(urth) Brook Madregot runs between

[Jeff Wilson]

On 8/10/2010 10:48 PM, Lee Berman wrote:
>
> I'm not sure if I understand Roy and Tony and Jeff and others' view correctly- is Yesod to be
> viewed as a lonely orphan universe sticking off to the side of Briah?

Yesod is above the cycles of Briah the way the Corridors of Time are 
above the roads of the Commonwealth. Expansion/inflation of space makes 
Briah it's own neighbor in finite but unbounded space; the successive 
cycles are neighbors in time, though separated by the unassailable 
fences of creation and destruction of all matter. Yesod and Abaddon are 
neighbors in yet another dimension, possibly the same as the Corridors 
of Time, but of a distance of much greater magnitude, requiring the 
exalted power of Tzadkiel to allow safe travel between them within a 
human lifetime.


> Or does it go through its own
> Bangs and Gnabs? Either way seems messy but I am open to the possibily that this might be the intended
> interpretation.

The use of "manvantara" brings in the concept of Hindu myth's nested 
cycles, so possibly Yesod does have its own bang-gnab cycle, but one 
very different from ours/Briah's. Yesod the universe is said to contain 
many consturcted worlds, but Severian visits one machine-planet that 
seems to be embedded in a small universe with a simulated sun and stars 
for cosmetic reasons. (There are no tides, so the sun of Yeasod is not 
anything like a star or even a moon.) The machine-planet itself has 
various levels inside of it, so perhaps they count as various 
constructed worlds.

The simulated day in Yesod is very short compared to the subjective 
length of URth's day. This may also mean that the Yesod cycle stretches 
over many Briah cycles, even if the billion-trillion years per cycle in 
Briah seem like a few decades to the Hierodules. It also may be that 
this is arbitrary, based on actions the Yesodis take rather than Yesod 
having a fixed flow of time like Briah.




-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
IEEE Student Chapter Blog at
< http://ieeetamut.org >