What Does It Mean That the Spirit of God Was Hovering Over the Waters?
The Spirit of God is not within the laws that define the world; therefore, its existence does not depend on the material world or on the laws of Heaven.
The laws created in Heaven appear, and in this way the material world comes into existence.
The Water means the laws that appear in the material world, but the Spirit of God is not one of the definitions.
The existence and form of the material world are the appearance of the laws defined in Heaven; therefore, the surface of the Water is the appearing, perceivable material world.
The Spirit exists above the Waters; therefore, its existence does not depend on material manifestation or on the laws that define material manifestation.
At the beginning of the Creation story, the Spirit of God is not yet capable of perceiving the material world and does not know the laws of Heaven, yet it still exists.
The Spirit of God exists independently of Heaven and Earth. It is not one of the created — that is, defined — things. It was not born, it does not die, and its existence does not depend on material forms of manifestation.