Etymology/meaning/onomatopoeic aspects of the word "Urth"

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From: brunians at brunians.org (brunians at brunians.org)
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 16:32:08 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: (urth) Etymology/meaning/onomatopoeic aspects of the word "Urth"
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> I think it likely that Briah represents a more primal (spiritual)
> stage of existence, as you say.  Both names (Briah and Yesod) are
> taken from Kabbalah/Gnosticism. Briah is the second of the four
> cabalistic worlds,

Second from the top.

Atizluth, Briah, Yesod, Assiah.


>                       philosophically the one that relates to the
> instantiated Platonic forms, the world of creation and immanence.
> Yesod, however, is the penultimate stage of cabalistic spiritual
> development, only one step away from the godhead.

This is not my understanding.

 It is also the means
> by which the manifestation of justice and mercy (Tiferet) seek to
> unite with the Kingdom of God. If I remember correctly, when I asked a
> classics scholar friend of mine what "madrigot" meant he told me it
> was "level" in Hebrew. So Severian traveling along the Madrigot
> represents him traveling through levels of spiritual development in
> existence as well as through his own subjective experience of time.
> He's the flowing back of spiritual completeness from beyond Yesod that
> bridges Briah with Malkhut.

You are conflating the sephiroth and the Four Worlds. Although the Worlds
map onto the sephiroth, they are different systems.

But there are different schools of thought.


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