OZman
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Blaspheming the Holy Spirit is the only unforgivable sin. What is it?
Read this in a dictionary of Scripture and myth. No name was attributed to the author.
BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST :—
A symbol of the turning away from the means of salvation.
" Whosoever shall speak against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world nor in that which is to come."— MAT. xii. 32.
This is the attempt which must always be unsuccessful (hence there can be really no blasphemy) to substitute for the living Spirit the dead letter of convention and authority. This attempt is made, not only by theologian and ecclesiastical formalists, but by all men who do not live in accordance with the Divine guidance within them, who do not take up what is committed to them to spiritually profit by, and who fail to accept the Holy Spirit as it comes to them to become the sustaining power in their daily lives. There is much of this incipient blasphemy, for which there can be no forgiveness and no remitting, since there can be no substitute for the Holy Spirit which is the means of the soul's evolution. Until the atma-buddhic vibrations are allowed to permeate the lower nature, and so raise it, there can be no salvation for the soul.