Urth Digest, Vol 73, Issue 34
The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 19 Sep 2010
https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/5745

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Andrew Mason — 19 Sep 2010, 22:38

> Jeff Wilson wrote:
> On 9/19/2010 12:54 PM, Andrew Mason wrote:

> > At the end of BOTNS, when Severian enters the Autarch's apartment, he
> > finds a laboratory containing, among other things, 'the fabled emerald
> > bench'. “Does anyone have any idea what this might be”

> Probably a reference to the Emerald Tablet aka the Emerald Table, upon
> which is graven the undoubtable truths of alchemy including the formula
> for gold, the Philosopher's Stone, the care and feeding of homunculi and
> mandragoras, etc.
> 
> ? ? ? ?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Tablet

Interesting - and it's about the power of the sun.

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Jeff Wilson — 20 Sep 2010, 06:27
  in reply to Andrew Mason

> On 9/19/2010 5:38 PM, Andrew Mason wrote:
> Jeff Wilson wrote:

> > On 9/19/2010 12:54 PM, Andrew Mason wrote:

> > > At the end of BOTNS, when Severian enters the Autarch's apartment, he
> > > finds a laboratory containing, among other things, 'the fabled emerald
> > > bench'.  Does anyone have any idea what this might be?

> > Probably a reference to the Emerald Tablet aka the Emerald Table, upon
> > which is graven the undoubtable truths of alchemy including the formula
> > for gold, the Philosopher's Stone, the care and feeding of homunculi and
> > mandragoras, etc.
> > 
> >         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Tablet

> Interesting - and it's about the power of the sun.

The sun references are intriguing, implying yet another time-loop, or 
perhaps that an autarch of the distant pre-Typhonian succession somehow 
knew something of what was to come.

  --
  Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
  Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
  < http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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