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. Glad to have you with me today. We have a great program. This episode is packed

with stuff so much that you may even have to listen to it twice to catch

it all. In this episode, we're going to dive into some of the most profound theological tenets

of the ancient tradition. And as you listen, I hope you'll think not only about the incredibly

interesting parallels we find between the religious traditions that we're going to discuss,

but I hope you'll also think about and ponder the interesting parallels we find between the religious traditions that we're going to discuss.

But I hope you'll also think about and ponder the profound spiritual implications of what's going to be taught in this episode. If the ancient tradition was indeed revealed by God to human

beings in the beginning, as the ancients claimed, then these are the spiritual truths that we should all be

pondering. So let's jump in where we left off in the previous episode. In that episode, we dove into

the extremely ancient and really highly symbolic nature of the mysterious recipe used to produce

the anointing oil.

And we established that in the ancient world, the primary ingredient in the anointing oil was

myrrh, the reddish-brown resin that bleeds from the comma for a mur tree.

And it means bitterness.

And it exudes this sweet, earthy aroma, like we saw in episode

number six, where the king's scepter symbolically represented a branch of the tree of life.

We saw in the previous episode, episode number seven, that the oil with which the king was

anointed symbolically represented the gift given by

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