manifestations of God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—are all in him as soul, body, and proceeding life.
That the Holy Spirit is not a distinct person, but an influence or effluence, or proceeding, from him, is shown by the fact that after his resurrection he appeared to his disciples and breathed on them, saying, "Receive ye the Holy Spirit." A person cannot be breathed out from another person. The Greek Word for spirit, "pneuma," means "a current of air," "a breath." It expresses on the natural plane its counterpart on the spiritual plane, namely, the Divine breathing or the Divine proceeding.
Why did not Jesus state all these things plainly in the letter? We answer that he did, but that his disciples simply could not comprehend what he was trying to tell them. He at last gave up trying to tell them. He said,
"I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now."
He recognized, after much experiment, their state to be such that they could not then understand him. It was far more hopeless than to try to enable them to comprehend at that time the truth of and the laws governing the
