But, having ascribed supreme intelligence or reason to its second
person, under the name of the Logos, or Word, and designating its third
person as the Holy Ghost, the ancient Triad was usually formulated as
the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost, as may be seen by reference to
the text in the allegories which we find recorded in I John v. 7, which
reads that "There are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the
Word and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one."

Considered in some forms of Astrolatry as too sacred to attach a name
to the triune Deity, he was called "the One," and we find him thus
designated in the 4th chapter of Revelation, where, like Zeus and
Jupiter, of the Grecian and Roman mythologies, he is represented as
seated above the firmament, upon a throne from which "proceeded
lightnings and thunderings," and to whom all, the subordinate
divinities were made to pay homage. As the hurler of thunderbolts he
was called "the Thunderer," and as the opener of the windows of heaven,
when it rained, he was designated "Jupiter Pluvius." Such was the
ancient Triad made to say of himself, in an inscription found in the
ruins of the temple at Sais in Egypt, "I am all that has been, all that
is, and all that shall be, and no mortal has lifted yet the veil that
covers me;" and such was the Triunity referred to as the God Universe
by Pliny, the Roman philosopher and naturalist, who, flourishing in the
first century of the Christian era, wrote that he is "An infinite God
which has never been created, and which shall never come to an end. To
look for something else beyond it is useless labor for man and out of
his reach. Behold that truly sacred Being, eternal and immense, which
includes within itself everything; it is All in All, or rather itself
is All. It is the work of nature, and itself is nature."