Yeah, we need to know how you understand 'energies' and 'essences', ad-o.
He probably doesn't - he probably, like Sassy and Hope, reads it in the book and swallows it whole without any real understanding of what it means.
This is the problem with a spoon-fed impersonal belief system like Christianity. regardless of whose version you are looking at!
Oh ouch!
Essence that is, substance, which in reference to God is spirit. Energies that is, God's actions withn creation from that which allows creation to exist in the first place to miracles, for God works theough his creation.