Chapter 2
THE HOLY
TRINITY
THE FATHER, THE SON, AND THE HOLY
SPIRIT
Charles Fillmore
Keep a
True Lent
THE HOLY TRINITY is
known as the Father, the Son, and the
Holy Spirit. Metaphysically, we
understand the Trinity to refer to
mind, idea, and expression, or thinker,
thought, and action.
God is first in the
Trinity. God is mind and is everywhere
present. God is principle, law, Being,
Spirit, All-Good, omnipotent,
omniscient, omnipresent, unchangeable,
Creator, Father, cause, and source of
all that is. God as Spirit is forever
accessible.
God as principle is the
unchangeable life, love, substance, and
intelligence of Being. A parallel may
be found in the principle of
mathematics or music. Principle does
not occupy space, nor has it any
limitations of time or matter, but
eternally exists as the one underlying
cause from which come forth all true
ideas.
In universal God-Mind is
a substance that includes the seed of
all visible substance. It is the only
real substance, because it is
unchangeable, while visible substance
is in constant transition. God as
substance does not mean matter, because
matter is formed; God is formless. The
substance that God is lies back of all
matter and all form. It is that which
is the basis of all form, yet enters
not into any form as finality. It
cannot be seen, tasted, or touched, yet
it is the one and only "substantial"
substance.
Second in the Trinity is
God's idea of man. It is called Jehovah
in the Old Testament and Christ in the
New Testament. The second in the
Trinity is also called the Word, the
Son, the Logos, the anointed One, and
the I AM.
The Word of God is the
revelation to man of the powers and
possibilities of his own being. The
searchlight of His Word discloses the
presence of secret springs and living
streams of energy and life. Man's
consciousness is lifted up by the
wisdom of the Word, and he finds
himself master of the powers and
privileges of infinity. He says with
Jesus, "All authority hath been given
unto me in heaven and on
earth."
To produce works, there
must be a working power. This is
exactly what the Word is--the working
power of God.
Every known process has
a regular sequence from inception to
conclusion, and each step in the
sequence is taken according to
recognized principles. The Word of God
conveys to the world the concepts of
the Most High.
Persistent meditation on
the Truth contained in the Word of God
opens the mind to Spirit. Then all
words become quickening life and
nourishing substance in both mind and
body. "Let the word of Christ dwell in
you richly."
In the silence go before
the altar and lay your problems before
the Lord. The altar is that place in
consciousness where you are willing to
let go of the lesser for the greater,
to let go of personality and enter into
individuality of the Christ.
While in this closet of
prayer, fix your mind powerfully on the
consummation of a certain idea until
the idea nucleates a certain amount of
thought substance. This is followed by
a spiritual quickening, or the
outpouring of the Holy Spirit, third in
the Trinity.
The function of the Holy
Spirit implies distinct personal
subsistence: He speaks, searches,
selects, reveals, reproves, testifies,
leads, comforts, distributes to every
man, "searcheth all things, yea, the
deep things of God."
In concentration the
Holy Spirit works through the divine
substance to bring forth the fruits of
Divine Mind. The Holy Spirit is the
teacher. The teacher and the student
use the same principles; but the
teacher arouses and inspires the
student to greater achievement. The
Holy Spirit today is urging us to
greater spiritual effort.
Another word for the
Holy Spirit is "the Comforter," Jesus
said: "Nevertheless I tell you the
truth: It is expedient for you that I
go away; for if I go not away, the
Comforter will not come unto you; but
if I go, I will send him unto you. And
he, when he is come, will convict the
world in respect of sin, and of
righteousness, and of
judgment."
The mission of Jesus was
to open the way for the Holy Spirit to
enter into the minds of men. "But when
the Comforter is come, whom I will send
unto you from the Father, even the
Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from
the Father, he shall bear witness of
me."
We may understand the
relation and office of the Father, the
Son, and the Holy Spirit by analyzing
our own mind and its apparent
subdivisions during thought action,
because each person is a perfect image
and likeness of this great universal
first cause--God, the
Father.
Your word is the power
through which you make your belief
manifest. Simple belief in or assent to
the truth of a proposition never gives
understanding to anyone. There must be
mental action; changes in the mind are
necessary before the new state of
consciousness takes up its abode in
you.
Therefore, in answer to
that frequently asked question, "Who is
the Holy Spirit, and what relation does
it bear to God and to Christ?" the
apostles knew the Holy Spirit as the
third person of the Trinity. The Father
is always the first, the Son or Word
second, and the Holy Spirit third. The
terms Father and Son express an
eternal, reciprocal relation. The Holy
Spirit is the infinite "breath" of God,
as the Son of His infinite
"Word."
God-Mind is located and
appears wherever it is recognized by
the mind of man. It thus follows that
whoever gives his attention to Spirit
and seals his identification with it by
his word (the Son) starts a flow of
Spirit life and all the attributes of
Spirit in and through his
consciousness. To the extent that he
practices identifying himself with the
one and only source of existence, he
becomes Spirit in expression, until
finally the union attains a perfection
in which he can say with Jesus, "I and
the Father are one."
In making your
demonstrations, work for the conviction
in your own heart that you are a son of
God; next, declare it in word and carry
it out in the acts of your daily life.
After declaring it, if you fail in
demonstrating yourself to be a son of
God, determine why. "Ask, and it shall
be given you . . . knock, and it shall
be opened unto you." Perhaps you have
neglected some of your spiritual
powers, or you may be dissipating your
energies on the sense plane.
Be that as it may, when
you ask in the silence of Spirit to be
shown why you do not demonstrate the
powers that Jesus of Nazareth
demonstrated, the Holy Spirit will in
some way reveal to you your lack. How
that revealment will come about, no one
can tell you. But if you are patient
and trustful, you will be guided and
directed so that all the links in the
chain of your being will be brought
together and harmoniously joined, and
the Son of God will be revealed in
you.
