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

It's great to be with you today. It's another beautiful day outside. I love it when it's a beautiful day. It's a wonderful

day to talk about some of the important things that the ancients taught. Today we have a kind of

intriguing topic. The title of today's episode is The Seven Sages Perfect in Lofty Wisdom.

Now before I jump into that, I kind of want to give a little bit of a summary of

some of the main points that we've talked about in the last couple of episodes. In terms of the

chronology of the podcast, we're presently talking about the time when the earth was in heaven's

embrace. As I pointed out, you know, one of the most significant stubborn bits that we find around

the world is the almost universal attestation by the ancients

that when the earth was first created, it was created in very close physical proximity to

heaven. People's all around the world used various expressions to convey the close physical

relationship between heaven and earth.

Many of these we talked about in episode number 42, on key, the earth in heaven's embrace.

But just as a quick example, in Benin, which is a country in West Africa, they teach that,

quote, in the early times, the sky was, quote, close, only about two meters from the

earth. And if we go to Australia, members of the Wawadjari tribe, Aboriginal's native to New

South Wales, teach, quote, the sky at one time in the ages ago was not up high where it is now, it was down

so low to the ground. As we pointed out a couple episodes ago, the ancients symbolically associated

the closeness in the beginning between heaven and earth with the marital and conjugal union between God and his

wife. So if we go to page 82 of traditional cosmology, Volume 1, which was written by

Marinus van der Schluse, he explains this really well. He writes, quote, just as the future pair of heaven and earth were supposed to have formed

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