From a message by Jesus, in The Gospel of God’s Love:
“I desire to write about the condition of those who think they have received the inflowing or “baptism” of the Holy Spirit, when in fact they have received only that advancement in the purification of their natural love, and in their harmony with the laws of their creation, that causes them to believe that what they are experiencing must be the result of the workings of the Holy Spirit. In this mistaken assumption many humans indulge; for in the happiness which their experience brings them, they fully believe that the Holy Spirit has taken possession of their souls and caused the happiness. But in thus concluding, they may be deceiving themselves; and when they come to an awakening in the spirit life, they may discover their mistake.
“The Holy Spirit is that part of God’s spirit that manifests His presence and care in conveying to human souls His Divine Love. This Love is the highest and greatest and most holy of His possessions and thus is conveyed to His children by the Holy Spirit. This appellation is used in contradistinction to the “spirit” of God which demonstrates the operation of God’s soul in other directions and for different purposes. His creative spirit and caring spirit, and the spirit that makes effective His laws and designs in governing the universe, are not the Holy Spirit, though equally part of God’s soul and equally necessary for the manifestation of His powers and of the exercise of the energies of His Soul.
“As mentioned in the New Testament, when the Holy Spirit was bestowed upon my disciples at Pentecost, it came “as with the sound of a mighty rushing wind” that shook the room in which the disciples were assembled and filled them with its powers – which means only that this Divine Love came into their souls in such abundance that they were shaken in their souls to the extent that they “felt” that the building was disturbed. But in this they were mistaken, for the effect of the Holy Spirit does not affect things of an inanimate nature, but is confined to human souls. And so, whenever the Holy Spirit is spoken of, it should mean only that part of God’s spirit which transforms the souls of humans into the Substance of the Soul of God in His quality of Love.” Amen.