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of the incomprehensible, of my God. Truly the soul of every man is in image a rational image of the Word. How, tell me, teach me. Hear the Word himself: the God from God, God the Word, is co-eternal with the Father and with the Spirit. Thus therefore my soul is also in His image, for having a mind and bearing a word it has these essentially indivisible and unconfused, likewise of one substance, one the three unitedly, but also dividedly. They are always both united (326) and are divided: for they are united without confusion and are divided without separation. If you take away one of these, you have certainly taken away all: for a mindless, wordless soul will be equal to the irrational beasts; but without a soul it is not possible for a mind or a word to exist. Thus therefore from the image understand the archetype! Without the Spirit there is neither Father, nor His Word; the Father is spirit, and His Son, spirit, even if he put on flesh, and God the Spirit again; for both are one in nature and substance, just as mind, soul and word. But the Father begot the Word ineffably. Just as mind is from my soul, or rather in my soul, so from the Father the spirit, or rather in the Father both remains and proceeds inexpressibly. Just as, again, my mind always begets the word and brings it forth and sends it out and makes it known to all,

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τοῦ ἀλήπτου, τοῦ Θεοῦ μου. Ὄντως κατ᾿ εἰκόνα ἔστιν ἡ ψυχή παντός ἀνθρώπου λογική εἰκών τοῦ Λόγου. Πῶς, εἰπέ μοι, δίδαξόν με. Ἄκουσον αὐτοῦ τοῦ Λόγου˙ ὁ Θεός ἐκ Θεοῦ Θεός Λόγος, συναΐδιός τε ἔστι τῷ Πατρί καί τῷ Πνεύματι. Οὕτως οὖν καί ἡ ψυχή μου κατ᾿ εἰκόνα τούτου ἔστι, νοῦν γάρ ἔχουσα καί λόγον φέρει ταῦτα κατ᾿ οὐσίαν ἄτμητα ἀσύγχυτά τε, ὁμοούσια ὡσαύτως, ἕν τά τρία ἡνωμένως, ἀλλά καί διῃρημένως. Πάντοτε καί ἥνωνταί γε (326) καί εἰσί μεμερισμένα˙ ἥνωνται γάρ ἀσυγχύτως καί μερίζονται ἀτμήτως. Ἕν ἐκ τούτων εἰ καθέλῃς, συγκαθεῖλες πάντως πάντα˙ ψυχή γάρ ἄνους, ἄλογος, ἴσον ἔσται τῶν ἀλόγων˙ ἄνευ δέ ψυχῆς οὐκ ἔστι νοῦν ἤ λόγον ὑφεστάναι. Οὕτως οὖν ἐκ τῆς εἰκόνος τό πρωτότυπον ἐννόει! Ἄνευ Πνεύματος οὐκ ἔστι οὐ Πατήρ, οὐ Λόγος τούτου˙ πνεῦμα ὁ Πατήρ δέ ἔστι, καί Υἱός ὁ τούτου, πνεῦμα, εἰ καί σάρκα ἐνεδύθη, καί Θεός τό Πνεῦμα πάλιν˙ ἕν γάρ φύσει καί οὐσίᾳ τά ἀμφότερα τελοῦσιν, ὥσπερ νοῦς, ψυχή καί λόγος. Ἀλλ᾿ ὁ μέν Πατήρ τόν Λόγον ἀπεγέννησεν ἀρρήτως. Ὥσπερ νοῦς ἐκ τῆς ψυχῆς μου, μᾶλλον δέ ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ μου, οὕτως ἐκ Πατρός τό πνεῦμα, μᾶλλον δ᾿ ἐν Πατρί καί μένει καί προέρχεται ἀφράστως. Ὥσπερ πάλιν δέ ὁ νοῦς μου πάντοτε γεννᾷ τόν λόγον καί προφέρει καί ἐκπέμπει καί γνωστόν ποιεῖ τοῖς πᾶσιν,