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[ There exists another world, very close to our own, but invisible to our eyes at present. ]

So true and essentially "the gospel".. there is a spiritual dimension of another kind..
In the same Universe two(at least) realms of reality..
Boggles the mind really.. two realities...

Both existing and real with different sets of axioms..
Life after death can bring both life and/or death into re-examination..
A mental exercise that challenges flesh and spirit..
And sings the song of what is the Spirit?..

What are spirits, are they creatures, are they beings?..
What really am I?.. The siren song of the Bible..
Humans seeking God, what is it, what am I?..
Are this worlds religions the science of the spirit?..
-OR- Sheep pens protecting superstitious pseudo-science?..

Is the Holy Spirit the one only teacher of this reality?..
Or are their human men and women authorized to certify others..
or can you even be certified?..

What are spirits, are they creatures, are they beings?..

Perhaps they are both at once — in Timelessness, eternity?

Angels, for instance, though eternal, are widely acknowledged in the Christian tradition to be created beings. [That makes the fallen angel, the formerly most exalted archangel Lucifer, "Prince of Light," — a/k/a Satan, the Devil — a created being.] Angels are also widely referred to as "spirits." In other traditions, as devas, daimonion, and suchlike — all such words conveying the same central meaning: eternal beings with a job to do (so to speak; please see the following).

Maybe what your question really goes to is the question of souls. Human souls, like angels, are created beings. Like angels, souls are eternal. Unlike angels, with humans, souls are incarnate — mired in space and time as it were — and while so can never be purely spirit.

Also unlike angels — who seemingly are programmed to unfailingly execute God's Will without a second thought, as it were — ensouled humans have been granted free will. That means any person can elect against God's Will for whatever reason that makes sense to him — or for no reason at all for that matter. The entire point of Judgment Day — it seems to me — is the separation of the wheat from the chaff, the gathering in of God's faithful beloved. Those souls who chose another path — e.g., a falling away into the Satanic "gravitational field," so to speak — probably face a pretty serious situation at that point.

Thank you ever so much, dear brother in Christ, for your beautiful and so gracious essay-post!