Published in The Gospel of God’s Love, page 247, John the Apostle.
” I want to say that your condition is improving, and that in a few nights we will be able to continue our messages. Then you will feel happier and better spiritually.
“I was with you tonight at the meeting, and it did you good, for there were many spirits present who have the Love, to some degree, and their influence was being exercised on and felt by the listeners.
“The preacher is a man with a considerable amount of the Divine Love in his soul, and only if he had a true conception of Jesus, he would find himself possessing more of this Love. His idea of the Holy Spirit is such that it interferes with his receiving the effect of Its workings. He thinks and believes it to be an entity – in other words, a being of substance and thought and sentient capacity – whereas it is not, but merely evidence of the working of God’s own Soul in the bestowing of His Love and Mercy.
“The Holy Spirit is God’s messenger for this purpose, and is not a creation of His, as is Jesus and the rest of humankind, It is merely an “energy” of the Soul of the Father, conveying His Love. The Holy Spirit could have no existence without the Soul of the Father, and is entirely dependent upon the power of that Soul for its existence; and only in the sense that it conveys God’s Love can it be called “the Comforter.”
“And so, to “grieve the spirit,” as the preacher said, could only mean that the Love of God is grieved-which in fact is not true, for this Love is never “grieved.” It is so great and so intense in its desire that humans shall receive It that It never becomes grieved – though it is often “disappointed,” as you may say, that humans will not receive It. But It is always present, waiting for humans, by their longings and prayers, to open their souls to Its reception. So this remember: that this Love of the Father is so very great that the spirit which conveys It to humans cannot become “grieved.”
“You must pray more and let your faith increase, and you will learn what the Holy Spirit is, and how it operates, and your prayers will be answered, and your desires realized. Your brother in Christ, John”