She sees and swayes imagination
As she thinks good: and it that she think good
She lets it play by ’t self, yet looketh on,
While she keeps in that large strong-beating flood
That gars the Poet write, and rave as he were wood.”
(I. 59.)
These three persons—Ahad, another name given by More to God (I. 34), Æon, and Psyche—form, says More, “the famous Platonicall Triad; which though they that slight the Christian Trinity do take for a figment; yet I think it is no contemptible argument, that the Platonists, the best and divinest of Philosophers, and the Christians, the best of all that do professe religion, do both concur that there is a Trinity. In what they differ, I leave to be found out, according to the safe direction of that infallible Rule of Faith, the holy Word.”[[24]] To signify the union of these persons More represents Ahad joining Æon, his son, in marriage to Psyche, and by holding their hands in his, maintaining a perpetual unity.
“My first born Sonne, and thou my daughter dear,
Look on your aged Sire, the deep abysse,
In which and out of which you first appear;