alive with God making all things in the beginning -- even though Wisdom is a feminine form, a goddess almost, in the Hebrew Scriptures. And the opposite of that is vanity: creation which doesn't get its own point, so appears to be a closed system which is forever running down, and things are forever drooping. You get this wonderful sense in the book of Ecclesiastes, of the difference between vanity and wisdom. Essentially it's the same creation, but without wisdom, everything in it looks 'urgh'; with wisdom, the oomph is oomphing oomphingly -- the Protagonism is alive, it's going somewhere, it means something, and those who look at it, their eyes are brightened. This is part of the protagonism, if you like, of the Spirit. The second element of story that I want to bring out concerning the Spirit, is the way that it's -- the word Spirit is compared, I think deliberately, with other spirits. In one sense it's the obvious comparison. I think this is why we hear the word the Holy Spirit -- it's just to remind people that there are plenty of spirits, but only one is the Spirit of the Creator; and that there is a real difference between being possessed by a spirit, and being indwelt by the Holy Spirit, and the difference is essentially that other spirits -- sometimes referred to as "beggarly elements" and so forth, which Tim brings out in his book [3] -- other spirits displace people when they move