(urth) The Key to the Universe...

[Gerry Quinn]

From: Ryan Dunn 

> "Now I think that it is time to record what Master Malrubius explained to me. I cannot vouch for its truth, but I believe it to be true. I know no more than I set down here." [etc.]

Fair enough, this is a very explicit assertion of sequential Briahs.


>  Lots of, trial, error, and atrocity it seems was invested in an effort to form this utopiate man/alien race. "Uncountable billions" perished, which is unfathomable to us. This supreme being wasn't fortified fully until the universe had grown old. I wonder if our current universe might be described as "old" according to Severian... sounds like it.

We can still see other galaxies easily enough, so our universe is not nearly that old.


>So that universe imploded, but there was a passageway to Yesod. If we are thinking in cabalistic terms (remember Wolfe's use of the word "succession" earlier), then Yesod must be between Briah and the third universe where "men" created the supreme beings. Otherwise, how can the supreme beings have created a passage to Yesod. And then after that, have opened a passageway to Briah. Remember, the other universe imploded.

I don't get this.  I see Yesod as separate from the sequence of Briahs.  The supreme beings were created in Briah-N, and moved to Yesod, which is probably not cyclic - i.e. there are infinitely many Briahs, but seemingly only one Yesod.

- Gerry Quinn
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