Nasuverse Metaphysics (Expansion)

==Summary==
Not too long ago, a page covering metaphysics within the nasuverse was covered this is more or less like one but an expansion of it to recap with an expansion to that. 
== Undifferentiated Source and Taiji ==
"The world" likened to be the very symbol of Taiji, which captures everything on a conceptual level. All contingent things in themselves are stated to live contingently from separation/yin and yang, "the branching of the root is the same as living a separate life".
That is to say, the root as a creative force as a consequence leads to the process of differentiation or manifestion from its essence into individuals or entities, which by extension is to the movement from Wuji to Taiji, which creates polarity within the Wuji state and producing Yin and Yang.
The Swirl of the root, sometimes called Amala-Vijnana or Nirvana. Is the absolute first. One can think of the akashic records is one end of the vortex's function. It is cause of all things and all phenomena flows from there. It is sometimes called ultimate knowledge however since wisdom created a standard called ultimate. In the end it reduces it to being a finite thing, which is why such a predication is false.
The root is the absolute first; it is an archive of all things. However, it's less of an archive and more of just "existence" not information. It simply "exists," nothing more. As seen beforehand one might be tempted separate the ultimate first into two functions the Akashic records and Swirl of the root but It's impossible to make a distinction between its attributes (being an archive) and its existence, hence it is neither existence nor an archive of all things. Because there are no distinctions or divisions within it, it is all that it is and it in itself simply is and nothing more. The undifferentiated ultimate source, "pure existence".
Due to its indivisible nature, the created or contingent beings are far too hopelessly complex to return to the simple absolute first, however small the connection they may have, they are all still connected to it, it is that Which is unchangeable, indivisible, beyond human comprehension and a negation of imperfection. It is also said to not be similar to the world, which is ever-changing, imperfect and finite/contingent.
In Tai Chi, Wuji represents the state of undifferentiated nothingness, which is the origin of all things. It is said to create 1 (taiji), which creates 2 (yin and yang), which by extension underlies all things.
According to the ancient, Chinese texts before the universe existed there was emptiness and ‘a great void’. This was known as Wuji, or ‘the ultimate nothingness’, ‘the absence of extremes / extremities’. At a certain point, out of this emptiness, complexity and substance was born including the formation of duality (Yin / Yang). 
When a Qigong practitioner stands in Wuji she/he literally personifies that pre-existent state. The posture expresses ‘no extremity, no separation’ and being ‘without differentiation’. Taiji (tai chi) on the other hand, can be translated as the ‘grand ultimate’, ‘grand extremity’ or literally the ‘very extreme’. Thus similar to the creation of the universe, the Taiji (Tai Chi) practitioner, moving from Wuji into the practice of the Taiji form, creates a polarity within the Wuji state and produces the two extremes known as Yin and Yang. Taiji is not Wuji, it is created from Wuji and it is the mother of Yin Yang. Taiji is the process between Wuji and Yin Yang. It is the hidden force (the creative energy) which is able to lead Wuji into the division of Yin Yang and also lead the divided Yin Yang back into the unity of Wuji. When it moves it divides, when it rests it reunites.
However, there's also another distinction made; it is said that:
"The way that can be spoken of is not the constant way
The name that can be named is not the constant name"
Wuji having the capacity to be spoken off and named to a certain implies it is not the constant way, instead the mother of all things. For the Constant Way is more fundamental than even Wuji.
In the quote about the "Root", the term "Kara" or the "Spiral of Origin" seems to represent a similar concept. It's described as a term that varies in meaning depending on each individual's understanding, much like how the Tao is beyond human comprehension and cannot be fully expressed in words. However, once the Spiral of Origin is named, it is no longer 「　」, which seems to represent a state of nameless nothingness or void. This is reminiscent of how the Tao, when named, is not the constant Tao.
「　」=Unnamed Tao
Swirl of the root=Wuji
Taiji=symbol of the world
==The Divine Mind and Records==
An idea rooted in hermeticism the akashic records is a metaphysical plane of existence, it is said to record all things, happenings and records all of knowledge. These recordings are a source of all existence of contingent entities, as a result of the world being fashioned using the information in akasha.
it is the origin of all consciousness, memories; a universal consciousness that underlies all things.
Similar to the nous in Neoplatonism, it is the divine mind that exist as a source of all intellect and knowledge and everything that exists within the world. As a result of the unchangeable information within it being used as a blueprint to create the material world. The external world, which doesn't guarantee permanence, everything hence they remain in a Flux-like state constantly changing.Kara no Kyoukai - Novel 2 - Oblivion Record
Eternal things are formless, only phenomenon worthy of being called eternal is, the only true record, which in turn can never be changed even by the observer, who can assign different meanings. 
The origin is said to be true essence of the soul is the origin, which exists in akasha, which the material world is regarded as corrupted and illusionary. We'll come back to that later. The mind exists in the soul and the mind exist beyond the material world as such the soul in it's true essence exists in this "immaterial, objective reality". Which the one we know of only is the great akasha. It is the true essence of the soul; the origin is the essence of the root deep within everything.
The origin which is a record of Akasha is the core of your soul. The records themselves are unaffected even by your own thoughts, they exist eternally, even if the world gets destroyed, they remain and remain to be unchangeable forever.
As above, so below
Which is derived from the Bible verse 
Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
As above so below in hermetic thought signifies how all phenomena ought to happen as it does in higher planes of existence. In the context of the Nasuverse, all things exist in potential; predetermined, prepared and decided already within the Akashic Records an informational plane of existence where all possibilities and information of the universe is stored. 
Because all things in existence derive their form from the records themselves, creates an ontological hierarchy; whereby as long as 'I' exist, there will always be an 'I' that is beyond 'You' within the world.
Records of things are the fundamental grounding for all phenomena that flows from the Swirl of the root, as a result of all things being prepared as records in the Akasha, the 'You', existing as a record, which has a higher degree of unity with the godhead and is has purity and unchangeability within the akasha. It is ontologically higher than 'You' or 'I' that exists within the material world, hypostasis. 
If say humans if they awaken their origin, they are driven by this force by metaphysical necessity. It is an immutable, absolute and unchangeable concept, it lives outside of reality and dictates what it should directly beyond the material world in the great akasha, an unchangeable and real reality as opposed to the illusionary.
== True Magic ==
True magic transcends Mystery itself, exists outside of human knowledge and the world and its deeply rooted in divine providence beyond the heavens where the Ultimate Reality exists.
To recap, True magic is gained by standing next to the root after you find a path to it. As you stand next to it you stabilize your magecraft. True magic or sorcery is regarded was mystery beyond magecraft, it can create miracles and make the impossible possible.
It is symbolic, in a sense that it comes from the root and can make the impossible possible, while the unfathomable status of the root makes even the impossible possible. True magic/magic and sometimes rarely referred as pure magic is a byproduct of True Gnosis (a reference to how it stem from knowledge on the Swirl of the root), true magic directly derives from the root.
First Magic
One of the oldest True Magics but the details about it are unknown. What it involves appears to be common knowledge to some magi of privileged rank. The user of the First has already passed away, but it is said that the person that would be his heir is still alive, barely.
Second Magic
The True Magic that observes the infinite parallel worlds and travels between alternative worlds. Its user is Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg. With this magic, this man was able to create a jewel sword to absorb mana from the other worlds and a box that could store an immense amount of objects.
Third Magic
Materialization of the soul, in other words, the magic that realizes true immortality. When accomplished, the practitioner will acquire an unlimited source of magical energy due to the soul becoming analogous to a perpetual motion machine. This is the Magic of the Einzbern lineage, and the Holy Grail War was established to acquire this Magic.
Fourth Magic
Like the First True Magic, the details about it are unknown. What it involves hasn't been heard of either. But, the currently existing wizards, when pointing out to the Fourth True Magic, they'll all say, "it is there for sure", and will agree that it exists. Also, they don't know the name of the user either.
Fifth Magic
The True Magic that the Traveling Magician Aozaki Aoko inherited from her grandfather. Its nickname is "Magic Blue." The user Aozaki Aoko is average as a magus but displays transcendence with destruction. Because of this trait, there is a rumor that "Magic Blue" is also a True Magic involving destruction.
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True magic/magic and sometimes rarely referred as pure magic is a byproduct of True Gnosis (a reference to how it stem from knowledge on the Swirl of the root), true magic directly derives from the root.
True magic encompasses and transcends mystery itself, existing outside of human knowledge and the world and it is deeply rooted in divine providence beyond the heavens where there lies to Ultimate Reality.
== Celestial Bodies ==
The essence of planets and celestial bodies is one of the highest emanations of the root within the sensible world, that is why the very personification of planets or the planets essence such as are amongst the strongest entities in the cosmos.
And true ancestors like Arcueid Brunestud who are the personification of the world's will and consciousness are also amongst one of the strongest in the cosmos. Avalon, which another name for it is the inner sea of the planet, where the soul of the planet exists, is something that reaches the realm of True Magic as seen in the previous page; a direct emanation of the Swirl of the root. It represents a bridge between the finite and the ultimate, the inner sea in itself is regarded as something equivalent to true magic or is true magic in itself, demonstrating just how celestial bodies themselves are close to the Swirl of the root and how they're also the bridge between the finite and the ultimate reality.
A view similarly held by neoplatonic philosophers like Proclus who held that celestial bodies are between the intelligible world and the sensible world.
It is said to be capable of blocking all physical interferences up to the 6th dimension (unspecified whether or not it's a reference to planes of existence or a geometric denotation of it) nonetheless the predicate "up to" doesn't necessitate that it's limited to that.
Celestial bodies having wills is also rooted in ancient greek thought, as it is said the Microcosm (humans) are the same as the macrocosm aka the cosmos or the world, a notion rooted in ancient Greek Thought, by extension the world itself is regarded as a living entity just as posited by Plato and Neoplatonists. That's why the unified language is likened to speaking with the world itself, as if the world is a sentient entity.
Arcueid Brunestud is regarded as being perfect and such a perfection is contingent on the celestial body itself, which grants nullifies her causes of death and make her a perfect being that is without limits. Now perfection in this case is not the same degree as The Divine Mind and origin that exists within it. It resembles a degree of perfection again spoken of in ancient antiquity, in regard to the Celestial Spheres and the Celestial Body itself. 
Five as Aristotle's book of elements, a book briefly discussed in case files. In it he posits the fifth element quintessence. A fundamental element such that it makes up celestial bodies, the element itself is considered immutable and unchangeable and is a foundational cause for stars and planets exhibiting such a notion; through undergoing unending, circular motion.
Which relates to how Avalon/inner sea is regarded as ever lasting and unreachable and capable of blocking everything, an extension of neoplatonic models.
Whereby the totality of heavenly objects such as planets are immaterial and Everlasting/unchanging, only relatively to sublunary and changeable matter. Which is a big part of the reason why the planet is regarded as indestructible as a result of its essence the counter force acting as safety provision to ensure that never happens.
== Collective Unconscious ==
Alaya represents humanities will to live and survive, it is the Collective Unconscious of those who belong to the dominant species in this case humanity. It represents their desire to see the world continuing to strive, it brings forth Counter Guardians called the opposing power.
If many take any individual as a threat to humanity as well, the opposing power will be realised, to protect the humanity, they will destroy the existence of that which is a threat. It is a representative created by humanity's unconscious mind.
The collective unconscious stores countless records and amassed countless powers in order to ensure the continuation of human history. It was a vault of souls that would continue to exist as long as human order persists, a loan shark that has no limit.
Alaya humanity's collective unconscious is different from the throne of heroes itself, spirits who are taken in by the counter force become guardians though, the spirits from the counter force ascend to the throne as well but their summoning responses are different, guardians/counter force are in despair while heroic spirits are summoned in hope, the counter force takes in those that are "powerless" and looked for more power while they lived, the counter force is a contract of equivalent exchange, it would temporarily turn a person into a hero and afterwords would take their soul after their death.Garden of Avalon - Light Novel
The planet alters its physical laws according to the dominant that live on its surface, this was responsible for the separation of the textures of deities and humans. As they had functioned under laws that were incompatible with each other.
== True Ancestors ==
True Ancestor are the original bloodsuckers, they're celestial beings who are not independent of the natural world, but an older species that is one with nature itself. True Ancestors are commonly regarded undying because they're are the touch of the planet, but their time-scale happens to be different from that of humans. It is immense and its limits are only those if nature itself as long as nature continues existing, or they diverge from nature itself true ancestors will continue living.
True Ancestors have the status of the "Planet", it is a rank that is reserved for beings of that celestial scale, it exceeds the status of "God" and by extensions exceeds gods and divine spirits.
True Ancestors possess no limits, no causes of death whatsoever as a result of receiving backup from the planet, if it is required, they can strengthen their abilities until their need is met. The power of their will is enough to take actual form, the very thoughts of the True Ancestors become a weapon on their own influencing the very world itself an ability called Fantasy Manifestation.
Imagination Realization. As the name suggests, it is the ability to manifest anything you can imagine.
It is the ability possessed by elementals, which are the sense of touch of the natural world. By connecting their will directly to the world, they are able to transfigure the world into whatever environment they imagine. Of course, the level of manifestation varies depending on the scale of the elemental, and it goes without saying that only nature can be transfigured – things that exist independently of nature are immune.
In Tsukihime, Arcueid eliminated Roa by using marble phantasm to turn the layers of the atmosphere in the hallway into a vacuum, like a carving knife slicing up a daikon radish. Though she could not affect Roa himself, it was impossible for him to avoid the finely sliced atmosphere, and he was reduced to nothing but ankles
===Fantasy Manifestation ===
Marble Phantasm remake.gif|Arcueid Brunestud using Marble Phantasm on Roa in Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon.
Fantasy Manifestation is an ability to manifest anything the True Ancestor imagines, by connecting their will to the world, they can create their own universe and transfigure the world into whatever environment they imagine. The scale of Fantasy Manifestation depends on the scale of the True Ancestor itself.
Arcueid's Fantasy Manifestation particularly is one of immense scale. The scale of Arcueid's Fantasy Manifestation, is such that it seals off the cosmos and is beyond human comprehension. It can simply will the Moon Castle otherwise called the Millenium Castle into existence, a canopy that covers the entire planet and is incomprehensible to human intellect. She can achieve a feat on the level of True Magic, using the marble phantasm to bring the crimson moon from the future that Altrouge used to turn Zepia into a phenomenon that reincarnates infinitely from the Akashic Records. She disregards the contract and turns him back from phenomenon to human and removing the applications of his reincarnation to be killed. She goes as far as to say "there's no world she cannot create" with her imagination.
==Celestial Egg and The Original One==
The luminary also called Archetype: Earth is a phenomenon that occurs when the vessel of a True Ancestor Royalty such as Arcueid gets destroyed, it is the planets reset system it occurs when the vessel of a True Ancestor. When Arcueid uses her physical vessel, she is limited to being one step beyond any opposition, but the leakage of such immense energy from within the luminary causes the restrictions placed on her to completely dissipate.
Luminary.jpg|The luminous body of Arcueid
It is something entirely transcendent and divorced from reality, it is an "entity" entirely distinct and divorced from the concept of life and it's conventional categories; the highest order of "being" that humans are able to comprehend non other that which goes by the name GodTsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon- - Rainbow in the Night route - True End - Day 14: "Stone without End". It stands apart from the little worlds capable of being grasped by humans, it defies human comprehension itself; something that cannot be unraveled regardless of how hard you think of it. 
The luminary is said to have a something akin to a cognitive alteration effect against intelligent beings, those who look from afar get the impression of something terrifyingly unknowable, while those who arrive close to it get an impression of something beautifully unknowable, those who are far away are enemies to be killed without being shown the truth. Those who are closes by are allies to be given only a glimpse of the divine truth. 
It is a mental phenomenon that manifests itself, a mere phenomenon that is neither dead nor alive the soul of the planet itself, the celestial egg that only exists in the inner sea of the planet under normal circumstances. The light that surrounds the heart of the luminary is a mental energy of Arcueid, something created out of mental power.
Because it's a mental form, only attacks Arcueid recognizes with her consciousness as having the capacity to harm her can actually do it, under normal circumstances all injuries she receives are instantly returned to normalTsukihime Material I Glossary Part 2.
The heart of the luminary is the soul of the planet itself, the Celestial Egg. The cemetery of Stars, the heartbeat of life. It bears no lines and points of death. It is where all on earth originates and where all on earth returns back to. Because it is "Perfect", killing it is not feasible for the current Tohno Shiki with his Mystic Eyes, a scratch is enough to disperse and even then, it's only possible because of Arcueid's power being within Roa.
Event Storage: EX
The ability to conceptually and physically store things that have been cultivated on the surface of Earth.
The confiscation of all creations birthed on the surface of the planet—its Textures.
An ability on par with the Divine Spirits’ so-called ‘Authorities’, though given that it’s a function possessed by the planet, it is less of a skill, and more of a system.
The gravitational field that appears under Arcueid’s feet when she has turned into a Luminary has enough of a reach to store all Textures on Earth.Tsukihime Material I
Is the capacity to store things conceptually and physically, in luminary Arcueid can store all levels of reality and textures on earth. Furthermore, it is also possible for her to even store a fundamental aspect of existence like the lines of death that the eyes of direct death observe.
Making Celestial Bodies High 1-T and Ultimate One's while physically 1-T+ will be High 1-T conceptually and Luminary High 1-T
The power dynamic between Ultimate One's is fluid despite all having the same significance in nature; being the personification of the essence of Celestial Bodies, some are physically more imposing than the others one such Ultimate One that represents such a notion being ORT, who wields attack parameters beyond virtually anything, this is supported by Arcueid who says, as a physical vessel she is not but as nature she's the most potent of them all; distinguishing between her status physically and conceptually
==Akasha and Mystic Eyes==
Mystic Eyes.gif|Ryougi's Eyes of direct death.
The eyes of death sever the "lines of death" of all things, a stroke of the afterlife released from Nirvana that bestows peace to all things, it is derived from Amala-Vijnana, Amala-consciousness otherwise called pure consciousness. Amala-Consciousness ［阿摩羅識］In Buddhism it is the ninth and deepest of the nine consciousness, it is free from all defilement and corresponds to the nature of Buddha. It is said that at the moment of enlightenment, the eighth consciousness cease to be and are replaced by the ninth. Ikeda Daisaku speaks of the Ninth consciousness itself as the ultimate reality of all things much like True Emptiness. 
Amalavijñāna - Boundary of Emptiness.gif|Amalavijñāna - Boundary of Emptiness.
Ryougi when making use of the eyes of direct death, she speaks of all being a dream, she speaks of living and exercising her power as being something equivalent to that, When drilling through the accretions and delusions in the other levels of consciousness, one finds pure wisdom of the ninth consciousness, which can wash away all impurities.
To reach enlightenment, humans must return to「　　」, a state that rejects life. If humans achieve completion, all meaning of life vanishes. However, humans unconsciously resist this completion, driven by their desire to continue living. This resistance manifests as the counterforce from the collective unconscious, preventing any human from reaching enlightenment. Kara no Kyoukai - Novel 2 - Spiral Paradox, 9
All material things are capable of death as a result of them being born fundamentally imperfect, because they are born from a singular ultimate source. They are destined to return to it and eventually die, a law the eyes of direct death exploits to put all things to death.
Tohno's Eyes of direct death.gif|Tohno's Eyes of direct death.
The mystic eyes can view the conclusion of all things directly from the future that's pre-determined from birth within the Universal Consciousness, the Akashic records where all things are decided and prepared, it observes the conclusion of all things. This way it can kill your cause of your death directly, without fail. The eyes of death can inflict the "Result" of death, in a manner that exceeds conventional logic and causal sequences.
It's powerful enough to practically see imbalances in the universe which would lead its destruction.
It's killing the fated conceptual death of all things that persists in all levels of reality, Arcueid makes an analogy for it (something that already has been killed dies afterwards) so it kills the fated death of something and the effect that comes afterwards is the death of that person.
Making the eyes atleast High 1-T likely High 1-T+.
==Holy Grail and Dress of Heaven==
The greater Grail.gif|The greater Grail.
The holy grail is the chalice that received the blood of God, a holy relic of the highest grade, that is capable of granting wishes. Its main purpose is to create a hole to reach the ultimate reality, it pierces the hole in the world to create a pathway to the root, where enlightenment or True Magic awaits.
Illya dress-of-heaven.webp|Illya wearing the dress of heaven.
Dress of heaven, which makes use it Third Magic controls the greater grail itself. It is imbued with Third Magic such that it can materialize a soul momentarily, it contains seven rings, which are said to control creation and the souls of others.
Making both the greater Holy Grail and Third Magic High 1-T as well.
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