like Abelard, was inclined to admit that the pre-Christian philosophers had intimations of the Trinity. In particular, the medievals turned to the one Platonic dialogue known to them, the Timaeus. There we find Plato describing a divine creator who looks to a kind of cosmic blueprint, the Forms, which could be seen as playing the role of the second person of the Trinity, or God’s wisdom. Plato’s creator furthermore fashions a force of life within the cosmos, a soul of the entire universe. For Abelard this so-called “world soul” was analogous to the third Person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit.
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