XLI. Besides all this and before all, keep I
pray you the good deposit, by which I live and work, and which I desire
to have as the companion of my departure; with which I endure all that
is so distressful, and despise all delights; the confession of the
Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost. This I commit unto you
to-day; with this I will baptize you and make you grow. This I
give you to share, and to defend all your life, the One Godhead and
Power, found in the Three in Unity, and comprising the Three
separately, not unequal, in substances or natures, neither increased
nor diminished by superiorities or inferiorities; in every respect
equal, in every respect the same; just as the beauty and the greatness
of the heavens is one; the infinite conjunction of Three Infinite Ones,
Each God when considered in Himself; as the Father so the Son, as the
Son so the Holy Ghost; the Three One God when contemplated together;
Each God because Consubstantial; One God because of the
Monarchia. No sooner do I conceive of the One than I am illumined
by the Splendour of the Three; no sooner do I distinguish Them than I
am carried back to the One. When I think of any One of the Three
I think of Him as the Whole, and my eyes are filled, and the greater
part of what I am thinking of escapes me. i.e. If I think of One
Blessed Person, the other Two are not in my mind, and so the greater
part of God escapes me. I cannot grasp the greatness of That
One so as to attribute a greater greatness to the Rest. When I
contemplate the Three together, I see but one torch, and cannot divide
or measure out the Undivided Light.