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 and divine  mysteries? Will we  refuse  to  accept  on faith  a  truth  which  the  voice  of  God  asserts  in  Scripture and  Tradition,  which  God's  infallible  Church teaches, and  in  the  presence  of  which  the  sublime  intelligence of  an  Augustine,  an  Aquinas,  and  even  the angels themselves  bend  in  lowly  homage? We cannot prove  this  truth  to  be  false;  we  have  God's  word for it  that  it  is  true,  and  therefore  though  we  cannot understand, we  believe  and  beg  God  to  help  our  unbelief. In fact  if  we  look  around  us  we  see  that many of  the  things  God  has  made  bear  His  likeness in that  they  are  at  the  same  time  one  and  three. A triangular tower  is  one  of  these,  because  as  we  view it from  three  different  sides  it  is  ever  the  same  tower we behold. St. Patrick used  the  shamrock  to  illustrate the  Trinity. As the  Son  proceeds  from  the Father and  the  Holy  Ghost  from  both,  so  the  blossom comes  from  the  tree,  and  the  fruit  from  tree  and blossom. The brute  beast  is  a  complete  being  and in himself  he  contains  two  other  distinct  beings;  his soul and  his  body. The soul  of  man  which  God  made to His  own  image  and  likeness — that  too,  and  in  a special  manner  bears  the  impress  of  the  Trinity,  for while it  is  one  soul,  it  possesses  the  three  faculties  of memory,  understanding,  and  free  will. It was  precisely on  account  of  this  wonderful  combination  of unity  and  multiplicity  in  natural  objects  that  men, even before  the  coming  of  Christ,  were  led  to  conclude some  kind  of  a  plurality  in  the  Divinity. Hence, while the  unlettered  throng  held  to  the  doctrine  of one  God  in  nature  and  person,  the  Pagan  philos-