(urth) (no subject)

[Son of Witz]

Well, the point seems to be that things are endlessly cyclical.
It is a major point of the books cosmology though, and one of the other huge themes is a cyclicality of creation, the future of which affects the past as much as it's past affects it's future.

On Dec 15, 2010, at 1:46 PM, DAVID STOCKHOFF <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote:

> I mean "similar," i.e., identical except for key differences. That is, in the usual sci-fi sense that most people understand.
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> --- On Wed, 12/15/10, Son of Witz <Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org> wrote:
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> From: Son of Witz <Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org>
> Subject: Re: (urth) (no subject)
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> Date: Wednesday, December 15, 2010, 4:33 PM
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> Which universe are you calling "parallel"?
> What should we call our universe in this discussion?
> If you mean ours and Briah are parallel, they are not. Our universe and Briah are cyclical iterations of the same creation that keeps playing out in more or less the same pattern. The text, and Wolfe interviews are clear about this.
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>  (There were several matrixes before Neo, there are Christs beyond Jesus.)
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> If you mean Yesod is parallel to Briah, then I would say that Yessod is clearly a metaphor for the realm of enlightened beings who have graduated Samsara and exist outside the Wheel of Time.  These beings who come back and help those in samsara are bodhisattvas, and the heirodules play this role.
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> On Dec 15, 2010, at 1:19 PM, DAVID STOCKHOFF <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote:
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>> What's the point in creating a parallel universe that is fundamentally identical to our own?
>> 
>> --- On Wed, 12/15/10, Son of Witz <Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org> wrote:
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