DLord 51, 54 - There Is One God and That God Is the Lord

DLord 51 [3, 5]

Because the Spirit of Truth or the Holy Spirit
is the same as the Lord,
who is the truth itself.
It also says “There was not the Holy Spirit yet
because Jesus was not yet glorified”.
(John 7:39)
This is because after His glorification
or full union with the Father,
which was accomplished by His suffering on the cross,
the Lord was then divine wisdom itself
and divine truth-therefore the Holy Spirit.

The reason the Lord breathed on the disciples and said
“Receive the Holy Spirit”
was that all of heaven’s breathing originates with the Lord.
Angels breathe just as we do, and their hearts beat.
Their breathing depends on
their acceptance of divine wisdom from the Lord
and their heartbeat or pulse
depends on their acceptance of divine love from the Lord.

When “the Holy Spirit” is used in speaking of the Lord
it means His divine life and therefore Himself,
and specifically it means the life His wisdom gives us,
which is called divine truth;
therefore the spirit of the prophets,
which is also called the Holy Spirit,
means divine truth that comes from the Lord.

Since, then, the Holy Spirit means specifically
the Lord’s divine wisdom and therefore His divine truth,
we can see why it is that people say of the Holy Spirit
that It enlightens, teaches, and inspires.

DLord 54

It is now apparent from this
that it was Jehovah, the Lord from eternity,
who spoke through the prophets,
and that wherever the Holy Spirit is mentioned,
it means the Lord Himself.

So we conclude that
there is one God in both person and essence
and that that God is the Lord.