(urth) Hierogrammates, Briah and Yesod

James Wynn crushtv at gmail.com
Tue Aug 10 15:47:51 PDT 2010


>> This seems to imply that Briah and Yesod share a common timeline, and
>> that Yesod is either before or simultaneous with Briah (so that one
>> moment in Yesod can be meaningfully prior to another in Briah). Which
>> pretty much kills Yesod as our Universe...
>>      
> As I understand it, there's an endless succession of our Briahtic
> universes, and Yesod is the hyper-space - and hyper-time - within
> which that succession takes place.
>
> Severian's last glimpse of our universe is "a circle no larger than an
> ebon moon in the sky of Yesod." That's Yesod the planet, whose outer
> atmosphere he has already entered.
>    

So how can Apheta say that Severian's friends are unborn? How can they 
be explicitly dead or unborn? I would think that in Yesod both would be 
true since it beyond the entire history of Briah.

u+16b9



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