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

brunians at brunians.org brunians at brunians.org
Thu May 1 16:04:04 PDT 2008


I hope it makes sense still after I corrected it!

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> 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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