Hierogrammates, Briah and Yesod

Jeff Wilson · 10 Aug 2010, 01:41 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:41:29 -0500
Subject: (urth) Hierogrammates, Briah and Yesod
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On 8/9/2010 4:28 PM, Lee Berman wrote:
> The text I base my views on:
>
>> Severian- "But on the ship I thought we had come to the end of Briah when we came here"
>> Apheta- "So you did..."

This can be the physical or spatial end, like the end of the street. 
Like Frye says, "I spent hours trying to deliver this package to Dogg-do 
seven; the universe ends after Dogg-do Six!"

> As the Ship approaches the end of its journey Severian sees, rising over the topmost sail-
>
>> "the birth of a new universe, the primal explosion containing every sun because from it all
>> suns will come.."

If he can see the Big Bang from the "end" of Briah, isn't he more likely 
to be at the earlier end, rather than the latter? It may also be that 
The Ship has outraced the light of the universe's lifetime so that he is 
looking back in time as well as away in space. This would again support 
that he is at the physical end of Briah.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
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