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Following the order and origin and comportment of these powers, we are

led to the most blessed Trinity itself. From memory arises intelligence as

its offspring, for then do we know when a likeness which is in the memory

leaps into the eye of the intellect, which is nothing other than a word.

From memory and intelligence is breathed forth love, which is the tie

between the two. These three - the generating mind, the word, and love - are

in the soul as memory, intelligence, and will, which are consubstantial,

coequal, and coeval, mutually immanent. If then God is perfect spirit, He

has memory, intelligence, and will; and He has both the begotten Word and

spirated Love. These are necessarily distinguished, since one is produced

from the other - distinguished, not essentially or accidentally, but

personally. When therefore the mind considers itself, it rises through

itself as through a mirror to the contemplation of the Blessed Trinity -

Father, Word, and Love - three persons coeternal, coequal, and

consubstantial; so that each one is in each of the others, though one is

not the other, but all three are one God.