Spirit Is a Law Clothed in External Existence
Spirit is a luminous law clothed in external existence, endowed with consciousness.
Existent spirit is the brother, the companion, of intelligible law.
Like fixed and constant natural laws, spirit comes from the world of the divine command and attribute of will.
Power clothes it in a being decked out with senses, attaches consciousness to its head, makes a subtle inner faculty the shell for that pearl.
If the Creator’s power were to clothe the laws of species in external existence, each would become a spirit;
If it were to remove the spirit from the being and take the intelligence from its head, it would again become an undying law.