Fergal:
See if you can tie it up this way, taking quotes from Scripture and the Creed:
"In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the word was God.",
"Your words are spirit, Lord, and they are life.",
"The Holy Spirit is the Lord, the giver of life." Therefore the Holy Spirit is the giver of life, life issues from the the word of God and the word was with God and was God from the beginning.
Oh I dunno. Now I know I am going in circles.
Apologies.
Why do you treat the sacred writing as if it too was going in circles ?.
The Holy Spirit comes from the deeps and brings a person to that deep and much has been said of the apprehension of God as Spirit and made understandale through the life of Jesus.
See how great our heritage is and why so many great Apostiolic Christians recognised Dionysius the Areopagite while contemporaries are basically no different than the Alogi,brutes who act and write without reason.Let those brutes who say that I claim something when I remind people of what already exists speak on the matter of Spirit in a manner that reflects its Presence in Christ and in his followers.
CHAPTER IV
That it that is the pre-eminent Cause of all things sensibly perceived is not itself any of those things.
We therefore maintain that the universal and transcendent Cause of all things is neither without being nor without life, nor without reason or intelligence; nor is it a body, nor has it form or shape, quality, quantity or weight; nor has it any localized, visible or tangible existence; it is not sensible or perceptible; nor is it subject to any disorder or inordination nor influenced by any earthly passion; neither is it rendered impotent through the effects of material causes and events; it needs no light; it suffers no change, corruption, division, privation or flux; none of these things can either be identified with or attributed unto it.
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That it that is the pre-eminent Cause of all things intelligibly perceived is not itself any of those things.
Again, ascending yet higher, we maintain that it is neither soul nor intellect; nor has it imagination, opinion reason or understanding; nor can it be expressed or conceived, since it is neither number nor order; nor greatness nor smallness; nor equality nor inequality; nor similarity nor dissimilarity; neither is it standing, nor moving, nor at rest; neither has it power nor is power, nor is light; neither does it live nor is it life; neither is it essence, nor eternity nor time; nor is it subject to intelligible contact; nor is it science nor truth, nor kingship nor wisdom; neither one nor oneness, nor godhead nor goodness; nor is it spirit according to our understanding, nor filiation, nor paternity; nor anything else known to us or to any other beings of the things that are or the things that are not; neither does anything that is know it as it is; nor does it know existing things according to existing knowledge; neither can the reason attain to it, nor name it, nor know it; neither is it darkness nor light, nor the false nor the true; nor can any affirmation or negation be applied to it, for although we may affirm or deny the things below it, we can neither affirm nor deny it, inasmuch as the all-perfect and unique Cause of all things transcends all affirmation, and the simple pre-eminence of Its absolute nature is outside of every negation- free from every limitation and beyond them all.
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