Īn alternative philosophy, known as the esoteric tradition or ancient wisdom, suggests that the Positive and Negative Energy Planes are instead complementary to each other, serving as the source and destination of all creation and forming a cycle that is temporally and dimensionally infinite. In this model, the Positive and Negative Energy Planes govern the powers of creation and destruction in opposition to one another.
The most prominent is known as the arcane tradition, also known as the orthodox scheme, which envisions the planes as nesting spheres of realities with the Inner Sphere at the center and Outer Sphere as the infinite exterior. The mortals of Golarion have several philosophies that attempt to describe the metaphysical relationships of the planes to each other.
