TRUTH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

What the Holy Spirit is and what it is not.

November 5th, 1916

I am here, St. Luke.

    I come to-night to write you a message upon the Truth of:  What the Holy Spirit is.

    I know that the orthodox generally believe and classify it as a part of the Godhead.  Being one with and the equal of God, the Father.  Not merely a manifestation of the Father, as Spirit.  Hence, necessarily identical with the Father, though having a different and distinct personality.

    In this belief and in this classification, is included Jesus, having a distinct personality.

    The orthodox preachers and theological writers teach, that it is a fact, that these three are one, co-equal and existing and that fact is the great mystery of God.  That  humans should not endeavor to fathom the mystery, because the sacred things of God are His Own and it is not lawful for humans to enter into these secrets.

    Well, this declaration and admonition are very wise, as humans wisdom goes, saves the expounders of these doctrines of mystery, from attempting to explain what they cannot explain.  Because it is impossible for them to unravel that (mystery), which as a fact, has no existence.

    Humans of thought, all down the ages, have sought to understand this great mystery, as they called it.  Have been unsuccessful.  As the early fathers met with the same defeat in their endeavors to understand the mystery.  Then because of such defeat, declared the explanation of the doctrine to be a secret of God, not to be inquired into by humans.  So all these other investigators of the church, when they became convinced of the futility of the search, adopted the admonition of the old fathers, that God's secret must not be inquired into.  For it belonged to Him alone, and sinful human and the redeemed human also, must respect God's secret.

    Thus from the beginning of the established church, after the death of Jesus and his apostles, was declared this doctrine of the trinity.  One in three and three in one, yet only one.  Made the vital foundation stone of their visible church's existence.  Of course, from time to time, there arose humans, both in the church, (and outside the church) who, having more enlightenment than their brothers in the church, attempted to gainsay the Truth of the doctrine and declared and maintained that there was only One God, the Father.

    But they were in the minority and not acting with the more powerful, their views were rejected.  The mystery became the church's sacred symbol of truth.  Unexplainable and therefore more certain and entitled to more credence.  It seems to be the tendency of humans minds, or at least of those who believe in the Bible as the inspired word of God, to welcome and encourage, as the more wonderful, important, the more to be cherished, those things, which savor of the mysterious, rather than those which a human may read and understand as they runneth.

    Nowhere, not even in the Bible, is there any saying of Jesus, to the effect that God is tripartite, consisting of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.  As a fact, never did Jesus when on earth teach any such doctrine.  Only this; that the Father is God, the Only God.  That he, Jesus, is His son, the First Fruits of the Resurrection from the dead.  That the Holy Ghost is God's Messenger, for conveying the Divine Love and as such, The Comforter.

    I know that in some of the Gospels, as now contained in the Bible and adopted as canonical, it is said, in effect, that the Godhead consists of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.  That these three are one.  Such Gospels do not contain the Truth in this respect, are not the same Gospels that were originally written.  These original Gospels have been added to and taken from, in the passing of the years, and in the copying and the recopying, that occurred before the adoption of the same.

    They, the adopted ones, were compiled from many writings.  As the compilers in those early times, differed in their opinions, as humans do now, respecting religious Truths, the more powerful of these having authority to declare what should be accepted, according to their interpretations of those manuscripts that were being copied, directed the copies to be made in accord with their ideas.  I may say, desires, announced and put forth such productions, to be true copies of the originals.  As these copies were successively made, the preceding ones were destroyed.  Hence the earliest existing manuscripts of these gospels, came into being many years after the originals, from which they were claimed to be compiled, were written and destroyed.

    I, Luke, who did write a Gospel and who am acquainted with the present gospel ascribed to me, say that there are many vital things and declarations, that I never wrote and that are not True, contained in it.  Many Truths that I did write are not contained therein and so with the other gospels.

    In none of our Gospels, did the mystery of the Godhead appear.  That for the reason, that there was not and is not (any mystery of the Godhead).  We did not teach that there was any Godhead, composed of three personalities.  Only One God, the Father.  Jesus was a son of human in the natural sense and a son of God in the spiritual sense.  But he was not God, or a part of God, in any sense, except that he possessed the Divine Love of the Father.  In that sense, was a part of His Essence.  The Holy Spirit was not God, but merely His Instrument, a Spirit, the Holy Spirit.

    As you have been informed, the soul of humans existed prior to humans Creation in the flesh.  Was the only part of humans that was made in the image of God.  It existed in this pristine state, without individuality, though having a personality.  Resembled the Great Soul of the Almighty, which Soul is God Himself.  Though the soul that was given to humans was not a part of the Great Soul, merely a likeness of it.

    Some of you mortals have said that human soul is a part of the "Oversoul", meaning the Soul of God, but this is not True.  If in any of our communications, it has been said that the souls of humans are a part of the Soul of God, I mean while it existed before its incarnation, our sayings must not be so interpreted.

    The Ego of God, as may be said, is the Soul.  From this Soul, emanates all the manifested Attributes of God, such as Power, Wisdom and Love.  Not jealousy, or wrath, or hatred, as some of the writers of the Bible have said.  For He possesses no such attributes.

    The ego of humans is the soul.  In their Created Purity and Perfection, from their souls, emanated all the manifested attributes belonging to them.  Such as power, love and wisdom.  Neither were jealousy, nor hatred, nor wrath attributes of theirs, before their fall.

    It is said that humans are composed of body, soul and spirit.  This is True.  From your life's experience you know what the body is.  I have told you what the soul is.  Now the question arises, what is the spirit?

    I know that there have been, for centuries, great differences of opinion, among theologians and other wise  humans, as to what the spirit is.  Some contending that it and the soul are the same thing.  Others, that the spirit is the real ego of human and the soul something of less quality and subordinate to the spirit.  Others having other views, all wrong.  For as I have said, the soul is the ego.  Everything else connected with humans and forming a part at their Creation, when they were pronounced to be "very good", is subordinate to the soul, only its instrumentality for manifesting itself.

    As Jesus has told you, the spirit is the active energy of the soul.  The instrumentality by which the soul manifests itself.  This definition applies to the spirit of humans while a mortal, as well as when they become an inhabitant of the spirit world.  The spirit is inseparable from the soul.  It has no function in the existence of humans, except to make manifest the potentialities of the soul in its activities.  Spirit is not life, but it may become an evidence of life, it is life's breath.

    As humans were Created in the image of their Maker, as spirit is only the active energy of the soul, by the application of the Principle of Correspondences, which one of your former psychics declared to exist, it may be assumed and it is Truth, that the Holy Spirit is the active energy of the Great Soul of the Father.  As we know from our experiences and observations, is used as the Messenger of the Father, to convey to humankind, His Divine Love.

    I do not mean to restrict the mission of the Holy Spirit to humankind in the flesh.  For it also conveys and bestows this Great Love, upon the souls of the Father's Children, who are spirits without the bodies of bone and flesh, who are inhabitants of the spirit world.  So, it is a Truth, that the Holy Spirit is not God and no part of the Godhead.  Merely His Messenger of Truth and Divine Love, emanating from His Great Soul, bringing to humans Divine Love, Light and Happiness.

    So you see there is no mystery of the Godhead.  No secret that God does not wish humans to know and understand.  No Truth, that it is contrary to God's Laws and Will, that humans shall search for and possess.

    It is said that God is Spirit.  It is True.  But Spirit is not God.  Only one of His Instruments, used to work with humankind and the spirits of humans.  To worship the instrument is blasphemy.  Only God Alone must be worshiped.  Jesus must not be worshiped as God.  The Holy Spirit must not be so worshiped.  The sooner humans learn this Truth and observe it, the sooner they will get in At-Onement with the Father and please the master, who, as some may not know, is the greatest worshiper of the Father in all His Universe.

    I have written longer than I expected.  I hope from my message, many mortals may receive the Truth and believe that the Holy Spirit is not one of the Godhead.  That the mystery of the Godhead is a myth, without body, soul, or spirit.  That there is no Truth, in all God's Universe, that humans are not invited to search for, understand and possess.

    I will now stop.  In doing so, will leave you my love and blessings.  Will pray the Father, to send the Holy Spirit to you, with great abundance of the Divine Love.

Good-night and God bless you until I come again,

your brother in Christ, Luke

June 14th, 1917

I am here, John

    I merely want to say that your condition is improving.  That in a few nights we will be able to continue our messages.  Then you will find yourself happier, in more ways than one.  I mean that you will feel better spiritually.

    I was with you tonight at the meeting.  It did you good.  For there were many spirits present who have the Divine Love, to a more or less degree.  Of course their influence was being exercised on and felt by the worshipers.

    The preacher is a man with a considerable amount of the Divine Love in his soul.  If he only had the True conception of Jesus, he would find himself possessing more of this Divine Love.  His idea of the Holy Spirit is such, that it interferes with his receiving the effect of the work of the Holy Spirit.  He thinks and believes it to be an entity.  In other words a being of substance, thought and sentient capacity.  Whereas, as you know, it is not.  But merely the evidence, of the working of God's Own Soul, in bestowing upon mortals His Divine Love and Mercy.  The Holy Spirit is God's Messenger for this purpose.  Is not a Creation of His, as is Jesus and humankind.  It is merely an energy of the Soul of the Father, conveying His Divine Love.  The Holy Spirit could have no existence without the Soul of the Father.  It is entirely dependent upon the powers of That Soul for its existence.  Only in the sense that it conveys God's Divine Love, can it be called the Comforter.

    To grieve the Spirit, as the preacher said, means only that the Love of God is grieved, which is in fact not True.  For this Divine Love is never grieved.  As it is so great and so intense, in its desire that humans shall receive it, that it never becomes grieved.  Though it is often disappointed, as you may say, that humans will not receive it.  It is always present waiting for humans to receive it.  By their longings and prayers, cause their souls to be opened up to Its reception.  This remember:  that this Divine Love of the Father, is so very great, that the Holy Spirit which conveys it to humans, cannot become grieved.

    Well, I did not intend to write on this subject tonight and what I have said is merely fragmentary, but sometime I will come and write in detail.

    You must pray more.  Let your Faith increase.  You will find what the Holy Spirit is and how it operates.  Your prayers will be answered and a great inflowing of the Divine Love.  Also your desires will be realized.  Keep up your courage and you will not be disappointed.  Today may look dark and dreary, but tomorrow the sun will shine and you will enjoy the sunlight.

I will not write more now.  So with my love and blessings, I will say goodnight.

Your brother in Christ, John

May 10th, 1920

    Let me write for a short time upon a subject that will be of interest to you and to those who may read my messages.

    What I desire to write upon to-night, is the condition of those who think they have received the inflowing, or baptism, of the Holy Spirit.  When the fact is, that they have received only that advancement in the purification of their natural love.  A Harmony with the Laws of Their Creation, that causes them to believe, that what they experience must be the result of a bestowal of the Divine Love which the Holy Spirit brings to mortals.  In this mistake, so many humans indulge.  In the satisfaction, or rather happiness, which their experience, growing out of such an increase in the Harmony brings to them, they fully believe that the Holy Spirit has taken possession of their souls and caused the happiness.  But in thus concluding, they are deceiving themselves and will realize their mistake when they come to an awakening in the spirit life.

    The Holy Spirit, is that part of God's Spirit that manifests His Presence and Care in conveying to humans souls, His Divine Love.  This Divine Love is the Highest and Greatest and Most Holy of His Possessions.  Can be conveyed to humans only by the Holy Spirit.  This appellation is used, in contradistinction to the mere Spirit, which demonstrates to humans, the operation of God's Soul, in other directions and for other purposes.  His Creative Spirit, His Caring Spirit and the Spirit that makes effective His Laws and Designs in the governing of the Universe, are not the Holy Spirit. Though equally part of God's Soul, equally necessary for the manifestations of His Powers and the exercise of the energies of His Soul.  These deal with the things of the Universe, that do not have interrelationship with the Soul of God and the souls of humans.  Whenever the Holy Spirit is spoken of, it should mean only that part of God's Spirit, which transforms the souls of humans into the Substance of the Soul of God, in its Quality of Divine Love.

    I heard the preachers discourse Sunday night on the work of the Holy Spirit, as portrayed in the contents of the New Testament.  I saw that his conclusions from these contents were wholly erroneous and apart from the Truth.  As he said, the effects of the workings of the Holy Spirit are shown in more ways than one.  Not everyone, upon whom It is bestowed, is filled with the same powers of displaying its Presence and Possession.  Now in all these evidences of its existence, in the experiences given, it must be understood, that It is limited in its operations to those conditions and manifestations that have their source in the Divine Love of the Father, that was bestowed upon humankind, at my coming in the flesh.  That those evidences of the existence, that have no relationship to this Divine Love, are not evidences of the Presence of the Holy Spirit.  As mentioned in the New Testament, when it was bestowed upon my disciples at Pentecost, it came, as with the sound of a mighty rushing wind.  Which has before been explained to you, that shook the room in which the disciples were assembled and filled them with its Powers.  Which means only, that this Divine Love came into their souls, in such abundance, that they were shaken in their souls.  To such an extent that they thought the building in which they were assembled was disturbed.  But in this they were mistaken.  For the effect of the Presence of the Holy Spirit, is not to affect the things of inanimate nature, but is confined to the souls of humans.

    The preacher must know, that because humans are possessed with powers to accomplish the mental, or material things of their living, they are not necessarily possessed with the Holy Spirit.  Much of the physical healing of mortals is caused by powers that are bestowed upon humans, or some humans, that are not connected with, or proceed from, the Holy Spirit.  That there is evidence of this, humans will recollect, that the Old Testament is full of instances where humans were healed of their diseases and other wonderful things performed, at the time that the Holy Spirit was excluded from humans possession.  Yet these marvels, as then considered, were performed by humans claiming to be endowed with the Spirit of God.  Which is working for the good and happiness of humankind.  Which will continue to work, until humans shall become in Harmony with themselves, as First Created.

    I understand the object of the preacher, in attempting to show and convince his hearers, that because they have not those powers that the Bible describes, as having been possessed by my disciples after the bestowal of the Holy Spirit, that therefore, they must not believe and conclude that they, his hearers, have not this blessing.  His intentions and efforts were commendable, arose from the desire that his hearers should not become disheartened and disappointed in their efforts to obtain the inflowing of the Divine Love that the Holy Spirit brings to humans.  On the other hand, his teachings were dangerous and misleading to these hearers.  For the natural consequence of such teaching, is to lead humans into the belief, or persuasion, that they possess this Power and Comforter, when they do not.  Thus, prevent them from seeking for and obtaining this Comforter, in the only way in which It can be obtained.  The Holy Spirit, primarily, has nothing to do with great mental, or physical achievements.  To say that because a human is a great inventor, or philosopher, or surgeon, who does things without knowing where the inspiration, or suggestion to do the things comes from, therefore, he is possessed of the Holy Spirit, is all wrong and misleading.

    All things, mediately, or immediately, have their existence, operation and growth in the Spirit of God, and only in that Spirit.  Which Spirit is evidenced in many and varied ways in humans experience.  Hence, humans say that they live, move and have their being in God.  Meaning only that they live, move and have their being in God's Spirit.  This Spirit is the source of Life, Light, Health and numerous other blessings that humans possess and enjoy.  The sinner as well as the saint, the poor human as well as the rich, the ignorant as well as the enlightened and educated, are each and all dependent on this Spirit, for their being and comfort.  This is the Spirit that all humans possess to a greater or lessor degree.  The brilliant preacher, or teacher, or orator, possessing this Spirit, to a greater degree than their less favored brother or sister, depends upon the same Spirit.  It is Universal in its existence and workings.  Is Omnipresent.  May be acquired by all humans, in this sense, to the degree that their mental receptivity permits.  This further demonstrates the fact, that God, through and by this Spirit, is with humans always. In the lowest hells, as well as in the Highest Heavens of the Perfect Human.  It is working continuously, ceaselessly and always at the call of humans.  Be that call mental, or spiritual.  It is the thing that controls the Universe, of which humans earth is an infinitesimal part.  This is the Spirit of God.

    But the Holy Spirit, while a part of the Spirit of God, yet is as distinctive, as is the soul of human distinctive from all other Creations of God.  It is that part of God's Spirit, that has to do with the relationship of God's Soul and humans soul, exclusively.

    The subject of Its operation is the Divine Love of the Father's Soul.  The object of Its workings is the soul of human.  The great goal to be reached by Its operations, is the Transforming of the soul of human into the Substance of the Father's Divine Love.  With Immortality as a necessary accompaniment.  This is the Great Miracle of the Universe.  So High, Sacred and Merciful is the Transformation, that we call that part of God's Spirit, that so works, the Holy Spirit.

    So let not teachers, or preachers, teach, or their hearers believe, that every part of God's Spirit that operates upon the heart's, thoughts and feelings of human, is the Holy Spirit, for it is not true.  It's mission is the salvation of humans.  In the sense of bringing them into that Harmony with God, that the very souls of humans, will become a part in Substance, not in image merely, of the Soul of God.  Without this working of the Holy Spirit, humans cannot become in such Union.

    I have written you before as to how this Holy Spirit works.  The way in which it can bring humans the Divine Love of the Father and what is necessary for its inflowing.  The way described is, the only way.  Humans must not believe and rest in the security of such belief, that every working of the Spirit of God, is the working of the Holy Spirit.  Except a human be born again, they cannot enter into the (Celestial) Kingdom of God.  Such attainment is possible only by the working of the Holy Spirit.

    Oh, preacher, upon whom a great responsibility rests, learn the Truth, then lead humans into the Way of Salvation.

    I will not write more now, but will come again and deliver another message.  Believe that I love you and am your friend and brother, Jesus

January 6th, 1918. 

I am here, Jesus.

    Well my brother, I am glad to tell you that your communion with The Father tonight has been responded to.  His Divine Love has inflowed into your soul in great abundance.  His Holy Spirit has been bringing the Divine Love in wonderful abundance.  Your soul is now filled with it.  The influence of this Great Love is working in your soul. You realize its presence.  If you will meditate, long for and pray to the Father as you have tonight, your soul will soon be so filled with this Divine Love that you will receive the Knowledge, that you have a near At-Onement with Him.  You will be conscious of the possession, of a part of His Divinity, of which we have written you.  The "Pentecostal Shower" will come to you, as it did to my disciples in the days that followed my departing from them.  I will be with you also, just as I was with them.  Power and Essence Divine will be bestowed upon you, so that you will be able to display the marvelous presence of this Divine Love, just as they were able.  So you must pray and long.  Your experience tonight has given you some foretaste of what will come to you.

    There is nothing in all the world that can take the place of this Divine Love, in its power to draw you near to and make you in At-Onement with the Father.  All beliefs and faiths in any and every other thing will not suffice.  Sacrifice and sorrow on account of sin and vicarious sufferings and mediators, will not work the Transformation.  Because it is solely a conjunction between this Divine Love and your soul, that is capable of bringing you into this relationship to The Father.  The resultant consciousness that you have partaken of and possess, to some extent, His Divine Nature in Divine Love. 

    Now you are in condition that makes my rapport with you complete.  I have that possession of your brain that enables me to write as I may desire.  I know that I could convey a message to you tonight, in a most satisfactory way.  I will not do so, for I think it best to permit the rapport to become a little more intense.  Thus, enable me to write a long message without the probability of tiring you.  For as you know these messages of deep Truths, such as the ones on the "Soul" and "God", necessarily cause me to draw very intensely on your brain power.  But soon now, I will come and commence to deliver my messages and continue to do so, if our rapport can be maintained.  It can be, if you will only meditate and pray as you have done tonight.  I have been with you very much today, entering into your thoughts, endeavoring to influence the longings of your soul.  I was with you at the Spiritualist's meeting.  Sometime I will write you in reference to the claims of the speaker, the real facts as to how much of what she said was inspired, or as she claims, was spoken through her by a controlling spirit. 

    I now want you to think more than ever of the importance of your work, of the necessity for you putting all your energies and desires into the work.  No one can conceive of what it means.  Above all you must realize its great importance and the place that you occupy in carrying it to a successful issue. 

    I will be with you very often.  I know that you will feel my presence and influence, and, as you do, turn all your thoughts to the Father's Divine Love.  Let all your longings go to Him. 

    Tonight, I will not write more.  Will soon write as I have said.  Have Faith and know that you have been selected to do the work.  That upon you rests the responsibility that is upon no other human. 

With my love and the Father's Blessings, I will say good night.  Your brother and friend, Jesus