(urth) UotNS and how it screws with your head

brunians at brunians.org brunians at brunians.org
Wed Jul 14 21:04:11 PDT 2010


It's identically similar to the nested Worlds in qabalah.

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> On 7/13/2010 3:44 PM, John Watkins wrote:
>> This reminds me of C.S. Lewis's words about Milton's (fictive?)
>> cosmology.  I slogged through Paradise Lost for the sake of saying I
>> had, only really enjoying the fights, but Lewis fortunately provides
>> this insight:
>> "[Milton] invented a most ingenious device for retaining the old glories
>> of the builded and finite universe yet also expressing the new
>> consciousness of space.  He enclosed his cosmos in a spherical envelope
>> within which all could be light and order, and hung it from the floor of
>> Heaven.  Outside that he had Chaos, the 'infinite abyss', the
>> 'unessential Night', where 'length, breath and highth/And time and place
>> are lost'."
>> Now imagine that, instead of Heaven, this sphere hangs from the floor of
>> a larger sphere, that hangs from the floor of a larger sphere yet...and
>> imagine that each sphere is continually contracting and expanding, dying
>> and being reborn.  And some spheres have more than one sphere hanging
>> off of them.
>> But maybe there is a terminal sphere (or a set of terminal spheres) that
>> really does (do) hang from the floor of Heaven.  Eventually.
>
> Continuing the visit to Cosmology Corner, the above imagery is actually
> a fairly accurate description of physicist's Andrei Linde's form of
> linked expansionary universes.
>
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