In this verse we start with a fundamental triad of space, time, and soul/person. The awareness of the individual is able to connect space and time together in consciousness. The soul mediates between the spatial and the temporal. Each of these divisions is then further subdivided by three. The pattern of two opposites and communication between them is repeated over and over until finally complexity emerges from fundamental simplicity. A visual example from mathematics of this process can be seen in the diagrams below. In each one, a pattern is repeated in order to generate greater and greater complexity. Additionally, it is interesting that modern relativity theory teaches us that space and time do not exist independently from one another, and that classical quantum physics requires the presence of an observer to "create" physical reality through the "collapse of the wave function". Thus, we learn even from modern science that the three parts of the triad (space, time, and an observer) are really a single unity.
