THE DIVINE PROCEEDING, CALLED THE HOLY SPIRIT, IS, IN ITS PROPER SENSE, THE WORD, WHEREIN IS THE HOLY OF GOD 1. The Word is the Holy Itself in the Christian Church, on account of the Divine of the Lord that is within it and from it. Therefore the Divine proceeding, called the Holy Spirit, is in its proper sense the Word and the Holy of God. 2. The reason the Lord is the Word, is that it is from the Lord and it is about the Lord, thus it is, in its essence, the Lord Himself. 3. Because the Lord is the Word, He alone is Holy, and He is "the Holy One of Israel" so often mentioned in the Prophets, of whom, moreover, it is there said that He alone is God. 4. It is on this account that the place where the ark was in the tabernacle-because in it was the Law, the beginning of the Word, and above it the mercy seat, and above this the Cherubim, all these things signifying the Lord as the Word-was spoken of as the "Sanctuary" and the "Holy of Holies". 5. It is on this account, too, that the New Jerusalem, the Church that approaches the Lord only and draws truths out of His Word, is spoken of as "holy" and also "the city of holiness", and that the men in whom that Church is are spoken of as "the people of holiness"; also that this Church is "the kingdom of the saints (lit: holy ones), that shall last for ever"*, mentioned in Daniel [Dan. vii 18-27]. 6. The Prophets and the Apostles, because the Word was written through them, are spoken of as "holy". [Luke i 70; Rev. xviii 20]. 7. The Holy Spirit, with reference to the Holy Word taught by the Lord, is termed "the Spirit of Truth" [John xiv 17; xv 26; xvi 13], of which the Lord says that He speaks not from Himself but from the Lord [John xvi 13, 14]; and further that He is that Spirit [John xiv 18; xvi 14-22]. 8. The reason why a man, "who speaks a word against the Holy Spirit is not forgiven" [Matt. xii 32], is because he denies the Divinity of the Lord and the holiness of the Word; for this man is devoid of religion. 9. The reason why one "who speaks a word against the Son of Man" is forgiven [Matt. xii 32] is because he denies that this or that is Divine truth from the Word in the Church, yet he believes that there are Divine truths in and from the Word. "The Son of Man" is Divine truth from the Word in the Church; and this Divine truth cannot be seen by everyone.

[Four pages of the original are missing here.] * The words "that shall last for ever" are omitted in Sk.