Stars are abscesses upon the skin of our universe.

By invoking a brane metaphor for our universe we can see stars as an abcesses upon that 'skin' or brane. Through it light leaks, which in our universe has the property of energy. But it is a filtered 'bleed through' of a pure idea from another dimension intent upon ordering our universe. In that other dimension all is purely crystalline but its structure is merely a resonance pattern because in this dimension, where idea and substance are coextensive, being and idea are all times and everywhere, always.