Quasi-Trinitarian Concept

The following is an excerpt of an email sent from Art to Will on 7 September 2014.


First of all, thanks for the publicity yesterday. Looks like not many people heeded your warning, but, according to the readings today, we should just treat them like unbelievers.

I'm playing around with something in my mind and I'd like you to help me make these distinctions.

Plotinus

As you know, I really like the metatext. Obviously, we've never downplayed the importance of the text, which, in my estimation, is first and foremost the songs. But there seem to be some intermediate states along that spectrum. One state is metatexts that you and/or I create that are closely related to the source text, namely, recordings or performances of the songs. A second state are the metatexts that begin to move further afield from the original text: the blog, scripts, dramatic performances, a podcast, etc. We began to get into a layer out beyond those two layers in our radio interview where another party is collaborating with us to create the metatext of the interview.

These three states are where the ineffable is becoming increasingly incarnate, for lack of a better word.

Although it's not appropriate to speak of "moments" in God's identity, the text and the three metatextual states could be considered analogous to the persons of God the Father and God the Son respectively. We could perhaps additionally divide the God the Son moment into three other phases: Jesus as Word (playing, performing the songs), Jesus' mission (the blog, scripts, podcast), and Jesus' commission (interview).

I'm curious about ideas for creating yet a third moment or phase, which would be analogous to the person of the Holy Spirit.  This might be where an outsider responds to the original text, encouraged by but independent of the metatextual manifestations of the second phase.

This is setting up something more like Plotinus' quasi-trinitarian concept: the One, Intellectual Principle, and Soul.