Since we are in God's image, our minds bear traces of the Trinity in its triadic structures. In Him, the three are one. And again, no one person of the Trinity can be identified with any one element of the triad. The second analogy is memory, understanding, and will. Memory contains all that we know, even when we are not thinking of it.
Understanding is the thinking of what is in memory.
From the latter issues action. And will or love is what causes memory to beget the thought. The defects of the analogy are again that we have memory, understanding and will, but God is those things, and in Him the three are one. And again, no one person of the Trinity can be identified with any one element of the triad. We note that Augustine s analogies fail because they emphasize oneness .