The Outside

The Outside, also called Ein Sof is the utmost divine realm that ever exists, locating outside of Creation and emcompassing it in its totality. It is beyond the Four Worlds and is often described as the crown of the Adam Kadmon.
==Overview==
Ein Sof (אֵין סוֹף), or Eyn Sof, in Kabbalah, is understood as God prior to any self-manifestation in the production of any spiritual realm, probably derived from the term, "the Endless One" (she-en lo tiklah). Ein Sof may be translated as "unending", "(there is) no end", or infinity. 
It was first used to share the Neoplatonic belief that God can have no desire, thought, word, or action, emphasized by it the negation of any attribute. Of the Ein Sof, nothing ("Ein") can be grasped ("Sof"-limitation). It is the origin of the Ohr Ein Sof, the "Infinite Light" of paradoxical divine self-knowledge, nullified within the Ein Sof prior to creation. 
In Lurianic Kabbalah, the first act of creation, the Tzimtzum self "withdrawal" of God to create an "empty space", takes place from there. In Hasidic Judaism, the Tzimtzum is only the illusionary concealment of the Ohr Ein Sof, giving rise to monistic panentheism. 
Consequently, Hasidism focuses on the Atzmus divine essence, rooted higher within the Godhead than the Ein Sof, which is limited to infinitude, and reflected in the essence (etzem) of the Torah and the soul.
==Summary==
Ein Sof is the utmost divine and most primordial world that was formed when the Celestial Princes were created by God, as the celestial power they radiated accidentally given form to it amidst the primordial void of Tehom. Despite this, Ein Sof neither is or isn't an Olam (עוֹלָם‎, "world, eon"), as such a term cannot be applied to it.
In this world, concepts such as duality, space, time, finite, infinite, life, death, existence, or nonexistence are absolutely meaningless, nullified by the very presence of God and can only a "maybe" or "perhaps" as dictated by either God or the Princes themselves.
It is a world beyond time, space, void, fate, and death, freed from all restrictions and constraints that are within the core of Creation, even in the Four Worlds and Adam Kadmon. It is the collective unity in the background, lying beyond Creation which is merely an infinitesimal blip within its entirety. It is also known as "The Outside" and "The Realm of Everything and Nothing", as it was in this world that the concept of nothingness manifests.
And yet, despite all of its titles, Ein Sof cannot be described as a world or a realm, for it exists on a level of existence greater than such simple definitions.
==Notable Locations==
===Three Great Realms===
Three Great Realms, also called Three Biblical Realms or Three Original Realms, are the three ancient realms located within Ein Sof that act as the home-realm for many celestial beings within the cosmology and belief systems of the Abrahamic religions.
*Shamayim: The first realm, created by God to be the home-realm for Him and His angels. This is also where the souls of those who have died the utmost righteous and virtuous deaths will ascend to, living in absolute happiness and bliss for the rest of eternity as rewards for their fruitful life.
*Sheol: The second realm and the new home-realm for Lucifer and his demons following their banishment from Shamayim as punishment for the Heavenly War. This is also where the souls of those who have committed the utmost despecable sins and crimes in their life shall be dammed to, living in endless pain and subjugated to punitive sufferings and torture for the rest of eternity as punishment for their sinful life.
*Purgatorium: The final realm, created by Samael to serve as his and the Grigori's main base of operation, as well as the new home-realm for the fallen angels who were banished from Shamayim. This realm also serves as an intermediate state after one's physical death for expiatory purification, where a soul who dies virtuously but still imperfect will be purified to achieve the holiness necessary to achieve Shamayim.
===Abrahamic Cosmos===
Abrahamic Cosmos is, despite its name, more than just the cosmos of the Abrahamic Pantheon, but rather the collective term used to refer to all the physical and spiritual realms and continuities to ever be created by God. It is an infinitely layered totality containing continuities that contain infinite multiverses that contain infinite universes and the higher dimensions that simultaneously exist.
*Adam Kadmon: The top and highest level of existence, infinitely greater than all other worlds beneath it. It's the first spiritual realm to come into being after the contraction of God's infinite light.
*Atziluth: The second-highest level of existence, also known by the moniker "World of Emanation". This is where concepts are formed yet not born containing no sense of existence or form. In itself contains ten smaller levels that are infinitely greater than the one below it, each contains a secret of existence that none but God, the Seven Princes, and His Divine Aeons know of.
*Briyah: The third-highest level of existence, also known by the moniker "World of Creation". This is where the creation and destruction of an infinite number of dimensions, universes, and continuities are created and destroyed at once. It is the source of all physical dimensions, in addition to being the origins for all multiverses and universes. While it transcends 4D space, it can only be considered 5 to 7 in terms of dimensional size.
*Yetzirah: The fourth-highest level of existence, also known by the moniker "World of Formation". This is where the matter created in Briyah is re-shaped into the basic elements that made up the existence of Creation. In various mythologies and ancient religions, this is also known as the Divine World or Spirit World as it is the world most humans associate with spirits and the divine. This realm is ruled by various gods and other mythological beings, all inhabit in their pantheon's respective cosmos.
*Assiah: The lowest level of existence, also known by the moniker "World of Action". This world contains 4D space and an endless sea of continuities, and these continuities contain an endless number of multiverses, and these multiverses contain an endless number of universes, and each universe in and of itself is a true universe complete with its own spacetime. It's also known as the Mortal World, as it is where most mortal beings, predominantly humans, dwell.
==Quotes==
==Trivia==
*The realm is implied to possibly be older than the Princes themselves.
**Gabriel stated that it was God's gift to them, being created in celebration of their creation.
**Uriel once said it was for more older than them, with possibly the exceptions of Michael and Lucifer, and might be as ancient as God Himself.
*The realm is implied to possess some form of consciousness.
*The Ein Sof could be likened to the library of which the shelves of Adam Kadmon are contained.
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