SPAM Re: Urth before Earth

The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 22 Jul 2006
https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/4668

b sharp22 Jul 2006, 17:49
Somewhere I read Wolfe quoted as saying Severian was an (one of many?) aspect of the Outsider. Dan'l thinks:
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God is outside,in NS; when he incarnates and enters inside, it must change everything. Not least, it must end the whole cycle of universes, and fix one - ours - as the only reality, now with a definite beginning & definite end.
Sounds Buddhist, yes? They reach their Nirvana by escaping the endless reincarnation cycle of birth and death. -bsharp
Iorwerth Thomas24 Jul 2006, 16:53

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From: "b sharp" <bsharporflat at hotmail.com>
Sounds Buddhist, yes? They reach their Nirvana by escaping the endless reincarnation cycle of birth and death.
True, but bear in mind that at least one other Catholic author has used the comparison between a linear (and progressive) spirtitual history and a cyclical secular one: Walter M Miller Jr in 'A Canticle for Liebowitz' [1]. [1] A rather wonderful little book, even if one does wonder as to what became of all those Protestants...

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