=23. Personality of Each Member of the Godhead.=--From the evidence already presented, it is clear that the Father is a personal Being, possessing a definite form, with bodily parts, and spiritual passions. Jesus Christ, who was with the Father[89] in spirit before coming to dwell in the flesh, and through whom the worlds were made,[90] lived among men as a man, with all the physical characteristics of a human being; after His resurrection He appeared in the same form;[91] in that form He ascended into heaven;[92] and in that form He has manifested Himself to the Nephites, and to modern prophets. Now we are assured that Christ was in the express image of His Father,[93] after which image man also has been created.[94] Therefore we know that both the Father and the Son are in form and stature perfect men; each of them possesses a tangible body, infinitely pure and perfect, and attended by transcendent glory, yet a body of flesh and bones.[95] [89] John xvii, 5. [90] John i, 3; Heb. i, 2; Eph. iii, 9; Col. i, 16. [91] John xx, 14-15, 19-20, 26-27; xxi, 1-14; Matt, xxviii, 9; Luke xxiv, 15-31, 36-44. [92] Acts i, 9-11. [93] Heb. i, 3; Col. i, 15; II Cor. iv, 4. [94] Genesis i, 26-27; James iii, 8-9. [95] Doc. and Cov. cxxx, 22. =24.= The Holy Ghost, called also Spirit, and Spirit of the Lord,[96] Spirit of God,[97] Comforter,[98] and Spirit of Truth,[99] is not tabernacled in a body of flesh and bones, but is a personage of spirit;[100] yet we know that the Spirit has manifested Himself in the form of a man.[101] It is by the ministrations of the Spirit that the Father and the Son operate in their dealings with mankind;[102] through Him knowledge is communicated,[103] and by Him the purposes of the Godhead are achieved.[104] The Holy Ghost is the witness of the Father and the Son,[105] declaring to man their attributes, bearing record of the other personages of the Godhead.[106] [96] I Nephi iv, 6; xi, 8; Mos. xiii, 5. Acts ii, 4; viii, 29; x, 19; Rom. viii, 10, 26; I Thess. v, 19. [97] Matt, iii, 16; xii, 28; I Nephi xiii, 12. [98] John xiv, 16. [99] John xv, 26; xvi, 13. [100] Doc. and Cov. cxxx, 22. [101] I Nephi xi, 11. [102] Neh. ix, 30; Isa. xlii, 1; Acts x, 19; Alma xii, 3; Doc. and Cov. cv, 36; xcvii, 1. [103] John xvi, 13; I Nephi x, 19; Doc. and Cov. xxxv, 13; 1, 10. [104] Gen. i, 2; Job xxvi, 13; Psalms civ, 30; Doc. and Cov. xxix, 31. [105] John xv, 26; Acts v, 32; xx, 23; I Cor. ii, 11; xii, 3; III Nephi xi, 32. [106] For a fuller treatment of the Holy Ghost, His personality and attributes, see Lecture viii, p. 162.