[Avodah] Looking for sources about Chazal's Ruach Hakodesh

[hankman]

To go off on a slight tangent, I would like to get a clearer idea of what exactly constitutes "ideas acquired thru ruach hakodesh"? There seems to be an entire continuum of ideas that may come to a person through nevuah (chesyon), a malach, bas kol, gilui Eliyahu, ruach hakodesh, chalom, sod HaShem el yerai'ov, seyata DiShemaya, and finally "one's own" ideas. Can anyone clearly differentiate between all of the above - if in fact they are all distinct from each other. Nevuah  (chesyon), malach, bas kol, gilui Eliyahu, are relatively easy to differentiate (even if the latter 3 seem fairly similar), but the others from ruach hakodesh on down the line the differences are not so clear. Part of this would be the discussion of how one originates "one's own" ideas - where (who) do they come from (the id, the neshama, from whatever level of seyata DiShemaya one has earned, from his yitzros, but ultimately all are from HaShem etc)? Looking for some clarity on these subjects.

Kol Tuv

Chaim Manaster
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