Christ the Eternal Tao: Chapter Four

Chapter Four from the book 'Christ the Eternal Tao' by Hieromonk Damascene.
Text:
Before the world was made,
The Mind, Word and Breath were One,
Sharing in the One Essence, above all essences.
The Oneness of these Persons is a mystery
Whose vastness cannot be comprehended by even the highest spirits.
Nevertheless, we attempt to give a name to this mystery of oneness:
The name of love.
A name so great that, finding it impossible to give it due reverence,
People despair and treat it as commonplace.
The Mind, Word and Breath had this perfect love between them.
Not only did They have this love,
They are this love.
Therefore, love existed before the world was made.
The love of the Maker of things cannot merely be extended outwardly, to the universe made by Him.
In the Three this love is directed inwardly also, within the Primal Essence:
In the mystical inward life, hidden in the depths of the Divinity.
For the Three have always been One.
But the world did not know this love
Until the Word Himself came into it,
Sent by the Mind as the Messenger to the world
Of the Primal Love that had created it.