An important thing to mention is that in the early Godhead theology, there was a distinction made between the Holy Spirit and the Holy Ghost which is explained in this SlideShare presentation titled: Metaphysics: LDS COSMOLOGY Module 16: 1: An Everlasting Covenant Made In Heaven: Differentiating Holy Ghost & Holy Spirit. The presentation explains:
... The Holy Spirit is a Divine Substance and the power by which the Godhead operates throughout the immensity of space and by which it is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent.
[Note: see the Fifth Lecture on Faith for the original LDS doctrine on the Holy Spirit being described this way].
In D&C 88, we read that all matter is animated by the Light of Christ. Lecture on Faith #5 is clear that Christ is constituted or composed of the omnipresent Holy Spirit or Divine Mind. Since the Light of Christ or Holy Spirit is in and through all things, that means all things (including exalted Gods) are infused with the Divine Energy of the Spirit/Mind of the First God. This diffuse material fluid energy is described as The Mind (or Holy Spirit) in the 5th Lecture on Faith; which again became official LDS doctrine, canonized in LDS Scripture in 1835 and re-canonized in 1844.
This eternal Glory (i.e. the emanating "splendor" from the supreme independent being, the Deity/First God) as fluid light, truth and all intelligence, binds all the divine beings and personages in existence: such as eternal souls growing into gods as celestial personages of glory and power (as depicted below from the SlideShare):
The original Deity exists co-eternally with our eternal soul or intelligence per the Book of Abraham chapter 3; and yet we as intelligences (eternal minds) were grounded in the omnipresent Light, Glory/Splendor, and Omni-Intelligent Fullness of this Supreme Deity; which Divine Mind placed all intelligences/minds to act independently in their own sphere. As D&C 93: 29-30 puts it:
Man was also in the beginning with God. Intelligence, or the light of truth, was not created or made, neither indeed can be. All truth is independent in that sphere in which God has placed it, to act for itself, as all intelligence also; otherwise there is no existence.
Joseph Smith further clarified things when he said, "The spirit of man is not a created being: it existed from eternity, and will exist to eternity. Anything created cannot be eternal. . . .” (Journal of Discourses 6:238). In other words, the mind of man is co-eternal with God.
More on Differentiating the Holy Ghost & Holy Spirit:
The SlideShare continues:
Differentiating Holy Ghost & Holy Spirit: God’s Omnipotence, Omniscience, Omnipresence ...
SPIRIT: Not a Divine Being But a Divine Substance ...
Parley P. Pratt [writes in] Key to the Science of Theology:
There is a divine substance, fluid or essence, called spirit, widely diffused among these eternal elements. This spiritual substance is the most refined, subtle, and powerful element in the universe. It is the light, life, power, and principle of all things. This divine element, or spirit, is the immediate, active or controlling agent in all holy miraculous powers... By this Divine Spirit all things were formed … and all in accordance with the laws of nature, it being perfectly natural for the subordinate elements to obey the supreme, all-controlling, all-pervading element, under the directing power of Deity.” (KST, p. 64, 67).
In Journal of Discourses, Volume 1, Discourse 2 (Spiritual Communication), Parley P. Pratt also explained that the Holy Spirit as a "spiritual fluid or element" is like "electricity ... an actual, physical, and tangible power, and is ... a real and tangible substance ..." To see how this accords with biblical scholarship, see my blog post "Spirit" as Nooma (A Fluid Filling Breathy Energy).
For an explanation of how the early Mormon theologians distinguished between the Holy Ghost and the Holy Spirit, and how Pratt understood the omnipresent fluid material substance of the Holy Spirit as emanating from the single Supreme Deity, see this slideplayer presentation: which does an excellent job providing a synthesis of the original LDS Godhead with this one diagram:
As this diagram sums it up, there was one Deity as one Divine Nature, one governing Power, the omnipresent Holy Nooma, as the omnipresent Divine Fluid Substance: operating through the immensity of space and grounding all forms of matter and energy by the Deity's nature as an all intelligent fluid energy, the Supreme Source: as all divine Fullness (Glory), Light and Truth.
On the Holy Spirit & Baptism of Fire by Eleanore Lawrence
LDS Cosmology Omni Abide by Joseph Owens
Apostle Orson Hyde's Visual of the Kingdom of God and the First God as the Crowned King at the Top of the Pyramid of Exalted Gods
Joseph Smith declared, “All the minds and spirits that God ever sent into the world are susceptible of enlargement” (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pg. 354). Joseph Smith's final theological conclusions was that the Head God in the Council of Lesser Gods chose from the lesser intelligence that existed in the Head God's expanded fulness of spirit-atoms, and chose to give them an opportunity to receive the same divine fulness as the Father and Son (the prototype of an exalted being). In the 1840s, the Apostle Orson Hyde created this visual of how he understand Joseph Smith's 1840s vision of The Kingdom of God:
The inner yellow circle in my visual above symbolizes the first God's divine nature and fulness, representing the original glory/splendor and fluid noomatic fullness of the Deity as the first God, the Father of lights: the supreme being, an omnipresent expanding force of plenty, represented by the larger outer yellow circle in my diagram below: representing the original "Father of lights" (of all other lights/gods), shining in the darkness of chaos (or matter unorganized). The outer yellow circle above is thus symbolic of the Divine Mind, the First God, as the Source of all creation(s) or the formation of order out of chaos (unorganized matter). With each of Hyde’s Kingdom diagrams representing the expansion of God's glory through growing kingdoms upon kingdoms, or souls growing from exaltation to exaltation into expanded celestial bodies of glory, which in turn glorifies the first Father of all other the divine Fathers (per D&C 132: 63). As the Father of all lights of Lecture #2, whose nature is a divine substance of "fulness, light, truth and glory," is expanded and further glorified with each exalted soul becoming deified and expanding in their kingdom of glory, power and dominion which power they share with Jehovah (according to Lecture 7); which again, further expands first God's kingdom, glory and power as the independent supreme being (the Deity) that grounds all other gods in one eternal round.
