XVIII. Theosophical Questions. Fragment 2.

2. Therefore, the Will is a pure, desiring Love-Delight, acting as an outflowing of itself toward its own sensitivity. The Will is (1) the Eternal Father of the Ground; and the sensitivity of Love is (2) the Eternal Son, whom the Will begets within itself into a sensitive Love-Power; and the outflowing of the willing, sensitive Love is (3) the Spirit of the Divine Life.

3. And thus the Eternal Unity is a threefold, immeasurable, and beginningless Life, which consists of pure Willing, in the grasping and perceiving of itself, and in an eternal outflowing of itself.

4. And that which has flowed out from the Will, Loving, and Life, is the Wisdom of God, acting as the Divine Contemplation and Joy of the Unity of God, through which Love eternally introduces itself into powers, colors, wonders, and virtues.

5. In this opening life of Divine Unity, five audible Sensus Latin for "senses" or "meanings"; here referring to the vowels as the sensory perceptions of the spirit are understood within the sensitivity of the Love of Life, namely A. E. I. O. U., wherein the Divine Willing and Working reside; these lead themselves into a breathing-out toward distinction and toward the understanding of the Single Trinity, through which the eternal life perceives and understands itself.

6. The Trinity reveals itself out of the Unity with a threefold breathing, so that this threefold breathing enters into itself in a threefold way toward its own selfhood; and this same threefold sense is called by its sensory name JEHOVAH. The author is using a mystical linguistic analysis of the Tetragrammaton to explain the Trinity.

7. For the Unity, as the I, enters into itself into a threefold being, which is called JE, and the JE is the Father; He leads Himself with His breathing Will into the HO, as into a grasping of Love, and in the HO the Word of all powers is understood, for it creates a Circumference original: "Circumferenz" or enclosure of itself, as the eternal Something, or "Ight" A term used by Boehme to describe the first manifestation of substance out of the "Naught" or Nothing; from this the Love-Delight flows out, which outflowing is the Spirit, who grasps and forms Himself into the VA. For the V is the Spirit, as the outflowing, and A is the Wisdom, wherein the Spirit grasps Himself into a working life.

8. Thus, this threefold breathing life is then called within itself O. JAH. For the enclosed Delight is the O,