and does not consist of three in unanimity, unless they are disposed to think of God as of an angel, in whom there is an Inmost of life which is invisible, and from which he thinks and is wise; an External of life, which is visible under a human form, from which he sees and acts; and a Proceeding of life, which is the sphere of love and of faith from him; for from every spirit and angel there proceeds a sphere of life by which he is known at a distance[cc]; and as to the Lord, that that Proceeding of life from Him is the Divine itself which fills and constitutes the heavens, because it proceeds from the very Esse of the life of love and of faith.  They said that in this and in no other manner can they perceive a trinity and unity together.  On hearing this, it was given me to say that such an idea of a trinity and unity together agrees with the angelic idea concerning the Lord, and that it is from the Lord’s own doctrine concerning Himself.  For He teaches that the Father and Himself are One; that the Father is in Him and He in the Father; that he who seeth Him seeth the Father; and he who believeth in Him believeth in the Father and knoweth the Father; also that the Comforter, whom He calls the Spirit of Truth, and likewise the Holy Spirit, proceeds from Him, and does not speak from Himself but from Him, by which Comforter is meant the Divine proceeding.  I was further permitted to tell them that their idea concerning a trinity and unity together agrees with the Esse and Existere of the Lord’s life when He was in the world.  The Esse of His life was the Divine Itself, for He was conceived of Jehovah, and the Esse of every one’s life is that of which he is conceived; the Existere of life from that Esse is the Human in a form.  The esse of the life of every man, which he has from his father, is called the soul, and the existere of life thence derived is called the body.  Soul and body constitute one man.  The likeness between them resembles the likeness between that which is in endeavour and that which is in the resulting act, for an act is endeavour acting, and thus the two are one.  Endeavour in man is called the will, and endeavour acting is called action; the body is the instrumental, by means of which the will, which is the principal, acts, and in acting the instrumental and principal are a one.  Such is the case with soul and body.  And such is the idea which the angels in heaven have concerning soul and body:  hence they know that the Lord made His Human Divine from the Divine in Himself, which to Him was the Soul from the Father.  Neither is the faith which is received throughout the Christian world in opposition to this idea, for it teaches, that “Although Christ is God and Man, yet He is not two, but one Christ;... yea, He is altogether One by unity of Person; for as body and soul are one man, so also God and man are one Christ"[yy].  As there was such a union or such a oneness in the Lord, therefore He rose again, not only as to the Soul, but also as to