Posted by jfive on March 05, 2000 at 03:04:57:
In Reply to: Square the trinity? posted by gus on March 04, 2000 at 20:14:26:
> Yes, almost everything is better understood in terms of 3 rather than 2.
> But how do you square the Christian notion of Father, Son, Holy Ghost with the Head, Heart, Gut? Who's who?
> gus
The law of three is about the interactions of an affirming, denying,
and a reconciling force.
In the Christian version the trinity was
politically corrupted by the patriarchy to be only male and "good".
The female trinity is not the collapsed and distorted version
with only the Virgin Mary but more like the Great Goddess version
with virgin/mother/crone. It would be more useful to see
the father/son as affirming, the devil as denying, and the
holy ghost as reconciling.