XIX.-TRIADS AND THE TRIANGLE
The Triangle, the geometrical emblem of three things, one above two, the two lower uniting to produce the higher, or the union of the positive and negative forces to produce the third, is the most complex and mystical, as it is the most uncompromising of all symbols. Beginning with chaos, then unity or the selfcreated, there comes duality-and man's thoughts are no sooner ensnared by that, for he is so made that he loves his opposite, than a third force presents itself, which is the result or life.-"Pere, mere et fils (essence, substance et vie)."
From earliest times primitive man appears to have grasped the idea of the three-fold nature of the universe-the divine, the human, the natural world and that he himself was the image or mirror of the macrocosm, composed of three things-body, mind, soul or spirit. The idea of "three in one" seems to have been a part of man's consciousness as far back as tradition takes us.
