ABSTRACT
At the opening of this chapter, Hegel, Jung and the mystics who contributed to such consciousness and to the hope and wealth it proffers the contemporary spiritual situation would give common assent to the closing lines of Hegel's Phenomenology that without history in which it becomes real divinity would remain "lifeless, solitary and alone". The arcane symbol of the Trinity was of great importance to Hegel and Jung. In the context of Hegel's overriding understanding of the history of human consciousness as a departure from and recovery of its origin within history itself the usually remote imagery of the Trinity takes on great illuminative value. Throughout Hegel's philosophy the image of the trinity is the dominant structuring dynamism. The core of Hegel's philosophy is to overcome this alienation and so to reconcile the split between the divine and the human through the philosophical recovery of their point of identity now made real in finite consciousness.
