First, I am Catholic, and so is this other guy.
I responded to him and asked, "Do you remember how you felt when the first news about Catholic priest abuses in Boston broke, a couple of decades ago?"
He replied, "I was sort of numbed with disbelief."
"Okay," I continued, "and have you ever thought about how such a scandal could exist for so long, not to mention other scandals? Have you ever thought about the power structure at the top levels of the church administration that manipulated things to keep all the scandals a secret?"
"I guess I never thought of it that way," he replied.
"Well, " I said, "do you think that the the Catholic church is the only entity in the history of the world to have a power structure, and secret scandals, etc.?"
Silence.
"And so," I added, "by simple extrapolation, I am confident that a relatively tiny number of people in the highest positions among the governments, corporations and other institutions are all busy pushing their agendas, and protecting their secrets. And if that's true, it's probably just as true that an even higher level of controllers are orchestrating things to their advantage and to further their agenda."
Deer in the headlights stare.
Now, if I translated from the Greek how the Holy Spirit is defined. There is so much more of an understanding of what the Holy Spirit is contrasted to what is being taught. The earliest Bible we have is the Greek Septuagint. The Septuagint was used widely by the early Christians exclusively as their Old Testament Bible. This is a widely accepted fact and that the quotations of Christ and His Apostles that occur in the New Testament are taken exclusively from the Septuagint. According to tradition,Ptolemy Philadelphus, who purchased the freedom of Israelites in his territories, arranged for 6 scholars from each of the 12 tribes to translate the first five books of the Old Testament from the ancient Hebrew into Greek around 285 BC. By this time, a practical knowledge of the Hebrew language was all but lost among the Hellenized Israelites citizens.
After the conquests of Alexander the Great, Greek had become the common language of the known world. So Ptolemy gathered 72 scholars in Alexandria, Egypt and they completed the Pentateuch (first five Books of the OT). The Latin name 'Septuagint', meaning 70, was later, applied to the translation. Both 'The Letter of Aristeas', who was an assistant of Ptolemy and the historian Flavius Josephus record in detail the history of the making of the Septuagint. It is unclear when the rest of the OT was finished in the Septuagint, but it was certainly finished by 150 BC. The original Hebrew OT are now lost in antiquity.
Having stated this, I needed to give a foundation to why I'm using the Greek for translating when I'm talking about the Holy Spirit. The word 'Holy' is no where to be found in any manuscripts. It is a word added by the patristic writers to the Scripture. Instead of 'Spirit', we have [Holy] Spirit. The word 'holy' basically means 'separated'. It helps better understand and separate this Spirit from other spirit. The Greek word for 'Spirit' is 'pneuma'. We see this in English words like 'pneumatic' or 'pneumonia'. It means in the Greek-- "a current of air, i.e. breath (blast) or a breeze." The meaning goes further to include -- "by analogy or figuratively, a spirit, i.e. (human) the rational soul, (by implication) vital principle, mental disposition, etc., or (superhuman) an angel, demon, or (divine) God, Christ's spirit, the Holy Spirit:--ghost, life, spirit(-ual, -ually), mind." The root word of 'pneuma' is 'pneo' -- to breathe hard, i.e. breeze:--blow.
The reason I've mentioned this is the Holy Spirit is not at all like a Zeus like figure, but something else. The word 'pneuma' is closely associated to the Greek word 'psuche', which means -- "1. breath (a) the breath of life (1) the vital force which animates the body and shows itself in breathing of animals and of men. (b) life (c) that in which there is life (1) a living being, a living soul. 2. the soul (a) the seat of feelings, desires, affections, aversions, (our heart, soul, etc.) (b) the (human) soul in so far as it is constituted that by the right use of the aids offered it by God it can attain its highest end and secure eternal blessedness, the soul regarded as a moral being designed for everlasting life. (c) the soul as an essence which differs from the body and is not dissolved by death (distinguished from other parts of the body)."
The meaning of the Holy Spirit goes much deeper than I presented here. The point is the Holy Spirit is an Intelligence; a Mentality of Separation that is everywhere and is exemplified throughout Nature and Nature's Laws. In fact, in Thayer and Smith, "The New Testament Greek Lexicon" we are told to compare this to the Greek word 'psuchikos' --1. produced by nature, inborn 2. agreeable to nature 3. governed by (the instincts of) nature.
This all ties back to the Fibonacci sequence and the significance of 3,6, and 9 that is found throughout Nature as part of the Holy Spirit. Tesla, Schauberger, and others understood the secrets of Nature revealed to them by the Holy Spirit. All of the secrets for our betterment and enlightenment is found here.