The Psychology of the Trinity (Why "3" Shows Up Everywhere in Religion)

[@chrizzel28]

I've skipped a fair few videos because I simply don't know the source material when it comes to the games you analyse, so this video was a very pleasant surprise. Dropped just about everything else I was doing to watch it, and I wasn't disappointed. It's always difficult to find where one's pattern recognition is reasonable and where it overstates the case, but I think you navigated the difficult subjects here well.

[@joeyc1725]

Metal gear solid 2? That's when I first found this channel.

[@watcher805]

Pattern recognition is fallable as patterns are randomly changeable

[@adolfoduarte3719]

​@user-pv1sr8lo3zSo would that make the idea that Christ was a Buddha true? How do you think these religions would would look if they were brought together and looked at with a different perspective?

[@francozagarra7829]

Each time you release a new video Max is a full learning experiencie with no doubt. I love all your content related to videogames but my favourites are the Aion and Answer to Job series. Hope you still making that kind of content in the future man. You're a treasure among the sea of KZbin Channels. Greetings from Argentina!

[@atrocitasinterfector]

I remember identifying this pattern back in 2003 when i was 16, super stoked to watch this

[@allan710]

In a story you have the protagonist, the antagonist, and the plot that links both in a struggle. The protagonist casts light upon one aspect of the theme, the antagonist argues about the opposite being better. However, they cannot interact without the plot. Finally, the trio wraps up the theme being discussed perfectly, except there is a fourth, ever-changing, unpredictable part: the reader, the embodiment of free will, also the one that really changes (because the story is immutable, the person reading isn't). It is basically the thesis, antithesis, synthesis, and the reader.

[@miguelmuniz5528]

Omg I'm just getting into this metaphysical thinking and this is awesome

[@lowtech42]

BEST COMMENT!!!!

[@trukaiser]

I would like to make a note: I'm inclined to think that 1 and 2, especially in the case of yin/yang and god the father/god the son, would be interchangeable in most representations. Excellent video! This is the kind content I've subscribed for

[@ADUAquascaping]

I like to see it as masculine and feminine. Where is the Mother Goddess in all of this... 1 is gnani, faith, order, and masculine. 2 is raja, forgiveness, chaos, and feminine. 3 is the pinnacle, and is unity, rebirth, karma, charity, and enlightenment. And the base of the tetrahedron is bhakti, grace, love, space-time. The base or #4 is that which allows. Force coming from the 4th dimension. AKA God's grace. There are many didactic triangles that we can create to explain our existential meaning.

[@Cancellator5000]

@@ADUAquascaping I think it can just be any sort of duality or dichotomy. In Christianity it is the dichotomy between God and Humanity that is resolved/united by the sacrifice of Jesus Christ (fully man and god) and the presence of the holy spirit. The 4th element is clearly Satan who leads humanity astray causing disunity. Christianity does not distinguish masculinity and femininity as characteristics of cosmic importance "there is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."

[@sagittariusemperor9692]

@@ADUAquascaping The mother is in bed with someone else

[@anathema7861]

I've been discovering so much of these same ideas over the years, it is crazy to see someone laying out something so close to how I've been thinking! You really helped me put a lot of fascinating stuff together and introduced me to so much additional detail. Thank you!

[@TheBeta1337]

Very interesting and thought-provoking video. As a person with Asperger's myself I've always been fascinated by numbers and their apparent and hidden meanings. Thank you, Max, for making this!

[@LokaVision]

Everything ties together right near the end. This is a beautiful piece to mentally chew on for a while. Thanks Max.

[@jacobshore5115]

You know, the whole four being Wholeness and 3 being perfection thing kinda reminds me of how the Diamonds are in Steven Universe, they and their empire worked fine without Pink, but they just didn’t feel complete without her. (In many eastern religions, four is an unlucky number as well. And one could argue that the Diamonds represent the four as well. White is Thinking, Yellow is sensation, Blue is intuition, and Pink is feeling.) I could also make the argument that with the trinity of the father, son and Holy Spirit, the fourth would be Satan or Lucifer, who is sometimes considered lord of all things that are Earthly, which does threaten the perfection of the trinity.

[@danielsanford4109]

Numerology has no foundation in reality. Numerology is devoid of scientific basis, and it fares badly when examined under the light of reason. More important, because it is a form of divination, numerology conflicts with Bible teachings. In view of that, numerology is not a beneficial means of regulating your life or planning your future.

[@foodwithlove4509]

🤔👍

[@northstarmn]

All Made up BS

[@neoqwerty]

Four is usually unlucky because it's a homonym for death, both are sounded out as "shi" in Japanese. I don't know enough of Chinese to know if it remains a homonym, but as far as Japanese goes, it's not a religious number so much as a supernatural one, where the veil between the physical and spirit worlds is easily breached. It's why some trains and residences skip 4, and why 4:44AM is their witching hour.

[@theharshtruthoutthere]

@@neoqwerty GOD`S WORD IS TRUTH, THEREFORE REALITY. Why some are so naive and give GOD'S LIVING WORD an pagan origin? - calling Christianity a religion? All religions are pagan`s nonsense. GOD calls us all to come to the knowledge of truth not into believing a religion. We perish because of the lack of knowledge, not because the lack of beliefs in religions. Hosea 4:6 “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.” People reject Christianity(KNOWLEDGE), because they want religions.

[@mahdeereza7028]

I've been fascinated with the concept trinity throughout religion ever since childhood. Really glad you dropped this video.

[@goncalocartaxana]

Loved this video so much, thanks Max Derrat. I'll wait patiently and enthusiastically for another one of your videos :)

[@DietmarEugen]

I guess "Me Myself & I" is the psychological source.

[@MisaRedd]

Feeling is not irrational. Feelings are definitely something to consider. There is no spirituality without feeling.

[@Luke.-cv9uv]

Jeremiah 17:9 New King James Version 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

[@unaa9380]

@@Luke.-cv9uvthe heart can be corrupt but it’s more truthful than the brain, the brain is just a processing centre we put way too much emphasis on, probably why the world is a cold place

[@danmcmurphy2823]

i actually got a notification for once

[@GorgoReptilicus]

Three of them

[@adamorly2971]

Just a comment on the Trinity and the feminine: It was often thought that the "Spirit" portion of the Trinity was the feminine aspect of God. Throughout the NT, the Spirit appears as a dove (think when Jesus is baptized). This tradition is held up by the Latin word for dove, "columba." Take note that the image for "Columbia Pictures", for example, is the image of the goddess.

[@Dionysus_333]

Very well done! I applaud you, and bid you my gratitude. Content like this MAKES A DIFFERENCE

[@gavin6432]

i was originally drawn to your channel because i was watching silent hill videos which is a game that no doubt impacted my life at a young age but I want to say that i am really in love with your religious or spiritual videos like this one. I am going through a rough time in life and i am lucky to even be alive anymore at 27 and i will be spending my 28th year behind bars

[@flutter8712]

I've had this questioning since a few time now, still amazes me you come up with this. "We're all one consciousness at the end"

[@jacobia7093]

Totally on board with this. Chaos, the feminine, is potential. And Order, the masculine, gives it structure.

[@BradyHansen81]

It’s simple, anytime you have 2 extremes; left right, black white, Democrat Republican, etc when you rise above ignorant duality and find a middle ground of anything it’s a “higher perspective.”

[@ben-taobeneton3945]

Very interesting. I've always questioned the idea of why we find The 3 and or the 4 - the wholesome one so pleasing to the eye. Guess there's a deeper implication that we still don't know yet consciously.

[@YHShinVH]

4 is whole and complete and perfectly mirrors itself, being able to be split in half because it is an even number.

[@Davlavi]

Informative as always.

[@markperron851]

Outstanding video. I truly appreciate all the hard work you put into this. I noticed at the end that the cross has 4 key points, but the image of Christ on it has 3 points of contact. Christ is the perfection 3, while when He is manifested in the flesh 4 is the number associated with the symbol. 4 is the number of the Earthly plane. I have been researching numbers and numerical references and patterns for a while now. This greatly reinforced and presented new thoughts. I have been of late noticing things like cultures with Solar Deities were on a system of 12 while Lunar cultures go with 13. Another grouping of 1,2,and 3. 12 masculine, 13 feminine in many cultures. Thank you for your work here.

[@northstarmn]

Christ was not real, so…..

[@flyingscotsman6835]

Bro most reasonable historians agree he existed he has been referenced by 40 ancient historians outside the Bible which is a lot more than the second most commented person it only boils down to if you think he did miracles or not that’s literally all that is up for debate

[@brandonkjf]

Please Continue to produce this type of content more regularly ! Your videos are so good at transmitting this information and energy

[@Vidayarthi]

Yeah 👍

[@Tom-sd9jb]

Fantastic and interesting. I have subscribed. I would relish another video going into this in more depth. Especially fleshing out the idea of a Quaternity. Thanks!

[@christinabrown7308]

This is why I'm subscribed!! Never chAnge, Max!

[@neiladams3042]

Max you continue to expand my mind in such interesting ways. Topics I never knew existed, brought to life in a style that makes them easy to follow, whilst providing enough intrigue that I am motivated to look into them further. Thanks for all that you do!

[@TheSamuiman]

Tesla was obsessed with 3 - 6 - 9 and believed it to hold the "key to the universe" as in “energy, frequency, and vibration” or the Hindu trinity of Brahma (Creator), Vishnu (Bestower) Shiva (Destroyer) and so on and on.. very interesting stuff!

[@akane3549]

Wow! In 16 mins I've learned a lot. 4 years Theology schools can't even explain it this easy.

[@354Entertainment]

What a classic video! We love you Max!!!

[@jayrich7720]

This was an amazing video, and you put Oblivion OST for the background. Beautiful.

[@prospectorbonky]

Damn bro. Amazing work! I never knew about a lot of this.. my conception of the trinity was father the creative force, son is matter or sustained and spirit the force that animates matter

[@agitated.tachyon]

Of all the places I thought I'd find what possibly the best explanation of how the Holy Trinity is at once 3 separates and one whole, I did not expect to find it on a KZbin channel primarily devoted to videogames. In fact, I've never found a compelling explanation, not even from supposed experts on the matter. Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts.

[@chalinofalcone871]

You want? Here. Chew on this... "In our desire to illumine the differences between visual and acoustic space, we have undoubtedly given a false impression: and that is that the normal brain, in its everyday functioning, cannot reconcile the apparently contradictory perceptions of both sides of the mind. There is, we know from experience, a "unified field" of the mind." [The Global Village, Marshall McLuhan, 1989, I. Exploration of Visual and Acoustic Space, Sec. 4: The East Meets West in the Hemispheres, p. 48] YOU are the "TRINITY"... could it be anymore cliche? [Y]OUR Psyche is.... Dun, Dun, Dun, Duuunnn..... The Creator. Sorry to break it to you. You were always looking the wrong way , distracted by glitz and clamor ... from YOU. Life is The Tain in that way. To Enter the Tain is to .... Know Thy Self. Get PASSED the projections and reflections and say, "I ART THAT." (I stole that last part from the statue of Hermes at the Manly P Hall, School of Philosophy, in AND on, Los Feliz, in L.A. I took a selfie with it when walking by and it was inscribed in the book he holds open in his hands... I never heard it before that)

[@PumaMama145]

Wow, this is deep! I'm gonna have to watch it a couple more times, there's a lot to unpack here. Excellent video!

[@spreadlove2stophate]

Wow I'm not sure why I'm so impressed but I am sure that I I am over standing or understanding or even interesting I don't know but thank you very much for this video it basically cleared up things I didn't even know we're confusing for me

[@WakingWildflower]

ehhhh boooy i know it! and the fact that youre playing wandering flame from final fantasy x in the background, one of the best songs from my favorite game ever, is just a sign!

[@abryant9166]

It simply has to do with craft/art. Two things are needed to make something new. Two people are needed to make a child, a tool and a material are needed to make an object, etc. That’s why this concept is applied mostly to creator deities. I would recommend reading Joseph Campbell’s “Hero With A Thousand Faces” and his “Masks of God” series. The Masks series was his thesis, so it’s pretty heavy-handed, but he brings up Jung quite a bit as well. I will say that I’m not so sure that the trinity concept can be applied the same way to more primitive pre-agriculture mythologies. Hunter-gatherer tribes were mostly matriarchal and venerated goddess worship.

[@perversemite519]

U blew my mind big time🤯🤯

[@Fay_639]

I kinda wish he would've mentioned Nikola Tesla's theory of 3 6 9 update: Hello Max, I have found myself very interested in your existence. You are one of the few people that has ever made any mention of the overlooked mental disorder that I happen to suffer from, Selective Mutism. I can definitely relate to you in a lot of ways, such as the underlying feeling like I don't even deserve to exist, and doubtful that I even do. That the very act of me trying to express that I am a person with a voice, is something to be ashamed of, and an intense fear of social abandonment and ostracism. It wasn't until much later in life, after I was finished in highschool, that I had heard of this disorder, and the realization was like an epiphany to say the least. I could finally feel valid and put a name to what I have been struggling with my entire life after feeling as if I was the only one in the entire world to have this, and that I was not just "cursed" "extremely shy" "willfully defiant" and "deceiving people" at this point I have no idea how to get properly diagnosed, or even talk to anyone about it

[@Fay_639]

@ARE3A3B-yj6jl Wut

[@cpegalaxy]

I know you like dark souls, and this perfect trinity and whole quaternity idea shows up in that story too. There's 3 well known god souls Izalith, Gwyn, and Nito, with a 4th dark/hidden soul associated with humanity, emotions, desire/greed, and free will that is set up as opposition to the gods, and it is considered 'evil' or 'heretical'

[@icarusablaze1831]

I'm glad someone mentioned dark souls. There's also a similar occurrence in Elden Ring, with the three interlocking circles of the elden ring reprisenting Life, Souls, and Order, and the missing 4th either belonging to Death or Chaos.

[@chalinofalcone871]

"Here as elsewhere, the Witch stands for a mater natura or the original "matriarchal" state of the unconscious indicating a psychic constitution in which the unconscious is offset only by a feeble and still dependent consciousness... And since the quaternity is a Symbol of wholeness and wholeness plays a considerable role in the picture world of the unconscious..... But what is the meaning of the opposition between threeness to fourness, or rather, what does threeness mean compared with wholeness? In alchemy this problem is known as the axiom of Maria... Three being a masculine number, is logically correlated to... the lower triade. Four, a feminine number... represent the unconscious spirit, which in one case is subordinated to the wicked magician (threeness) and in the other to the Old witch (fourness). Between the three and the four there exists the primary opposition of male and female, but whereas fourness is a Symbol of wholeness, threeness is not. The latter, according to alchemy, denotes polarity, since one triad always presupposes another, just as high presupposes low, lightness darkness, good evil. In terms of energy polarity means a potential, and wherever a potential exists there is the possibility of a current, a flow of events, for the tensions of opposites strives for balance. If one imagines the quaternity as a square divided into two halves by diagnol, one gets two triangles whose apices point in opposite directions. This simple reflection shows how three can be derived by four... The three-leggedness is due to an accident, therefore, which occurred at the very moment when the horse (threeness) was leaving the territory of the dark mother (fourness). In psychological language we should say that when the unconscious wholeness becomes manifest, i.e., leaves the unconscious and crosses over into the sphere of consciousness, one of the four remains behind, held fast by the horror vacuum of the unconscious. There thus arises a triad, which as we k ow- not from the fairy tale but from the history of symbolism-constellates a triad in opposition to opt-in other words, a conflict ensues. Here too we could ask Socrates, "One, two, three-but, my dear Timaeus, of those who yesterday were banqueters and today are banquet-givers, where is the fourth?" He has remained in the realm of the dark mother, caught by the selfish greed of the unconscious, which is unwilling to let anything escape from its magic circle save at the cost of a corresponding sacrifice." [Psyche and Symbol, Carl Jung, 1958, Ch. 2: The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairy Tales, Sec. IV: Theriomorphic Spirit Symbolism in Fairy Tales, p.90, 91, 92]

[@p.mosheshamah4307]

Great video - in the future, if you need help with the pronunciation of Hebrew terms (like those from Kabbalah), I'm happy to help.

[@kimhiraman8384]

This documentary narrates the highest order of the English language. The Narrator himself stated that this pod cast demanded the ultimate preparation, drafting, downloading, digesting, processing and analysing. High 5 to the author ❤

[@SamGarcia]

Isaiah 45:7 “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.”

[@monkeybullets]

As a jungian psychilogist, I must say: well done, great video. But I must point out about the "feeling as irrational" that you gave as example about quaternities. If you're referring to Jung's psychological types , that is incorrect, and most people get it wrong. Thinking and feeling are rational, sensation and intuition are irrational. As example, feeling types have great capacity of choosing which emotions they focus on, which means they rationalize about emotions. Emotion, on the other hand, is not one of the 4 types (everyone has the 4 types, btw, each in its own degree), but a natural quality that most living beings experience, independent of being able to process it or only react to it. Anyways, awesome work, keep on!

[@curious_mitch]

The "Holy Spirit" part of the Trinity was once a Goddess, God's Wife, the Queen of Heaven, but she was written out at some point. That being said, other incarnations of this Goddess still exist in other mythologies, such as Astaroth, Astarte, or the Egyptian Isis. The association with the Devil/Anti-Christ also makes sense, as these Goddesses are often described as both protectors and occasionally destroyers, usually referring to the death and rebirth of the world, the Apocalypse (the Norse called this Ragnarok, but it's the same idea). The inconsistency seems to come from each religion/mythology having their own interpretation of the same thing, sometimes the Goddess IS the destroyer, other times she fights AGAINST the destroyer.

[@SecretEyeSpot]

What terrifies me is not that i started writing a story using these ideas precisely, and the one day I take off from writing it. The algorithm delivers the philosophical underpinnings via this video. However the fact it's been countless other videos. Is there a story writing collective since nothing I'm doing is private?

[@georgeontherocks660]

To put it simply, three is the lowest number that can portray a pattern, like "past, present and future" or as put by Aristotle "beginning, middle and end". I'm surprised you didn't mention the triskelion, an ancient neolithical symbol of the trinity. Even a modern religion like neopaganism, repurposed the triquetra (an evolution of the triskelion) to represent a holy trinity, the "triple goddess", which in turn is meant to symbolize the three stages in time of womanhood (again: the passage of time as the unifying of opposites).

[@Mercurial-flip-flop]

Aion Aion Aion. (loved your vid series on that too btw). Emma Jungs book The Grail Legend is awesome at explaining "the wounding of the feminine" too, this is such an important topic. 🙏 ♥

[@necrovive]

Ahhh this what my professor thought me in Paradox aesthetic class, the completio oppositorum, really miss my professor he is such a Sage, to bad not many people are interested in his class.

[@JuniAku]

You had me hooked at the shot of VI and the end of the world part.

[@akenji47]

FFX OST was a spot on. Great content

[@MrAlubenco]

😅 👍 Max @ 1:15 - 1:19 your compliment to everyone viewing, listening and paying attention to your expose', was for me right on time... kudos to you dude and right back at you! I've always paid attention to the "collective consciousness " at work, I appreciate this brudda thanks😅.

[@brimbon_duke]

Damn! Thank you for the video. Very instructive.

[@jessieroffman4193]

Obviously it's the Father and Mother, then the Son. We need to break out of the systematic suppression of the Divine Feminine once and for all. Humanity is still being deceived, the Father gets credit for Mother's accomplishments, creations, and good works.

[@guri7616]

It went as logos is the masculine and chaos (from where logos created the reality) is the mother.

[@the0s0ph1st]

In Christian theology, God is masculine because humanity is feminine. If you read older Christian works, the (human) soul is usually designated in the feminine, and this is because God is the one chasing after humanity, wooing the soul that she may fall in love with Him, and in finality let herself be filled with Himself. Check out the book Song of Songs in the Old Testament.

[@Mercuriusfm]

From a fellow jungian, great video.

[@williamharper6625]

The old world of darkness may have some exploration on this. There is the Triads the Wyld (creation, infinity, and chaos), the Weaver (patterns, order, stagnation), and the Wyrm (destruction, entropy, Evil?, and balance). In the Mage the Ascension Setting there is 4 paths Dynamic (basically the energy of the wild), Patterned (basically the energy of the weaver) Primal (basically the Wyrm) and Questing (complete and wholeness that is on the real path for Ascension)

[@psychosis8429]

As a Christian this was a very interesting video explaining the significance of the number 3

[@leemarvinhitchmanciaratell3450]

Subscribed - born on the third here … 💯🙌🏽

[@GhERM2SOIED72]

The one does not want to maintain a state of unity. It is unity. The two does not (necessarily) yearn for individuality, because it is an individual (even when it is separated into parts).

[@dragonskinavi]

The number 4 is considered extremely inauspicious and unlucky in China..Also, when you talked about the Cross as 3 above and 4 below, I couldn't help thinking about the phrase "As above, so below"....everything seems connected on a different level....and complex to man's limited comprehension of the universe...!

[@NowayJose14]

I think another example that is prominent for being practically useful within a universal context is the Hegelian Dialectical. Thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. Action, reaction, resolution.

[@Ninjajitsu562]

Always thought this great video

[@ElDouvid]

You'll never trust me. But thanks, you saved my life, you did the job i never started. You searched depper that i never did. You enlightened me on what I was trying to explain to my parents and my bros. Man just thanks, you're a Monster. I love this moments of humility, when you see you're not alone, and above all, humans can be so intelligent (more than me, inevitably xD) (Someone told me that we had no proof of the existence of Pythagoras. So after a wiki check, I came across the meaning of his numbers, and made the same links as you with other pantheons, gnosis, kabbalah, but you have gone so much further than me, thank you ;-;) THANKS

[@defoedezign]

Well done!!

[@usedcolouringbook8798]

There's also the union of 4 and 3 through the shape of a pyramid. We observe the "perfect" of the 3 points but they can't stand unless they have a stable base, the "wholeness" of 4.

[@Wolf480pl]

The 3-perfection / 4-wholeness and Plato's struggle to extend the three into 3 dimensions reminds me of Gödel's incompleteness theorem: a logical system containing arithmetic can't be consistent and complete at the same time. A consistent system (like 3) won't be able to account for all cases (some true statements can't be proven nor disproven in the system), and when you add to it to make it complete (like 4), you and up with a system that contains contradictions (some statements in the system can be proven to be true and false at the same time). Also, you're right that it takes 4 to define a 3-dimensional space but I think it's better visualized by a tetrahedron than by a plus sign.

[@unodos149]

Probably less something intrinsic and more that one idea impacts the next idea, and most of these ancient human ideas are more interconnected and "phone gamed" than most realize.

[@exodus9001]

Fantastic delve into one of the greatest symbolic questions. I've had a lot of crazy associations with 1-3 ever since watchin Biobooster Armor Guyver while tripping and this explains a lot of why that might be the case. There's 3 Guyvers and the thought I had about them was something like being plugged into the demiurge or unity and thats why they're so unstoppable. I've long since wanted to make some kind of Jungian look at the story and perhaps in time I will do so. Though if you do get the chance it is a great watch, both the OVA and the newer one that goes deeper into the story. Sucks it got cancelled cause the author found that dentistry pays more than manga.

[@theendisthebeginningistheend]

Guyver's awesome.

[@exodus9001]

@@theendisthebeginningistheend hell yeah my dude. Who's your fave zoanoid?

[@theendisthebeginningistheend]

@@exodus9001 Honestly I'd probably have to rewatch a lot of it to get a better sense of which one's truly my favorite 'cause it's been so long. Weren't there like a ton of them, or am I thinking of something else?

[@exodus9001]

@@theendisthebeginningistheend yeah there were a bunch of different types in addition to several cool unique one off dudes. The beetle man leader of the Freaky Zoa Five is one of my faves cause the sun powered superlaser was a dope scene

[@RomeHome]

It is not the number 3 that unites the 1 and 2, it is the number 0. 0,1,2 is a ternary number set, there are three distinctions, but the number 3 is not transcendent, while the number 0 is. This is consistent with what you are saying while also remaining consistent with how we use number and symbol.

[@dddmemaybe]

It's cause a triangle is more structurally resilient than a square. There's also two eyes, one mouth as well as 2 parents and the child. Two people make a third kek. It's imperfect once the second child(4th person) gets bullied by the first child. You lose perfection (as a family) but still become whole.

[@megret1808]

The basic three is the family, father, mother, child. In design we say line, plane, form, circle, square, triangle

[@bluwng]

You did a really good job 👍👍👍👍

[@daniellogan-scott5968]

In Roman (pre-Greek) mythology, their trinity derived from the Etruscans is Jove-Juno-Minerva with Minerva being the daughter. The Greek parallel would be Zeus-Hera-Athena, but in Greek myth Athena is the daughter of Metis and not Hera. I'll also note that there is a Christian argument that the Holy Spirit is the feminine in the Trinity since the word spirit is feminine in Hebrew and Greek. Many gnostic teachers link the Holy Sprit with Wisdom (Sophia aka Athena). Something else that this brought to mind, in the Christian approach, Satan would be the 4. In the Old Testament, Satan only appears twice and is presented as a sort of devil's advocate that challenges the accepted order to produce change and is not necessarily evil. There are hints of this in the New Testament and an argument can be made that the "fall" of Satan is a future event rather than a past one.

[@pennyrobertson6118]

So very interesting 🧐 thanks for sharing 😊💜🙏

[@randomcrow8963]

A Poison Tree BY WILLIAM BLAKE I was angry with my friend; I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I waterd it in fears, Night & morning with my tears: And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both day and night. Till it bore an apple bright. And my foe beheld it shine, And he knew that it was mine. And into my garden stole, When the night had veild the pole; In the morning glad I see; My foe outstretched beneath the tree.

[@Jose-vq3xr]

Quoting wikipedia was definitely my favorite part

[@rred8674]

According to GI Gurdjieff there are three forces at play in any act of creation, disorder, situation, ect. These are the active force, the passive force, and the neutral force. These coincide perfectly with the first three hermetic principles. The first principle is that of mentalism, the passive force. All is mind. Establishing the ether of the godmind, all that exists is a thought. The third principle is that of vibration, that all is ever moving, nothing is at rest. This is the active force. Yet it's the second principle of correspondence that acts as a neutralizing force between the two other forces. Correspondence states that what is above is also below, what is below is also above. It brings vibration to the thought, giving it movement in 3d. I brought these two (the hermetic principles and the law of three) together in order to explain time-space and our place in it. We are not free of the principles, yet they express how they themselves may be overcome. I have been able to explain time itself using these concepts. All opposites need a neutralizing force in order to balance and establish. Without the neutralizing force (such as the attraction between subatomic particles and the gravity between a planet and a sun) then nothing could meet or interact. I hope I've made sense.

[@expeditoneto4748]

My dear friend, you´re blessed with wisdom! keep up the good work!

[@megsimp0212]

I’ve noticed how three objects especially lights look weirdly significant since I was a young child. I can’t describe the feeling I get when I see it, it’s almost eerie.

[@Mossdala]

Loving this! ❤

[@kacpergrabowicz7228]

Excellent breakdown...

[@ayanoaishi7189]

In 3:16 when you talk about 2 being the symbolic of separation and multiplication began that this word is on paragraph 180 which is half of a whole. Somewhat a coincidence but a feeling of it isn't

[@3X3NTR1K]

Since I like to look at patterns of patterns, I have a couple (somewhat) simpler takes on this: 1.) Numbers have almost no "natural" meaning, what they *do* have is a aggregate of associations with the ides we use them with. When we apply those number meanings onto new ideas, or to new combinations and iterations of familiar ideas, we can create new patterns and meaning. This might seem to you like it's entirely arbitrary and anyone could find whatever meaning they want in it. And you'd be correct. Mostly. 2.) However, humans DO have a number that comes naturally to us, after a fashion: 2. Not necessary as a means of counting but of symmetry. It's essential to the pattern recognition that helped us forage, hunt, craft, and survive in many other ways. From that we easily learn symbolism of ourselves and our world having division, or existing in opposition to another, or that higher forces exist in opposition to each other. No shortage of examples for those in our myths. Now, look at almost any length or regular shape and try to visualize its halfway point or an evenly dividing line. It's probably easy, yeah? Trying to do the same to visualize a third of it. A lot less intuitive for most folks. Now instead of thinking about thirds, look for the point or line where one side is twice as big as the other. Suddenly, *CLICK!* The symbolism of three is built much the same: if we have one idea we can make a contrasting idea, and then another differently contrasting idea, and then THOSE have their own duality. There's all kinds of meaning to find in those arrangements, and all of them have a certain beauty. I would guess that it creating so strong of ideas but 3 being less instinctive as 2 only makes it better for giving supernatural meaning. Anyway, hope you enjoy my random essay. Just followed and will be enjoying your content at least as much from now on.

[@ardypangihutan3653]

i accidentally got the realization decade ago when playing music while doing psylocybin. except the number 3 is somewhat conflicting with 4 and therefore developed a 'sweet-spot' around the middle of both

[@averytherockgod9822]

One could argue that the “feminine” part of the Christian Trinity could actually be that of the Holy Spirit, cause in a lot of early Christian artwork the Holy Spirit, due to being associated with wisdom and wisdom being associated with femininity, it was sometimes depicted as being a woman or being womanly. Another interesting theory is actually that the feminine entity in the Christian Trinity, is this idea you brought up of the “4th” entity representing wholeness, which I say, that being could be the Bride of Christ, that being the Christian Church as a whole, which is referred to as such in the Bible. After all, what better thing to represent the wholeness of the Christian Trinity, than the collective of every single believer in the Trinity.

[@Abstract3030]

It is a great video with deep thoughts. I've been thinking about it, and your reflections are similar to mine. Thanks for sharing this with others.

[@ARTURKING777]

Excellent video.

[@micheldepaula8733]

Very helpful!

[@benfrancois7856]

I love Plato and Pythagoras Pythagorean theorem pi r squared 3.14 the circumference and the radius of a circle I think one reason we think of the number 3 is because 2=a child 🧒 and that 3 makes a family hey that rhymes LOL 😊

[@justincurll1110]

I like this video a lot, and just want to add that it's difficult to say "Christian doctrine" and then cite doctrines that are specifically Catholic. The Catholics routinely depart from the Bible, so it's not entirely accurate to say "Christian" when referring to specifically Catholic beliefs. To use Catholic teachings in your videos is of course valid and sensible for the points you are making, as, while many are not Biblical (i.e. the venerating of saints, or the cross as a symbol), the Catholic faith has drawn a tremendous amount of people over the years and for the very reasons you posit in this video.

[@kingyoong5654]

Amazing sharing 👍👍👍

[@trinityanderson859]

I love how every depiction of my name not only means hope but also destruction. Every story with my name always has a very hard beginning and middle but the end is worth the beginning and middle parts.

[@mattballotti1134]

Just a thought. In nature we have 4 seasons. Each begins and ends on either a solstice or an equinox. The soltices are different and opposites, longest day, longest night. The equinoxes are in essence, the same thing. Kind of like God's name in Hebrew.

[@lucatomas5039]

You're getting there Max, keep it up.

[@lukkkasz323]

Great video, one of my favourites. I'd like to see more.

[@ZeranZeran]

3 Has always been my lucky number since I remember anything When my grandma taught me about the holy trinity I was smiling When I was Trinitys in Kingdom Hearts, I was like YES! I CHOSE RIGHT! Lmao. It's not so simple, but I'm weirdly proud of my childhood self. Something about 3, it spoke to me.

[@ZeranZeran]

@ARE3A3B-yj6jl where are you getting this information from?

[@tbab147]

Feeling isn't inferior to thinking. It is, amoung other things, a guiding sensor through our lives. Both are needed.

[@nemesisurvivorleon]

Was still a gamer video with all that "background atmosphere" gameplay footage lol. We see you, Skyrim.

[@mysticmovesacademy]

Great video! Thanks for sharing your research🙏🏽

[@ernestocruz8068]

I was like this video is gonna blow, suck. I hung in there… as soon as I saw you mention Jung and his most prolific student. … I said hold up. Maybe I got time to see it all the way through 🖤