“The One-in-Three might signify something like this: The One is about transcendence, about being beyond the universe, the mystery that precedes the big bang and that remains after my death. I am, alas, thank goodness, not god/goddess; the ultimate reality is other than me, prior to me, and I must be in relation to it. From this One came all humanity, including the odd man Jesus. This Two is about incarnation: that deity doesn’t stay resting off somewhere in heaven (whatever “heaven” means), located apart from the human sphere, but rather became human. Transcendence transforms human life. The Three is about communion, the bonded circle that animates, the shared life without which existence is meaningless. The Three affirms that the future of the One and Two is in us all. Now, that’s a mystery.”
–Gail Ramshaw, Under the Tree of Life: The Religion of a Feminist Christian, p. 52-53
