It understood the godhead in hierarchical terms.
Orthodox Catholicism understood the godhead as comprising three "coequal," "coeternal" members.
Llull used logic and complex mechanical techniques (the Ars magna) involving symbolic notation and combinatory diagrams to relate all forms of knowledge, including theology, philosophy, and the natural sciences as analogues of one another and as manifestations of the godhead in the universe.
His theological and ecclesiastical policy thereafter aimed to unite against Arianism the former semi-Arians and the supporters of Nicaea under the formula "three persons (hypostases) in one substance (ousia)," thus preserving both unity and the necessary distinctions in the theological concept of the godhead.
The fourth and last book deals with the final result of the modes of discipline outlined in the preceding book and distinguishes between the results achieved by worshipping a personal Godhead and those achieved by knowing the one brahman.
Arianism is often considered to be a form of Unitarian theology in that it stresses God's unity at the expense of the notion of the Trinity, the doctrine that three distinct persons are united in one Godhead.
Instead, the reference must be to the particular nature of the divine Logos and the particular nature of Jesus the man: it must be with reference to these particular natures that godhead and manhood are combined in Christ.
But when we say that the godhead is not "living," we do not mean that it is "lifeless".
On the basis of this scriptural authority, Dionysius explains that we are able to use the terms "father" and "son" of animals only because the godhead has already undergone the same relation.
Moreover, Elias repeatedly emphasizes the Platonic-Neoplatonic conviction that the purpose of philosophy is the transformation or assimilation of a human being to the godhead, a genuinely Platonic ideal explicitly stated in the Theaetetus, 176A-B).
The basic idea is that the special properties of the numbers associated with these letters, their phonetic qualities, grammatical functions and graphic representations, all convey information about the godhead.
