.

These canons are binding as long as Judaism or Humanity lasts, being founded on the nature of the human mind. Jesus, when accused of disregarding the law of Moses (because he had taken upon himself to neglect a few minutiae of the technical rules, which he considered interfered with his usefulness), truly replied that heaven and earth must pass away before one jot or tittle of the law should fail.

By the Law of Israël, each aspect or facet of the God-idea is to be clearly presented in its purity.

1. All Creative energies are summed up in the one