This is Jonathan Peugeot don't get all of it.

We need to understand Christ as filling up the entire structure, symbolic structure,

you could say, filling up the hierarchy of reality.

And so I wanted to look at the beatitudes, specifically the beatitudes in the book of Matthew,

and show you structurally what is going on. Of course, I'm not going to go into all

the details of the attitudes, and I'm actually not going to look at it in terms of an ethical

question or a moral question, but we're going to look at them structurally and see how they

kind of manifest the symbolic world that we've been talking about for all this time.

So just like a good movie, the beatitudes that's presented in Matthew, you really get the

beginning of the beatitudes, the beginning of this, of the text is what will set up a little

microcosm, which will help you understand everything else that is going on in the text.

And so in the first statement, we will see, let's say, there will be a layout of the structure,

and then the rest of the text will flow from that layout.

And so it starts, of course, in Matthew 5, and I'm reading from the King James Version,

but in this case, it doesn't really matter which version you're reading from, because we're not looking at subtle theological detail, let's say.

And so talking about Christ, it says in Matthew 5, and seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain.

And when he was set, his disciples came unto him.

So basically, if you understand the beatitudes, his disciples came unto him.

So basically, if you understand the beatitudes, it's all right there.

For the first thing that we see is he sees the multitudes.

Okay.

And so you have this mass, let's say mass of people, this group of people that are not really a group.

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