[NOWIAM]

I tend to see Spirit as more than energy...at least it's the Source of energy/matter and may even be the medium or substance (for lack of better words) by which created existence manifest...

BTW: Many years ago I read in The Urantia Book that although many people feel that "space" is nothing it is actually something. The Urantia authors speak of areas known as potential space, (or the future realms of manifested existence which is not yet occupying anything, even "space"), as the closes to what would be considered nothing.

Here are some artist interpretations of the Urantia cosmology starting from the Absolute Center (Isle of Paradise) outwards. The last picture shows the "Master Universe" outside of which nothing has yet been created.