In discussing the Light Alliance, it is important to understand the properties of light and how light can adapt and mold itself to different uses and applications. In its essence, light can function both as a particle and as a wave. As a wave, light serves to radiate light energy and illuminate all of the subplanes of existence from the physical to the atmic plane.

All seven planes of existence — the physical/etheric, astral/emotional, mental, buddhic/intuitional, atmic/spiritual, monadic, and divine/logoic — are subdivided into seven subplanes, making forty-nine subplanes in all. The atmic plane is the plane of pure spiritual will, the buddhic is compassion and spiritual insight, the monadic is the plane of oneness, and the divine is the plane of the Source/Creator.

As a particle, light condenses into light substance, the inner light energy that substands and allows the creation of all form. It supports the stability and continuity of all forms in the worlds until the life within the form is withdrawn.