So, hello everybody. Who was here yesterday? First question. So most people, hopefully were here yesterday.

Because tonight is going to be the kind of the continuation of what we talked about yesterday.

For those who weren't there, I'm going to give you like a 30-second rundown.

We basically talked about the Garden of Eden in the work of St. Ephraim and St. Gregor of

Nisa especially, and how the Garden of Eden is this ontological hierarchy.

It's a hierarchy of being, a hierarchy of virtue, a hierarchy of being, and it flows out into the world.

It's basically the virtues of the garden go out into the world, and the farther you are from the tree, the further you are from the glory of God.

And you know, that's the fall of Adam and Eve that move out.

And so that's the shape of

everything, the shape of a church, the shape of Mount Sinai, when Moses goes up, the shape of

the tabernacle and the Old Testament of the temple, all of these have the same kind of shape.

But today, I want to talk a little bit about what happens on the edge.

And the reason why I want to talk about that is because usually when I talk about this subject,

if I talk about it with people that aren't familiar with Christianity that aren't in the church,

usually I start at the edge because it's in our world today, it's a lot easier to understand the edge.

But with you guys, I decided to start with the middle, and then we're going to move out,

and I'm going to talk a little bit about what it looks like when you come to the edge of things.

This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world.

In order to understand it, we need to, I'm going to revisit the story just a little bit,

revisit the basic story, and I'm going to show you how it relates to other structures as well.

Now, if you think again about the Garden of Eden and you think about the fall,

the way to understand it is if you understand it spatially, you have to understand the mountain

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