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 Son, and Holy Spirit is not existent inherently in God, but in His revelation or manifestation of Himself in the Law, in the Incarnation, and in the Holy Spirit. He failed to see that the substance or quality of God, the Father, is Love or Good; that His form, the Son, is Wisdom or Truth, and that His manifestation, the Holy Spirit, is Use or Power, and as such they are permanent. These three phases of Substance, Form, and Proceeding are the three essentials permanently existent in the nature of God, as indeed they are in the nature of all created things, and as in created things, so in God, they make a one, not three equal ones, as the Athanasians leave us to infer, but three component parts or phases that make a one, as soul, body, and proceeding life together make one man. The man re-created into the image and likeness of God is loving, wise, and useful, an image and likeness of these three phases of Love, Wisdom, and Use in the one and indivisible God. The Trinity is not existent merely in manifestation, but also in permanent reality.

Now let us take up again and anew the contention of the Athanasians, whose views prevailed and dominated the entire Christian Church.