3 pure spirituality
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/ \
/ \
/ 3 \
vital soul 1 /________\ 2 intellectual soul

3 spiritual life                 3 spiritual intellect
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/  \                              /  \
/    \                            /    \
/   1  \                          /   2  \
1 /________\ 2                    1 /________\ 2
animal life  intellectual life   animal intellect  mental intellece

/ Mind                           / Science
Human Hypostases   <  Soul                  Worlds  <  Grace
\ Life                           \ Nature

/ Light              / The mind  / distinguishes
Divine Attributes  <  Love    Functions <  The soul <  reunites
\ Power              \ The life  \ asserts

/ Understanding                  / Speculative
Faculties          <  Will                 Reasons  <  Final
\ Memory                         \ Seminal

                        / Trial generates faith
    Theological Virtues< Tribulation generates experience
                        \ Fulfilment generates charity

The Holy Trinity Recovered in Sound.

Sound is the reflection of the Divine image.  In sound there are three reflex images:  The reflex of life; of the intellect; and of love.  They result from the parallel and simultaneous action of three agents:  The projective (life), reflective (intellect), and vibrative (love).

Sound contains three sounds:  That of the tonic, the dominant, and the mediant.  The tonic (Father) necessarily generates the dominant (Son), and the mediant (Holy Ghost) proceeds necessarily from the first two.

Pythagoras discovered this law.  Passing before a blacksmith’s shop, he heard the sound of heavy hammer strokes upon a forge.  He recognized perfectly that each blow gave out beside the principal tone (tonic) two other tones, which corresponded to the twelfth and seventeenth of the tonic.  Now, the twelfth reversed is nothing but the fifth or dominant, and the seventeenth becomes, by a double reversion, the third or mediant of the tonic.

Let us say, then, that every tone necessarily contains the tonic its generator, the dominant its engendered, and the mediant which proceeds from the other two.  The reuenion of these three tones which makes them into one, forms the perfect chord.  Full and absolute consonance is the expression of union, of love, of order, of harmony, of peace; it is the return to the source of goodness, to God.

If a fourth form should be added to the perfect chord, to consonance, there would necessarily be a dissonance.  This fourth can only enter by an effort, almost by violence.  It is outside of plenitude, of the calm established by the Divine law; it produces a painful sensation, a dissonance.  As soon as there is a discord, a dissonance, the animal cries out, the dog howls, inert bodies suffer and vibrate; but all is order and calm again when consonance returns.