The Organisation and Religion to Re-unite All Religions

 

Bardic Triads of Philosophy and Theology.

 

There are three Primeval Unities, and more than one of each cannot exist: One God; One Truth; and One Point of Liberty, at which all opposites equiponderate.

Three things proceed from the three Primeval Unities: All Life, all Good, and all Power.

Three necessary attributes of God are: The greatest of Life, the greatest of Knowledge, and the greatest of Power; and of what is the greatest of anything there can be but One.

Three things are unthinkable that God should not be: Whatever Perfect Goodness should be; whatever Perfect Goodness would desire; and whatever Perfect Goodness can perform.

Three things evince what God has done and will do: Infinite Power, Infinite Wisdom, and Infinite Love; for there is nothing that these attributes lack the might, the knowledge, and the will to perform.

Three laws of God regulate the coming into existence of everything: The annihilation of evil, the strenghthening of the good, and the making manifest of discrimination, so that it might be known what ought and what ought not to be.

Three things it is not conceivable that God should not perform: The most beneficial, the most necessary, and the most beautiful of all things.

Three stabilities of existence: What cannot be otherwise, what need not be otherwise, and what cannot be conceived better, and in which all things terminate.

Three things will inevitably be done: All that the Power, the Wisdom, and the Love of God can perform.

Three conspicuous attributes of God: Plenitude of Life, Plenitude of Knowledge, and Plenitude of Power.

Three causes combined to produce all animated beings: Divine Love, possessed of perfect knowledge; Divine Wisdom, knowing the ultimate potency of all means; and Divine Power, exercised by will, love, and intelligence.

Three cycles of existence there are: The Cycle of Infinity, where nothing is, living or dead, save God, and which nothing but God can traverse; the Cycle of Inchoation, the place of every condition of inanimate existence and which man has traversed; and the Cycle of Felicity, the place of every condition of living beings, and which man shall traverse in the hereafter.

Three states of existence of animated beings: That of inchoation in the Great Deep; that of Liberty in the state of humanity; and that of Love, which is felicity in the hereafter.

Three necessities of Transmigration: The lest of all life whence a beginning; the substance of all things, whence progress; and the formation of all things, whence individuality.

Three necessities to which all animated beings are subject: A beginning, in the Great Deep; Progression, through Metempsychosis: and Consummation, in the Cycle of Felicity; and independent of this triad of necessities nothing can exist save God.

Three necessary occasions of Metempsychosis: To collect the properties of all matter; to gather the knowledge of all things; and to acquire power to overcome every demonic adversary and to divest oneself of evil; for without this traversing of all states of existence no species of life could attain completion.

Three indispensables to plenitude of knowledge: Migration of the lower regions of existence, migration of the state of Felicity, and the memory of all in Eternity.

Three co-extensive essentials of Transmigration: Transgression of law, for it could not be otherwise; escape through death from all evil and adversity; and the increase of life and goodness by a final escape from evil.

Three divine instrumentalities in the course of Transmigration for the overcoming of evil and adversity, and their final abandonment for blessedness: Necessity, forgetfulness, and death.

Three connatal existences there are: Man, liberty and light. (Man, an intellectual and spiritual being; liberty, for the exercise of his thought; and light, for the illumination of his spiritual nature).

Three necessary incidents of man: To suffer, to change, and to choose; and having the power to choose, he knows not of the other two until they happen.

Three equiportions of man: Transmigration and felicity, necessity and liberty, and evil and good; all being equiponderant, while man has the power to cling to whichsoever he wills.

Three causes out of which springs the necessity for transmigration incidental upon man: His non-endeavour to obtain knowledge, his non-attachment to good, and his clinging to evil; so that by these impediments he retrogrades to his equals in the Great Deep, again to traverse the same course as before.

The means whereby man falls during his earthly sojourn, though he cling to the good in every other respect: From pride, to the Great Deep; from falsehood, to the Lower Abyss; and from unmercifulness, to Brutality, whence to traverse with the progress of the ages back to the human estate as hithertofore.

Three primordial conditions of man: First accumulation of Knowledge, exercise of Love, and Power over death; and this could be as a privilege of freedom and choice prior to the state of humanity. These are the three victories.

There are three victories over evil and adversity: The victory of Knowledge, the victory of Love, and the victory of Spiritual Power; for in their conjunctive strength these three know how, have the will, and the capacity to effect all that they desire: they begin in the human state, and for evermore endure.

Three great advantages of the estate of human life: The equiponderance of evil and good, whence comparison; liberty of choice, whence judgment and preference; and the beginning of power, in the privilege of judgment and choice: and these are indispensable to the performance of all other actions.

Three primordials of Blessedness: No evil, no want, and no ending.

Three restorations of the Cycle of Felicity: The restoration of pristine genius and character, the restoration of all that was primevally beloved, and the restoration of the original memory, without which complete felicity is unthinkable.

Three distinguishing characteristics of man: Genius, memory, and perception; for there are no two men exactly alike.

With three things has the Great Spirit endued every animated being: Plenitude of his own kind; individuality, differentiatng him from all others; and peculiar character and genius, which is that of no other being; to each his own gift; hence, each a complete self as distinguished from all others.

Of understanding three things shall evil vanish and death be conquered: Of understanding their cause, of understanding their nature, and of understanding their mode of operation; and this understanding shall be attained in Felicity.

Three great stabilities of Knowledge: Consciousness of having traversed every state of animated existence; Memory of each estate and its incidents; and Ability to traverse every desirable estate for the enhancement of experience and the maturing of judgment; and this shall be attained in the Cycle of Felicity.

Three distinguishing features of all beings in the Cycle of Felicity: Service, Privilege, and Genius; every individual trait of character being peculiar and incommunicable, no two beings can be uniformly alike.

Three things which none but God can do: To endure eternity and infinity; to participate of every state of existence without changing; and to improve and renovate everything without causing it to be lost.

Three things which can never be annihilated, from the inevitableness of their possibility: Mode of existence, essence of existence, and the utility of existence; for these, divested of their evils, will remain for ever, as varieties of the Beautiful and the Good in the Cycle of Felicity.

Three excellent varieties of the mode of existence in the Cycle of Felicity: Acquisition of knowledge, enjoyment of the beautiful, and capacity for repose; for uniform Infinity or uninterrupted Eternity is beyond the capacity of man to conceive.

Three things are perpetually increasing: Fire, which is light; Understanding, which is truth; and the Soul, which is life; and these will prevail over all else, whence finality of terrestrial existence.

Three things are gradually dwindling away: Darkness, Falsehood, and Death.

Three things ever accumulate strength: Love, Knowledge, and Righteousness; for there is an unceasing endeavour after them.

Three things are ever diminishing in power: Hatred, Injustice, and Ignorance: for there is a perpetual struggle against them.

Three Plenitudes of Felicity: Participation of every nature, with a plenitude of One predominant; endowment with every cast of genius, with superior excellence in One; and love of all beings and existences, chiefly centred in One, even God: for in these three consists the plenitude of heaven and blessedness.

 

Sources and Credits:
The Welsh Bardic Triads.