ABSTRACT
The Holy Ghost, proceeding from the Father and the Son, is of one substance, majesty, and glory, with the Father and the Son, very and eternal God. “The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee; wherefore also that which is to be born shall be called holy, the Son of God”. The Spirit dwells in the bodies of men as in a temple. “The Catholic doctrine of the Deity of the Holy Ghost,” it has been truly said, “found a place from the first in the life and worship of the Church; in her worship because in her life. The dogmatic expression of this truth will be sought in vain among the outpourings of Christian devotion. The Creed of Nicæa, it will be remembered, contained no statement whatever on the subject of the procession, for it ended abruptly with the words, “And in the Holy Ghost.”
