Trinity, divine

And there were three suns rose, said another, who I saw in the leap of a flame to be William Grimsby, one of the squires. A showing of divine favor, so he announced, being a sign of the Trinity. And the men say his victory proves it. ... 

To deny that Jews had been maliciously killed en masse by Germany in a tribunal whose very existence was based upon the intent to establish without doubt that Jews had been killed was as fatal to the defendant in 1946 as it would have been to an accused medieval heretic who before his inquisitors guaranteed his condemnation on whatever charge by throwing in for the hell of it a denial of the existence of the Trinity and the Divinity of Jesus. 1... 

Boehme s theosophy is extremely complicated and cannot be summarised without oversimplification. But it is nonetheless useful here to highlight at least its central features, particularly with regard to its soteriological narrative . Briefly, the creation represents a continuing process of divine self-expression which transcends the inner-trinitarian life. God s revelation outside himself is his expression in an extra-divine existence, up to his externalization in nature. The first step of this process is the revelation of himself in the virgin Sophia , as divine Wisdom. The latter is a first hypostasis which enables God s self-contemplation outside the trinity and assures at the same time the original connection between divine and human, spiritual and material natures. Virgin Wisdom comprises all divine essences, models and archetypes and enables therefore not only God s self-contemplation but also the second step of the process, namely God s self-expression in the creation. ... 

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