17. In Luke i. 5, and many other texts, we are taught people are filled
with the Holy Ghost.
18. In Matt. xi. 15, the Holy Ghost falls upon the people as a
ponderable substance.
19. In Luke iv. 1, the Holy Ghost is a God within a God--"Jesus being
full of the Holy Ghost."
20. In Acts xxi. 11, the Holy Ghost is a being of the masculine or
feminine gender--"Thus saith the Holy Ghost," etc.
21. In John i. 32, the Holy Ghost is of the neuter gender--"It (the
Holy Ghost) abode upon him."
22. In Matt. i. 18, the Holy Ghost becomes a vicarious agent in the
procreation of another God; that is, this third member of the Trinity
aids the first member (the Father) in the creation or generation of the
second member of the triad of bachelor Gods--the Word, or Savior, or Son
of God.
Such are the ever-shifting scenes presented in the Scripture panorama
of the Holy Ghost. Surpassing the fabulous changes of some of the more
ancient demigods, the Christian Holy Ghost undergoes (as is shown by
the above-quoted texts) a perpetual metathesis or metamorphosis--being
variously presented on different occasions as a personal and rational
being, a dove, a spirit, an inanimate object, a God, the wind or a wind,
an ointment, the breath or a breath, cloven tongue of fire, a bird, or
some other flying recumbent animal, a revelator or divine messenger,
a medium or element for baptism, an intelligent, speaking being, a
lifeless, bodiless, sexless being, a measurable fluid substance, a being
possessing a body, ponderable, unconscious substance, a God dwelling
within a God, and, finally--though really first in order--the author
or agent of the incarnation of the second God in the Trinity (Jesus
Christ).
That many of these fabulous conceptions were drawn from mythological
sources will be made manifest by the following facts of history:--
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