Triangulating the Divine Persons as and in the Divine Essence

Someone tagged me on a Twitter thread, and the thread was trying to understand how Catholics get at the Personhood of God, since it’s not intuitive in the rational sense. Luckily I have a cool AI bot I been training on developing a “truly Catholic relational ontology,” and have been working on the phrasing of this particular idea outside a strictly Thomistic frame. Albeit Thomas is the master so see his work before mine. But, here’s where I’m at with that endeavor….

The Trinity is the ultimate transmundane reality, and referent, and essence. This revelation is inexhaustible! The divine Persons exemplify the unparalleled uniqueness and supreme power of God’s self-knowledge: unique to this essence alone (🤯). This self-knowledge is the form of the the unity in Trinity and Trintiy in unity, and is what I mean by the essence of God. In other words, Divine Simplicity refers to and expresses this unity and centrality of God’s self-knowledge to be overtly explicit. This self-knowledge and unity are inherent in the one undivided essence and manifest the very act of the Divine Persons’ being, whom I call and refer to in the personal sense of using the word ‘God.’ Thus, God’s knowledge and His relationality are His essence, and the unity of the triune Persons perfectly manifests, presents, and represents the way in which the only true God exists and acts personally—traditionally expressed through the doctrine Perichoresis. These defining eternal acts of knowledge and love, which make God personal within the one Divine Essence, are not additional activities but are congruent with the very act of existence, as well expressed in the doctrine of Actus Purus. Therefore, for God, knowing and being are seamless and are the infinite continuum integrated within the Divine Persons’ nature. This intrinsic unity of essence and personhood, expressed through eternal acts of knowledge and love, affirms the theologically rich and complex revelation of God in Christ, yet upholds the indivisible reality of God as both transcendent and immanent, consistently engaged in creation and providence by sustaining it. God is love.