 Universal Faith Symbol  HE Universal Symbol of Life Affirmation or Faith, originally the Triform Emblem, represents spirit or being as one and infinite in triune, as well as other interpretations. After modifications that took place over several years, the above design was finalized in 1999 and later used as a logo on the Unitheist Fellowship website.
We’ve all heard the saying, “Two’s company, three’s a crowd.” While the number three is arbitrary, there are countless instances where it is associated with any value greater than two, which may be why people of such diverse backgrounds and cultures have perceived aspects of the divine in threes— to attempt to render comprehensible the infinite. A sentence has three basic elements— subject, verb, and object. The 13th Century Jewish mystic Abraham Abulafia described the Master as “the knowledge, the knower, and the known.” A Sufi mystic called Divine Union “the union, the one who unites, and the one who is united.” One as three. The symbol consists simply of an upright equilateral triangle surrounded by a circle touching its three corners and surrounded in turn by a heart outline in contact top and sides. The color, thickness, and precise overlap of the linear features are arbitrary, as well as the background (if any), and even the exact style and shape of the heart. Traditionally triangles have been used to symbolize God, power, fire, security, success, prosperity, and health. Circles have represented the eternal, the endless, the limitless, completeness, and cycles such as birth and death. Heart signs have been ideograms for charity and forgiveness, emotion, or the soul, expanding from religious origins. In the elemental context of the symbol the triangle represents law, the physics of the universe, the circle represents life, the basis of awareness, and the heart represents love— conscious creating, enjoying, and sharing.
Various attributes though can be assigned to the three elements. Below is a table of representations, far from complete, listed alphabetically by philosophy or faith: A palm tree, representative of victory, peace, prosperity, long life, rest, and hospitality is formed by the triangle as trunk and tops of circle and heart as branches. The number of voids in the symbol is seven, perhaps next only to three the primary numeric in traditions of the world. The symbol is fully inclusive in what is meant by faith— i.e. all life-affirming ideation whatever the ontology, extending even to forms beyond what many would consider religious, such as science, humanism, and positive philosophical systems. The faith symbol, while not demonstrative of belief in a particular God or gods, represents acknowledgement of and appreciation for the wonder and mystery of being, and peace through fellowship based on essential commonality of spirit, understanding, love, and tolerance. For more info see FAQ and Links. To see images you can display on your webpage click here. You and your nonprofit organization are free to use the faith symbol subject to the following License— Universal Faith Symbol License |
