  The hidden God manifests itself in the sefirot, however. These are conceived as God’s attributes, or as divine spheres or realms, or as stages (in his self-manifestation). They are also regarded as names which God gives himself, and together form his “one great name,” or as God’s faces or garments, or as beams of his light. They are also sometimes pictured as the branches of a tree whose root is the En Sof, “the hidden root of roots.” (Alternatively, the En Sof is depicted as the sap that circulates through, and maintains, the branches.) These branches are thought of as extending through the whole of the created order; created things exist solely in virtue of the fact that “the power of the sefirot lives and acts in them.”