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God is one in essence, but Trinity in persons or hypostases. Another Hypostasis of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Spirit. “Everything that the Father has, says St. Basil the Great is seen in the Son, and everything that the Son has belongs to the Father: since the Son abides entirely in the Father, and in turn has all the Father in Himself. So, the Hypostasis of the Son is, as it were, the image and form by which the Father is known, and the Hypostasis of the Father is known in the image of the Son, while the properties proper to One and the Other remain unchanged for the clear distinction of the Hypostases (Letter to Brother Gregory on the difference between essence and Hypostasis. Chron. Read. 1830, Part 37, p. 154).” Question Was the Hypostasis of Christ created or uncreated? Rep. The hypostasis of God the Word before the incarnation was simple, uncomplicated, incorporeal and uncreated, says St. John of Damascus (chapter 5); but after the Incarnation She became a Hypostasis for the flesh, and became complex both for the Divinity, Which She always had, and for the flesh, which She accepted. It has the properties of two natures, and is known in two natures. Thus, one and the same Hypostasis is uncreated according to Divinity and created according to humanity, visible and invisible. Otherwise, we will be forced either to separate one Christ, recognizing two Hypostases, or to reject the difference of natures and introduce transformation and fusion. Question Tell me something about the Hypostasis word? Rep. Let the son of Gromov, St., tell us about the Hypostatic Word. John is the Theologian, the father of Christian theology! In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word. This was from time immemorial with God... And this Hypostatic Word, by Him all was, flesh was, and dwelt in us. “How much,” says Saint Tikhon, discussing the incarnation of the Hypostatic Word, “how much man is honored in creation: how much the fallen is exalted in restoration. God Himself came to him to seek and save him. In creation He honored man with His image; and He Himself came to save the fallen and lost. From the human race He received and united to Himself animate flesh, and became man. So our Lord became like us and became our brother, as He Himself says: I will proclaim Your name to My brethren (Ps. 21:23). And to Mary Magdalene: go to my brethren and say to them: I will ascend to my Father and your Father (John 20:17). O incomprehensible God's condescension! O unspeakable human honor! Hear this, all the nations, inspire all who live in the universe, the earth-born and the sons of humanity, together - the rich and the poor! God Himself has come to us! Hypostatic, co-eternal and co-essential with the Father and the Holy Spirit, the Word became flesh. Come, and let us worship Him, and give glory to God who has come to us (From the 12th part of the article: He did his work and departed)! tied with a crown; For my sake you nailed your hand to the cross, you tasted the bitterness and gall; You have been pierced with a copy into your most pure rib; for my sake you poured out your most pure blood; For my sake you died in the flesh, but revive me in the spirit. (Alphabet, fifth verse).