53. Any Church and any coherent religion are impossible, unless it is believed that God is One. When, therefore, the Divine Trinity is believed to be divided into three Persons, how can the metaphysical term "essence" make of the three one, so long as the properties of each person are diverse, yea, so diverse that they are said not to be communicable? and so long as equal, proper persons subsist by themselves, and one person has no part and no quality in another, or of another, person? But, as soon as it is believed that the one God is not only Creator, but also Redeemer and Operator, then we have one God; and then for the first time the Church exists and subsists, and religion lives. And there cannot be this union of three otherwise than, as in every man, that of the soul, the body, and the proceeding. These three make one man: and why not God, who is Very Man from firsts to lasts? These things concerning God-Man have been explained in the book concerning "The [Divine] Love and Wisdom," and may be consulted; and that He is neither ether, nor air, nor wind. That the soul of every man is the man himself, thence follows. As we now have in the Church one God, who is God-Man and Man-God, this Church is called the crown of all the churches.