Paraclete
The Paraclete refers to the religious concept of intercession. It takes different realities depending on the religion in question.
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Paraclete (, Parakletos; in Latin "Paraclitus") is a word of Greek origin that means "one who consoles" or "one who intercedes", the "lawyer".
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Christian traditions, Muslim, Baha'i and spiritualist have interpreted their own way the personality of the Paraclete announced in the Christian Gospels. He is regarded by Christians as the Holy Spirit , by Muslims and Baha'is as the prophet Muhammad , and the spiritualists as a mind trainer. "Whoever console" also exists in the Jewish tradition , and it is considered the Messiah In the tradition of Christian The word "Paraclete" appears several times in the New Testament in the Gospel of John. Jesus had promised the coming of the Paraclete, or Comforter, after his own departure, "Jn 14:16 And I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete to be with you forever: the Spirit Truth, "which descended on them by a few days. According to Emile Osty the word Paraclete refers to the one called for help, "counsel, advise, advocate, intercessor, consoler." John in this passage speaks of "another Paraclete, the first being Jesus." The First Epistle of John uses the Greek word Paraclete in a sense close to intercessor: And if anyone sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 1 . The Paraclete is the Holy Spirit , Third Person of the Trinity , the event is recounted in the Acts of the Apostles : "Some languages, like tongues of fire appeared to them, separated from each other, and it sat upon each of them ". Thus, as the Catechism of the Catholic Church : "Jesus, when he proclaims and promises the coming of the Holy Spirit, calls him the" Paraclete, "literally" one who is called to "ad-vocatus (Jn 14, 16. 26, 15, 26, 16, 7). "Paraclete" is usually translated as "Comforter" Jesus is the first comforter (cf. 1 Jn 2, 1). The Lord himself called the Spirit Saint "the Spirit of truth" (Jn 16, 13). " Montanus (c. 173) claimed to be the body of the Paraclete in ecstasy and founded the Montanism. This reflects the design of the holy spirit of the early Christians. The Holy Spirit has been gradually developed in early Christianity and was formalized in the fourth century. He was a doctrinal points that caused the schism between the Eastern Church and Western Church. The design of the Holy Spirit from the Divine and acting through an angelic or human body is also read in the Psalms (PS, 51: 10-11): "Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put inside of me a new spirit, a steadfast spirit. Do not cast me from thy face and thy holy spirit, oh do I remove it. " According to Montanus the Paraclete would be different from the Holy Spirit would descend on apostles. The Paraclete is the prophet Mohammed to dictate who God through the angel Gabriel , the Qur'an , which closes the cycle of Revelation. The allusion to the Paraclete contained in the Qur'an is the verse (Q. VII, Al-Araf: 157): "Those who follow the Messenger, the Prophet illiterate they find mentioned in their written in Torah and Gospel. He commands them what is right and forbids them what is wrong, makes their lawful good things, prohibits them bad, and removes the burden and the yokes that are upon them. Those who believe in him, the support, it will help and follow the light down with him, those will be the winners. " , , , etc.. According to an authoritative exegesis Baha'i holy writings by the "Guardian of the Cause of God" (Vali 'Amr'ullh) Shoghi Effendi Rabbani ( 1897 - 1957 ), the biblical allusions to the "Mount Paran" and "Paraclete" refer to the revelation of the Prophet of Islam . In his books entitled Javhru'l-Asrar ("Jewels of Divine Mysteries") and Kitab-i-qn (" Book of Certitude ") Bah'u'llh ( 1817 - 1892 ), which is the prophet-founder of the Baha'i faith , an explanation of the prophecies of the Bible and Koran to demonstrate the fundamental unity of all the prophets, as many recurrences of the same divine light is reflected successively in different mirrors. And in his book entitled Lawh-i-Aqdas ("Epistle most holy", nicknamed "Epistle to the Christians") , he openly declares to be the return announced by Jesus as "the Spirit of Truth." The Paraclete is one of the spirits whose statements received during spiritualistic seances are signed: The Spirit of Truth. Many of these statements are reported in the Gospel according to Spiritism . In the tradition of Islamic
In the tradition Baha'i
In Spiritualism
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