Hierogrammates, Briah and Yesod

Tony Ellis · 10 Aug 2010, 22:26 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: tonyellis69 at btopenworld.com (Tony Ellis)
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:26:02 +0100
Subject: (urth) Hierogrammates, Briah and Yesod
Message-ID: <AANLkTikn7jFeb6Kqn42fd4M5rrgT=SxpmZ2f7BTtvKCP at mail.gmail.com>

Dan'l wrote:
>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...

As I understand it, there's an endless succession of our Briahtic
universes, and Yesod is the hyper-space - and hyper-time - within
which that succession takes place.

Severian's last glimpse of our universe is "a circle no larger than an
ebon moon in the sky of Yesod." That's Yesod the planet, whose outer
atmosphere he has already entered.

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