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title=ryan@liftingfaces.com href="mailto:ryan@liftingfaces.com">Ryan Dunn</A>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 14px Helvetica">> "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.]</DIV>
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<DIV>Fair enough, this is a very explicit assertion of sequential
Briahs.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>> 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.</DIV></FONT>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>We can still see other galaxies easily enough, so
our universe is not nearly that old.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 14px Helvetica">>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.</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 14px Helvetica"><FONT size=2 face=Arial>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 14px Helvetica"><FONT size=2 face=Arial>- Gerry
Quinn</FONT></DIV>
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