The Holyspirit, Our Helper.

Who is the Holyspirit?
What does He mean to Us?
How does He operate?
Why do we need Him?

These are some of the questions I hope we will understand better by the end of this message.

The Holyspirit is the 3rd personality in the Trinity of God.
He is the active force of God. He hovered over the earth, before creation came to being.
In the old testament, He rested upon ordinary men and they performed extra-ordinary things. On the Prophets, Moses, Samson, Daniel, David, etc whenever God wanted to deliver His people he chose some one or a group of people and whenever the Spirit of the Lord rested upon him or them they became super men. They could become 10 times better than their counterparts, or Single-handedly kill Lions and Goliaths or Walk through Fire or Split Red Sea. They simply made impossible possible.

The prophecy of the Holyspirit the way He is manifesting in our time today was declared in Joel 2:28

"And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:"

This prophesy came to pass on the day of Pentecost. We are in the Holyspirit Dimension.
This does not diminish or counteract the Father or the Son, but through the Holyspirit, they are witnessed and glorified, because they are One.

I received a revelation regarding
Proverbs 4:7-9. God's Wisdom is Jesus, and His understanding is the Holyspirit. With this understanding now read;

7. Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

8 Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.

9 She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.

The emphasis, Get wisdom. This is a one off thing. When you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour, you have gotten wisdom. But now it continues to say With all thy getting get understanding. This is a continuous process. Let me translate, it means keep yielding to the Holyspirit for more understanding. To know God's mind, His thoughts, His nature, His Vision, His plans. Just keep yielding to the Holyspirit and you will receive His revelations.

What are God's revelations? They are manifestations of the Spirit. The 9 gifts of the Spirit.
Gift of Wisdom, Knowledge, Discernment of spirits, Faith, Healing, Working of Miracles, Divers tongues, Interpretation of Tongues, Prophecy.
Also the Fruit of the Spirit which refers to God's nature: Patience, Love, Mercy, Gentleness, Peace, Joy, etc.

Now, there is something very important that Jesus told His disciples after he ressurrected. After the Resurrection, Jesus had been Glorified. He had Conquered Earth, Death and Hell. He has experienced all it means to be a Man and He's returned to His God-status.
He knows our limitations, our inclinations. Our weakness and Temptations. And he realised no man can be righteous, we can't even understand His purpose, we can't hear Him. He knows we will still perish by ourselves. Then He told His disciples the only solution. They needed the Holyspirit. Because without Him, they were weak.

Luke 24:49 And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.

John.16.12 - "I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. [NKJV]
John.16.13 - However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. [NKJV

Now the disciples, strong followers of Jesus Christ, the most loyal men as far as loyalty is concerned. They had heard it all the Hard Truths, yet they stayed. They had denied their lives, families and jobs and dedicated their lives following Christ all over Palestine. But you know what happened even after all their experience in the presence of God? They had little or no faith. They had little or no understanding of the things he was telling them. They had little or no boldness. They couldn't even perform miracles except when Jesus gave them some authority to do so. To make matters worse, the moment Jesus was arrested they all disappeared and even denied ever knowing Him, out of fear. But can you blame them? Jesus understood so He never judged them. They lacked the Holyspirit.

I needed to stress this because we have so many Chrstians who have been in the church (Presence of Christ) following Him for years but never received the Holyspirit.

Now what did the Holyspirit do in the lives of the Disciples?
He Empowered them for ministry.

Peter who denied Jesus before a maiden and few soldiers, started to Declare and Preach about Christ before Thousands, after the Holyghost baptism on the Pentecost.
The rest of the Disciples who couldn't understand would begin have divine knowledge of all truths and wrote the Books of the New testament.
Paul could confront Kings and Soldiers fearlessly, proclaiming Christ even at the face of persecution and death.

The importance of the Holyspirit cannot be overemphasised. Let us continue to yield to Him everyday, in all we do. Why?

John.14.16 - And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever-- [NKJV]
John.14.17 - the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. [NKJV]
John.14.18 - I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. [NKJV]
John.14.19 - "A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also. [NKJV
John.14.20 - At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. [NKJV]

Luke 11:13
So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who keep asking him!"
Emphasis on keep asking Him.

May we receive the Grace to ask and receive, seek and find, knock and have heaven open to us by the Holyspirit in Jesus name. Amen.

Gal.5.22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

1 Corinthians 12:7-11 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.

This is deeper than you think. I have experienced life without him and I get so overwhelmed with emotions knowing there are still so many living without Him. God help us and help them.

Analysis of Section Initiate Degree 4 Monograph 9
(Defending AMORC against Pierre S. Freeman Critics)

Please read the monograph to get a full grasp of the lessons being taught in understanding the views of the Rosicrucian with regard to numbers. With the Rosicrucian members holding belief in acquiring more knowledge regarding the world, it is hard to believe that Pierre S. Freeman has the audacity of criticizing our Sacred Order.

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The monograph currently under review is continuing discussions on Nodin’s manuscript, from whence discussions on the nous, noumena and phenomena have been dealt with in the previous reviews. But in this monograph, we move on from the previous subject to shift our focus to the subject of numerology or the science of numbers. An excerpt from the words of Martinism’s founder, Louis Claude de Saint Martin was quoted as it relates to the subject under study. Louis Claude de Saint Martin opined that numbers had some mystic importance attached to them and that they stood as symbols with potent meanings. More of his thoughts are available in the Monograph and in his work known as Of Numbers. Kindly refer to both sources to get more in-depth and detailed understanding on the topic under study.

The class master got the lesson started with pleasantries to members of the Rosicrucian order and quoted a text from Nodin’s manuscript that relates to the science of numbers also known as numerology. In it he arrogated the definition of Numbers to Pythagoras’s theories that said that “God operates through his laws and his laws operate though numbers”. According to the class master Pythagoras’s view on numerology correlated with the perspective of Saint Martin’s that he quoted in his writing - Of Numbers. The class master explained that the interpretations of these numbers are different across cultures, religious borders and all. The Egyptian interpretation of numbers was the first one to be recognized and used by most people until the Greeks came up with their own interpretation.

This Greek interpretation of the science of numbers is credited to be the truest of all number interpretations. From the monograph under review, we see that Pythagoras’s view of numbers as symbols was to help represent ideas. An example of this particular theory is the idea of the 10 sets of opposites, on which existence is pivoted upon. These sets of opposites include one and many, limited and unlimited, right and left, male and female, rest and motion, light and darkness, good and evil, square and oblong, odd and even, straight and curved. He imputed permanence into the number sets by adding the first four numbers (1, 2, 3, 4) to give 10 as result. Pythagoras consequently attached importance to this decade and even said it is the essence of All and All in essence (the most sacred tetraktys). This was the first degree of his lesson.

With Pythagoras’s second degree, he taught his students the laws of morality and governance. According to this degree and his beliefs, humanity was supposed to be governed. Pythagoras’s third degree lesson comprised of esoteric teachings only meant for those who have shown dedication in the first and second degrees. This means that to only those believers do the secrets of Pythagorean numerology accrue.

The Rosicrucian’s perspectives on numerology were also extensively taught in this monograph as they resonate with Nodin’s statement. There is a table in the monograph that shows the traditional designations and symbols of the numbers. The monograph also has in it another table that shows the individual material and spiritual meanings of numbers and their joint connotations as far as numerology is concerned. The practical application aspect of the monograph has a chart that exhibits the numbers as well as their denotations in the science of numbers.

Please read the monograph to get a full grasp of the lessons being taught in understanding the views of the Rosicrucian with regard to numbers. With the Rosicrucian members holding belief in acquiring more knowledge regarding the world, it is hard to believe that Pierre S. Freeman has the audacity of criticizing our Sacred Order.

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