The Trinity and the Three Modes of Persuasion

I have written in the past about Aristotle’s modes of persuasion in defense of ethical behavior; in The Equilibrium I’ll gave you the basic idea of that essay. How did it go? Oh yes! Logos+Pathos=Ethos. In other words: Logic+emotion=Ethics. The idea is simple, if you were to keep count of what made you feel bad or something physical hurt you then you can gather that others might feel the same as you then you might be incline to treat others as yourself, so others would treat you in a similar manner. That idea would hopefully create an ethical environment. So, how does that idea involve the Holy Trinity; The Father, The Son and The Holy Ghost. Well, let us venture off to figure something that could be right on the money or way, way off.

The Trinity. Three in one. One is the others and the others being as one. I like to think of it as a highly self-awareness; in which if one would be highly self-awareness they would see that there is a difference between their body, mind and heart/soul. Our body contains our mind and heart/soul; as well shows the marks that were left by other or ourselves (scars). Our mind see how to reach goals for the body and heart/soul. Our heart/soul gives a view that can change the mind or confirm its decision on many manners. The heart/soul is harder to describe, for there are many mechanism within it. It is the complexity that which we disregard it and forget about it. We don’t want complexities. What we really want are simplicities. Another depiction could be, it is the most human of our being. It cannot be destroyed like our body or mind. It is our true self. Again, you would be able to see these attributes clearly as you become more self-aware, which is a must. Don’t worry, I’m not even close to full-self-awareness. There is the simpler of descriptions, it’s our moral compass. But, we would have to talk about morality. That would be best for another time. I have written an essay about Moral Truth, which I will be posting any day now. I digress.

So, what does The Trinity have to do with modes of persuasion? Well, the first thing is that there are three of each and they each have attributes that are shared. God is Logic. God being the Creator of All. All sciences and reasoning come from Him; so He is the Father of Logic. Christ is ethics. Christ is the Creator’s manner of seeing Himself as a person. He is the outward expression of Himself. Which it is our bodies that hold all the marks of unethical-behavior. All the wrong that has been done to us; our bodies bear the marks. So, Christ bear all that was wrong with world on His body. All the marks that scar us, He has as well. So, He would want to be the most ethical of men. That is why He went to the lost and not to those who think that they had figured it out. The Holy Ghost is emotion. In scripture, the writers describe the Holy Ghost as God’s love. It is the guide to love. If we don’t have love then we don’t understand God. The Ghost is love and love is the most important emotion to ever have been felt by man-kind. Holy GBut, don’t they all have all those characteristics? You would be right. But, this idea is a bit eccentric. Which we would keep in count of that God is all knowing and absolute. That He recognized that embodiment is a necessary thing of this world or realm. That each one of us truly only embodies one overall idea that makes us, us. So, in which that is true to us then we were made in His image then He too embodies an idea.

The problem that He was faced is that He is too complex (obviously not to Himself) for us to wrap our heads around and truly knew that one day it would be attempted to be explained through many medias or people; who or what He is. This would be the ultimate breaking the fourth wall, because He knew that one day someone will attempted the explanation and then put in motion before there were people to attempt to understand His embodiment. So, if we go to where I said the stuff about us being three in one as He is as well. The mind being of logic and God of the same nature. The body being of ethics and Christ of the same nature. The heart/soul being of emotion and the Holy Ghost of the same nature. But, unlike us; they are separate entities. Which for us; the modes make us up. At one point, God had had a choice to make that which each part of Himself would be what part. But, at the same time He already was all the parts and separate before everything and before He made a the choice to embody what idea and which part of Him would embody what. Confusing. I know, but that is why we venture off to unknown things that could be known? Or attempt to.

The question comes to mind, why? Why would He do this; if indeed He did so. I like to think that if we were without a verbal and written language; the things of this world looked carefully could instruct us and those to come. An example of one, is one that I like to use a lot which is, the dog. All parts of what a dog is made of is very important to learn and understand. They show us what true loyalty is. What it means to give all you got to have the time of your life. That you don’t need anything else, but the ones that you care about. What it means to have a master? Which is not what we were lead to believe. It is more of a partnership that both have abilities the other needs. The dog has too many things that we lack and we have such few things that the dog lacks. The main thing we have is, direction. God is, to most of us, the guide to the right direction in living. So, we are the same to the dog as God is to us. The dog is us. Or the depiction of what we were meant to be. Loyal, loving and no care for anything else, but for the ones we love. We are to be mirrors of God, but God left to us a mirror of ourselves here to let us know what was our attained purpose was. The dog. So, let’s go back to the subject at hand.

God left us things to draw conclusion from; if we were to ignore Him. But, then again this is all theoretical. Remember that this is theory and don’t take this as truth, but as a possibility. So, the whole point of this was to come to a conclusion. That is the importance of the modes are profound in ways that words could not do justice to describe. Having those qualities are important to the Creator of All and we should come to a great awareness of logic, emotion and ethics. We should allow ourselves to be more in tune with the logic that comes from our emotions to become a more ethical being.

This is what I believe in the core of my heart. I believe that we should all embody an idea, a meaning. If this theory has any truth to it then it might be that we should embody an idea. T. S. Eliot believed that in this modern day and age; we would have to have a moral code to just get by. I believe that is so true. Too many times I see that kids want to be special, but don’t want to do anything to be special. They just want to be special for the sake of being special. See, this world needs more that believe in a great purpose; be it God or not. I would argue the ladder. But, having that belief, of something with a greater purpose, that’s what could make you and anyone special. Sex, drugs and rock-n’-roll comes and goes and leaves nothing more than a longing in the soul. Great people embody an idea. So, I say to you “Embody an idea. A good idea that will help other and usher in a time of peace and harmony.” That is what I pray for all of you.