The expression of will, the plan, the creation of a personality with a set of attributes, can exist as an entity, as a spirit, and it is possible for this existence to be animate, living. While this is true, those with Western thinking tend to reject concepts associated with animism, yet in doing so, they suppress a certain amount of truth about existence, ontology, spirit: how a set of characteristics, attributes, properties, can be a living spirit. The spiritual existence of the Christ came into existence before any thing else. God brought it about. This spirit of Christ, the predetermined attributes of what Jesus Christ would be, was spoken into existence by God as first of all the works of God and creation of all things followed on from this. All this long before the Christ came in the flesh, the Jesus Christ in history and today and forever. This spirit of the Christ there in the very distant past before becoming flesh was in some mysterious way a living entity. This is very mysterious and Western thinking clouds understanding of it in the cultures influenced by the West, where concepts of what exists and what is alive are restricted in a way that clouds the truth. The Word became flesh, but this is clouded by Western thinking.
