Aeyu said:
Hard to say off the top of my head, and I might need to do a little digging, but at the very least Hypnos tells us this:
There was a night when winds from unknown spaces whirled us irresistibly into limitless vacua beyond all thought and entity. Perceptions of the most maddeningly untransmissible sort thronged upon us; perceptions of infinity which at the time convulsed us with joy, yet which are now partly lost to my memory and partly incapable of presentation to others. Viscous obstacles were clawed through in rapid succession, and at length I felt that we had been borne to realms of greater remoteness than any we had previously known. My friend was vastly in advance as we plunged into this awesome ocean of virgin aether, and I could see the sinister exultation on his floating, luminous, too youthful memory-face. Suddenly that face became dim and quickly disappeared, and in a brief space I found myself projected against an obstacle which I could not penetrate. It was like the others, yet incalculably denser; a sticky, clammy mass, if such terms can be applied to analogous qualities in a non-material sphere. I had, I felt, been halted by a barrier which my friend and leader had successfully passed. Struggling anew, I came to the end of the drug-dream and opened my physical eyes to the tower studio in whose opposite corner reclined the pallid and still unconscious form of my fellow-dreamer, weirdly haggard and wildly beautiful as the moon shed gold-green light on his marble features. Then, after a short interval, the form in the corner stirred; and may pitying heaven keep from my sight and sound another thing like that which took place before me. I cannot tell you how he shrieked, or what vistas of unvisitable hells gleamed for a second in black eyes crazed with fright. I can only say that I fainted, and did not stir till he himself recovered and shook me in his phrensy for someone to keep away the horror and desolation.
Apart from the standard (for outerversal things) epithets, all that I see here is some kind of a journey through the transcendental realms and madness after meeting with something uncharted (Gate). I do not see here any colossal hierarchy with a qualitative difference between the steps.
I remember that in one of the Ryukishi07 works there was also one guy who overestimates himself and his ability of mental evolution.
This guy lived in a some ununderstandable transcendental universe, where any time, place and coordinates are deviated.
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And his mind went even further. High-level immaterial forces and laws became like toys for his curiosity.
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He kept on going up, but then he began to meet incomprehensible things for himself.
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But then there were more and more such things.
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And eventually he reached the top, through which he could not pass. Everything was absolute incomprehensible to him.
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After reaching such a high state, even the "under" itself disappeared.
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This guy was lucky that there was a greater being who allowed him to return from the peak of all things.
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But this guy still has not calmed down. He tried to touch the higher knowledge.
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And even after the peak of all things his mind could not stand it.
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But all this in any case is quite insignificant. Nothing even close to Bern. Someone who is much greater than both this guy and the being who greater than him can lose own soul just by looking at the external manifestation of Bern's power.
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