Creation

Creation is the objective result of God's action outside of the divine essence, as outlined in the article on him. Created things or creatures (latu sensu) are the result of the addition of actuality to certain abstractedly material (as in formless) properties which bind the perfect nature of Pure Act, thus making creation distinct from the Creator and particularizing each form. While through actuality some of the divine attributes are necessarily shared, the distinctive properties limit the extent to which the divine influence manifests, forming imperfect objects with actual flaws. No created thing is omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent, omnipresent or fully courageous, but they are all, to some extent, conscious, powerful, somewhat good, present and even brave.

## The perpetuity of forms

The form of X is what makes X concrete. In this sense, everything in Creation has form. The form of the form of X, if there is any such thing, is what makes the form of X concrete. Since the form of the form of X makes the form of X concrete and the form of X makes X concrete, the form of the form of X makes X concrete, thus being identical to the form of X. From this reflection we come to understand that there are no formal parts to a form, for such would imply that this formal part is identical to the whole and thus not a part. That said, if forms are to be assumed to have parts, then these part can't all be material, for material parts do not entail concrete existence without being adhered to a formal part which does so. With that we conclude that forms must not have parts, and are thus metaphysically simple. That said, the forms of Creation differ from Pure Form in that they are adhered to external, material properties which particularize them. Nothing in the Universe can actually cease to exist, since its ultimate cause, the thing that guarantees its existence, God, cannot cease to exist. In this sense, things can only end insofar as they are transformed, meaning that their parts are separated or exchanged. That said, since forms have no parts, they cannot be transformed and are thus without end, immortal. Given that it is through actuality, form, that things are conscious, the soul, as in the source of consciousness, is identical to the form, thus being immortal, perpetual.

## Types of created things

### Passive objects

Passive objects are the simplest, least conscious instances of created things. Their share in divine knowledge is so small that they are effectively unconscious. As a result, their souls are also effectively powerless and cannot directly effect their behavior, thus justifying the adjective 'passive'. There are two types of passive objects, each with their own articles on the wiki: dimensions and stuff.

### Active objects

Active objects are things whose consciousness is at least a bit more developed by virtue of more complex material properties being attached to them. By virtue of such awareness their will can actually mold a lot more of their behavior, thus corresponding to some measure of agency. There are three types of active objects, each with their own articles on the wiki: earthlings, spirits and deities.

## Spiritual bodies

While being constituted of both spiritual energies and spiritual solids (types of stuff), the latter is generally regarded to be the defining substance behind spiritual bodies, for these are defined as any and all spiritual solids which are under the control of an active object. Another commonly used term for this is sensitive soul. The common composition of spiritual bodies can be dissected into four parts:

### The sensitive essence

A structure made of anima which is ultimately what the soul of an active object is a form of. It is from here that the bulk of the conscious intervention of the form comes from and is dissipated into the remainder of the sensitive soul to animate it. Through its external membrane, known as the spiritual membrane, contact with the outside world is mediated and memories are recorded. Whenever an object enters into a superposition with another object, a perpetual anima bridge between them is formed and thus first constitutes a sensitive essence. Given many objects in superposition, even if one of the entangled objects dissociates from the other, as much as there is still some continuation to the original entanglement, the sensitive soul will stay in place and connect to those objects.

### The cloak

The cloak is a large collection of pockets of infused vix, connected to each other and the membrane through a network of anima webs. Through the cloak, the decisions of the form can generate magical affects in the physical objects related to the vix and also modify the thaumas in the mystical environment itself. Through cloak to cloak interactions, two or more spiritual bodies can communicate with no physical intermediary, constituting what is generally known as telepathy. Cloaks can also adhere external anima to them to manipulate their mystical surrounding.

### The persona

The persona is an extension of the cloak, similar in constitution, but which differs from it due to its connection to a specific structure within the nervous systems of biological bodies: the micronet. The micronet is a both intracelular and/or intercelular network of particle chains (normally micro-tubules) under a singular superposition due to quantum entanglement. The persona is what ultimately connects the spiritual body to the physical body, its absence or death generally resulting in a dissociation of the cloak that severs the connection between the two bodies. Sensitive souls with no persona are normally incapable of withholding vix in their cloaks, since any major pocket of vix could serve as a persona itself.