Hierogrammates, Briah and Yesod

Tony Ellis · 10 Aug 2010, 18:26 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: tonyellis69 at btopenworld.com (Tony Ellis)
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:26:19 +0100
Subject: (urth) Hierogrammates, Briah and Yesod
Message-ID: <AANLkTimtje8G4LpT=Xd3S1TV2AmiG-+azChLzds0gH6D at mail.gmail.com>

> Lee Berman wrote:
>My view is that Briah precedes Yesod in the cosmic timeline

and David Stockhoff :
> (2) In Yesod, Briah has indeed vanished. All of human history is in the past.

In chapter XXII of UotNS, when Severian is in Yesod, he says: "They
were people I'd known... Thecla, Agilus, Casdoe... Perhaps they're all
dead now, all ghosts, though I didn't know it."
Apheta corrects him: "They are unborn. Surely you know that time runs
backward when the ship sails swiftly. I told you myself. They are
unborn, as you are."

If they have travelled back in time to get to Yesod, it can't be in
Briah's future.

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