(urth) Hierogrammates, Briah and Yesod

David Stockhoff dstockhoff at verizon.net
Tue Aug 10 19:04:19 PDT 2010


In that case, the problem I proposed is reversed. It's easy to go back 
and difficult to go forward.

If Yesod is "before" Briah, then "we" are in another universe entirely, 
if we are to follow Briah.

Tony Ellis wrote:
>> Lee Berman wrote:
>> My view is that Briah precedes Yesod in the cosmic timeline
>>     
>
> and David Stockhoff :
>   
>> (2) In Yesod, Briah has indeed vanished. All of human history is in the past.
>>     
>
> In chapter XXII of UotNS, when Severian is in Yesod, he says: "They
> were people I'd known... Thecla, Agilus, Casdoe... Perhaps they're all
> dead now, all ghosts, though I didn't know it."
> Apheta corrects him: "They are unborn. Surely you know that time runs
> backward when the ship sails swiftly. I told you myself. They are
> unborn, as you are."
>
> If they have travelled back in time to get to Yesod, it can't be in
> Briah's future.
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