This article explores symbolic and psychological-spiritual theories based on the narrative of the Remake Final Fantasy VII trilogy. It does not represent absolute truths, but interpretations suggested by the material of the game
In the trilogy Remake Final Fantasy VII, Sephiroth It does not try to modify the past or create parallel lines. His goal is much deeper: he wants to influence the protagonists, especially Cloudso that your elections legitimize a new form GaiaOne in which he exerts absolute control over souls.
The divergent worlds did not pre -extend Echoes They lose control (i.e. when the artificial “forces) collapse. This is directly compatible with yogacara: desire, ignorance and affliction generate the karmic projections that form new worlds.
Sephiroth, therefore, is not just a bad guy. It is a psychic principle that tries to absorb the consciousness of the planet, model it according to its own will and to reimburse reality from its voluntary center. This article explores how it will work and how it transforms the events of Remake Final Fantasy VII Y Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.
When Sephiroth transforms forgotten capital before Aeris’ death
What scenario is that?
During the Final Fantasy VII Rebirth climax, just before the murder of Aeris, the Forgotten capital Start transforming. What was previously a silent, crystalline and ethereal space is gradually dissolved in a dream scenario: dark and full of floating structures.
This change occurs when Sephiroth appears in front of the group. The space itself seems to give to its presence.
What does it represent?
That space is not physical, but a psychic manifestation, the spiritual and symbolic influence of Sephirot, which distorts the environment with its own will, as has done in the original Final Fantasy VII (for example, when it alters reality in the northern crater).
It is a “shared mental field” in which Sephirot takes control of the local space-time to isolate the group before the turning point (the death of Air).
What does Sephiroth Reborn in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth represents?
During the final fight of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, it is described to Sephiroth Reborn AS:
“Sefirot has transcended death by beating the guardians of fate at his will. Now there is a plurality of reality and is able to connect to his path the fragments of space-time. Its goal is to dominate the planet and precipitate eternity.”
This description is not trivial and is full of spiritual and psychological symbolism:
Sephiroth Reborn represents:
A corrupt will that has transcended the human body and seeks fusion with the source of all life (Gaia). It is the supreme ego: he does not want to save the world, he wants to absorb it and be.
Jung would interpret it as the inflated shadow that not only becomes aware, but suppresses the self (himself) and replaces him with his unique will.
In the framework of Yogācāra: Sephiroth Reborn is a negative manifestation of the corrupt Erolo. It is a conscience that, being dissolved with all karma, does not try to free themselves from them, but to dominate them all.
It is the peak of fragmentation: Sephiroth absorbs all the bifurcations to control them from their nucleus. This explains why it appears in different divergent worlds at the same time (like the one he has to face Zack In the destroyed church): It is not that there are several sephiroth, but that the same will is projected as a spiritual echo in all mental and karmic spaces that arise from the collapse of fate.
Tetsuya nomuraCreative director of Final Fantasy VIIHe explained that the existence of Sephiroth transcends the worlds and that there is at the same time in multiple worlds. When Zack helps Cloud to fight Sephiroth, both exist at a time when both worlds come together. Moreover, When Zack, Cloud and the other group members fight against Sephiroth Reborn, although presumably exist in separate worlds, continue to fight against the same entity.
In other words, All the versions of sephirot reborn that we see in combat are manifestations of a single shared consciousness. Although different combat scenarios are physically separated, they are:
Spiritually synchronized.
Connected to a single existential or psycho -spiritual nucleus.
Therefore, what happens to one event is reflected in the other. This is precedents in the saga: JenovaFor example, it could change shape and control separate parts of itself as extensions of a single will. Here, Sephirot brings that idea to another level: its manifestations act almost as simultaneous echoes of their nucleus of consciousness, extended through the Creation horizon.
When does the convergence of the worlds begin?
The convergence of the worlds is not an external event, but a demonstration of a deep psychic process. From this symbolic perspective, The convergence begins in the rebirth of Final Fantasy VII during the scene in the forgotten capital, just when the leading group meets Sephirot.
This moment marks a turning point: The boundaries between material reality and psychic spiritual planes begin to escape. It is where the real convergence is activated: not of physical parallel universes, but of the plans of consciousness – the conscious, the unconscious, the archetype – all collapsed on the present. It is the threshold in which the past, destiny, trauma and will come into friction.
Why does the final combat of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth occurs and how to develop?
It is possible that after killing Aeris, Sephirot is forced to confront the rest of the group that seems to stop him. This interruption frustrates its immediate purpose, which is not simply to eliminate Aeris, but isolate and manipulate the cloud emotionally and spiritually to transform it into its environment to invoke the meteorite (an objective that it will also end up satisfying).
After the fight against Jenova, Sephirot withdraws the cloud towards the horizon of creation, that space in which time and self are suspended. Here he wants to continue his attempt at seduction and control, trying to break the cloud from the inside, revealing a “vision” of the end of the world to present himself as the only way out (something he has already done in the remake). This act is aligned with the figure of the archetype of the shadow that tries to dominate despair, grandeur and car fat -properism.
However, there is an unexpected turn for Sephirot: Zack is there.
Zack’s appearance symbolizes an opposition force that Sephirot had not planned: pure memory, will to life, the value that has not been distorted by fault or doubt. His presence breaks the scene carefully built by Sephirot and forces him to fight directly. Seeing that you cannot manipulate the emotional flow without resistance, Sephirot separates Zack from the cloud and turns into Sephirot Reborn, manifesting an even more powerful version of himself.
Even so, the cloud does not produce and when Sephirot returns to its original form, an unexpected second round occurs: Aeris appears.
His return is not physical, but spiritual and symbolic. It represents the principle of compassion and inner truth that still lives in the cloud. His presence protects the nucleus of his will, or in terms of Jung, represents the soul, the bridge between the cloud and its deepest unconscious.
Keeping out that Aeris remains a real threat, not only as an ancient cetra, but as an emotional link of cloud with life, light and sacrifice, Sephirot tries to eliminate it also, thus starting the last phase of the fight. He does not fight only against the bodies, but against the ties that prevent Cloud from melting with his darkness.
Reading by Jung and Yogācāra
Sephiroth Reborn is the radical shadow: the desire of the self for absolute power, masked by redemption.
Aeris, on the other hand, is the clarity that redirects towards the true center of being. It is the compassionate consciousness that prevents Cloud from being lost in the totalitarian fantasy of Sephiroth.
Why are there no visible consequences after battles in the forgotten capital?
Because the fights do not occur completely on a physical level.
Reasons:
The distortions of the environment are symbolic and psycho -pans.
As in the remake of Final Fantasy VII, when they cross the wall of fate, they enter into intermediate plans: states suspended of consciousness.
During the fights, the physical world is “on pause”. They are fought in dimensions in which the soul and will are landscapes.
When the struggle ends, the group returns to an intact environment. There are no rubble, fire or ruins because there has been no material destruction. What has been modified was the spiritual balance of the group and Gaia.
What implies that Sephiroth has concrete plans for Rufus?
Rufus as geopolitical distraction
Keeping Rufus obsessed with the war against Wutai, he deflects the resources, attention and time of Shinra who could interfere with his plans.
Sephiroth wants Gaia to distract, divided and vulnerable.
Emotional use of the past (Glenn)
By introducing Glenn as a vision, Rufus’ emotional trauma is reopening. This makes him more manipulable, because he moves him to act obsessively and less rationally.
It is the same model that Sephiroth applies to the cloud: he uses his past, his fractured identity, to bring it where you want.
Conclusion
Far from being a simple antagonist, Sephiroth embodies a spiritual will that seeks total domination from the inside. Their actions do not respond to a logic of time travel or parallel lines, but of symbolic, emotional and spiritual manipulation.
His goal is not to change the past, but to influence the present to give birth to a new Gaia: a world in which all souls are subject to their conscience. To achieve this, corrupt mental plans, tescan fragments and shows its being through spaces in which fate has collapsed.
The convergence of the worlds, therefore, is not a quantum theory, but a spiritual metaphor: the moment when the Self meets all its possibilities and must choose what its center will be.
In the next article we will explore the role of Aeris in this trilogy of Final Fantasy VII: his function of Ánima, his relationship with the vital current and his role of spiritual guide for the cloud.
If you want to know more about the Final Fantasy VII remake trilogy, click on the following titles
Divergent worlds in remake and rebirth of Final Fantasy VII: reality, dream or broken destination?
The Divergent Worlds of Final Fantasy VII: psychological reality and the mystery of fragmented consciousness
White matter and black material in Final Fantasy VII: a symbolic journey through the planetary soul
The Sephiroth plan in the Remake Final Fantasy VII trilogy
