Παράκλητος. The word is built from pará, immediately beside, and klētós, called. The One Who Comes Immediately When Called.

That is not decoration. In this book the Paraclete is never still. He responds. He clothes a life, collaborates, issues decisions in the flow of reality. The demands on a practitioner are measured as consistency toward what the Paraclete asks.

And he is not solemn about it. One of the plainest things I set down in the whole book is my Elder laughing.

A reader who has met the Holy Spirit only as doctrine may find that jarring. I have left it exactly as it stands.