What is the mutual relation of the three persons in the one divine essence? Before we begin to meditate on this mystery and to stammer about it, we remind ourselves of the fact that God is so far above us that we cannot comprehend him; we must strictly limit ourselves to repeating after him what he reveals to us about himself. Even that which he reveals we cannot grasp fully nor express adequately. If we say anything at all about God’s essence and the intratrinitarian relation, we do so because