There exist spirits abroad in the world. Some are evil. Some are powerful but not necessarily the same as what people call demons: Divining spirits, for example, such as Python mentioned in Acts. People sometimes get a spirit attaching to them, closely associating with them, in some cases called possession but I would think there are other levels of attachment too where that word might not apply so well. Anyway, this association sometimes confers powers, gifts, on a person. Python, for example, conferred knowledge of the future, as Luke records in Acts. The gifts conferred might be valued enough to override the downsides of such association. These spirits are however of varying degrees of malign nature. They are not pure or holy. But they are out there, involving themselves in some people’s lives and used in rituals of divination and sorcery, shamanism in various forms. The existence of a very pure kind of spirit is attested in scripture and history. This spirit can associate with and affect many at once, sometimes in one place, such as a gathering, sometimes in private individually. Gifts can be conferred by this spirit too but they are more sacred, pure, truthful in nature. More powerful too. The association with this spirit is highly sought after. Shamans and sorcerers long sought it as we see with Simon the sorcerer in Acts and prized it as we see with Balaam in Numbers. The main point to all this is that the spirit we call the Holy Spirit is very much out there interacting with people, associating with people. This is a major distinction in comparison with the Father whose interactions were extremely rare and terrible, setting mountains on fire and terrifying onlookers. This Father speaks in the air like thunder. As we see at the baptism of Jesus in the voice from heaven. The Holy Spirit tends to impart speech to individuals inaudibly, or speak through their human voice as a gift or power.
