On the Holy Trinity, Book XII

Book XII

• On the Holy Trinity XII.1 — Of What Kind are the Outer and the Inner Man. 1. Come now, and let us see where lies, as it were, the boundary line between the outer and inner man. For whatever we have in the mind common with the beasts, thus much…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity XII.2 — Man Alone of Animate Creatures Perceives the Eternal Reasons of Things Pertaining to the Body. Chapter 2.—Man Alone of Animate Creatures Perceives the Eternal Reasons of Things Pertaining to the Body. 2. And the…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity XII.3 — The Higher Reason Which Belongs to Contemplation, and the Lower Which Belongs to Action, are in One Mind. Chapter 3.—The Higher Reason Which Belongs to Contemplation, and the Lower Which Belongs to Action, are in One…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity XII.4 — The Trinity and the Image of God is in that Part of the Mind Alone Which Belongs to the Contemplation of Eternal Things. Chapter 4.—The Trinity and the Image of God is in that Part of the Mind Alone Which Belongs to…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity XII.5 — The Opinion Which Devises an Image of the Trinity in the Marriage of Male and Female, and in Their Offspring. Chapter 5.—The Opinion Which Devises an Image of the Trinity in the Marriage of Male and Female, and in…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity XII.6 — Why This Opinion is to Be Rejected. 6. We do not therefore reject this opinion, because we fear to think of that holy and inviolable and unchangeable Love, as the spouse of God the Father, existing as it does from…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity XII.7 — Chapter 7.—How Man is the Image of God. Whether the Woman is Not Also the Image of God. How the Saying of the Apostle, that the Man is the Image of God, But the Woman is the Glory of the Man, is to Be Understood…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity XII.8 — Turning Aside from the Image of God. 13. A common nature, therefore, is recognized in their minds, but in their bodies a division of that one mind itself is figured. As we ascend, then, by certain steps of thought…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity XII.9 — The Same Argument is Continued. 14. For the soul loving its own power, slips onwards from the whole which is common, to a part, which belongs especially to itself. And that apostatizing pride, which is called “the…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity XII.10 — The Lowest Degradation Reached by Degrees. 15. When the soul then consults either for itself or for others with a good will towards perceiving the inner and higher things, such as are possessed in a chaste embrace,…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity XII.11 — The Image of the Beast in Man. 16. For as a snake does not creep on with open steps, but advances by the very minutest efforts of its several scales; so the slippery motion of falling away [from what is good] takes…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity XII.12 — There is a Kind of Hidden Wedlock in the Inner Man. Unlawful Pleasures of the Thoughts. Chapter 12.—There is a Kind of Hidden Wedlock in the Inner Man. Unlawful Pleasures of the Thoughts. 17. Let us now complete, so…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity XII.13 — Chapter 14.—What is the Difference Between Wisdom and Knowledge. The Worship of God is the Love of Him. How the Intellectual Cognizance of Eternal Things Comes to Pass Through Wisdom. For knowledge also has its own…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity XII.14 — Chapter 15.—In Opposition to the Reminiscence of Plato and Pythagoras. Pythagoras the Samian. Of the Difference Between Wisdom and Knowledge, and of Seeking the Trinity in the Knowledge of Temporal Things. 24. And…vatican.va