Chapter 3
Chapter 3 : The Holy Spirit and the Divine Action
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PON entering the spiritual world, which generally happens on the
third day after death, all members of the Sacred Order who have
developed a just idea of the Lord our Savior are first taught about the
divine Trinity. They are specifically taught that the Holy Spirit is not a
separate God; the Word uses the phrase to mean the divine action that
radiates from the one omnipresent God. They are specifically taught
about the Holy Spirit because after death many fanatics who have
believed they were divinely inspired fall into the mad delusion that they
themselves are the Holy Spirit. There are many church people who
believed while they were in the world that the Holy Spirit spoke through
them. They terrify others with the Lord’s statement in Matthew that it is
an unforgivable sin to speak against what the Holy Spirit has inspired in
them (Matthew 12 : 31 , 32 ).
After all are taught, any who abandon their belief that the Holy
Spirit is a separate God are later informed about the unity of God. They
are told that that unity has not been partitioned into three Persons, each
of whom is God and Lord (as the Athanasian Creed would have it).
Instead the divine Trinity exists within the Lord the Savior like the soul,
the body, and the radiating effect of any human being.
Then they undergo preparations to accept the faith of the new
heaven. After their preparation is complete, a road opens up for them to
a community in heaven where that same faith exists. They are given a
place to live among their companions. There they live in eternal bliss.
Because we have covered God the Creator and the Lord the
Redeemer, we need to cover the Holy Spirit as well. This treatment, like
the rest, will be divided into separate points. They are as follows:
1. The Holy Spirit is the divine truth and also the divine action and
effect that radiate from the one God, in whom the divine Trinity
exists: the Lord God the Savior.