There are Three Things in Love, as It Were a Trace of the Trinity.
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He instructs us that there is a kind of trinity discernible in man, who is the image 253 of God, viz. the mind, and the knowledge by which the mind knows itself, and the love wherewith it loves both itself and its own knowledge; these three being mutually equal and of one essence. In What Way We Must Inquire Concerning the Trinity.
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The Three Things Which are Found in Love Must Be Considered.
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The Image of the Trinity in the Mind of Man Who Knows Himself and Loves 258 Himself. The Mind Knows Itself Through Itself. The Three are One, and Also Equal, Viz. The Mind Itself, and the Love, and the Knowledge of It. That the Same Three Exist Substantially, and are Predicated Relatively. That the Same Three are Inseparable. That the Same Three are Not Joined and Commingled Like Parts, But that They are of One Essence, and are Relatives.
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That These Three are Several in Themselves, and Mutually All in All.
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There is One Knowledge of the Thing in the Thing Itself, and Another in Eternal Truth Itself. That Corporeal Things, Too, are to Be Judged the Rules of Eternal Truth.
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We Conceive and Beget the Word Within, from the Things We Have Beheld 265 in the Eternal Truth. The Word, Whether of the Creature or of the Creator, is Conceived by Love. In What Desire and Love Differ.
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In the Love of Spiritual Things the Word Born is the Same as the Word Conceived. It is Otherwise in the Love of Carnal Things.
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Whether Only Knowledge that is Loved is the Word of the Mind.
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That the Image or Begotten Word of the Mind that Knows Itself is Equal to the Mind Itself.
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Why Love is Not the Offspring of the Mind, as Knowledge is So. The Solution 270 of the Question. The Mind with the Knowledge of Itself and the Love of Itself is the Image of the Trinity. 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.
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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.
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No One at All Loves Things Unknown.
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That When the Mind Loves Itself, It is Not Unknown to Itself.
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