of
Triads
Part III
There are three duties of one who is Fili': to teach their
people to live fearless in strength, to teach their people how
to avoid the attention of the Shining Ones, and to teach their
people the Laws of Nature. Three things necessary for a contract to be made:
mutual agreement, mutual understanding, and mutual consent; and
there is a fourth and that is surety given.
There are three types of surety: Naidn, Aitire, Rath.
There are three things in a contract which need special
attention: that which is explicit, that which is implicit, and
that which has been forgotten.
There are three foundations to mutual agreement: that there be
nothing hidden, that there be no malicious intent, that there be
no coercion.
There are three things due one who has had a contract broken:
loss, loss from loss , and honor price.
There are three types of contract, all binding before the Shining
Ones and before human kind: that which is established by the
spoken word, that which is established by the written word, and
that which is ordained by the Righ or Rian .
Three types of profit: from producing , from investing , from a
good reputation.
Three types of investment: goods , money, and time.
There are three levels of honor price: one third the value
of the agreement when one has defaulted on a contract because of
something beyond their control; three times the value of the
contract when one has defaulted by their own volition or
slothfulness, and no malice was intended; nine times the value
of the contract when one has defaulted on a contract by an act
of their own volition, with malice intent. There are three things most precious to human kind: health,
liberty, and virtue.
Three things which do not suffer trifling: health, prosperity,
and time.
Three things which keep a person in good health: moderate food,
well-apportioned labor, and natural warmth.
Three foods which bring health, long life, and clear
understanding: corn food, milk food, and garden food.
Three foods which bring disease, short life, and dull
understanding: flesh food, sweetened food, and highly seasoned
food.
Three customary acts which make one healthy and long-lived:
work, by tilling, in moderation; rising early; innocent mirth.
Three customary acts which bring short life and disease: to much
labor, too much sleep in the morning, and peevishness.
Three frequent changes which bring long life: change of food,
change of work, and change of amusement.
Three good things in one who loves good health: enough sleep at
Bealtinna (in Spring), enough food at Meansamhradh (at
Mid-Summer), enough fire at Geamhradh (in the Winter).
Three things which strengthen the body: lying on a hard bed,
cold air, and dry food.
Three things whose excess shortens ones life: flesh food,
drunkenness, and too much dallying about with those of the
opposite gender.
Three unfailing remedies in every disease and sickness: nature,
time, and patience.
Three things of which one does not see half enough: life,
health, and riches. Three things one who is prudent will not show: the bottom of
their purse, the bottom of their knowledge , and the bottom of
their heart.
Three things which one who is upright ought to curb: a young
spirited horse, a young intemperate daughter, and a garrulous
tongue.
Three things like one to the other: a fine granary without
corn, a fine flask without drink, and a fine daughter without
good repute.
Three things not good to leave: a ship before the wind, a woman
to her rage, and a son to his ignorance.
Three things which do not go well if hurried: war, feasting,
and argument.
Three things which a person obtains from traveling in strange
land: hunger, cold, and derision.
Three things trust in which does not end well: health in old
age, fair weather in winter, and felicity from things of the
world.
Three things it is best to leave alone: a strange dog, a sudden
flood, and one wise in their own eyes.
There are three things which keep order and system for
everything in the world: number, weight, and measure.
Three things which we cannot control: the Void , the planets ,
and truth. To this be it added, The Truth Against The World.
Three things good as servants, bad as masters: water, fire, and
wind.
Three more things worse yet as masters than as servants: labor,
money, and kings.
Three things which shall lay waste where they come: water, fire
and the curse of the Shining Ones.
Three arch-enemies of human kind: fire, water, and a king.
Three gluttons of the world: the sea, a king, and a city.
Three things no being can be seen without: covering, movement,
and shadow.
Three things which should be chiefly considered in everything:
nature, form, and work.
Three unequals of the world: beauty, love, and necessity.
Three parts to everything : He One , She One , They One in the
Third .
There are three things that are never at rest in anyone: the
heart in working, the breath in moving, and the soul in
purposing.
Three things in the world between which there is a wonderful
difference: the faces of people, the utterances of people, and
the writings of people.
There are three from which it is not easy to win a person:
their belief, their genius, and their nation.
Three things on which every person should reflect: whence they
come, where they are, and whither they shall go.
Three things hard for a person to do completely: know
themselves, conquer their appetite, and keep their secret.
Three things a person cannot conceal: great love, great hate,
and great wealth.
Three things of which the whole is not good: doing the whole
that passion desires, believing the whole that is said
throughout the land, and showing the whole that one knows.
Three martyrdoms without slaying: the liberality of a needy
person, the innocence of a young person, and fair maintenance
without wealth.
Three things of which the loss is woe: the attainments of
wisdom, a pure conscience, and the love of Shining Ones.
Three fears which strengthen a person's heart: fear of speaking
the whole that they have learnt from another, fear of extreme
prosperity, and fear of offending the Shining Ones.
Three fears which weaken a person's heart: fear of speaking the
truth, fear of wretched poverty, and fear of evil being done
them.
