vanished people=Hieros

David Stockhoff · 07 Nov 2011, 12:13 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 07:13:47 -0500
Subject: (urth) vanished people=Hieros
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On 11/6/2011 10:17 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
> On 11/6/2011 8:50 PM, Marc Aramini wrote:
>> Another thing I wanted to comment on is the scene in Urth where Sev 
>> looks up and Apheta is peering at him from Green[sic].
>>
>> I'm sure there's SOME cosmological hint there I simply have not been 
>> equipped to handle; I never paid enough attention to the 
>> hierogrammates and their tools.
>
>
> From the end of Chapter XXII:
>
> "The sphere was like a wall. At its center, just as I had seen it 
> pictured on board, was the ship.
> I have written that I sought to stop. It was difficult, and soon I 
> could not resist. It may be that the void held some attraction like 
> that of a world. Or perhaps it was only that the pressure of the wind 
> on the air held static around me was so strong that I was driven forward.
> Or perhaps the ship had some hold upon us both. If I dared, I would 
> say that my destiny drew me, yet Gunnie cannot have been drawn by the 
> same destiny, though perhaps her quite different fate drew her toward 
> the same place. For if it were merely the wind, or the insensate 
> hunger of matter for matter, why was Apheta not drawn with us?
> I will leave it to you to explain these things. Drawn I was, and 
> Gunnie too I saw her flying through the void behind me, twisting and 
> whirling as the universe twisted and whirled, saw her just as one leaf 
> twirling in a spring storm might see another. Somewhere behind or 
> before us, above us or below us, was a wide circle of light, spinning, 
> frantically spinning, a thing like Lune, if such a thing as a moon of 
> the most brilliant white can be imagined. Gunnie fluttered across it 
> once or twice before she was lost in the diamond-decked blackness. 
> (And once it seemed to me?and still seems when I call that frantic 
> memory forth?that I saw Apheta's face as she leaned from that moon.) "
>
> This demonstrates that the Yesodis are able to open channels into 
> Briah to faciliate sending and receiving massive objects like people 
> as well as light, which facilitates spying, even without mirrors at at 
> the immediate terminus.
>
> There's another moon-like apparition of Apheta in XLVIII, but Sev 
> admits he's drunk and sleepy, so it's not compelling.
>


Why would a white Lune be Green?

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