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. Welcome to the program. I hope you're all having a wonderful week. The sun is

shining outside my window.

It's a beautiful, gorgeous day.

God's creations are beautiful.

I hope you're out there enjoying them.

I'm going to just get right to it today.

In our last episode, we learned from the ancients that everything God created and everything

God continues to create, every star,

every nebula, every galaxy, every planet, our planet, every waterfall and lily and dove is

sanctified or holy because they were brought about by God's ordering power, which was given to him because he perfectly

upheld the cosmic law of righteousness. All of God's creations are sacred because he was the one

who transformed them, the elements from their awful, profane, chaotic, inert, lifeless state into beautiful,

ordered, fertile, lifeful creations. We learned that the power to order is the power to sanctify. To order something is to transform it from its

awful profane state into a sanctified holy state. To this point we've been talking about this

transformative process in terms of the creation of the cosmos.

But don't miss the deeper esoteric symbolism of the creation here. If God has the power to

transform the profane elements into a beautiful sacred creation, doesn't he also have the power to do the same for us,

to transform the profane sides of our nature into fully ordered, sanctified, holy people

like him?

I don't want to get too far ahead of myself, but that's precisely what the ancients are going to tell us

takes place inside the sacred temples they built.

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