On this episode of the Symbolic World podcast, I will be looking at a question that was posed to me by some of my patrons, some of my supporters, which was trying to understand the symbolism and the reality of communion.

So, of course, the symbolism of communion is one which is very difficult to exhaust. But in this video that I did, I try as much as I can to try to show the relationship between

food, communion, how it is a form of knowledge and its relationship to the union of opposites,

even in terms of sexual symbolism. So please enjoy. This is Jonathan Peugeot.

Welcome to the symbolic world.

Yeah. This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world. This is something that I could talk about forever. And so I don't think I will be able to cover the entire question of of the

symbolism of eating and the symbolism of communion and the especially the specifics

of communion but I will try to get as much as I can into this video and if you

feel like there's something missing if you feel like

there like there are something that aren't clear go ahead and write it down in

the questions and I will maybe make a second version a second part of this

video now first first the the idea of eating.

Now, the notion of eating is extremely important because it has to do with this idea of knowledge.

I've talked about this notion of knowing as joining ourselves with something.

Okay.

And so there are several images of that in the Bible.

One of the images is sexual union, this idea of joining yourself, a man joining himself with his with his

wife that it is a form of knowledge okay eating is also a form of knowledge

what it what it is it is just you could say it this way just as a man and his

wife are joined together to become one body,

so too when you eat, you are making body. You are taking the stuff, you know, taking food,

and you are bringing, gathering it into yourself and it becomes

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