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 am your host, Jack Logan. Glad to have all of you listening in. I really hope that you've been learning a lot. If this is your first time listening to the program, you will learn a whole bunch, and we extend to you a hearty welcome.

On today's program, we're going to pick up where we left off in our last episode.

In that episode, we examined several ancient accounts that attested that in the beginning,

the earth wasn't originally located where we find it today in the Milky Way galaxy.

Instead, those ancient accounts taught that the earth was initially created and resided

in very close proximity to heaven.

Heaven and earth were so close, in fact, that the ancients described the relationship

as an intimate embrace.

Today's episode is titled, Tierra in Ilo Tempare.

And that's Latin for the earth at that time.

Our favorite Romanian scholar, Mercia Eliade, used this phrase to describe that time when Earth was in very

close proximity to heaven. As you can imagine, heaven and earth being in such close proximity to one another,

had very important implications for the nature of the earth itself.

And in this episode, we're going to examine what the ancients taught about the nature of

Tierra in Ilo Tempore. You'll probably hear several things

in the episode today that sound familiar. It's not super earth-shattering, but it is

theologically, and I want to stress from the outset how theologically significant this time

period is in the overarching theology of the ancient tradition.

And I also want to stress how what we see during this time period reconfirms so many of the

theological principles that the ancients taught, which we've discussed up to this point on the

program. Hopefully you'll learn something new about this time period that you didn't previously know.

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