4._ Spirit

But the action of the Spirit, with being fully efficient, is not absolutely determinant of each plot, or particular phenomenon, of the reality. If thus was, do not there would be space neither time, neither would be able there to be process neither any capacity, since all would be "instant act", immediate execution of the Last Newness.

It admits, however, certain inertia, certain spontaneity, a resistance, a tendency opposed "towards the nothing", in each event, that nevertheless is beaten in the assembly of the process. The action of the Spirit seems more to a "heuristic tendency" that to an imposed and irresistible force. It controls the process, but it does not drown it. It directs the events, pilots them, like with "drops of providence in a sea of chance and necessity". For that reason it is only discovered "like hidden" in his more intimate intimacy.

(The spirit of God, yes, he plays dice, but is somewhat "cheating": he loads them a little.)

We were mistaken seriously if we yield to the temptation to consider to the Spirit like a force of external origin to the Nature; as if trascendent God was not the culmination and completeness of the cosmic process but "a being" who exists "parallelly" to this one, and that acts from outside on it, continuously or intermittently. No; the spirit of God is truly immanent to the Nature, is entirely inseparable of her, so that, even recognizing the action of God, we can say that the Nature experiences the creative process "by itself".

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