The Trinity is a concept born out of our free choice to understand God through words that paint pictures, drawing on the human being's attempts to fathom the divine mystery. St. Patrick was a Romano Briton drawing from his Roman cultural heritage when attempting to explain The Trinity, using the symbolism of the shamrock. Patrick well understood through his daily experiences with the divine mystery that the shamrock was nothing more than poetic symbolism.
I quote from an article that I posted here yesterday (1)
Carl Jung expressed concern that most people thought “the truth is simple and can be expressed by one short sentence” (Jung 1959c). In Jung’s view, the truth about God is complex because God is a mystery whose nature is beyond human comprehension. In trying to understand God, we each create our own image of him – and the image is never accurate. Jung recognised this about his own image of God:
Whatever I perceive from without or within is a representation or image… caused, as I rightly or wrongly assume, by a corresponding “real” object. But I have to admit that my subjective image is only grosso modo identical with the object…
our images are, as a rule, of something… The God-image is the expression of an underlying experience of something which I cannot attain to by intellectual means… (Jung 1959c)
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We can only know the divine mystery (note that I have avoided gender labelling) knowing, that I don't know, and can never know the reality that is God. We can enter into a loving relationship with the divine mystery, when responding to His call (I am a traditionalist) to allow Him to enter our life, leading us through our life's journey.
Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me. ~Apocalypse 3:20
Friendship fed by love is the fundamental reality permeating our relationship with God, sufficient for each of us to experience His embrace.
(1) https://steve.myers.co/jungs-regret-over-i-dont-need-to-believe-i-know/
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