Hello.
Before getting started, allow me to state that I reserve the right to choose which questions to answer.
SH works be imposing Adam's will on SAMYA_JARA (kinda). But this was before S_J existed, so what did it do? Impose his will on Reality itself?
Exactly.
Lilith develops her original Reality Script, yesh b'ayin û Consummatory Chamber of Oblivion for the sole purpose of protecting her private time with her husband.
What does this do?
Basically, it temporarily sent Lilith and her target to a demiplane of sorts, while making it as if they had never existed in Reality.
Metatron discards plans for a Reality Script, deeming such a thing unnecessary.
Why'd he do that? And why did he never decide to try again after the Holy Wars began?
Reality Scripts are conceptually identical to Reality Marbles in the Nasuverse: unique externalizations of the self, temporarily imposed upon Reality. The amalgamation of Soul/Existence/Agendas defines a Supernal and his Reality Script. As a consequence, there's no guarantee that the Script will be useful until it is actually made.
Given that Reality Scripts are so amazing, why don't all Supernals make one? Basically, because it's
hard. It implies masterful understanding of Reality, Reality Code, and yourself (remember that Adam
did not write
Seder Hishtalshelus). Having a Script is, at most, a badge of merit: "look at me and my hardcore programming skills!" There are some, like Hecate, who have the skills to make Scripts, but are wary of what might result from their work. What if it's lame? Or worse, what if it's something terrifying?
And then there are those like Suzie who got their Script by sheer good fortune.
I take it this'll show up in Metatron's entry?
Naturally.
What exactly do those subtitles mean, anyway?
The subtitles are conceptual descriptors. They literally describe the aspect of their self the Supernal wished to exemplify through that particular Program. Keep in mind that "ordinary" Techniques do not have such subtitles. Only their signature Techniques, Instrumental Weapons and Reality Scripts get them.
At that time, Adam was truly defined by his Reality Script. Using yet another F/SN reference, "his whole life was
Seder Hishtalshelus". It's the same argument Gilgamesh used: can you really call that greatness?
Then again, we cannot really say Adam started that argument. Everybody in Heaven bowed to him except Lilith, and people got annoyed by that. Then one day Adam probably asked innocently "why won't you bow before me like the others?", and Lilith took it personally, as her pride is truly immense. What started as an innocent question escalated into all-out argument when Adam assumed Lilith thought he did not deserve the adoration he received, which led to Adam thinking Lilith thought herself better than him. Then he probably said something that really hurt Lilith, and that led her to her departure.
It's been mentioned enough times that it probably deserves to be asked; what is Limbo? Lilith went there, Merodach got thrown there, Takato got stuck there, but what is it?
What separates the Higher and Lower Realms? A boundary, of course. Now, how wide is this boundary?
If you think of the boundary between, let's say, your body and the air around you, you would it is "infinitesimally small". However, it cannot be zero. That would mean there is no boundary at all. That ambiguous "space" occupied by a boundary is what in GOSPEL we call "Limbo". Every spatial boundary defines a Limbo, that's why we explicitly state "the Limbo between the Higher and Lower Realms". There is also a Limbo between the mortal world and the Digital World, for example.
Why exactly is Lilith punished for running away?
Because leaving Atziluth was considered the same as rejecting the Higher Entity. It is a rather zealous point of view, I admit.
òLilith is struck speechless upon realizing that she can no longer use her Reality Script. Struck by the definite proof of the degradation of her Soul, Lilith grieves in her solitude.
?The only remaining reference of the ancient ScriptÆs existence rests in the Akashic Records.
This can happen? How much do you have to change to lose your Reality Script?
It happened to Lilith, so yes, it can happen.
Note that the term "degradation of the Soul" is in fact incorrect, but that is what Lilith thinks happened to her. The Soul is immutable and thus cannot be "degraded". In the same way, the whole "demonic corruption" thing does not really have an effect on the Soul. It's Existence that is "degraded" or "corrupted", but only Adam truly understands Souls and he's not telling.
It has been said at some point that Lilith, while she did not become a demon (because she was not an angel in the first place), was fundamentally changed by her fall from grace and her banishment to Hell. She was still an Aspect of God, but she was no longer an Aspect in the same way the others are. She was an Aspect, but
different.
Lilith is meant to represent the passionate aspect of femininity. By separating herself from the object of her passion, by rejecting the object of her affection, she has in a way rejected the very concept of her self.
Even while feelings doubts due to the nature of his Agenda, Adam never ceased to see himself as Supreme. Even after believing she had betrayed her beloved via the Original Sin, Sophia never doubted her feelings for him. Even if she was unable to prevent the Holy Wars and Adam 's misery, Shekinah always stood by his side to support him.
Only Lilith ignored her nature to the extent that it actually changed her Existence. However, after COSMO_INFERIA, Lilith could be said to be "in process of healing". She might at some point lose
Gardens of Babylon and recover
yesh b'ayin. Or, who knows? Maybe she ends up with something completely different.
Ah, so she wasn't always a defensive fighter. How good was she at offense, before this? Well, good enough to beat Lilith when she had to, obviously, but...
She never packed the punch the other Brides did, but she made up for it with smarts and her insane casting speed. One of the reasons Lilith made Milcarnia_Protocol was to match Sophia's speed at invoking her Supernal powers.
ò~ 450 million years ago: first vertebrates and land plants.
?While extinction is an expected and accepted outcome of evolution, the outrageous extent of this particular event surprised the denizens of Heaven. When brought up before Sophia, the Third Bride declared that it was the development approved by the Supernal Structures. That was the end of that discussion, but the issue would never really be forgotten.
?Sophia was pained by the very first lie she had ever said, but she did not want Heaven to fall into panic upon realizing that the Supernal Structures were suffering glitches due to her poor supervision.
?A relatively smooth continuum of extinction events, both major and minor, would become habitual in the long term.
Can you explain this further?
Mass extinction events were not within the original plans of Heaven for the Lower Realms. The Ordovician-Silurian extinction event was the result of a glitch in SAMYA_JARA. The Thread of Destiny does not only need Sophia's energy to work, it also requires constant supervision, for there is no such thing as a perfect system. Even the Supernal Structures can make errors, and it is Sophia's job to detect them and correct them before they can have a harmful effect on Reality. She failed to do so that time, and she had to make up for it by converting mass extinction events into "a valid, acceptable event in Reality".
Can you explain why she's so disgusted with Moloch and Satan specifically? I mean, I understand the feeling, but why is she disgusted with them but okay with the others?
She's not "okay" with the others; she swallowed her pride to do that.
As for Moloch and Satan, well, have you ever met someone you simply are unable to like, even if you have no reasonable justification for your dislike? That's how it is.