The Holy Trinity - The Gates Of Perception

Amen is the hidden god, the space, aka the Holy Spirit, spiritus in Latin means to breathe, animating the inner and outer space of which one is always a centre, as the God of Hosts & the Goddess of Nature yin/yang, symbolically traditionally represented by the elephants.

As an old proverb says, which William Blake have used, "the universe has its centre everywhere and its circumference nowhere." now, now+here=nowhere. The centre is a point of reference and the physical body indicates where it is in the here and now, while the mind, the consciousness, is free to project into the past and the future.

The consciousness is to aid the needs of the body in the present moment, since the conscious mind is only aware of two to three thousands pieces of information out of six to seven billion registering every moment in the subconsciousness. 

Hence the gates of perception, the pineal gland, is where it narrows down to the most important items that the consciousness, the "Christ," should be aware of, about the priorities dealing with the basic needs and critical survival systems.

Thus, metaphorically speaking in Christian esoteric gnosticism terms, the pineal gland "gates of perception" would be represented by the St. Peter's gates, where Peter means the rock, referring to the brain, and prior to becoming Peter he was known as Simeon, meaning to listen in Hebrew. 

Therefore one needs to listen, obedience, as in child to a parent, or an apprentice to a master, learning and gaining knowledge through direct experience, accumulating the wisdom about life and the rules governing it, before making the important decisions, braking the rules, or making new ones.