Is there such an entity as “The Holy Spirit?” Or is it, in fact, more of a literary construct that loosely summarizes a large assortment of divine activities and agencies that would otherwise require much more explanation and discernment? Is the term “Holy Spirit” really a shorthand label for activities more accurately attributed to the higher selves, guides, and guardians of each and every individual rather than some mysterious and nebulous and nameless “Holy Spirit?” We know the connection between incarnated souls and their higher selves is compromised, but can such connections be healed and restored so long as there is sufficient human intention acquired from prayer? In this case, the intention would come not from each individual alone but from a vast pool of intention from millennia of individuals praying for divine intervention and deliverance. It’s not God’s will that brought all this about, but human will, and God and the divine realm were responding to that beseechment in a highly calculated and intentional way which, while miraculous in contrast to most living in that time, still fit within the Divine Rules of Engagement as it allowed skeptics to disbelieve. It should also be noted that most of the recipients of this so-called “gift” encountered great difficulty pursuing their missions, and while successful overall, often paid for it with unspeakably cruel punishments and death sentences. Many made every bit as much of a sacrifice and experienced every bit as much pain and hardship as Christ himself did. What is Creator’s perspective?

What your question raises, as a description of the Holy Spirit, is quite correct, that it can be the consciousness of many, many divine level beings, including all that you mention, whether spirit guides or angelic beings serving as guardians, healers, and so on. It includes as well the higher self which resides within the divine realm but is uniquely focused on the human counterpart currently incarnated in the physical, as the link to the person's soul and the part most directly responsible for helping to guide, inspire, heal, and protect physical human beings. This, too, is an example of the Holy Spirit in action. The fact that the term "Holy Spirit" is so often nebulous and considered an ephemeral concept is because people are disconnected from us, and that includes the aggregate of those in the divine realm including the higher selves. That inability to discern, define, and to embrace us is the human dilemma of separation, that even our tremendous power and involvement in everything from its creation, although perhaps then remaining as only a witness to see what happens, is not that our energy is beyond the combined forces of the physical realm but beyond your possibility of comprehension, it is that you are simply unable to see us and know us except as you build faith. The current paradigm, of your being in the physical plane, is a deliberate placement there to participate in the Free Will and Free Agency Paradigm as a test of faith and your ability to overcome the rise of evil in your galaxy. We see this problem from the other end, that the Holy Spirit, rather than being nebulous and uncertain, is the opposite; it is your belief and involvement with us that is nebulous and uncertain because you cannot perceive our existence directly. The rise of evil necessitating creation of humanity in the first place has been ever-present in your world since the earliest era of the Garden of Eden. This was amply illustrated in the fate of Christ's disciples. Even though equipped with a high belief quotient from all they had experienced and having been touched by the divine in ways to enhance their ability to communicate their faith, as with speaking in tongues so they could communicate with many foreigners effectively, and thus have an impact on a wider circle of people, they did meet with many tragic circumstances and their lives were often ended early through imprisonment or execution because they were working against the interlopers and, as is true today, those who take on the forces of evil will have their hands full. It is simply the human dilemma that people will always have human limits. That is the nature of existence in the physical. There are always extremes beyond which humans cannot survive. The forces of good and evil are always in contention and people have only so much inner strength and capability to withstand an onslaught. That is not because their faith in us is feeble, it is that they are on their own because that allows and, in fact, bears witness to the need for all to step up and embrace their role as representatives of the divine, not to be martyrs but to be simply examples and help in healing their brethren, to enable, at long last, the enlightenment through healing needed to transcend the physical and have a wider scope in their future.