So one of the things I have been trying to communicate to you guys is that the world

manifests itself through a pattern, a basic pattern that I trace in different ways, talking

about the mountain in Genesis, heaven and earth, the kind of the pattern that you'll also

find in St. Gregor of Nisa's Life of Moses, that you'll find as well in my brother's book,

Matthew's book, The Language of Creation.

And different aspects of reality tend to manifest different parts of that pattern,

but there are some things which manifest the whole pattern in a very concise way.

And this is very much the case in many of the things

that are talked about or the things that are taught to us by Christ.

And so today what we're going to do is we're going to look

at the Lord's Prayer itself, the way that Christ taught us to pray.

And I will try to show you that the Lord's Prayer,

just like the Mountain of Moses, just like the Garden of Eden,

follows the same pattern.

This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world.

Now in scriptures there are two versions of the Lord's Prayer, but we're going to choose to talk about the version in the Gospel of St. Matthew, which has the longer version, which is the one we mostly know in the way that we pray in churches.

In a way it doesn't really matter because the version that's in St. Luke has the same elements as in the Gospel of St. Matthew. It's just that in the Gospel of Matthew,

there tends to be a multiplication which can help us see the pattern even more clearly,

but it's still all there in the Gospel of Luke. And so the prayer starts with, everybody knows the prayer,

I hope that you know the prayer. The prayer starts our father who is in

heaven. Of course, when we talk about heaven, it's very important not to understand it as the sky,

just as the sky in scripture, it talks about the heaven of heavens, the notion that there is a

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