You're listening to the ancient tradition.

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Music provided by Joseph McDade.

Here's your host, Dr. Jack Logan.

Welcome to the ancient tradition.

I'm your host, Jack Logan.

Well, we have a lot to cover today, so I'm going to jump right in.

For the past three episodes,

we've been examining the textual and mythological evidence found in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt and among the ancient Canaanites and Hebrews that answer the question, who is God?

We found in these episodes, and in previous episodes, that in each of these ancient civilizations,

God is universally described as a corporeal being, who sits on a throne in the very center,

the sacred center of a celestial kingdom, right where the four quarters of the cosmos meet,

where he reigns as a celestial monarch, a celestial king over his cosmic kingdom, which is why some kings in ancient Mesopotamia like

Narum Sim, who reigned from 2245 to 2218 BC, was given the prestigious title, King of the Four Quarters or King of the Four Corners

of the Universe.

See, in the ancient world, one very, very important guiding principle governed everything

that the ancients did.

And what was this guiding principle?

Well, it's summed up in the hermetic adage,

as above, so below. All right. So what does that mean? Well, the ancients tell us that the

order that governed the heavens, like the political order of kingship or the religious order of priesthood was revealed to them

and that they were then charged to replicate that heavenly order on earth.

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