Monologium, on the Being of God59 Chapter LIX. The Father and the Son and their Spirit exist equally the one in the other.

sant'Anselmo d'Aosta († 1109) · Monologion · 1075-1076

Chapter LIX. The Father and the Son and their Spirit exist equally the one in the other.

It is a most interesting consideration that the Father, and the Son, and the Spirit of both, exist in one another with such equality that no one of them surpasses another. For, not only is each in such a way the perfectly supreme Being that, nevertheless, all three at once exist only as one supreme Being, but the same truth is no less capable of proof when each is taken separately.

For the Father exists as a whole in the Son, and in the Spirit common to them; and the Son in the Father, and in the Spirit; and the Spirit in the Father, and in the Son; for the memory of the supreme Being exists, as a whole, in its intelligence and in its love, and the intelligence in its memory and love, and the love in its memory and intelligence. For the supreme Spirit conceives of (intelligit) its memory as a whole, and loves it, and remembers its intelligence as a whole, and loves it as a whole, and remembers its love as a whole, and conceives of it as a whole.

But we mean by the memory, the Father; by the intelligence, the Son; by the love, the Spirit of both. In such equality, therefore, do Father and Son and Spirit embrace one another, and exist in one another, that none of them can be proved to surpass another or to exist without it.

Jucundum est intueri in Patre, et Filio et utriusque Spiritu, quomodo sint in se invicem tanta aequalitate ut nullus alium excedat. Praeter hoc enim, quia unusquisque eorum sic est perfecte summa essentia, ut tamen omnes tres simul non sint nisi essentia una summa, quae nec sine se vel extra se, nec major vel minor seipsa esse potest: per singulos tamen idipsum non minus valet probari. Est etenim totus Pater in Filio et communi Spiritu; et Filius in Patre, et eodem Spiritu; et idem Spiritus in Patre et Filio; quia memoria summae essentiae tota est in ejus intelligentia et in amore, et intelligentia in memoria et in amore, et amor in memoria et in intelligentia. Totam quippe suam memoriam summus intelligit Spiritus, et amat; et totins intelligentiae meminit, et totam amat; et totius amoris meminit, et totum intelligit. Intelligitur autem in memoria Pater; in intelligentia Filius; in amore, utriusque Spiritus. Tanta igitur Pater et Filius, et utriusque Spiritus, aequalitate sese complectuntur, et sunt in se invicem ut eorum nullus alium excedere aut sine eo esse probetur.

Sidney Norton Deane (1878–1943), Chicago: Open Court, 1903. Fonte del testo digitale: English Wikisource transcription of the 1903 edition (each chapter checked against the OCR of the Internet Archive scan stanselmeproslog00anseuoft). Testo originale: Corpus Corporum (University of Zurich) TEI of the Patrologia Latina, via the CatholicCorpus mirror. Public domain in the US and Canada: published 1903; translator died 1943. Latin: Migne, PL 158 (1853), public domain.

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