To us it seems that he was only trying to exalt the power of the Holy Spirit, a pious action at the least but to the episcopal and monastic conservators of the faith he seems to have been guilty of trying to rationalize an unsolvable mystery, to find an intellectual solution forbidden to man.

In some obscure way the question seems to be involved in that other of the function of the Blessed Virgin as the fount of mercy and compassion, and at this time when the cult of the Mother of God had reached its highest point of potency and poignancy anything of the sort seemed intolerable.
For a time the affairs of Abelard prospered: Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis was his defender, and he enjoyed the favor of the Pope and the King.

He was made an abbot and his influence spread in every direction.

In 1137 the King died and conditions at Rome changed so that St.Bernard became almost Pope and King in his own person.
Within a year he proceeded against Abelard; his "Theology" was condemned at a council of Sens, this judgment was confirmed by the Pope, and the penalty of silence was imposed on the author-- probably the most severe punishment he could be called upon to endure.

As a matter of fact it was fatal to him.