Honestly of the three realms described here the Akashic Records seem to be what's most convincingly 1-A. Given that:
- Contains all the prototypical concepts that are the source of reality,
- Independent of reality proper
- Contains all spacetime indistinctly in itself
- Stuff about things being contained in the dreams of its residents (Which is also described as "a principle way outside time, space and dimensions")
The counter-counterargument for the last thing, in particular, seems satisfactory enough. So, the Akashic Records being 1-A has my approval. That said, I'm skeptical of the Archives and the Clouds being 1-A, and by extension of the Recorde being High 1-A. There's the visual depiction of the guy in there viewing events as part of a story he writes
here, but I don't know what exactly makes this R>F as opposed to some form of Subjective Reality.
And the fact that the Archives are a higher realm than the normal world isn't sufficient to conclude this, because from what I see, the two pieces of information are never correlated in the text; it's not "The Archives are a higher realm, and so the regular world is a story in it," but "We know the Archives are a higher realm,
and that this guy somehow views events as within a story." The latter is obviously different from the former because the latter still permits it to be, say, a 4-D or 5-D character creating a 3-D or 4-D reality using Subjective Reality.