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the Holy Ghost proceeds, bearing all Its gifts.\par (John Ruysbroeck)\f1\par \par \f0 What is soil\f1\'e8\f0 d, make thou pure;\f1 \f0 What is wounded, work its cure;\f1 \f0 What is parch\f1\'e8\f0 d, fructify;\f1 \f0 What is rigid, gently bend; What is frozen, warmly tend; Straighten what goes erringly. (From the thirteenth century hymn to the Holy Spirit,Veni Sancte Spiritus, translated by J.M. Neale)\f1\par \par \pard\keepn\nowidctlpar\s1\sb240\sa120\b\f2 Foreword\par \pard\nowidctlpar\b0\f0\par \f1\par \f0 THE THEME of this book is the problem of good and evil and their reconciliation in Christ. At first I had the Holy Spirit in mind as the central focus for my meditation, and indeed the Spirit plays a primary role in the book as my agent of human advance to the knowledge of God. Since so many books on the Holy Spirit had appeared in recent years, most of them directly related to the Charismatic Renewal within the Church, I intended concentrating more on the psychological and psychical aspects of spiritual life, and indeed these matters occupy a considerable part of the text. But as work proceeded, it was shown to me that something more was required: the charting of the work of the spirit in man from the birth of spiritual awareness toLVAL the ultimate confrontation with evil that brings with it personal death and the rebirth of a new person. The five crucial events in the life of Jesus - birth, baptism, transfiguration, crucifixion, and resurrection - are the paradigm of man's ultimate deification, and as such these have been the salient points of reference in this account of the work of the Spirit in human consciousness.\f1\par \par \f0 As the work progressed, much was shown me concerning the nature of the very limited reality of this world of toil and strife. The conclusion of the book was something I had not considered when I started writing: an analysis of the polarities of darkness and light between which both our mortal lives are suspended and the world grows, suffers and ultimately perishes, and then of their ultimate reconciliation in a realm beyond mortal distinction and separation.\f1\par \par \f0 The theme is not a new one, but it needs to be restated in terms of the contemporary human dilemma.\f1\par \par \f0 # Prologue\f1\par \tab\par \f0 Chapter 1. Birth - Natural and Spiritual\f1\par \f0 Chapter 2. The Birth into Spiritual Awareness\f1\par \f0 Chapter 3. The Consecration of the Will\f1\par \f0 Chapter 4. Descent into Darkness\f1\par \f0 Chapter 5. The Regeneration of the Personality\f1\par \f0 Chapter 6. The Spirit as Healer\f1\par \f0 Chapter 7. The Spirit and the Psyche\f1\par \f0 Chapter 8. The Psychic Gifts of the Holy Spirit\f1\par \f0 Chapter 9. The Spirit in the World\f1\par \f0 Chapter 10. The Serving Spirit\f1\par \f0 Chapter 11. The Spirit of Prayer\f1\par \f0 Chapter 12. Humility and the Spirit\f1\par \f0 Chapter 13. The Fulfilling Spirit\f1\par \f0 Chapter 14. Transfiguration\f1\par \f0 Chapter 15. Confrontation\f1\par \f0 Chapter 16. The Triumph of Evil\f1\par \lang2058\f0 Chapter 17. Peace\f1\par \f0 Epilogue \f1\par \par \b\f0 Smouldering Fire\par \b0\par \f1\par \pard\keepn\nowidctlpar\s1\sb240\sa120\lang1033\b\f2 Prologue\par \pard\nowidctlpar\b0\f0\par \f1\par \f0 In thLVALe beginning of creation, when God made heaven and earth, the earth was without form and void, with darkness over the face of the abyss and a mighty wind that swept over the surface of the waters. God said, "Let there be light" and there was a light. \lang2058 (Gen_1:1-3)\f1\par \par \lang1033\f0 TO BE BORN is to come to a knowledge of one's own independent existence. God created form out of the void so that He might love it and that in coming to its own self-awareness, it might reciprocate that love to its Creator.\f1\par \f0 People often speak of love as if it were an expression of cosmic benevolence directed in a diffused way at no particular person or thing. It is sometimes called good-will. Such good-will is deeply suspect because it affects to be benevolent and universal in scope, but fails to commit itself to a single finite action. In other words, real love is deeply personal. Eventually it extends to embrace to all people, indeed the whole creation, but it never allows any one person to be submerged in the sea of corporate humanity or any one thing to be swamped in the mass of the created whole.\f1\par \f0 God showed His love by His directive Word who ordered creation, and His out-flowing Spirit Who infused life into it so that it might progress under its own momentum, yet inspired by the effulgent energy of the Godhead - Father, Word of Wisdom, and the Spirit of Life. When the creation was effected out of the void, which is the totality of the divine presence, time, as we understand it, began. It started with creation and ends when the creature returns of his own free will to the Creator, as perfect in love for Him as He is for His creatures.\f1\par \f0 "God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, that everyone who has faith in him may not die but have eternal life" (\cf2\ul Joh_3:16\cf0\ulnone ) This statement does not refer only to that event which Christians call the Incarnation, but is a measure of the eternal gift of His Word that the Father bestows on the universe He hasLVAL created. The Incarnation is to be seen as the supreme demonstration in the mortal flesh of the external relationship that exists between Creator and creation.\f1\par \f0 "Then God said, 'Let us make man in our own image and likeness to rule the fish in the sea, the birds of heaven, the cattle, all wild animals on earth, and all reptiles that crawl upon the earth.' So God created man in his own image." (\cf3 Gen_1:26-27\cf0 ).\f1\par \par \f0 In the beginning the creation is scarcely aware of its separation from the Creator. It is only when the fully sentient creature, whom we call man, is formed, that a personal consciousness is added which can see itself apart from the creative process as well as at one with it. In the Creation story man himself is at first unaware of his separate identity from the world of bliss he inhabits. And there is no death. But at a certain stage in his growth it is decreed that he must learn of the principle of diversity that governs creation, so that he may begin to play his part in the exchange of love that energises the universe. Love, as we have already seen, is a willed exchange of devotion, that gives of its very essence between one individual and another. When there is primal union in which the one person does not so much recognise his own identity as separate from the other, there can be no exchange of love from him to the other. This principle is seen in marital life whenever a child is born; the mother becomes aware of her offspring as soon as she sees it separate from herself and she loves it for itself alone. But the child cannot begin to reciprocate that love for many years, until it comes to a knowledge of its own identity and its relationship to its mother.\f1\par \f0 God, of course, knows His creation from the beginning, but the creature has little knowledge of Him. Man, at least in our little world, is the creature who has given the supreme privilege of having so highly developed an intellectual and spiritual consciousness that he can aspire to a directLVAL relationship with God. Man is, therefore, not only an animal but also a spiritual being - one in whom the Word of God is capable of speaking and the Spirit of God of acting consciously to awaken the whole world from sleep to purposeful activity.\f1\par \f0 And so it was man's supreme privilege to love God directly, in so doing to reflect God's love on to the entire universe so that it too could grow into knowledge of God's love and rise from the sleep of darkness to the life of plentitude. But man misused his knowledge. He learnt the nature of the principle of diversity that governs creation only to well, but instead of using the power that was given to him constructively for the raising-up of the world he used it to divisively for his own selfish ends. Then with the knowledge of good and evil enter the world, with man heavily identified with the evil that diminishes creation and brings it back to the point of primal chaos, instead of leading it onwards beyond the darkness to the full light of God's love. This was the tragedy of the event that is called "the Fall". When man fell from union with God into conscious separation, time became an instrument of limitation, and man was imprisoned in a finite world limited by space and bounded by death. And he was destined to come to a full knowledge of himself in the suffering that is part of living in a world of separation, removed from a direct knowledge of God.\f1\par \f0 This is the inner meaning of the Creation story told in the first four chapters of the Book of Genesis. Of course it would be not only absurd to relate this story to our scientific understanding of the creation of the world and the theory of evolution, that is accepted by all knowledgeable scientists, but it would also show a lack of that deeper imaginative grasp of truth that marks the height of human wisdom. What this biblical account of man's origin is attempting to penetrate is his relationship to the source of creation, which we call God, and his fall from that union to a separativLVALe, sinful existence. Although time commenced when the creation was called forth "out of the void", it becomes a conscious modality only when a creature is evolved who can be so aware of it that his life is centered on the demands it makes in terms of finitude and death. Whilst in the vast universe of which we are now more fully aware than in the past, there can be so many myriads of intelligent forms than can work constructively with time, in our own world it seems that human intelligence alone is so well endowed. It is the limitation of the scientist's understanding of man that he can see the human race only as an evolving animal form with remarkably high intelligence based on an exceptional development of the brain. Another dimension to this view of human nature needs to added: the infusion of the Word and Spirit of God into a physical form, or body, that is fit to see it. This 'mystical' dimension of the human personality cannot be proved scientifically, but it is experienced daily in the lives of human beings and recorded in the annals of human sanctity that illuminate the history of all the great religious traditions.\f1\par \f0 At the end of the forth chapter of the Book of Genseses it is recorded "At the time men began to invoke the Lord by name." Religion, as we know it, is born as alienated man becomes aware of deity, separated by an immense gulf from him and yet closer to himself than his own soul. Religion is to reach its end in the New Jerusalem, where there is no temple; for its temple is the sovereign Lord God and the Lamb (the Word made flesh Who has redeemed man from his separative existence and reconciled him to the supreme calling as a Son of God). The entire journey of humanity from bestiality to divinity is spanned in the vast prospect of biblical imagery.\f1\par \pard\cf3\f3\par } r xo l  o * Q  17 Peace"16 The Triumph of EvilD>215 ConfrontationL2&14 Transfiguration6*13 The Fulfilling SpiritxB6 12 Humility and the SpiritF: 11 The Spirit of Fire <0 10 The Serving Spirit^s<0 09 The Spirit on the WorldeF: 08 The Psychic Gifts of the Holy SpiritجZ`T07 The Spirit and the PsychePJ>06 The Spirit as Healer F@405 The Regeneration of the Personality:^R04 Descent into Darkness\z2B603 The Consecration of the Will{*PD02 The Birth into Spiritual Awareness\]$\P01 Birth-Natural and SpiritualyNB00 contentsb$(LVAL{\rtf1\ansi\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss\fprq2\fcharset0 Arial;}{\f1\froman\fprq2\fcharset0 Georgia;}{\f2\froman\fprq2\fcharset0 Times New Roman;}{\f3\fnil\fcharset0 Georgia;}} {\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;} {\stylesheet{ Normal;}{\s1 heading 1;}} {\*\generator Riched20 5.40.11.2210;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\keepn\nowidctlpar\s1\sb240\sa120\lang1033\b\f0\fs22 Birth-Natural and Spiritual\par \pard\nowidctlpar\b0\f1\par \f2\par \f1 Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. Thus the man became a living creature. (Gen_2:7)\f2\par \par \f1 THE SPIRIT OF God infuses all living creatures. Man in this respect is no different from any other living being. The body is created out of the material of the earth from which it is fashioned by an artifice so marvellous in its complexity and yet reliable in its uniformity that when a flaw does occur, we are all shocked by it. The Word effects creation, and is in the creature. The Spirit infuses the creature with life. By this life the creature is made capable of progressing by experience in a medium of time through the limitation of space.\f2\par \par \f1 This is the world of becoming, in which all creatures are to experience their own identity in a dimension of limitation and finitude.\f2\par \par \f1 It is unfortunately true that many people appear to function at so low a level of consciousness that the seat of identity, which may be called the ego or the personal self, does not play a real part in any of their actions. Most actions are really unconscious responses to outer events and inner drives that impinge themselves on people, and the end of the action is simply the achievement of immediate comfort. In the case of many individuals, there is an awareness of the body only, but no communication with a deeper essence within it. However, when one makes a conscious decision, no matter how shallow and selfish it appears, one is at least responding to the core of identity, the personal self. A perLVALson is one who reacts consciously from this independent centre of identity and is prepared to follow the call of that centre in faith. The person is truly born when he is able to make an independent decision and act on it.\f2\par \par \f1 To come to the knowledge of one's true identity, which is equivalent to affirming that one has a unique, priceless essence to give the world, is a process that should begin very early in life. The infant first comes to know its value because its parents acknowledge it and love it for what it is, although it can give nothing in return - except itself. Though in its present state it is helpless and a source of inconvenience, it is also a being of infinite potentiality. As soon as it is accepted as a person, it can begin to explore its own personality and find that it is a focus of unique presence. To accept a person as he now stands is to start the process of his own self recognition. Admittedly this self that is recognised is a fragile thing, depending for its support on the good-will of the outside world, seen primarily as the family. But it is an important beginning.\f2\par \par \f1 To be centred in the self is necessary for survival, let alone effective being. The satisfaction of the desires of the body for comfort is a paramount feature of a child's life. If the body is given its due acknowledgement with acceptance and love, the child will accept the physical part of his make-up without the embarrassment or the exhibitionism that is a feature of a poorly integrated personality. And the child will also begin to grasp that its identity extends beyond the confines of the body, which at the same time is in no way diminished in his estimation, for it is the essential ingredient of his life on earth. And so it comes about that, as a person grows into adult life, his identity is based on both his physical integrity and his growing mind.\f2\par \par \f1 But even this is not the end of our growth into identity. One's sense of inner presence must be such that is can wLVALithstand the blows of outer fortune. Whereas the child's sense of identity is fragile, depending on the approval and acceptance of those stronger than itself, when an individual comes more fully to himself, he has to make decisions that may estrange and even antagonise those closest to him in blood ties. This is where the moment of willed choice, of crisis, is so important. When this decision is taken and acted upon, the person affirms himself and sets out on an independent course in life. This course may appear to be extremely ill-chosen and have disastrous effects in the short term, but no matter how short-sighted his vision, the participant in life has at least left the shores of stagnation and entered the turbulent waters of experience.\f2\par \par \f1 A real decision always has moral overtones; the question of what is right or wrong in terms of the individual's well-being and his relationships with those around him becomes increasingly important. When the person begins to see his identity as a point not only confined to himself, but as an aspect of the community in which he lives, he is coming to a deeper appreciation of himself and is venturing into his spiritual inheritance.\f2\par \par \f1 The experience of individual identity is one's first taste of reality. As the experience of individuality becomes more extended into an awareness of communal identity, so does the understanding of reality grow in comprehensiveness until personal identity becomes increasingly irrelevant except in the context of fellowship with others. It is through the Spirit of God that growth into individual awareness and its expansion into communal identification becomes possible. Man becomes his full self when he is one with the Spirit of God that informs the spirit within him.\f2\par \par \f1 Although the Spirit of God is always within man, being the very flow of life that courses through his body, human consciousness in its natural state is seldom aware of that Spirit. The individual begins to know the impact of TLVAL he Holy Spirit when decisions of a moral nature impinge on him, and he has to make conscious choices, which by the very nature of the circumstances are bound to alienate others whom he holds dear. When the Spirit is pulsating through a person, he is no longer asleep to reality; at last he knows that his life has a meaning and a purpose that transcends the merely evanescent satisfaction of the physical senses.\f2\par \par \f1 "It is time for you to wake out of sleep, for deliverance is nearer to us now than it was when we first believed. It is far on in the night; day is near." (Rom_13:11)\f2\par \par \f1 That which awakens us from the somnolence of inertia to a realisation of the self is the Holy Spirit. As a person grows into life, so he becomes increasingly responsive to the call of the Spirit, a call that directs him on a far journey away from simple thoughtless conformity with the life around him to a path of hidden promise, to the experience of a new realm at once unknown and infinitely desirable. The call may lead him through terrible dangers and almost insurmountable difficulties, but the strength of the self within, impelled by the Spirit of God, will ensure a final victory. This victory will not necessarily be a worldly or an intellectual one; it is a victory of the spirit of man over the flesh that anchors him to a present situation of impotence, so that the flesh may be informed, transmuted, and glorified to that spirituality which is the stuff of eternal life.\f2\par \par \f1 What is the relationship between the spirit of man and the Holy Spirit? They are not identical, at least in natural man, yet neither are they totally disidentical. The spirit in any living organism is the power within it that drives it forward into the unknown. In the more primitive forms of life, this movement is activated by