never separated his self-existence from God’s existence.” The universe is never the presupposition or basic reality for him; it is a creation of the absolute God. Accordingly, Augustine did not attempt to interpret reality in terms of Ideas but in terms of the ontological trinity, which “Furnished the basis of the principles of unity and diversity in human knowledge.” Without the trinity, knowledge is impossible; here is plurality in unity, and the only means of escaping the dilemma of human knowledge,