Hierogrammates, Briah and Yesod

António Pedro Marques · 11 Aug 2010, 14:03 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: entonio at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?B?QW50w7NuaW8gUGVkcm8gTWFycXVlcw==?=)
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:03:00 +0100
Subject: (urth) Hierogrammates, Briah and Yesod
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Hi.

A person can't go away for a while!

Time is part of the Universe. St Augustine knew that, physicists understand 
that, and GW surely takes it into account. One can't really compare 
different universes according to some global timeline. If a universe gnabs 
and a new one bangs from it, one can't really say the new one temporally 
follows the first. 'Later', 'earlier', make sense within the same universe, 
but not across universes. And it's not enough to claim that they really are 
the same universe, only contracting and expanding, because at the gnab point 
time becomes so curved that there is no meaningful link between the margins. 
Only after one has understood that can some meaningful discussion of this 
multiple universes thing be had.

The way I see it, and I think it's the way suggested by the text, and I 
think other interpretations require extraordinary evidence, you can picture 
all the 'Briah' like universes as dots on the surface of a sphere, while 
Yesod is the inside of the sphere. I think the text makes the Briahs be 
stars in the Yesod sky, which is more or less the same. Bearing in mind what 
I just said about Time, I also don't think 'each iteration' is necessarily a 
betterment of the 'preceding', I don't think they can be considered to form 
a succession.

As for Yesod being our universe, I think it makes no sense. For a variety of 
reasons, but the obvious one is that it doesn't look like it. I see nothing 
in Yesod that looks familiar. And then again, if there is no 'succession' - 
and I've seen no evidence for that idea - then Yesod can't be part of one.

I second the motion to have Josh back.

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