The distinction between Being and beings is the evolutionary level of being. Being or Godhood is the Zenith of Evolution, and beings have not yet evolved to the zenith of evolution. This is the central distinction. Also Being or Godhood has powers which beings do not have, which we do not fully understand and will not until we evolve to Godhood.
Otherwise Being and beings have the same Spirit-Will activating them as we do, and the same substance defined on an evolutionary scale from the material to the supermaterial, with no duality between spirit and matter.
Essence is the Spirit-Within, and existence is the material and supermaterial body, and they are never separate, essence activates existence at every level.
Principles, or definitions, are always subordinate to the object that is defined. The definition or principle does not qualify as either Being or beings, existence or essence. Spirit is defined as supermaterial rather than spiritual. Being is not pure thought or pure idea or pure spirit.
When this evolutionary ontology is compared to St. Thomas and Heidegger (a worthy if quixotic PhD thesis) I think this religious view of evolution is the central change necessary. Being or Godhood is also a being and is an existing object, or objects, Godhood is not a Being beyond being in this sense. Godhood is the Zenith of Being and is attained at the Zenith of Evolution. The evolutionary level is the main difference between Being and beings.
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