ABSTRACT
In proposing to approach this central symbol of Christianity, the Trinity, from the psychological point of view, the author realizes that he trespassing on territory that must seem very far removed from psychology. A conception like the Trinity pertains so much to the realm of theology that the only one of the profane sciences to pay any attention to it nowadays is history. Arrangement in triads is an archetype in the history of religion, which in all probability formed the basis of the Christian Trinity. In enumerating the pre-Christian sources of the Trinity concept, we should not omit the mathematical speculations of the Greek philosophers. The two mixtures could be regarded as a parallel to the two means of the physical elements. During the first mixture there is nothing to suggest that the divisible was recalcitrant and had to be forcibly united with the indivisible. In both mixtures it is rather a question of combining two separate pairs of opposites.
