According to Sir W. Jones, the Brahme, Vishnu, and Siva coalesce
to form the mystic Om, which means the essence of life or divine
fire. In the Bhagavat Geeta the supreme God speaks thus
concerning itself: "I am the holy one worthy to be known"; and
immediately adds: "I am the mystic [trilateral] figure Om; the
Reig, the Yagush, and the Saman Vedas." It is a unity and still
a trinity. This Om or Aum stands for the Creator, Preserver, and
Destroyer or Regenerator, and represents the threefold aspect of
the force within the sun. The doctrine maintained throughout the
Geeta is not only that the great life-force represents a trinity
in unity, but that it is both female and male. On this subject
Maurice, in his Indian Antiquities, says:

"This notion of three persons in the Deity was diffused amongst
all the nations of the earth, established at once in regions so
distant as Japan and Peru, immemorially acknowledged throughout
the whole extent of Egypt and India, and flourishing with equal
vigor amidst the snowy mountains of Thibet, and the vast deserts
of Siberia."

We have observed that the idea of a trinity as conceived by the
so-called ancients, although at all times founded on the same
conception, viz., that of the reproductive powers of Nature and
especially of mankind, differed in expression according to its
application. Although in human beings this triune creative idea
was expressed by the mother, father, and child, as set forth in
the temples and on the monuments of Egypt, when applied directly
to the sun and the planets, it appears as the Creator, Preserver,