Hierogrammates, Briah and Yesod

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 10 Aug 2010, 18:41 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:41:54 -0700
Subject: (urth) Hierogrammates, Briah and Yesod
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On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Tony Ellis
<tonyellis69 at btopenworld.com> wrote:

> 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."

H'mmmm.

This seems to imply that Briah and Yesod share a common timeline, and
that Yesod is either before or simultaneous with Briah (so that one
moment in Yesod can be meaningfully prior to another in Briah). Which
pretty much kills Yesod as our Universe...

So we have two possibilities. (1) Yesod is entirely prior to Briah, or
(b) Yesod is contemporary with Briah, and is in some way descended
from a previous Briah-like Universe.

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

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