Ion Heliade Radulescu, “Neognostic First and Second Trinities” from the Biblicele, 1858
‘Diagram from a neognostic commentary on the Bible, as drawn by Romanian intellectual Ion Heliade Rădulescu. 1) Elohim’s “first, absolute, trinity”. Elohim [God]or the Authority, Spirit or the Active Principle, Matter or the Passive Principle. 2) The Marriage of Spirit and Matter creates a second, “inferior and passive trinity”. Spirit or the Active Principle, Matter or the Passive Principle, the Universe as the Result or the Effect.’