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'Surely the Madonna was a very beautiful conception, he said. Sir Asher looked startled. 'Ah yes, you are an artist, he remembered. 'You think only of the beautiful outside. But how can there be three-in-one or one-in-three? Barstein did not reply, and Sir Asher added in a low scornful tone: 'Neither confounding the persons, nor dividing the substance.
They are heretics, why yes, but as far as I can make out they pray much as I do, and by heaven's grace may yet be brought to hold the truth as to the Three-in-One. When they had the power, did they meddle with our worship? Let every man believe as he list, say I, so that he believe sincerely, and trust God against the devil.
Then the saint admonished him that he should believe in the three-in-one God, and in His name receive baptism unto salvation, so that he might escape that place of torment. And he answered that he firmly believed in the God, whom he knew to be almighty, and in his name desired to receive baptism.
'Even if I do, our tradition only makes the Messiah a man; somebody some day will have to win your belief. But what I said was that God acts through man. 'Ah yes, said Sir Asher good-humouredly. 'Three-in-one and one-in-three. 'And why not? said Barstein with a flash of angry intuition. 'Aren't you a trinity yourself? 'Me? Sir Asher was now quite sure of the sculptor's derangement.
"Fiona Macleod," then, would appear to be the collective name given to a sort of collaborative Three-in-One mysteriously working together: an inspiring Muse with the initials E.W.R.; that psychical "other self" of whose existence and struggle for expression William Sharp had been conscious all his life; and William Sharp, general littérateur, as known to his friends and reading public.
Three-in-one and one-in-three. He laughed; to Sir Asher his laugh sounded maniacal. The old gentleman was relieved to see his stalwart doorkeeper enter. Barstein turned scornfully on his heel. 'Neither confounding the persons nor dividing the substance, he ended grimly.
'Yes the Briton, the Jew, and the anti-Semite three-in-one and one-in-three. Sir Asher touched one of the electric bells with a jerk. He was quite alarmed. Barstein turned white with rage at his dismissal. Never would he marry into these triune tribes. 'And it's the same in every land where we're emancipated, as it is called, he went on furiously.
It would be supererogatory to dwell at any length on this "trinity of manifestation" as the concrete expression of that unmanifest and mystical trinity, that three-in-one which under various names occurs in every world-religion, where, defying definition, it was wont to find expression symbolically in some combination of vertical, horizontal and curved lines.
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