Brook Madregot runs between

Lee Berman · 11 Aug 2010, 17:13 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:13:57 -0400
Subject: (urth) Brook Madregot runs between
Message-ID: <SNT123-W4239B1B6D04515F666DC66CF960 at phx.gbl>

James your previous post left me despairing that we could ever communicate 
our ideas clearly to each other. This part was especially confusing:

James Wynn:
>If the power to move into the Corridors of Time  is the same as escaping 
>a universe, one would have to conclude --by your model-- that those 
>weird corridors are just a mundane location in early Yesod. But then why 
>should not everyone in Briah be able to easily move through Time in 
>Yesod and Abbadon as well? Additionally, Yesod would be useless for 
>traveling in Time within Yesod.

But your next post gave me hope.

>James Wynn: Lee, Does this explanation posit a meta-universe called, say, "Madregot"?

Yes! It seems so clear to me that perhaps I didn't explain it well. To me, 
Brook Madregot is the "meta-universe"; the place outside the universes of Briah
and Yesod which allows time travel between them and, with baby steps, time travel
within Briah, as Severian does.

I don't have my books with me now so I can't check if Brook Madregot is a straight
line, implying sequence between Yesod and Briah, or has Kabbalic branchings and 
tributaries between static, co-existing universes.

I have a vague memory of some branching mentioned, but maybe they referred to 
alternate, even erased timelines, like Master Ash's. I remember the timeline path 
that Severian strides as being singular, without forks, branchings or other choices 
to make. I'll have to check the text when I get home.

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