The Key to the Universe

Jeff Wilson · 16 Aug 2010, 02:33 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:33:35 -0500
Subject: (urth) The Key to the Universe
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On 8/14/2010 7:31 PM, Ant?nio Pedro Marques wrote:
> Jeff Wilson wrote:
>>> Jeff Wilson wrote:
>>>> The problem is that my idea is that any planets or stars in Yesod
>>>> are fakes, only constructs that simulate the appearance and useful
>>>> features of the authentic ones in Briah, for the convenience of the
>>>> Yesodis.
>>>
>>> Fakes or not, they're matter an energy in a 'place' that should have
>>> neither unless they're 'travelling in hyperspace'. Though I guess you
>>> can say they're ships or animations on a ship's screen.
>>
>> There has to be energy in Yesod for energy to flow from there to Briah,
>> as it is said (...)
>
> Sure thing, I's not saying Yesod shouldn't have energy, I's saying
> 'hyperspace' shouldn't. (And that *because* Yesod has it, Yesod doesn't
> look like hyperspace.) But I'm ready to stand corrected on anything
> regarding hyperspace.
>
> I don't know, if anything sounds like hyperspace in the BNS to me, it's
> Madregot, not Yesod. Yesod to me sounds like something of a different
> order. A universe, but not a Briah-like one.

What's your source of authority on the character of hyperspace?

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