Trinitarian Revelations

I've recently attended a series of talks on the nature of the Holy Trinity, the Christian God. In light of the lessons I have gleaned, a re-think of Eleyon and the mythology of Eldawn is in order. My original intention was that Eleyon should be as similar to Yahweh as possible, but clearly this is not possible and my ideas for Eleyon already diverge from Yahweh's existence.

Yahweh exists as a Trinity for all of eternity past, present and future. He has always existed in a perfect relationship of the Father loving the Son. The Spirit and community of that relationship is the third Person of the Trinity, the Spirit of God. Together, three persons as one God direct all the events of this world. Yahweh is a God who knows community and relationships very intimately. He has been in a flawless harmony between His three persons for all time. He is love, it is fundamental to His very being. His character is unchanging because it has no need to change. He is self sufficient and omnipotent.

If I were to write a story about Yahweh, His very nature prevents the story from being any different from our history. The only way that Eleyon can be consistent with Yahweh is if He acts, loves, treasures and judges in exactly the same way. This clone of God would have to repeat all the actions of the true God, or I place myself above my Creator in supposing that He would have acted any other way. Therefore, the only non-sacrilegious option is to distance my concept of Eleyon from the concept of Yahweh.

Eleyon is therefore, not Yahweh. The difference will be as such, Eleyon will have existed as a single person for an indefinite period of time before coming into Trinitarian unity. This changes his fundamental nature, away from one of love, to one of suffering.

I have recently been puzzling over whether it is possible for perfection to arise from the ether. Once again, Eleyon is not Yahweh. Yahweh existed in perfection for all eternity. Eleyon however, has an origin as a lonely spirit in the ether. He was utterly alone. In that solitude, he would have experienced the pain of complete isolation, the emptiness of his existence, and he would have to make sense of it. The reason why Eleyon is concerned with relationships is not because he is love as Yahweh is, from time immemorial, but because Eleyon is the only being to have felt the acute pain of loneliness.

As humans, we seem cursed to appreciate what we do not have, or what we lose. For better or worse, our losses and lacks shape us, if we let them, to greater understanding, appreciation and maturity. When everything is provided for us, we become spoilt, demanding more and more. When we have always had something, we never understand its true value because we take it as though it is our assured right to possess what treasures we have. Whether this is material, like food, clothes, a home and clean water, or something more abstract and perhaps infinitely more valuable, like a close friend, a parent or a sibling. It is only when we have not had that we can have when something is given to us.

So the reason why Eleyon attains perfection, is not because he was perfect to begin with, but because he alone had absolutely nothing. Suffering in his isolation, he formulated and analysed the necessary requirements of justice, mercy, love and trust. So when he created the first truly independent beings, he could love them with the agape-exceeding love that is unique to the divine.

Each period of pain can be used to hone our souls closer to perfection. Yahweh's suffering on the cross does not change Him because He is already perfect, he is the sole exception to this rule. However Eleyon has perfection in my mythos because he experienced absolute suffering. Taking nothing for granted, he would truly understand the value of his creation. Once Eleyon attains this perfection, he becomes unchanging, but until that point, he would have matured in understanding and knowledge to reach its zenith.

Eleyon then develops himself into trinity, establishing the dynamic of the Parent and the Child, with the Spirit personifying their loving relationship. In the process, Eleyon becomes a god who is capable of understanding both the pain of loneliness and the comfort of companionship personally. All this happens before he creates Alora and Iyvase, and so by the time creation is in full swing, Eleyon is already perfected in character.

This brings me to my next point, which is to ask : Is it possible for a person who has always been among caring friends and relations truly understand the pain of loneliness? Is it possible for them to feel the bite of the uncaring night pierce through an empty soul? Can Yahweh really understand that, being united in Trinity for all time? I should refute that now, with the point that the Son was truly forsaken when the weight of our transgressions was placed upon his being. The Father poured his wrath onto the Son, and Yahweh must have understood the pain of being alone. But when it comes to people, normal humans, perhaps my postulate holds true.

Another major question I'm trying to tackle is with regards to self-sufficiency. Eleyon creates, not out of his self-sufficiency, but out of his lack. A self-sufficient being who emerged from the ether would not be compelled to find means of creation. Once again though, Yahweh is different from Eleyon. Yahweh creates out of His desire to extend the fold of the loving relationship between Father and Son to other beings, undeserving as we might be.

I wonder at length concerning the nature of both Yahweh and my character who is Eleyon. Both of them share many common characteristics, but they arrive at them by different means. All the same, this separation of Eleyon and Yahweh makes me feel much more at ease when I craft my imaginary scenarios. I no longer have to surmount the impossible task of comprehending the mind of God, but the rather more manageable task of understanding the mind of Eleyon.