OF all the weird, fanciful, and fabulous stories appertaining to the Gods and other spiritual entities of the olden times, whose capricious adventures we find so profusely narrated in oriental mythology--of all the strange, mythical and mystical feats, and ever-varying and ever-diverging changes in the shape, appearance, sex, and modes of manifestation which characterize the hobgoblins or ghostly beings which comprise the esoteric stock of the ancient mysteries, that appertaining to the third member of "the hypostatic union," the Holy Ghost, seems to stand pre-eminent. And I propose here to submit the facts to show that the Holy Ghost story of the Christian Gospels, like the more ancient pagan versions of the same story, is marked by the same wild, discordant and legendary characteristics which abound in all the accounts of gods and ghosts found recorded in the religious books of various nations. The following brief exposition of the history and exploits of this anomalous, nondescript, chameleon-like being will clearly evince that the same fanciful, metaphorical and fabulous changes in the size, shape, sex and appearance of this third limb of the triune God are found in the Christian Scriptures which are disclosed in the more ancient oriental traditions. We will first exhibit a classification of the names and characteristics of this imaginary being drawn from the gospels and epistles of the Christian bible, by which it will be observed that scarcely any two references to it agree in assigning it the same character or attributes. 1. In John xiv. 26, the Holy Ghost is spoken of as a person or personal God. 2. In Luke iii. 22, the Holy Ghost changes, and assumes the form of a dove. 3. In Matt. xiii. 16, the Holy Ghost becomes a spirit 4. In John i. 32, the Holy Ghost is presented as an inanimate, senseless object. 5. In John v. 7, the Holy Ghost becomes a God--the third member of the Trinity.' 6. In Acts ii. 1, the Holy Ghost is averred to be "a mighty, rushing wind." 7. In Acts x. 38, the Holy Ghost, we infer, from its mode of application, is an ointment. 8. In John xx. 22, the Holy Ghost is the breath, as we legitimately infer by its being breathed into the mouth of the recipient after the ancient oriental custom. 9. In Adis ii. 3, we learn the Holy Ghost "sat upon each of them," probably in the form of a bird, as at Jesus' baptism. 10. In Adis ii. 1, the Holy Ghost appears as "cloven tongues of fire." 11. In Luke ii. 26, the Holy Ghost is the author of a revelation or inspiration. 12. In Adis viii. 17, the Holy Ghost is a magnetic aura imparted by the "laying on of hands." 13. In Mark i. 8, the Holy Ghost is a medium or element for baptism. 14. In Adis xxviii. 25, the Holy Ghost appears with vocal organs, and speaks. 15. In Heb. vi. 4, the Holy Ghost is dealt out or imparted by measure. 16. In Luke iii. 22, the Holy Ghost appears with a tangible body.