Before and After

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 13 Aug 2010, 19:22 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:22:20 -0700
Subject: (urth) Before and After
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On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Ryan Dunn <ryan at liftingfaces.com> wrote:

> As long as you agree that each universe lives dies and is
> reborn, then yes. At least, Briah does this,

Right.

> and when it does this, there is not overlap. Each Universe
> should have its own life cycle independent of the next.

Questionable: there is more than a hint that some kind of progress is
made from Universe to Universe. (On the other hand, there's the
question of entropy...)

> I think whether each Universe has the same rules is up
> for debate, in Wolfean cosmology at least, but I'd like
> to believe that Yesod has its own divine years, also.

Might could, but I don't recall any hint of that in the text.

> I do like the idea of Yesod as a heaven, and Abbadon
> as a hell, in terms of planes. I also like the idea of
> the gods being created by man in a previous Briah.

Heaven and Hell _relative to Briah_. But the inhabitants of Yesod are
not gods, they're just ... beings higher than humans. Maybe angels,
maybe something in between. But recall that Gabriel is still
infinitely distant from the Increate...

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

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