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How do Jehovah’s Witnesses understand the Holy Spirit?

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Three Jehovah's Witnesses stand beside literature carts, holding religious magazines, at the Star Ferry Pier under a blue sign for City Hall and MTR Station in Hong Kong. — Jehovah’s Witness Adherents of the Jehovah's Witness movement distributing literature about their faith in Hong Kong, China.

Jehovah’s Witnesses hold a non-Trinitarian theology, which distinguishes their beliefs from those of many mainstream Christian denominations that define the Holy Spirit as the third person of the Trinity.

Instead, Jehovah’s Witnesses understand the Holy Spirit to be the name of God’s active force in the world. This perspective is consistent with their broader rejection of the Trinity and their emphasis on Jehovah as the most high God.1