The Ontological Argument Against Anselm

Essence sounds like its actually doingin some kind of explanatory work, right? Ye, i would say so. It's just saying, once the thing exists, here's the explanation for what it is. So we don't have to strictly be wedded to some of aquinass intuitions against anselm. Ok, and then another question is that there's a real distinction between essence and existence,. I still don't really know what active being means.