I would like to welcome you to episode 29 of the Symbolic World podcast.

And so on this episode I'll be playing for you a discussion of the symbolism of garments in the Bible and in the Christian tradition,

garments of death and garments of light and how the fall brought about a series of transformations in the person, which follows all through the Bible all the way to the end.

And so it is not obviously only about the Bible,

but can help us understand the shape of the world

and how reality lays itself out for us.

And so enjoy.

Music And so enjoy.

This is Jonathan Peuge. Welcome to the symbolic world.

Music the symbolic world. For the people who are supporting me on Patreon at at least a $10 level, I'm offering the possibility of suggesting and then voting for subjects for the future videos.

And so recently I put up a question and I got many answers.

I think I got like 30 suggestions.

But one of the suggestions which got the top votes, which got the most votes, was suggested

by John Moore and it is to discuss the notion

of the robe of light. In the Christian tradition, there is this idea that before the fall,

Adam and Eve, though in the Bible they're described as being naked, they were also clothed in glory, we could say, that they were surrounded by light.

And so someone had asked me to talk about what exactly that could refer to.

And so I was actually happy to see, I think I said, the suggestion was made by someone

named John Moore.

And so I'm pretty excited to talk about that because it's something that I have been pondering for quite a while, especially the relationship between what you

could call the robe of light and the garments of skin. And so first of all, what is this notion of the

robe of light? Why would we talk about that? Now, the idea

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