You're listening to the ancient tradition. A Wonk Media production. Music provided by Joseph McDade. Here's your host, Dr. Jack Logan.

Welcome to the ancient tradition. I'm your host, Jack Logan.

It's great to be with you today. It's been a minute since our last episode.

Part of the reason for that is because I put together a second episode on the Seven Sages.

And then after I did that, I decided that there was just too much information in that episode that was going to jump us ahead of where we are.

So I decided to shelve that episode for a couple of months until we're ready to cover that ground.

And that kind of put me behind a little bit.

In terms of the podcast, we've been discussing what the Ancest Tell Us took place during the first time.

And the Anches tell us that during this time, heaven and earth were very close together.

They weren't separated like they are now. And the Anches tell us that during this time, heaven and earth were very close together. They weren't separated like they are now. And the ancients tell us that during this time, Earth was a terrestrial

paradise. There was no sickness or illness or death, no corruption, no decay, and time, as we currently

understand it, did not exist.

In episode number 43, Tierra and Ilo Tempere, we talked about some really important

cosmological and theological reasons why the Earth was in a paradisal state when it was

in very close proximity to heaven.

So if you've ever wondered why the earth was so different

in the beginning than it is now, be sure and check out that episode. As we discussed in the last

two episodes, episode number 64 and 65, one of the primary ways the ancients expressed the

closeness that existed between heaven and

earth at that time during the first time was in conjugal terms as a cosmic embrace.

The ancients conceived of heaven as female and the earth as male or sometimes it was vice versa. So for example, in ancient Egypt,

heaven was personified by the goddess Newt and the earth was personified by the God Gab.

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