Christianity is revealing to you the pattern of reality of how it is that complexity works,

how it is that any type of unity and multiplicity cohere, but that also means that you, you know,

it is calling you to actually participate in that in a real way.

Yeah. in a real way. This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world. Hello, everyone.

As we are coming closer to Theophany and in the Western tradition Epiphany,

which in the Orthodox Church is mostly surrounding the baptism of Christ, I thought we could look at one verse in the Orthodox Church is mostly surrounding the baptism of Christ.

I thought we could look at one verse in the Bible, which talks about the baptism of Christ.

I chosen a virgin in the Gospel of St. Matthew, could have chosen another version in another gospel,

to see just how much it packs in terms of understanding so many things related to Christianity,

whether it is this idea of the new birth or being born again, the idea of the new creation,

you know, what it is that Christ represent in the story. All the meaning of Theophanie and the Baptist of Christ is, of course, contained in the story. All the meaning of Theophony and the Baptist of Christ is, of course,

contained in the icon of the baptism of Christ. But what I thought is we'll look at the text

first, and then maybe we'll come back to the icon a little bit later to see what it is that

the icon contains in terms of this mystery.

Now, we'll go into the Gospel of Matthew chapter 3, where it says that as soon as Jesus

was baptized, he went up out of the water, at that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the

spirit of God descending like a dove

and alighting on him.

And a voice from heaven said, this is my son, whom I love.

With him, I am well pleased.

Now, of course, this is seen in the Orthodox tradition and Christianity in general as

the revelation of the Trinity,

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