Ulysses

A short post this time, reading Ulysses at unreasonable hours of the morning. I should note that I do not pretend for this to be a religious discussion, simply in terms of how the idea of temporality and the Trinity are interesting considerations. Early on in the Proteus episode, where Stephen is discussing Arius the heretic. His proposition of a Godhead, or the positioning of Father as above the Son is interesting in its implications for the idea of God as atemporal. If God exists outside time as John 1:1 states (although that's a guess, I would have to check that citation, but it's the famous verses, in the beginning there was the word), then creation of the Son, as part of God, must also be atemporal. When God created the world he was already tripartite. If not, and without "poor dear Arius to try conclusions", it should be suggested that God himself had a beginning, meaning time itself has a beginning, and therefore an end, both of which would be defined. If Jesus' supplication to God is the in the role of father/ son, and, as Arius proposes that "he had his substance from nothing", then God, if they are part of one another, also came from nothing, and was created by another. The Trinity then is as Borges called it, a series of facing mirrors reflecting each other's empty surfaces.