That there is yet another and a more manifest trinity to be found in the mind of man, viz. in his memory, understanding, and will
Passages · 12
Book X
- On the Holy Trinity X.1 — The Love of the Studious Mind, that Is, of One Desirous to Know, is Not the Love of a Thing Which It Does Not Know. Chapter 1.—The Love of the Studious Mind, that Is, of One Desirous to Know, is Not the Love of a…vatican.va
- On the Holy Trinity X.2 — No One at All Loves Things Unknown. 4. No studious person, then, no inquisitive person, loves things he does not know, even while he is urgent with the most vehement desire to know what he does not know. For he…vatican.va
- On the Holy Trinity X.3 — That When the Mind Loves Itself, It is Not Unknown to Itself. 5. What, then, does the mind love, when it seeks ardently to know itself, whilst it is still unknown to itself? For, behold, the mind seeks to know…vatican.va
- On the Holy Trinity X.4 — How the Mind Knows Itself, Not in Part, But as a Whole. 6. What then shall we say? Does that which knows itself in part, not know itself in part? But it is absurd to say, that it does not as a whole know what it…vatican.va
- On the Holy Trinity X.5 — Why the Soul is Enjoined to Know Itself. Whence Come the Errors of the Mind Concerning Its Own Substance. Chapter 5.—Why the Soul is Enjoined to Know Itself. Whence Come the Errors of the Mind Concerning Its Own…vatican.va
- On the Holy Trinity X.6 — The Opinion Which the Mind Has of Itself is Deceitful. 8. But the mind errs, when it so lovingly and intimately connects itself with these images, as even to consider itself to be something of the same kind. For so…vatican.va
- On the Holy Trinity X.7 — Chapter 7.—The Opinions of Philosophers Respecting the Substance of the Soul. The Error of Those Who are of Opinion that the Soul is Corporeal, Does Not Arise from Defective Knowledge of the Soul, But from Their…vatican.va
- On the Holy Trinity X.8 — How the Soul Inquires into Itself. Whence Comes the Error of the Soul Concerning Itself. Chapter 8.—How the Soul Inquires into Itself. Whence Comes the Error of the Soul Concerning Itself. 11. It is then a wonderful…vatican.va
- On the Holy Trinity X.9 — The Mind Knows Itself, by the Very Act of Understanding the Precept to Know Itself. Chapter 9.—The Mind Knows Itself, by the Very Act of Understanding the Precept to Know Itself. 12. Let it not therefore seek to…vatican.va
- On the Holy Trinity X.10 — Every Mind Knows Certainly Three Things Concerning Itself—That It Understands, that It Is, and that It Lives. Chapter 10.—Every Mind Knows Certainly Three Things Concerning Itself—That It Understands, that It Is, and…vatican.va
- On the Holy Trinity X.11 — Chapter 11.—In Memory, Understanding [or Intelligence], and Will, We Have to Note Ability, Learning, and Use. Memory, Understanding, and Will are One Essentially, and Three Relatively. 17. Putting aside, then, for a…vatican.va
- On the Holy Trinity X.12 — The Mind is an Image of the Trinity in Its Own Memory, and Understanding, and Will. Chapter 12.—The Mind is an Image of the Trinity in Its Own Memory, and Understanding, and Will. 19. Are we, then, now to go upward,…vatican.va