The immeasurable mysteries of the GodHead are inconceivable, his divinity, his wisdom, the depth of his love only possibly imagined through infinitely lesser abstractions. Infinity needs a face, like God, it needs an identity. Something to correlate the abstract and ineffable, the divine, with the lesser archetypes. A medium to which out frail mortal minds can use in machinative allusions. The Tree of Life is that archetype. More than a metaphor, more than a concept, more than an idea, it was a **hierarchical embodiment**. Formless, a shifting phantasma of eternal mysteries and power. As the divinity and love of God overflowed, the Astral united with the Spirit, the Spirit cast a degrading shadow over the **deep**, merging the three pillars of conceptual realism into one.The astral symbolizes the inexpressible, the secrets, the **deep**, the boundless, the powers, dominions, authorities, rulers, sovereigns, all that exist beyond the metaphysical veil of human machination; similar to a shimmering curtain, a firmament of absolute concealment. The mysteries of God are made manifest only by his eternal wisdom. The Spirit symbolizes the essence, the soul, the heart, the conceptual distortion of form, the noble phantasm of thought and dream. Lastly, the worldform, sometimes referred to as the material realism, the physical plane, Earth, or the "real world". This is the lowest plane in the Hierarchy of Life, and lies at the base of the tree near its roots alongside the concepts of degeneracy, namely: Twilight, Decay, Desire, Oblivion, Death, and finally Sin, and all their lesser counterparts. This pillar symbolizes that which is degraded, which is carnal and brutish. Yet it also holds the authority of **form**: symbols, form, patterns, laws, meaning, and purpose. It gives the Spirit **realism** but it is merely a digraded shadow, a lower ranking counterpart of what already is. Mankind likes to think, in their endless foolishness, the Earth as "reality". The Spirit come "before" the Form. Every thoughtform or worldform has a corresponding Spiritual manifestion that originally cast the reflection. The flesh is a lesser reflection of the Spirit...