The Outside

The **Ein Sof**, also known as **The Outside** or the **Paradoxical Space**, is the divine and most ancient realm that ever exists outside of Creation, encompassing it in its totality.

It is beyond the Four Worlds and is the halo of the Adam Kadmon.

## Summary

Ein Sof is the divine and primordial that was formed when the Celestial Princes were created as their brilliance accidentally gave birth to it. However, it neither is nor isn't an **Olam** (עוֹלָם‎; "World" or "Eon") as such a term cannot be applied to the Ein Sof.

In this realm, duality, space, time, infinite, finite, life, death, existence, and nonexistence are absolutely meaningless, nullified by the very presence of God and can only be a maybe as dictated by God or the Celestial Princes themselves. It is referred to as "The Outside" or "The Realm of Everything and Nothing" as it is a realm where the concept of Nothingness is made manifest.

It is a place beyond time, space, void, fate, and death, freed from all restrictions and constraints that are within even the core essence of Adam Kadmon. It is the background collective unity that lies beyond Creation which is merely a mere infinitesimal blip within its entirety.

Despite its titles, it cannot be described as the highest form because the realm exists beyond definition.

## Realms

* **Purgatorium**: More commonly known as **Purgatory**, this is a primordial realm created by the Celestial Prince Samael to serve as the new home-realm to the Fallen Angels and the Grigori's main base of operation. It also serves as an intermediate state after one's physical death for expiatory purification, where a soul who dies virtuously but still imperfectly purified will achieve the holiness necessary to enter Shamayim.
* **Shamayim**: More commonly known as the **Abrahamic Heavens** or just simply **Heaven**, this is the first realm of the Ein Sof, created by the Abrahamic God to be the home-realm for Them and Their angelic creations. It is also where those who die of the utmost righteous and virtuous deaths will ascend upon, living in absolute ecstasy and bliss for the rest of eternity as rewards for their fruitful life.
* **Sheol**: More commonly known as the **Abrahamic Underworld** or **Hell**, this is the primordial realm created by the Abrahamic God to serve as the new home-realm for Lucifer and his followers in the Heavenly War, having greatly opposed the divine authority of God and the Heavenly Council and were banished from Shamayim because of it. It is also where the souls of those who have committed the worst of sins and crimes in their life will be banished to and are damned to be subjected to punitive sufferings and torture as eternal punishment after death.

## Trivia

* Despite what many people believed, the Ein Sof is implied to possibly be older than the Celestial 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 Themself.
* The realm is implied to possess some form of consciousness.
* According to Azazel, Ein Sof could be likened to the library of which the shelves of Adam Kadmon are contained.
* Ein Sof in Kabbalah is the state God was in prior to self-manifestation. The term was first used by Azriel of Gerona, one of the most important Kabbalists at that time, who held Neoplatonic beliefs and thought that God can have no thought, no desire, or action as all of these are negated by it. It is the origin of the Ohr Ein Sof (The Divine Infinite Light).
	+ In Lurianic Kabbalah, the Tzimtzum (Self-Withdrawal), which is the first act of Creation, takes place within the Ein Sof to create an empty void from which all of Creation springs from.
	+ Ein Sof springs from the concept of Ayin, which is the Nonexistence beyond Nonexistence and Existence and cannot be defined. In the Tzimtzum's order of de-evolution into our physical creation, Ein Sof is defined as 00.