In the 4th Century, St Augustine of Hippo claimed there exist images or vestiges of the Holy Trinity in the natural world.
Like a signet ring pressed into hot wax, where the signet ring represents the Trinity and the hot wax, the natural world. That is how Augustine vividly described images of the Trinity. Just as a signet ring leaves its image in the wax but not the precious material it is made from, so the Trinity has left the imprint of its structure upon nature, but not its infinite, spiritual divine substance - the stuff that God is made from. Augustine never found any images of the Trinity in the natural world. However, Augustine wasn't wrong, he was just sixteen hundred years ahead of his time.
St Augustine of Hippo predicted the existence of images of the Holy Trinity in his treatise de Trinitate (On the Holy Trinity) c. AD 412.
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