(urth) Severian / Christ / Logos / Apocatastasis

[Son of Witz]

This quote from Claw (Chap IV, The Bouquet) directly links The New Sun with the Increate as a Divine Personage. This goes even further than I'd thought in establishing a sort of multivalent divinity (like, but not necessarily a trinity). Here it is with everything but the Caloyer's prayer removed.  

"Increate," read the caloyer, "it is known to us that those who will perish here are no more evil in your sight than we. Their hands run with blood. Ours also."
". . . by thy will they may, in that hour, have so purified their spirits as to gain thy favor. We who must confront them then, though we spill their blood today . . ."
"You, the hero who will destroy the black worm that devours the sun; you for 
whom the sky parts as a curtain; you whose breath shall wither vast Erebus, 
Abaia, and Scylla who wallow beneath the wave; you that equally live in the 
shell of the smallest seed in the farthest forest, the seed that hath rolled 
into the dark where no man sees."
". . . have mercy on those who had no mercy. Have mercy on us, who shall have 
none now."
The caloyer was finished.


A Caloyer is a monk. This is clearly a holy man making a prayer to God. He's conflated the Increate with the New Sun. I think it's safe to say that, in this prayer, the text establishes the New Sun as divine. Since we know the Severian takes on the mantle of the New Sun, it's supported by the text to say that he is Divine.  
He "may" not have been divine to begin with, but at some point he's judged worthy.  That's not my opinion though, just a caveat. 

~witz