I didn't say it has nothing to do with the Holy Spirit. I said that such speculation, or rather, the codification of it, has no support in the history of Christianity. You don't find the great saints like HH St. Irenaeus, HH St. Ignatius, HH St. Athanasius the Apostolic, St. Ephrem the Syrian, HH St. Cyril, St. Basil, St. Gegory, the three Macarii, and so on, writing about the 'makeup' of the Holy Spirit. If you knew Christian history, you know that 'pneumatology' or whatever you'd call it was defined to the extent that it needed to be to deal with
the Pneumatomachi, the 'Spirit Fighters' (obviously not a name they gave to themselves) a.k.a. Macedonians of the late fourth, early fifth century who gathered in large numbers in Antioch and Alexandria. These groups were anti-Nicene (against the Creed), so-called 'Semi-Arian', and were called 'Spirit Fighters' because they denied the divinity of the Holy Spirit. This heresy is why the 381 version of the Creed adopted by the first Council of Constantinople was expanded to include explicit affirmations of the Holy Spirit's Godhood:
"And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Giver of Life, Who proceedeth from the Father, Who with the Father and the Son is [equally] worshipped and glorified, Who spake by the Prophets." Please read HH St. Athanasius'
Letter to Serapion and HG St. Basil of Caesarea's
On the Holy Spirit (both mentioned at the link) for more on the orthodox Christian understanding of this topic. You will note that in these writings, just like in all others that answered the Macedonians, no one asserts anything about a
physical makeup of the Holy Spirit, because such an idea is alien to Christianity.
But it's
not interesting. It's heresy. Very old heresy, at that. It's boring to have to deal with things that Mormons think are brand new, but are really just the repackaging of ancient heretical ideas with some new verbiage.
Nobody may have said that
exact thing, but so what? It's not like there were never any people who held heretical views about the Holy Spirit before. Joseph Smith and his theology does not deserve serious consideration for apply ancient heretical ideas in new ways or to new things. It's still heresy.
Do whatever you want, but it's wasting your time and poising yourself with heretical teachings. There are definitely better things to do. I know if I were to study Joseph Smith's views, I would want to compare them to the historical Christian views even if I didn't believe in those already, because of course Mormonism claims to be a restoration of the Church, including its original 'pre-apostasy' theology. So I would want to see that same view espoused in the earliest Church fathers...and I would have to conclude that Mormonism is
not what it says it is, because the fathers who we have from before Nicaea do not write that the Holy Spirit is made out of matter.
'Pompous statement'? For one thing, I didn't write the Creed, for another thing, I'm not the one asserting something that is in contradiction to the entire history of Christianity based on supposed 'revelations' given to me from God that no one is allowed to question.
So who's really pompous here, Peter? This isn't even the pot calling the kettle black, because
you didn't invent Joseph Smith's theology, either (read:
Joseph Smith is the pompous one here; you are simply repeating his assertions because Mormonism doesn't allow you to do anything else), but to call anyone who doesn't adhere to your latter-day revelations 'pompous' for continuing to keep to traditional Christian teachings on this subject instead is certainly not in line with humility, which I would hope anyone calling someone else 'pompous' would display in their own conduct, so as to not seem like a gigantic hypocrite.