(urth) Etymology/meaning/onomatopoeic aspects of the word "Urth"

Lane Haygood lhaygood at gmail.com
Thu May 1 13:46:14 PDT 2008


Ah, that makes more sense. I'm actually going to go find my old class  
notes and update them. :)

Lane

On May 1, 2008, at 3:32 PM, brunians at brunians.org wrote:
>> I think it likely that Briah represents a more primal (spiritual)
>> stage of existence, as you say.  Both names (Briah and Yesod) are
>> taken from Kabbalah/Gnosticism. Briah is the second of the four
>> cabalistic worlds,
>
> Second from the top.
>
> Atizluth, Briah, Yesod, Assiah.
>
>
>>                      philosophically the one that relates to the
>> instantiated Platonic forms, the world of creation and immanence.
>> Yesod, however, is the penultimate stage of cabalistic spiritual
>> development, only one step away from the godhead.
>
> This is not my understanding.
>
> It is also the means
>> by which the manifestation of justice and mercy (Tiferet) seek to
>> unite with the Kingdom of God. If I remember correctly, when I  
>> asked a
>> classics scholar friend of mine what "madrigot" meant he told me it
>> was "level" in Hebrew. So Severian traveling along the Madrigot
>> represents him traveling through levels of spiritual development in
>> existence as well as through his own subjective experience of time.
>> He's the flowing back of spiritual completeness from beyond Yesod  
>> that
>> bridges Briah with Malkhut.
>
> You are conflating the sephiroth and the Four Worlds. Although the  
> Worlds
> map onto the sephiroth, they are different systems.
>
> But there are different schools of thought.
>
>
> .
>
>
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Best,
Lane




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