1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:05,280 So the big idea that I wanted to sort of pitch is that there's only 2 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:14,359 one Pentecost, and that this Pentecost happens at one point in like an eternal 3 00:00:14,359 --> 00:00:20,960 moment, and Noah and Abraham and Moses and the Apostles all participate in that 4 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:24,800 day of Pentecost. But so did the people at the Tower of Babel. 5 00:00:24,879 --> 00:00:28,320 Yeah, so did the people at the Tower of Babel. And that if 6 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:34,399 you participated it correctly, then it will unify and also multiply. And if 7 00:00:34,399 --> 00:00:38,320 you don't give it your focus, if you don't give it your attention correctly, 8 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:52,880 then you're going to be divided and you're going to be scattered. This 9 00:00:53,000 --> 00:01:07,640 is Jonathan Peshel, Welcome to the Symbolic World. So hello everyone. I 10 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:12,799 am back with Richard Rowland for Universal History. This is the first episode we're 11 00:01:12,799 --> 00:01:17,719 recording after this saball Growth Summit, if I remember right, that's right. 12 00:01:18,239 --> 00:01:22,000 Yeah. And so what we want to do is go back into the Tower 13 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:26,159 of Babbel story, because Richard had some amazing reveals about that story and how 14 00:01:26,159 --> 00:01:29,840 it connects, you know, to the to the Old Testament, I mean, 15 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,719 how it connects to Pentecosts in crazy ways. That that. Yeah, 16 00:01:33,719 --> 00:01:36,280 it just blew me away when I found them out. So I think that 17 00:01:36,519 --> 00:01:38,079 we definitely need to go back into that. So Richard, take us, 18 00:01:38,159 --> 00:01:42,760 take us away. Yeah, so I'm going to kind of give away the 19 00:01:42,799 --> 00:01:46,680 farm. Now, there were some things that I was teasing a little bit 20 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:49,159 in the last Tower Babbel video that we did, and I said, you've 21 00:01:49,159 --> 00:01:49,799 got to come to the summit to get the rest of it, and of 22 00:01:49,879 --> 00:01:53,959 course lots of people couldn't come to the summit. So the good news is, 23 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:57,439 I'm gonna I'm going to basically kind of give you guys what you know, 24 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:01,319 what was missing because actually at the summit, I still couldn't say everything 25 00:02:01,359 --> 00:02:06,519 that I wanted to say because because uh, it just wasn't time and I 26 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:08,639 was trying to be respectful of the other speakers and not take their time, 27 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:13,039 because that's like the unforgivable sin as a presenter, is going over your time. 28 00:02:13,159 --> 00:02:15,039 So so I'm going to talk a little bit. There will be like 29 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:22,240 a little bit of repeat, because what I want to do is to uh 30 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:24,360 just just frame things up a little bit. So there'll be a little bit 31 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:30,680 of a repeat here. But we can we can go. But that'll that'll 32 00:02:30,719 --> 00:02:34,960 be all right. So we talked last time about the Book of Jubilees, 33 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:39,840 and the Book of Jubilees is really important to the Christian tradition. Actually, 34 00:02:39,879 --> 00:02:43,719 it doesn't matter if the Book of Jubilees is not in your Bible. It 35 00:02:43,719 --> 00:02:47,080 doesn't even matter if at some point the reading of the Book of Jubilees was 36 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:51,520 maybe banned in your church sometime a long time ago. There are a lot 37 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:53,240 of things, well that did I don't think that happened with Jubilees. I 38 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:58,400 know what happened with Enoch in the in the West. But but the Book 39 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:04,360 of Jubilees just has a lot of inform that you probably take for granted as 40 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:07,199 a Christian. That's but it's actually stuff that's not explicitly in the scriptures. 41 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:12,719 If you've ever had the idea that the devil and other demonic spirits are fallen 42 00:03:12,759 --> 00:03:16,840 angels, the idea that the sons of God mentioned in Genesis are fallen angels, 43 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:20,719 or the idea that the sons of God mentioned in Genesis are descendants of 44 00:03:20,719 --> 00:03:25,560 set actually both of those ideas come from this whole body of literature that includes 45 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:30,960 Jubilees. Even the idea that righteous people go to a place called heaven or 46 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:32,919 paradise, and wicked people go to a place called hell, and that there 47 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:38,159 are rewards and punishments that are proportional to your righteousness or your wickedness. These 48 00:03:38,159 --> 00:03:43,319 are things that are not explicit in the Old in the Old Testament, unless 49 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:46,000 you have Third Esdras in your Old Testament, which some of us do, 50 00:03:46,319 --> 00:03:52,039 in which case than your your gold. But anyway, yeah, so so 51 00:03:52,199 --> 00:03:53,479 some of us, I love say, some of us, like, who 52 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:58,719 is the US that has It's just the Russian Orthodox Church. Really, I 53 00:03:58,759 --> 00:04:02,439 didn't even know that. If you're in that sort of like Slavic Russian Orthodox 54 00:04:02,479 --> 00:04:06,159 tradition, then you can make the case that third address is actually in your 55 00:04:06,159 --> 00:04:09,919 old Testaments. Well luckily we are, so we are. That's right, 56 00:04:10,159 --> 00:04:13,919 third address, but one is getting us ready for Dante, by the way, 57 00:04:14,159 --> 00:04:17,160 that is yeah, third esdres As. I mentioned in yesterday in the 58 00:04:17,199 --> 00:04:20,079 retrospective that we did for the summit. Somebody asked a really fun question about 59 00:04:20,079 --> 00:04:25,360 apocrypha in the retrospective, and I said, you know, my favorite apocryphal 60 00:04:25,399 --> 00:04:28,480 book, although actually it's in my Old Testament, is third Esdras, and 61 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:34,079 it's actually one of the important foundational texts for understanding the divine comedy, which 62 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:38,639 I think is something most people don't know. So if you like this sort 63 00:04:38,639 --> 00:04:42,680 of thing we'll be doing, we'll be starting our first class on the Divine 64 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:45,879 Comedy. It'll be five weeks. It'll be just on the Inferno, and 65 00:04:45,879 --> 00:04:48,959 then we'll come back in a few months and do Purgatorio and then Peridisio. 66 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:55,800 And it's starting Orthodox Bright week. So that's the week of I'm just going 67 00:04:55,879 --> 00:04:59,600 to go ahead and tell people because I think you'll be able to order the 68 00:04:59,639 --> 00:05:02,879 class. It's going to be the week of the fifth. So that'll be 69 00:05:02,959 --> 00:05:06,639 Thursday the ninth May the ninth, Thursday May the ninth is when our first 70 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:13,480 class will be. So anyway, okay, So all of these things that 71 00:05:13,519 --> 00:05:16,199 people assume to be true about the scriptures and how we read the scriptures come 72 00:05:16,199 --> 00:05:21,600 from Jubilees and from these other works generally referred to as the apocrypha. And 73 00:05:24,959 --> 00:05:30,160 so with that kind of being sad, I want to look at specifically the 74 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:34,199 idea of feasting and sacrifice in the Book of Jubilees real quick. So one 75 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:40,000 of the main themes of the Book of Jubilees is the idea that the Old 76 00:05:40,079 --> 00:05:48,040 Testament liturgical calendar, that is, the feasts of the Law are ontological realities. 77 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:54,360 That the way the Book of Jubilees puts it is that these feasts have 78 00:05:54,480 --> 00:06:00,439 been celebrated in heaven since the creation of the world. So and this includes 79 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:03,360 things like the observance of the Sabbath and then also the Great Feast of the 80 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:08,360 Mosaic Covenant. Now, obviously you can see the establishment of the Sabbath in 81 00:06:08,519 --> 00:06:12,920 the Genesis story, right, but Jubilees sort of takes this idea farther. 82 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:15,120 So jubiles is kind of what you could call like a mid rasher, like 83 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:19,800 a commentary, a really like an expansion of Genesis. Sometimes that's called like 84 00:06:19,879 --> 00:06:26,600 lesser Genesis for that reason. And so it takes this idea a little bit 85 00:06:26,639 --> 00:06:29,639 further, and it says that along with the observance of the Sabbath, that 86 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:35,839 the Great Feast of the Mosaic Covenant, which which importantly Genesis predates the giving 87 00:06:35,879 --> 00:06:39,800 of the Mosaic Covenant. Right, So the Great Feast of the Mosaic Covenant 88 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:43,000 actually predate the Covenant. Now, what's the implication of that, by the 89 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:46,759 way, for Christians, Well, is that you keep celebrating these feasts, 90 00:06:46,759 --> 00:06:48,759 like even if you're not part of the Mosaic Covenant, you would keep celebrating 91 00:06:48,759 --> 00:06:53,279 these feasts. More on that in a minute. And the reason that their 92 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:58,759 ontological realities is because they basically they basically like reflect How do I say this? 93 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:02,079 You could say that these fees reflect certain heaven reality, heavenly realities that 94 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:06,240 are kind of baked into the world at its creation. So participating in these 95 00:07:06,319 --> 00:07:11,240 days of rest and feasting like the Sabbath, the day of Atonement, first 96 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:15,480 Fruits, tabernacles, the hidden significance of the eighth Day, and of course 97 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:17,800 Posco or Passover, which is the last those are the feasts that are introduced 98 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:23,920 in Jubilees. Wait, so in Jubileezer is already an introduction of the eighth 99 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:27,040 day idea, because I know it's in rabbinical text. People have told me 100 00:07:27,079 --> 00:07:30,480 that that in rabbinical commentary there are places where it says when the messicons, 101 00:07:30,519 --> 00:07:34,000 we will no longer celebrate on the sixth day, but on the seventh day. 102 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:38,480 And I was like, what that's wild? This is in uh, 103 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:43,680 this this happens in Jacob's visions that he has around the birth of Benjamin and 104 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:46,199 the death of Rachel in Jubilee. Yeah. Yeah, so this is that's 105 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:49,800 that that that is in there. Wow, that's in there. Yeah. 106 00:07:49,839 --> 00:07:53,920 So all of this stuff is kind of there in Jubilees. And as as 107 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:56,120 we're going to talk about in a minute, this becomes very important for the 108 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:59,680 formation of the Christian liturgical year. Yeah. So the idea is that by 109 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:03,959 pertin disipating in these things, it's a way to join human life and activity 110 00:08:03,199 --> 00:08:07,959 that is bounded by time to eternal realities. Right, so that you know, 111 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:11,480 you could say, somebody might say, so that God's will is done 112 00:08:11,519 --> 00:08:16,240 on earth as it is in heaven. Right, someone might say someone might 113 00:08:16,319 --> 00:08:22,000 say that so much of this reflects and the community community that wrote the Book 114 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:26,800 of Jubilees, or that at least copied and preserved it was a community that's 115 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:31,879 very concerned with calendars, the festal cycle, all these different kinds of things. 116 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:33,480 Father Stephen Dejung has a great book on the Apocrypha. It's just called 117 00:08:33,519 --> 00:08:37,200 Apocrypha, and he's got you know, if you want to get the historical 118 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:41,759 background who wrote these things and who preserved them. By the way, almost 119 00:08:41,759 --> 00:08:46,559 all these texts were preserved almost exclusively in Christian monasteries, so that's how we 120 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:52,519 still have them. So other than the Sabbath, the first fruit to the 121 00:08:52,519 --> 00:08:56,799 first feast to be instituted in Jubilees is the Feast of the First Fruits, 122 00:08:56,399 --> 00:09:00,960 and this is known variously in the Old Testament and the Jewish tradition of Chevrot, 123 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:03,240 which is the feast of weeks. It's also called the festival of Reaping 124 00:09:03,799 --> 00:09:07,799 and also simply called Pentecost, although it's not usually called Pentecost in Jubilees because 125 00:09:07,799 --> 00:09:11,960 Pentecost refers to the fact that it's the fiftieth day after Pasco or Passo, 126 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:18,879 which hasn't actually been instituted yet, like humanity is given Pentecost before they're given 127 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:24,039 Passover in the in the narrative in Jubilees. So but yeah, but I'll 128 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:28,799 probably call it Pentecost mostly or the Feast of the first Fruits. So we 129 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:35,679 shouldn't be surprised to find that this feast has a certain primacy of place in 130 00:09:35,759 --> 00:09:39,799 Jubilees. And this is because the law is given to Moses on the feast 131 00:09:39,879 --> 00:09:43,120 of the First Fruits. So when Moses goes up the mountain and he received 132 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:48,440 the Law from God that is happening on Pentecost. And so the thing that 133 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:58,360 Pentecost is, you could say, is primarily a It is a celebration of 134 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:01,440 the giving of the Law of God, which is actually a revelation of who 135 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:05,120 God is. And then the making of a covenant between God and man, 136 00:10:05,519 --> 00:10:09,159 or the making or the renewal of a covenant between God and man. So 137 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:13,720 that's what Pentecost is. That's the We'll talk about maybe the shape of more 138 00:10:13,759 --> 00:10:16,679 of the shape of the feast in a minute, but that's the event. 139 00:10:16,759 --> 00:10:20,000 So Jubilees has a frame narrative, and the frame narrative is that the Angel 140 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,440 of the presence, who is Jesus. By the way, we know this 141 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:26,720 because Jesus quotes himself in Jubilees, in the in the Gospel according to Saint 142 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:31,320 Matthew, and by the way, Jesus and various apostles quote in reference even 143 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:37,159 Saint Stephen in his in his his sermon before they stoned him to death, 144 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:41,279 right St. Stephen, the proto Martyr, he makes several references to things 145 00:10:41,279 --> 00:10:43,919 in Genesis that aren't in Genesis, but they're in Jubilees. Wow, So 146 00:10:43,919 --> 00:10:50,159 he's either quoting from Jubilees, or he's quoting from some a related tradition. 147 00:10:50,279 --> 00:10:56,120 Right, So the frame narrative is that the Angel of the Presence is giving 148 00:10:56,159 --> 00:11:00,240 the law to Moses, which is an event that happens on Pentecost. And 149 00:11:00,279 --> 00:11:05,120 so therefore Pentecost is the most important feast throughout the book of Jubilees. It's 150 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:07,759 even more important than Pasca, which isn't actually introduced unto the very end. 151 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:16,440 So what we're told is that the very first Pentecost, the very first feast 152 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:20,399 of first fruits, happens in the aftermath of the Great flood when Noah offers 153 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:22,840 up his offering to the Lord. Now, as you would expect if you 154 00:11:22,879 --> 00:11:28,360 know the story in Genesis, Noah's offering pleases the Lord, and God makes 155 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:31,480 a covenant with Noah. And the covenant is not to destroy the earth again. 156 00:11:31,919 --> 00:11:35,000 But one of the things that people forget, or not with a flood 157 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,480 anyway, one of the things that people forget, though, is that God 158 00:11:37,559 --> 00:11:41,879 also when he made the covenant, he also gave certain laws what it's usually 159 00:11:41,879 --> 00:11:50,039 called like the Noah Kayde laws donat the meat, yes, and actually certain 160 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:52,879 laws that don't affect certain laws that affect animals. By the way, one 161 00:11:52,879 --> 00:11:56,120 of the things that happens is God puts the fear of mankind into animals. 162 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:58,360 That's why animals run away from you usually when you're in the forest, right, 163 00:12:00,039 --> 00:12:03,360 and things like that. Like, so there's a there's a change in 164 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:09,159 the state of what creation is right that happens at the giving of this law 165 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:13,399 and of this covenant. Yeah, many people like By the way, even 166 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:18,399 today, Jews understand that that law in some ways precedes the law of Moses 167 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:22,159 because it is the standard by which all of humans are judged. And so 168 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:26,440 all the non Jews are not judged by Moses's law, but are judged by 169 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:31,480 Noah's law. That's right, And you still have this understanding in for instance, 170 00:12:31,519 --> 00:12:35,960 the very first church council, the first Council of Jerusalem in the Book 171 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:39,840 of Acts, that's what they said. Basically, they take the Noahaide laws 172 00:12:39,879 --> 00:12:45,159 and they apply those to gentile converts to say, for gentiles coming into the 173 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:48,159 church, you have to live by these laws, but you don't have to 174 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:52,679 keep the Torah. They explicitly, I forget, they explicitly say which laws 175 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:54,600 those are, and they're exactly the laws that are. Yes, yes, 176 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:58,120 Yeah, it's donty things strangled, abstained from fornication, all that stuff, 177 00:12:58,279 --> 00:13:01,759 because basically all of that stuff goes along with idolatry. That's kind of the 178 00:13:01,759 --> 00:13:07,000 subtext there is that is that even fornication in the ancient world, like there 179 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:11,240 were just random prostitutes in towns in the ancient world, of course, but 180 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:18,559 most prostitution in the ancient world is connected to the cults of certain deities. 181 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:22,159 Right, So even fornication and things like this, I mean, even if 182 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:24,720 you're like committing adultery or something, you would still say that there's like a 183 00:13:24,759 --> 00:13:31,799 god involved in that. It's like arrows or something. So the things that 184 00:13:31,919 --> 00:13:37,120 were specifically supposed to abstain from, as they understood in the Book of Acts, 185 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:39,759 are things that have to do with idolatry. And that's also a tradition 186 00:13:39,799 --> 00:13:46,039 that comes from Jubilee. So I'll just kind of go over the account of 187 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:50,279 the giving of the Noakhaide laws as it is in the Book of Jubilees. 188 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:52,639 We're told that humanity can need all animals, which the implication, by the 189 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:56,360 way is that's not something they were doing before, but that they can never 190 00:13:56,360 --> 00:14:01,360 eat meat with the blood in it, so nothing strangled. And in Jubilees 191 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:07,759 this is connected to specific instructions about worship and sacrifice. Mankind should offer worship 192 00:14:07,799 --> 00:14:11,879 to God and seek his forgiveness each morning and evening. So this is the 193 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:15,240 establishment of the cycle of the morning and evening offerings, the morning and evening 194 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:20,039 sacrifice, which is something that we still basically maintain in the church with the 195 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:24,480 services of Matten's investments. And then also that mankind should keep the festival of 196 00:14:24,519 --> 00:14:28,200 the First Fruits each year. So this is the third thing. And now 197 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:31,039 we'll note something that's been sort of added to what you find in Genesis. 198 00:14:31,799 --> 00:14:35,480 So it says and he gave to Noah and his sons a sign that there 199 00:14:35,519 --> 00:14:37,519 should not again be a flood on the earth. He said, his bow 200 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:41,840 in the cloud for a sign of the eternal covenant that there should be by 201 00:14:41,879 --> 00:14:45,159 the way, bou means like literally his weapon. That's what a rainbow is. 202 00:14:45,759 --> 00:14:48,080 I super hate. All the people are like, it's actually a circle, 203 00:14:48,159 --> 00:14:52,440 and that's to make you think of a wedding ring, and like this 204 00:14:52,919 --> 00:14:56,840 is a common explanation for the rainbow. It's like, well, nobody knew 205 00:14:56,879 --> 00:14:58,480 what that meant until we got in airplanes, and then we flew above the 206 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:03,919 world and we aw that from the air, rainbows are circles, and therefore 207 00:15:03,559 --> 00:15:05,840 it's a wedding ring. And that's why the wedding ring is the sign of 208 00:15:05,879 --> 00:15:09,120 the covenant, and like whatever, this is the thing you hear at Protestant 209 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:11,799 weddings sometimes. By the way, anyway, super annoys me. It's his 210 00:15:11,879 --> 00:15:15,679 bow, because it's his bow, it's his weapon. It's the weapon with 211 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:18,080 which he destroyed the world. Right, that's what a bow is. Anyway, 212 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:24,159 this is very common, like ancient Eastern Semitic language. So he said 213 00:15:24,159 --> 00:15:26,360 his bow in the cloud for a sign it the eternal covenant, that there 214 00:15:26,399 --> 00:15:28,240 should not again be a flood on the earth to destroy it all the days 215 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:31,559 of the earth. For this reason it is ordained and written on the heavenly 216 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:37,320 tables. So that this idea of the heavenly tables is language that Jubilees comes 217 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:39,799 back to again and again, and it's the idea that there's a heavenly torah 218 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:45,759 or there's a heavenly law, and that's what everything is referencing back to. 219 00:15:45,799 --> 00:15:50,600 And that's basically you could say, that's the thing by which the world consists, 220 00:15:50,879 --> 00:15:54,720 is that by the heavenly law and the earthly law, like the tory 221 00:15:54,799 --> 00:16:00,759 that's given a Moses is like the earthly manifestation of ripresent of that. But 222 00:16:00,799 --> 00:16:04,440 the real one is this divine laws. So it's ordained written on the heavenly 223 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:07,919 tables that they should celebrate the feast of weeks in this month once a year, 224 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:11,200 to renew the covenant every year. And this whole festival was celebrated in 225 00:16:11,279 --> 00:16:15,799 heaven from the day of creation until the days of Noah twenty six jubilees and 226 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:19,399 five weeks of the year. And Noah and his sons observed it for seven 227 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:22,799 jubilees and one week of years until the day of Noah's death, and from 228 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:26,559 the day of Noah's death his sons did away with it until the days of 229 00:16:26,559 --> 00:16:30,679 Abraham. This is an important detail, and they ate blood, and as 230 00:16:30,679 --> 00:16:33,039 we're going to see here in a minute, eating blood is connected to idol 231 00:16:33,039 --> 00:16:38,519 worship. But Abraham observed it, and Isaac and Jacob and his children observed 232 00:16:38,519 --> 00:16:42,279 it up to thy days, that is Moses' days, and in thy days 233 00:16:42,279 --> 00:16:45,720 the children of is real forgot it until you celebrated anew on this mountain. 234 00:16:47,159 --> 00:16:49,120 So remember that The context here is the giving of the Law at Sinai. 235 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:52,480 And do thou command the children of Israel to observe this festival and all the 236 00:16:52,519 --> 00:16:56,720 generations, for a commandment unto them one day in the year is that in 237 00:16:56,759 --> 00:17:00,360 this month they shall celebrate the festival, for is the feast of weeks and 238 00:17:00,399 --> 00:17:04,599 the feast of first fruits. This feast is twofold and of a double nature. 239 00:17:04,839 --> 00:17:11,640 According to what is written and engraven concerning concerning it, celebrate it. 240 00:17:11,039 --> 00:17:15,519 So these laws are written or engraven upon the heavenly tables of the Law, 241 00:17:15,519 --> 00:17:18,920 and by keeping them, what God promises. He goes on to promise Noah 242 00:17:18,039 --> 00:17:22,119 is that if you keep these laws, so don't eat things strangled, which 243 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:26,000 is related to idolatry, worship God twice a day, morning and evening, 244 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:30,000 and keep the festival of Pentecost every year. If you do these things, 245 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:33,440 then God promises that humanity will continue to cohere, that they will be safe 246 00:17:33,519 --> 00:17:38,039 from the ravages of chaos, as exemplified by the flood. And there's a 247 00:17:38,079 --> 00:17:42,480 really interesting reference here by the way, to the double nature of the feast. 248 00:17:42,759 --> 00:17:47,599 Damn that what are they referring to? Not everybody agrees on this. 249 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:52,160 It might refer to the two occasions of the giving of the Law and the 250 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:55,599 covenants, right after passing through the flood and then after passing through the Red 251 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:59,759 Sea, but it might also refer to the fact that it has a heavenly 252 00:17:59,799 --> 00:18:04,799 and earthly nature. That the say that every ancient agricultural society has a feast 253 00:18:04,839 --> 00:18:11,279 of first fruits, right, that's just something that everybody has. But it's 254 00:18:11,279 --> 00:18:15,319 like a joining of that part of the earthly cycle to a heavenly reality. 255 00:18:15,359 --> 00:18:17,960 And by the way, this is not a problem whenever somebody like looks at 256 00:18:18,559 --> 00:18:21,359 a Christian feast or a Jewish feast and like, oh, this is just 257 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:26,279 a leftover from some fertility religion or whatever. Like God made the world and 258 00:18:26,319 --> 00:18:30,440 the cycle of the seasons is is what it is? Like, Yeah, 259 00:18:30,279 --> 00:18:36,920 it's it's not. It's it's so silly to think that that that the relationship 260 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:42,559 between the natural cycle and heavenly realities should be arbitrary. In fact, no 261 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:45,599 Christian has ever really thought that. And when I say this, I mean 262 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:52,240 like we have had arguments and even even sisms over calendars, and I know 263 00:18:52,319 --> 00:18:53,839 that the calendar thing is something that some types people are like, oh, 264 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:57,759 that's just stupid whatever, And I'm not trying to start a calendar argument so 265 00:18:57,799 --> 00:19:02,599 that nobody, nobody come at me. You know, I'm on whatever calendar 266 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:04,200 my bishop is on. But yeah, there you go, the idea that 267 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:07,839 a calendar doesn't matter, that it's arbitrary and not really important. It's not 268 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:15,440 really a Christian idea. Yeah anyway, all right, so so so yeah, 269 00:19:15,559 --> 00:19:19,400 my question is too, like the double aspect of the of the feast. 270 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:22,000 You know, one of the things I'm seeing with these, with the 271 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:27,680 notion of Pentecost, is that it seems to be a feast that is that 272 00:19:27,839 --> 00:19:30,720 is about the man in which Heaven and Earth touch each other, right, 273 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:34,160 like this, that's exactly what it's about. And so when heaven and Earth 274 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:37,480 touch each other, then you and it makes sense with the idea also first 275 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:41,559 fruit, which is the idea that you see if you think about it in 276 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:45,720 terms of agriculture as well, right, so you see the effect of the 277 00:19:45,759 --> 00:19:48,400 seed, the first effect of the seed that has come from Heaven in the 278 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:53,279 world, and that would be the equivalent of the law, because the law 279 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:57,480 is is a fruit. It's not it's a fruit of the connection of Heaven 280 00:19:57,519 --> 00:20:00,359 and earth, it's not the actual connection, and it's like the it's like 281 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:04,160 the fruit of that. And so you can imagine the same with all the 282 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:10,400 laws or all the manifestations of that covenant. And so in that sense already 283 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:15,119 you can kind of see that sometimes you know some you know, when Jesus 284 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:18,640 talks about how you know you the wheats and the tears grow together. Yes, 285 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:22,920 right there that there is also an aspect of the fruits or the first 286 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:26,680 fruits that can be maybe negative. Anyways, all right, continue on and 287 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:30,000 we'll see. No, that's good, that's good. That yes. So 288 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:37,279 the Angel of the Presence then goes on to give us certain details in Jubilees 289 00:20:37,279 --> 00:20:41,559 about the history of the feast after Noah. Noah kept it and also the 290 00:20:41,599 --> 00:20:44,279 related laws of daily worship, not eating meat with the blood in it, 291 00:20:44,319 --> 00:20:48,279 et cetera, and it's forgotten after his death, and this leads to the 292 00:20:48,279 --> 00:20:52,799 scattering of the nations at Babbel Abraham. Abraham is then the first person to 293 00:20:52,799 --> 00:20:56,000 start keeping it again, and also his sense Isaac and Jacob keep it. 294 00:20:56,079 --> 00:20:59,599 And this is all in Jubilees. We get actually accounts of when did Abraham 295 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:03,359 keep cost For instance, we'll come to that in a second, but their 296 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:07,759 descendants also forget it, and that leads to their captivity in Jacob. Right, 297 00:21:07,839 --> 00:21:11,400 So if you don't keep the feast, then you're scattered or you go 298 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:15,160 into captivity. And structurally this will set up for set us up for the 299 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:19,240 next episode in the Genesis material that we find in Jubilees, and that's the 300 00:21:19,279 --> 00:21:23,200 Tower of Babel. So in between the account of the aftermath of the flood 301 00:21:23,319 --> 00:21:26,599 and that of the Tower of Babel in Jubilees, we get several important details 302 00:21:27,039 --> 00:21:30,920 which really help kind of fill in the gaps of Genesis, which is the 303 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:34,359 whole against the whole point of Jubilees, and and help us understand the tower's 304 00:21:34,599 --> 00:21:41,759 significance. So first we get the account of Noah's drunkenness, which is also 305 00:21:41,799 --> 00:21:47,480 there in which is also there in Genesis. Obviously. Now the account of 306 00:21:47,519 --> 00:21:52,799 Noah's drunkenness is very important to the pattern of the feast of Pentecost. I'll 307 00:21:52,799 --> 00:21:56,720 talk about this maybe more in a minute, but every time that Pentecost is 308 00:21:56,759 --> 00:22:02,920 celebrated in the scriptures, you'll have somebody receives the law from God and they 309 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:06,759 come down to the people, and then there's some strange episode of drunkenness that 310 00:22:06,799 --> 00:22:11,519 happens for Noah. It's it's he gets drunk, right, and then his 311 00:22:11,599 --> 00:22:15,319 son takes advantage in whatever whatever that means. We want to well, well, 312 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:18,680 there's there's there's a couple of things that it means it. I think 313 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:22,079 there's a strong case Father Steven de Young is written about this. But I 314 00:22:22,319 --> 00:22:26,599 noticed the same thing too, like there's a strong case to mean that there's 315 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:30,799 a strong case to be made that it means that he had incestuous relationship with 316 00:22:30,839 --> 00:22:33,839 his mother while Noah was drunk, because that's what if you look at the 317 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:37,400 phrase uncovering your father's nakedness everyone else in the Old Testament, that's what it 318 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:41,240 means. It means, and then that makes that that makes canaan. Then 319 00:22:41,559 --> 00:22:45,160 this, you know, like a product of incests, which explains why the 320 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:49,279 curse comes on him instead of on him anyway. Anyway, Yeah, we 321 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:52,799 talk. We have a video about that with father Stevens. So yes, 322 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:53,960 I know, I know, I know, I know. So yeah, 323 00:22:55,039 --> 00:22:56,839 I just yeah, people go back and watch that if if you want to. 324 00:22:56,920 --> 00:23:03,079 But uh yeah, pleasant stuff. So but another example, another example 325 00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:10,359 is of course the Apostles, right when the apostles are at Pentecost there well, 326 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:11,839 actually we'll talk about the Apostle in a second. But another easy example 327 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:15,279 is when Moses comes down, you know, at Pentecost, right, he's 328 00:23:15,319 --> 00:23:19,960 received the law. He comes down the mountain and there's for people. The 329 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,680 people are, you know, engaging in like a giant drunken orgy. Right, 330 00:23:23,839 --> 00:23:29,920 So there's this weird thing of like drunkenness happening at the end of Pentecost, 331 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:33,960 which I think is which I think is interesting. So we have that 332 00:23:34,079 --> 00:23:37,559 and the Curse of Ham and then right after that we have Noah's sons divide 333 00:23:37,599 --> 00:23:44,920 the earth among themselves by lots, and this basically foreshadows the Table of Nations 334 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:48,319 in Genesis, which is, as we've talked about many times, is a 335 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:52,119 vital passage to understanding the whole idea of medieval universal history. So after this 336 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:56,400 happens, Noah makes a kind of a final testament in which he restates the 337 00:23:56,400 --> 00:24:00,240 Noahai laws and then shares his fears or what is going to happen to his 338 00:24:00,319 --> 00:24:03,960 sons and their sons after his death, you know, as far as they're 339 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:07,279 going to stop keeping the laws, and that all of these things are going 340 00:24:07,319 --> 00:24:10,160 to happen. Of course, that's what happens. And then what we're told 341 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:14,440 is that unclean spirits, so demons and the offspring of demons led by a 342 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:17,839 mastema who is also Satan or the devil like He's got kind of different names 343 00:24:17,839 --> 00:24:22,480 throughout Jubilees, but they're used interchangeably. They torment humanity and they start to 344 00:24:22,559 --> 00:24:26,880 lead humans astray after the flood, and so this this sets up another very 345 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:30,599 important idea in the New Testament is that on the prayers of Noah, these 346 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:34,799 demons are imprisoned in the underworld, all of them except for one tenth, 347 00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:38,759 who are allowed to continue to roam the earth and test mankind. This is 348 00:24:38,799 --> 00:24:45,079 an idea which Saint Peter will refer to when he talks about uh talks about 349 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:48,039 the ones chained in Tartarus. Right, this is the one. This is 350 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:53,119 like the whole idea when when uh, you know, Jesus you know comes 351 00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:57,039 to the demons that are inhabiting Yeah, you know them before our time. 352 00:24:57,160 --> 00:25:00,920 Yeah, that the time is the end of is the day of the Lord, 353 00:25:00,039 --> 00:25:02,599 right, which they think is the end of the world, But the 354 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:04,039 Day of the Lord is actually that's when God comes to you, right, 355 00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:08,359 So, so I mean that's the subtext there is it actually is their time. 356 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:12,759 But yeah, so anyway, all of this once again see father Stephen 357 00:25:12,759 --> 00:25:18,319 de Young's published works. But so they're allowed to continue to run the earth 358 00:25:18,319 --> 00:25:23,240 in test mankind and including by afflicting them with like various diseases. And so 359 00:25:25,279 --> 00:25:27,400 we are told that Noah is then given a series of books, and he's 360 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:30,920 actually given them according to a related tradition, he's given them by the archangel 361 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:36,640 Raphael, who's the sort of the patron angel of like healing. That's he's 362 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:40,359 given a series of books with the knowledge of the medicines and seductions of the 363 00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:45,039 demons and how to combat them, interestingly with herbs from the earth. This 364 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:48,960 is such an interesting idea to me because it's like you can already see the 365 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:55,359 idea of the garments of skin or like the old word for this is pharmicon, 366 00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:57,119 right, the thing that like it's death, but also you can use 367 00:25:57,119 --> 00:26:00,559 it to ward off death. Right, That's what is where we get our 368 00:26:00,559 --> 00:26:07,960 word pharmaceutical from. It's also interesting to think that in some ways it's it's 369 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:11,640 the redemption of the you know, of the of the Book of Enoch, 370 00:26:11,799 --> 00:26:17,000 story because in some ways those things were revealed to humans by the demons, 371 00:26:17,519 --> 00:26:22,119 and so the archangel Gabriel has to in some ways reveal them with their solution, 372 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:26,200 you know. And so it's like it's the it's this completion of the 373 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:30,839 pattern of how civilization and and this is also makes sense because that's what Noah 374 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,920 is and that's where that's who Noah is. Noah is the one who takes 375 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:41,400 techne, who takes these revelations from this the sons of God that became civilization, 376 00:26:41,559 --> 00:26:45,000 became technology and weapons, and he makes the arc out of it, 377 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:48,039 you know. And that's why Noah is often said to be married to Tubulcane's 378 00:26:48,039 --> 00:26:52,119 sister, because he integrates, he's able to use this aspect of the world 379 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:56,640 kind of turn it. And so the idea that you believe that Gabriel would 380 00:26:56,720 --> 00:27:00,440 reveal Raphael, but yes, right, sorry, sorry, that Raphael would 381 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:04,119 reveal this again to no uh, you know, the more pharmacon aspect of 382 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:08,359 it, which was part of the the the Enoch tradition, it makes a 383 00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:12,319 lot of sense. Well. And and the fun thing is that Raphael does 384 00:27:12,319 --> 00:27:17,119 this again in Tobit, right, So so the book of Tobit which is 385 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:21,559 actually is in your Old Testament. For the majority of Christians that that have 386 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:25,440 lived, you won't have it if you're if you're a Protestant, then it'll 387 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:27,960 be an apocrypha. But but most most Christians at most times have had the 388 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:33,319 Book of Tobat in their Old Testament. And uh, Patristic commentaries on Tobit, 389 00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:37,799 by the way, are awesome, very very fun. Uh the venerable 390 00:27:37,839 --> 00:27:42,240 bed An Anglo Saxon Anglo Saxon Monk and and and and uh you know, 391 00:27:42,279 --> 00:27:45,680 writer theologian, et cetera. He he's a wonderful commentary in Tobatt. But 392 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:51,000 anyway, in the Book of Tobit, this is exactly what this is exactly 393 00:27:51,039 --> 00:27:56,000 what the uh, the archangel Raphael does is he comes to he comes to 394 00:27:56,640 --> 00:28:02,359 uh Tobit and and actually helps him, helps him overcome the wiles of the 395 00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:06,799 demons by doing things that Part of the reason that Luthor didn't like Tobad is 396 00:28:06,799 --> 00:28:08,319 because he felt like it was too magical, Like there's too many things, 397 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,519 too many things that are like magic. Is like, oh, you're going 398 00:28:11,559 --> 00:28:14,200 to go catch a certain fish and do the certain thing with it, and 399 00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:17,039 then you'll make some incense and the incense will drug the demon away and things 400 00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:19,160 like this and that really like you know, when they're trying to like purge 401 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,319 all the superstition you know, from the world or whatever, like Tobad has 402 00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:30,400 to go. But but but but this is this is this is kind of 403 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:33,319 like I mean, that's the thing that Raphael does. That's what Raphael does. 404 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:34,519 Like he's a healer, but he's more than just a healer. He 405 00:28:34,599 --> 00:28:40,039 shows the basically shows the way the demon works and then gives you a way 406 00:28:40,079 --> 00:28:45,119 to counteract it. So yeah, so uh and then we're told that in 407 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:48,640 the days of Peleg, the city, the Tower of Babel, or really 408 00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:51,559 the city of Babel is built, and it's not simply a tower. It's 409 00:28:51,559 --> 00:28:53,240 a city and a tower. And Father Stephen de Young I made a point 410 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:56,359 about this at the summit. Father Stephen de Young got onto me. It 411 00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:59,079 was like, well, obviously there's a city around it. I will just 412 00:28:59,119 --> 00:29:06,759 continue to maintain that. Most people don't always don't necessarily connect the tower with 413 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:08,480 the city. Really, like, well, when I was a kid, 414 00:29:10,039 --> 00:29:12,400 we knew there was some kind of connection between Babyl and Babylon. Obviously they're 415 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:17,000 the same thing, but we knew there was some kind of connection between the 416 00:29:17,039 --> 00:29:18,759 two. But I think that I was always told that the Tower of Babel 417 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:22,799 was built first, and then later people came along to the ruins and it 418 00:29:22,839 --> 00:29:26,200 built the city of Babylon or something like this, something like this, But 419 00:29:26,559 --> 00:29:30,599 the tower was always just like like even go look at artistic depictions of it. 420 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:33,480 Sometimes it's shone with a city, but most of the time it's shown 421 00:29:33,559 --> 00:29:37,680 alone, just like a big tower standing out in a field or whatever, 422 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:41,160 which which makes no sense if you think about it for like three seconds. 423 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:45,240 But a surprising number of people, myself included, grew up with like that 424 00:29:45,319 --> 00:29:49,279 mental image, and so I think it's worth mentioning. So we're told in 425 00:29:49,359 --> 00:29:52,440 Jubilee that it takes forty three years to build. We get its dimension. 426 00:29:52,519 --> 00:29:56,559 These are details we don't get in Genesis, of course, and we're told 427 00:29:56,559 --> 00:29:57,640 that it's, you know, again, not simply a tower. It's a 428 00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:03,759 city and a tower. The city is in a square or rectangle, and 429 00:30:03,839 --> 00:30:06,519 so the idea of the city being a perfect squur so it's not a round 430 00:30:06,519 --> 00:30:10,920 wall, it's a perfect square. This is actually very important to understanding you 431 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:15,759 know, the apocalypse, right, and the scent of the New Jerusalem, 432 00:30:17,119 --> 00:30:22,680 and the Lord says, And in Genesis the Lord says, now nothing will 433 00:30:22,559 --> 00:30:26,000 like nothing will be impossible for them, or something like that. But in 434 00:30:26,039 --> 00:30:27,960 Jubiles it's like a little clearer. It says the Lord says, now nothing 435 00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:33,720 will escape them, which I think communicates very well the totalizing nature of the 436 00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:37,039 spirit of Babel. Right, and then he confuses the tongues. So after 437 00:30:37,079 --> 00:30:41,920 the confusion of the tongues, a great wind comes and casts the tower down. 438 00:30:41,599 --> 00:30:45,839 And the mention of the wind which destroyed the tower references this very old 439 00:30:47,279 --> 00:30:49,319 Jewish tradition, which by the way, is also found in the Sibiling Oracles 440 00:30:49,359 --> 00:30:52,759 and also in Josephus and Josepha's account of the fall of the Tower of Babel. 441 00:30:52,839 --> 00:30:56,359 So this is something everybody in the ancient world believed about the Tower babbel 442 00:30:56,400 --> 00:31:00,279 Is that had been destroyed by a great wind, although this it's not a 443 00:31:00,319 --> 00:31:07,920 detail in Genesis. And this passage is bracketed by two passages concerning master men 444 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:10,599 and the evil spirits, one of which I mentioned just a moment ago. 445 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:15,799 And these passages make it very clear that the context in which we are meant 446 00:31:15,799 --> 00:31:18,440 to understand the building of the Tower of babel is that of idolatry. So 447 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:22,279 it says the sons of Noah began to war on each other, to take 448 00:31:22,319 --> 00:31:23,599 captive and to slay each other, and to shed the blood of men on 449 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,759 earth, and to eat blood, and to build strong cities and walls and 450 00:31:26,799 --> 00:31:32,880 towers, and individuals began to exalt themselves above the nation. Boy, that's 451 00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:36,759 not a fun thing that you think about, and to found the beginnings of 452 00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:40,000 kingdoms, and to go to war with people against people, and nation against 453 00:31:40,079 --> 00:31:42,079 nation, and city against city, and all began to do evil and to 454 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:45,079 acquire arms, and to teach their son's war, and they begin to capture 455 00:31:45,079 --> 00:31:49,079 cities and to sell male and female slaves. And or the son of Cassad 456 00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:52,279 built the city of Ur of the kladies, and called this name after his 457 00:31:52,319 --> 00:31:56,240 own name and the name of his father. And they made for themselves molten 458 00:31:56,279 --> 00:32:00,279 images, and they worshiped each idol the molten image which they made for themselves. 459 00:32:00,279 --> 00:32:05,640 And they began to make graven images and unclean simulacra, which is not 460 00:32:05,799 --> 00:32:08,440 I don't want to know what they mean by that. And malignant spirits assisted 461 00:32:08,519 --> 00:32:14,960 and seduced them into committing transgression and uncleanness, and the Prince Mastima exerted himself 462 00:32:15,039 --> 00:32:17,279 to do all of this, and he sent forth other spirits, those which 463 00:32:17,319 --> 00:32:21,079 were put under his hand, to do all manner of wrong and sin, 464 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,519 and all manner of transgression, to corrupt and destroy, and to shed blood 465 00:32:23,559 --> 00:32:25,480 on the earth. And it goes on. It's a really bad time. 466 00:32:25,559 --> 00:32:30,039 So basically, so now I was talking about the foundation of Er. Yeah, 467 00:32:30,119 --> 00:32:34,519 so that so Ura is built after Babel falls. Okay, yeah, 468 00:32:34,559 --> 00:32:37,960 But basically the point of these two episodes before and after the Tower of Babel 469 00:32:37,039 --> 00:32:40,519 is to show that the idea of building a city in a tower is connected 470 00:32:40,559 --> 00:32:45,640 to the idea of idolatry, right, that that's what it's for. So 471 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:53,200 this general state of affairs continues until Abraham, and Abraham is pious and as 472 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:57,559 the is the first man since the death of Noah to reject idolatry and to 473 00:32:57,599 --> 00:33:00,400 worship the One True God. This is what we're told in Jubilees. So 474 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:02,599 as a result of his piety. By the way, there are other traditions 475 00:33:02,599 --> 00:33:07,160 that actually have Abraham like contemporary with Nimrod, and like he's there at the 476 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:10,279 fall of the Tower of Babylon. That stuff is really fun. But anyway, 477 00:33:10,759 --> 00:33:15,720 that's not necessarily in Jubilees, the timeline is like a little foggy. 478 00:33:15,799 --> 00:33:21,240 Yeah. So as a result of his piety and his efforts in defying the 479 00:33:21,279 --> 00:33:23,160 work of Masdema, destroying his father's idols, so on and so forth, 480 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:29,160 God sends an angel to open Abraham's mouth and ears so that he can understand 481 00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:34,200 Hebrew. And Hebrew is the knowledge which has been forgotten since the fall of 482 00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:37,440 the Tower of Babel. It actually says that the word, the language of 483 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:43,119 Hebrew has been lost since the fall. So if you're reading that in like 484 00:33:43,119 --> 00:33:46,720 a post Augustinian context, you would be like, oh, since since Abraham, 485 00:33:47,599 --> 00:33:51,720 sorry says Adam, since Adam and Eve like just that tower, But 486 00:33:51,799 --> 00:33:53,799 it probably means the fall of the tower. That's the most recent fall that's 487 00:33:53,839 --> 00:33:58,640 been talked about, and that's where you know confused, tongues are confused and 488 00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:04,559 everything else, and that the fall in Eden was not like before Augustine. 489 00:34:04,559 --> 00:34:07,239 It's not the defining fall for everybody, certainly not for ancient Jews. There's 490 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:15,320 various ones. So he's given the knowledge of Hebrew, and this allows him 491 00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:19,599 to read the books of his father Tera. Now we don't know exactly know 492 00:34:19,639 --> 00:34:22,360 what these books are. They seem to have been passed down from Noah, 493 00:34:22,079 --> 00:34:24,800 so maybe these are the books that Raphael gave him. But they recount the 494 00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:29,000 true history and the nature of the world up to that time. And it 495 00:34:29,039 --> 00:34:32,039 is from these books that Abraham learns the law of God. And all of 496 00:34:32,039 --> 00:34:36,480 this is many generations before the same law is going to be given again to 497 00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:42,039 Moses on Sinai. So all this culminates in Jubilee chapter fifteen, when Abraham 498 00:34:42,159 --> 00:34:46,719 sacrifices at the feast of the First Fruits and offers a sacrifice to God. 499 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:52,960 God accepts Abraham's sacrifice, and this is the occasion of the first giving of 500 00:34:52,039 --> 00:34:57,519 the Abrahamic Covenant. So this is the next covenant that we meet in Genesis, 501 00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,239 and everybody knows the story. Abraham cuts the the animals in half and 502 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:04,840 then like God comes between them, like a smoking lamp and a burning furnace 503 00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:08,280 and all this stuff. But in Jubilee that happens very explicitly at Pentecost. 504 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:15,280 So Noah celebrates Pentecost and God makes a covenant with him. Abraham celebrates the 505 00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:19,559 Pentecost and God makes a covenant with him, and all of this is being 506 00:35:19,559 --> 00:35:23,880 told to us when Moses is celebrating Pentecost and God is making a covenant with 507 00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:29,400 him. Is there is there in Abraham? Is there a case of drunkenness 508 00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:34,440 after that? Or so? I was just wondering that I can there is 509 00:35:34,519 --> 00:35:38,039 something and I can't remember what is now? Hold on, what's the story 510 00:35:38,119 --> 00:35:43,440 right after the right after this? Oh? So in in Jubilees it is 511 00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:51,639 Sarah's laughter. Huh that comes after the Yeah, and and and I think 512 00:35:51,639 --> 00:35:54,119 this is sort of like to counteract the drunkenness, right, it's the institution 513 00:35:54,199 --> 00:36:00,960 of circumcision. So that's right right after that. Okay, so right after 514 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:06,599 the which first the laughter first, Yeah, it's circumcision first. Oh. 515 00:36:06,679 --> 00:36:08,719 The other fun detail that you get in Jubilees. And this is something that 516 00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:12,679 I think Father Doom Deong has talked about, is we're told right after the 517 00:36:12,679 --> 00:36:19,000 institution of circumcision that all of the nations have been given to have been given 518 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:22,000 to demons to rule, which it self is a kind of disorder. It 519 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:25,119 says the laws for all the generations forever, and there's no circumcision of the 520 00:36:25,199 --> 00:36:28,840 days, and no omission of one day out of the eight days for his 521 00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:31,239 an eternal ordinance or dan didn' written on the heavenly tables. Everyone that is 522 00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:34,840 born, the flesh of whose forcekain is not circumcised on the eighth day, 523 00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:37,119 belong if not to the children of the covenant which the Lord made with Abraham, 524 00:36:37,159 --> 00:36:39,039 but to the children of the destruction. And it goes on. It 525 00:36:39,119 --> 00:36:45,440 says, for the angels of the Presence and all the angels sanctification have been 526 00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:47,320 created from the day of their creation, and before the angels of the Presence 527 00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:52,360 and Angel of sactification, he has sanctified Israel. So actually Israel has been 528 00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:55,519 set apart even before the angels were made, so that they should be with 529 00:36:55,599 --> 00:36:59,440 Him and with his holy angels. And do thou command the children of Israel, 530 00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:01,639 and let them have deserve the science of this covenant for the generation as 531 00:37:01,679 --> 00:37:05,119 an eternal ordinance, and they will not be rooted out of the land, 532 00:37:05,119 --> 00:37:07,760 for the command is ordained for a covenant. So this is still the giving 533 00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:12,840 of law. And there's a by the way says for Ishmael and his sons 534 00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:15,360 and the brothers, and his brothers and Esau. The Lord did not cause 535 00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:17,639 to approach him, and he chose them, not because they were the children 536 00:37:17,639 --> 00:37:21,840 of Abraham, because he knew them and he chose Israel to be his people. 537 00:37:22,559 --> 00:37:25,280 And then it goes on and yeah, we get Sarah's we get the 538 00:37:25,679 --> 00:37:31,360 announcement of the prediction of the birth of Isaac, and Sarah's laughter and the 539 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:36,679 angelic visitation like all of that stuff, and then the destruction of Sodom and 540 00:37:36,679 --> 00:37:38,559 goodmore. It all comes right in that sequence, which is the same sequence 541 00:37:38,559 --> 00:37:42,920 you get in Genesis. I think, I think finding the drunken this parallel 542 00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:46,519 here is maybe a little difficult. It might be difficult, but yeah, 543 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:49,880 I'll think about that a little bit, but we have to think about it. 544 00:37:50,159 --> 00:37:55,119 Symbolism. The laughter is a kind of counter reaction to the revelation, 545 00:37:55,360 --> 00:38:00,199 right, it's like this this this, this lack of control, that's the 546 00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:02,880 you know, that's so give gives Sarah a black by the way, people 547 00:38:04,039 --> 00:38:07,320 like, you know, that's what else would you do? Like I think 548 00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:12,280 that, no, we often have to put ourselves in position of these characters. 549 00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:15,239 Like some of the reactions even that God will punish, are completely reasonable, 550 00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:19,199 like the arc falling over and someone going to like to stop it. 551 00:38:19,199 --> 00:38:21,280 It's like what would you do? I would do that, you know, 552 00:38:22,599 --> 00:38:25,920 Yeah, yeah, I think that's like Sarah's uh, Sarah's laughter, like 553 00:38:27,119 --> 00:38:29,559 is one of those things, like it's not a haha, that was funny 554 00:38:29,639 --> 00:38:30,880 laughter. It'd say what else do you do but laugh? Like in the 555 00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:34,599 face of somebody of God telling you this when you're in your nineties, Like, 556 00:38:34,639 --> 00:38:36,800 what else do you do? But anyway, okay, so we'll think 557 00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:38,199 about that a little bit more. I think that there probably is something there. 558 00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:40,880 I mean, like all the Sodom and Gomora stuff happens right after that. 559 00:38:42,079 --> 00:38:45,440 Yeah, so that's something that something I got to think about. Now 560 00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:49,480 at this point, I have to confess to everybody that I bury the lead. 561 00:38:49,559 --> 00:38:52,639 So this is the big secret. I apologize for all the repeated material, 562 00:38:52,679 --> 00:38:53,559 but I wanted to set this up. So this is the big secret 563 00:38:53,559 --> 00:38:58,920 that we didn't share in the last video. Here, I must once again 564 00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:04,679 mention that the author of Jubilees is hyper attentive, like obsessively attentive to calendars. 565 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,360 He always tells you the day or at least the week in which significant 566 00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:13,199 events are occurring, and if you pay very close attention, you will find 567 00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:17,599 that God descends to confuse the tongues and scatter the nations from Shinar in the 568 00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:24,440 fourth week, which is how Jubilees usually introduces the feast of Pentecost. In 569 00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:31,079 other words, for instance Jubiles chapter fifteen, the context of Babel is thus 570 00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:37,119 a bad It's it's a celebration of Pentecost. That's what's happening at babylting when 571 00:39:37,199 --> 00:39:43,400 the tower is destroyed, celebration of Pentecost. They're celebrating Pentecost, but it 572 00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:47,559 is a act of false celebration of idolatrous worship. And the Lord descends what 573 00:39:47,679 --> 00:39:52,480 happens at Pentecost. God descends like Earth meets Heaven. Right. So God 574 00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:57,159 descends as he did with Noah and with Abraham, but this time it's not 575 00:39:57,239 --> 00:40:00,320 to make a covenant or give God's law, but it is rather to bring 576 00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:07,599 confusion and scattering, which is the promised consequence of idolatry. So Jubilees relates 577 00:40:07,599 --> 00:40:12,800 to us this tradition, which contrasts the worship and the giving of the covenant 578 00:40:13,679 --> 00:40:19,760 to two righteous men Noah Abraham and actually later Isaac also celebrates Jubilees Pentecost, 579 00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:25,400 and Jubilees to idolatry and therefore confusion and dispersion. It contrasts the generation of 580 00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:30,800 babble against the people like the people of God. And so these are we 581 00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:35,920 could say, three different events in linear history. But remember that Pentecost has 582 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:39,840 been celebrated in heaven since the world was created. This is what we're told. 583 00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:45,360 Well that means Pentecost is always been celebrated in heaven, right, Like 584 00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:53,039 it's always like it's a reality there that our experience of linear time is connects 585 00:40:53,079 --> 00:40:58,000 to through the act of celebration, right, And this is this is a 586 00:40:58,039 --> 00:41:04,960 really important way. I mean I I the symbolism of feasts and celebration, 587 00:41:05,199 --> 00:41:07,440 and I know it's Heaven meeting Earth. Like you can just say that or 588 00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:09,199 what, But like if you really think about, like what is happening when 589 00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:13,920 you celebrate something, I feel like that's the whole Like to me, that's 590 00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:15,880 the whole enchilada. Like if you could just understand like what's going on with 591 00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:20,639 celebration, then you'd understand everything in the Bible and also everything about the world. 592 00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:25,320 Like it's I just like I get stuck on it so much because it's 593 00:41:28,159 --> 00:41:32,199 celebration. Is the act of celebration is the way by which we connect to 594 00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:37,559 higher or lower realities, right, and it's it's really it's the way that 595 00:41:37,679 --> 00:41:42,559 you know, you you gave this great keynote at the summit talking about how 596 00:41:43,079 --> 00:41:46,400 human attention right through the figure of the Son of Man, right is the 597 00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:52,519 thing by which the world orders itself. But celebration is the primary action that 598 00:41:52,599 --> 00:41:57,360 gives attention. Like that's the primary where you give something attention is by giving 599 00:41:57,440 --> 00:42:02,320 it a celebration. So we need really this is to me this this idea 600 00:42:02,519 --> 00:42:07,320 that Pentecost and the idea of the first fruits, and also the notion that 601 00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:14,519 this has to do with multiplication, Like that's actually what because you let's say 602 00:42:14,559 --> 00:42:17,320 we look at Theophany for example, like our celebration of Theophany, Theophany is 603 00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:21,480 also a joining of heaven and earth, right, so the spirit comes down 604 00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:24,800 on the waters, the earth is gathered up together. You know, there's 605 00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:30,639 definitely a relationship between the two. But the idea that that Pentecost would be 606 00:42:30,679 --> 00:42:36,000 related to the multiple multiplication, yeah, is makes a lot of sense. 607 00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:40,559 It also makes a lot of sense of this weird covenant that Abraham does. 608 00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:45,800 It's the weirdest thing in the world. How why in the world, Like 609 00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:49,280 I've never understood that why would you cut things in half? Like why are 610 00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:52,199 you cutting these bulls in half? And then you're walking through the middle. 611 00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:55,760 There's no good explanation for that outside of this. By the way, people 612 00:42:55,800 --> 00:43:00,119 will again like covenant theology is like a big deal in like reform circles that 613 00:43:00,159 --> 00:43:01,280 it came from, and people would always be like, yeah, the word 614 00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:05,159 covenant comes from the word cutting because you have to like kill something to make 615 00:43:05,159 --> 00:43:07,000 the covenant or you know, something like this, but you have to kill 616 00:43:07,039 --> 00:43:10,840 it and you have to split it in half and then and then what God 617 00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:17,519 reveals himselves like animal did it this way? Yeah, but this makes a 618 00:43:17,519 --> 00:43:21,519 lot of sense. It makes a lot of sense of it in the sense 619 00:43:21,559 --> 00:43:24,920 of, you know, first of all, this idea that God manifests himself 620 00:43:27,119 --> 00:43:30,320 emits the cutting like amidst the separation. Right, it makes sense of the 621 00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:36,079 separation of the waters in the in Genesis one. But then it also makes 622 00:43:36,119 --> 00:43:39,239 sense of the idea that you know, if you think about how creation works, 623 00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:43,400 there's two aspects of it. One is unity, one is unifying, 624 00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:45,519 and one is separating. That's how the world works. In order for any 625 00:43:45,559 --> 00:43:50,679 identity to exist, two aspects have to be true. You have to separate 626 00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:52,760 it from other things, and you have to unify it to itself. And 627 00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:57,280 so the idea, the idea of that is what the logos does, or 628 00:43:57,280 --> 00:44:00,480 that is what the influence of heaven does, is that it unified and it 629 00:44:00,599 --> 00:44:05,599 separates. And and what's interesting about the Pentecost image is that it seems to 630 00:44:05,639 --> 00:44:09,800 be God revealing himself in the separation right in the multiplication. Right, So 631 00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:13,480 it's like think about its first fruit. So you know, the seed comes 632 00:44:13,519 --> 00:44:16,679 down, all these fruits appear, and then God manifests itself in this multiplying. 633 00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:22,079 But if but if it's not celebrated, then it's just separation. Yeah, 634 00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:25,639 right, so if it's not if if it's not celebrated properly, then 635 00:44:25,679 --> 00:44:31,000 the influence of heaven becomes scattering. It's like it it will it's the scattering 636 00:44:31,039 --> 00:44:36,159 without the unifying. And you can think about it like everything makes sense, 637 00:44:36,199 --> 00:44:38,679 Like think about the judgment of God too, you know, that's what that's 638 00:44:38,679 --> 00:44:43,719 what happens when the you know, the idea of the goats going away, 639 00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:46,199 scattering away, or the idea of the burning of the chaff, this idea 640 00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:52,199 that in some ways you know when heaven and earth, when God manifests himself. 641 00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:54,960 That's what happens, unity and separation. But if it's not proper, 642 00:44:55,400 --> 00:45:01,360 then it then it ends up being and that ends up separating that unity and 643 00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:07,280 diversity, those two things together is that's that is the trinity, right and 644 00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:10,079 and and and in this point, I think that I can say non heretically 645 00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:15,079 always like I'm nervous about speaking about the trinity in public because you're gonna do 646 00:45:15,119 --> 00:45:20,119 like an accidental heresy, but that this is this is an essential aspect of 647 00:45:20,119 --> 00:45:23,039 of divinity. This is what God is, right, is these two things 648 00:45:23,079 --> 00:45:29,239 together like unity, but really really it's a community like community, right, 649 00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:31,920 a communion of love. And that this is an essential thing to the way 650 00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:37,239 that God is. And and when he reveals that aspect of himself, if 651 00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:42,599 you don't celebrate it, or you try to instead focus on yourself and celebrate 652 00:45:42,639 --> 00:45:47,360 yourself, there's there's this sort of self reflexivity to idolatry, I think. 653 00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:52,360 And if you try to like sort of celebrate yourself or focus on yourself, 654 00:45:52,679 --> 00:45:58,800 even that that that chilling sentence people put the exalted, the individual over the 655 00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:01,440 nation, right, that even that kind of an idea, Right, that's 656 00:46:01,599 --> 00:46:06,079 then yeah, by the way Richard, I think. Okay, so it's 657 00:46:06,119 --> 00:46:09,719 not Sarah's laughter, what is it. It's lots drunkenness. It has to 658 00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:13,679 be so stupid, of course it is. It has to be lots of 659 00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:19,199 drunkenness, and his incest with his daughters like this right down stream from I'm 660 00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:22,039 very dumb. That is that's correct, that's that's right. Well I'm dumb 661 00:46:22,119 --> 00:46:24,760 too, because it's so obvious, and it's like it's always like just let 662 00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:28,960 it run, Johnathan, run out there. At some point it's like there, 663 00:46:29,039 --> 00:46:30,239 of course, I mean, that's and and what does that lead to? 664 00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:35,480 That leads to the the even the sort of the scattering of the of 665 00:46:35,519 --> 00:46:37,840 the seed, because like lots of a righteous man and he's part of you 666 00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:43,119 know, but then it creates Moab and it creates Ammon like these two like 667 00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:46,440 long long term ancestral enemies of Israel. Right, it's creazy. Yeah, 668 00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:51,360 okay, that's there we go, right, so now we need so we 669 00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:54,559 need to bring it. That's the second that's also like the second incest connection 670 00:46:54,639 --> 00:47:00,440 with Pentecost too, if you take that one interpretation of what Ham did. 671 00:47:00,719 --> 00:47:05,000 Yeah anyway, okay, super weird, all right, Yeah, So to 672 00:47:05,039 --> 00:47:07,719 kind of like bring this down. So the basic idea, I think we 673 00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:10,599 talked a lot in our last video, and we're kind of running through our 674 00:47:10,639 --> 00:47:14,039 time here, so I'm not gonna restate all of this. But we talked 675 00:47:14,039 --> 00:47:17,719 a lot in our last video about the account of Pentecost in Acts chapter two 676 00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:22,360 and paralleling it to these accounts of Pentecosts and the Old Testament actually to the 677 00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:25,519 Tower of Babble, which is something in the Orthodox Church we literally have, 678 00:47:27,679 --> 00:47:30,400 you know, hymns of old the tongues were confounded because of the audacity and 679 00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:34,800 the building of a tower, but now the tongues are made wise for the 680 00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:37,920 sake of the glory of divine knowledge. Right, And so even by the 681 00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:42,119 way, like the way that all of this interacts with language is also something. 682 00:47:43,079 --> 00:47:45,719 And the the like connection and jubilees of like language and law and those 683 00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:49,880 two things together, like this is something I'm still trying to think about. 684 00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:53,519 But so so I mentioned last time that there's this early tradition that you can 685 00:47:53,519 --> 00:47:58,760 still find recorded in the writings of many of like Oriental Orthodox communities, that 686 00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:02,239 the day of Pentecost is the occasion actually of the first Divine Liturgy. So 687 00:48:02,519 --> 00:48:07,480 in the Divine Liturgy, we have a part called the Epiclesis, which is 688 00:48:07,519 --> 00:48:10,159 the calling down of the Holy Spirit upon the gifts. In the Divine Liturgy 689 00:48:10,199 --> 00:48:13,440 of Saint John Christism, for instance, we say, send down your Holy 690 00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:20,880 Spirit upon us and upon these gifts here set forth right. And so if 691 00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:22,599 you think about it, like, what are the apostles gathered together to do? 692 00:48:22,639 --> 00:48:27,239 Well, they're all still basically pious Jews, right. Christ always kept 693 00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:30,960 Pentecost. We know this from the gospels. So they're gathered together in the 694 00:48:31,079 --> 00:48:35,760 Upper Room to celebrate Pentecost together. So they're keeping this sort of ancient law 695 00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:38,280 that's written on the tables of Heaven. And they're celebrating Pentecost together, and 696 00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:42,800 they call down the Holy Spirit. Of what happens, this wind descends on 697 00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:47,679 them, and the wind unifies and multiplies, but it also scatters. Remember 698 00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:52,199 that there are people there who think the apostles are drunk. Now, and 699 00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:55,639 this is a weird thing, because if you pay very close attention, you 700 00:48:55,679 --> 00:49:00,800 will find that the apostles are not. For instance, is not an example 701 00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:05,639 of of glossalalia. They're not just like babbling like you know, like Pentecostals 702 00:49:05,719 --> 00:49:07,599 or something. I'm not trying to throw anybody any shade. But that's not 703 00:49:07,639 --> 00:49:10,480 what's happening in the Book of Acts. People here in their own language. 704 00:49:10,519 --> 00:49:15,639 People hear them in their own language, but some people hear drunkenness. Yeah, 705 00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:19,320 and that is a weird thing. But it only makes sense if you 706 00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:22,159 kind of have this understanding. Because some people here drunkness white because they're not 707 00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:27,119 keeping the feasts right. They're not they don't have their attention oriented correctly. 708 00:49:27,159 --> 00:49:30,679 So what they hear and they experience it as drunkenness and scattering. They say, 709 00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:31,840 these guys are drunk, what do you what are you? Guys listening 710 00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:37,079 like they're just babbling right, And and in that sense, it's like a 711 00:49:37,119 --> 00:49:39,639 funny almost like kind of a funny pun on the whole Tower of Babel thing, 712 00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:44,079 right, that word that means confusion and has come in our in our 713 00:49:44,159 --> 00:49:49,159 language now to mean a particular kind of linguistic confusion. So the big idea 714 00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:54,880 that I wanted to sort of pitch is that there's only one Pentecost, and 715 00:49:55,039 --> 00:50:05,280 that this Pentecost happens at one point in like an eternal moment, and Noah 716 00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:10,400 and Abraham and Moses and the Apostles all participate in that day of Pentecost, 717 00:50:10,559 --> 00:50:15,400 but so did the people at the Tower of Babel. Yeah, so did 718 00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:19,559 the people at the Tower of Babel. And that if you participated it correctly, 719 00:50:20,119 --> 00:50:24,159 then it will unify and also multiply. And if you don't give it 720 00:50:24,239 --> 00:50:28,559 your focus, if you don't give it your attention correctly, then you're going 721 00:50:28,599 --> 00:50:34,119 to be divided and you're going to be scattered. So we've been making these 722 00:50:34,599 --> 00:50:38,599 Universal History videos for about a little over two years now. I think we, 723 00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:42,880 you know, by my last count, probably had like twenty three videos 724 00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:45,360 in the series. Maybe this will be number twenty four. They've been genuinely 725 00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:52,119 generally popular, very well received. I've gotten such an outpouring of appreciation from 726 00:50:52,159 --> 00:50:54,840 people, which I'm very grateful for. But I do get some funny questions. 727 00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:59,079 And sometimes these funny questions are just people like missing the whole point of 728 00:50:59,079 --> 00:51:02,239 a video. And sometimes it's people like trying to educate me about their favorite 729 00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:07,199 forms of like heterodoic esoterica, like have you tried you know taro, or 730 00:51:07,199 --> 00:51:12,760 have you tried like psychedelics or whatever. It's like no, no, no, 731 00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:15,480 thank you. But one of the most common questions that I get from 732 00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:21,639 people like normal people. Is what do you mean by universal history? Where 733 00:51:21,639 --> 00:51:28,079 the emphasis is on the second word, right, and the word history like 734 00:51:28,119 --> 00:51:31,400 in its early sense from Greek, means like inquiry or knowledge gained from inquiry, 735 00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:35,280 and so we still preserve this in the sense of terms like the natural 736 00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:39,679 history, museicu and so forth. By the time the word makes its way 737 00:51:39,719 --> 00:51:45,960 into Old English via Latin, it's picked up sense of being the account, 738 00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:50,480 the description, the written account of past events, a story or a narrative, 739 00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:52,920 and by the twelfth century, when it's being used in the Middle Ages, 740 00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:57,639 it means something like the account of events as relevant to a group of 741 00:51:57,639 --> 00:52:00,960 people or people in general. So the story of your people mattered because it 742 00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:06,559 was your story, because participation in that story makes you a part of your 743 00:52:06,599 --> 00:52:12,639 people. And if you forget yourself, you cut yourself off from reality. 744 00:52:12,679 --> 00:52:15,440 And this is what happens at the Tower of Babel, is that people forget 745 00:52:16,639 --> 00:52:20,119 Noah. They forget the laws that were given to Noi, they forget the 746 00:52:20,159 --> 00:52:22,039 covenant God. But they're really forgetting themselves. They're forgetting what it means to 747 00:52:22,039 --> 00:52:29,559 be human. And so taken in this sense, universal history is a history 748 00:52:29,559 --> 00:52:32,559 of everything at everyone it's a history of who we are, how we got 749 00:52:32,599 --> 00:52:37,039 to be where we are, and how the laws and the customs and the 750 00:52:37,119 --> 00:52:40,519 rituals and traditions of our people give us meeting and allow us to continue to 751 00:52:40,639 --> 00:52:45,679 cohere so that we could be long in the land. And every work of 752 00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:50,119 Jewish and Christian history, from the first writings of the Books of Moses until 753 00:52:50,159 --> 00:52:55,639 modern times has seen it necessary to begin at Genesis, because Genesis has the 754 00:52:55,679 --> 00:53:00,280 answer to these questions. So the Anglo Saxon Role, a work which is 755 00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:05,679 mostly concerned with events in the eighth and ninth centuries in England, begins with 756 00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:10,639 the incarnation but also takes pains to trace Alfred back to Noah. So later 757 00:53:10,679 --> 00:53:15,599 on our nineteenth century German friends will try to move history closer to the sciences 758 00:53:15,639 --> 00:53:22,039 to make it a vision shot and there was. As one of the fathers 759 00:53:22,079 --> 00:53:27,360 of modern source based historiography put it, history should be concerned with what really 760 00:53:27,679 --> 00:53:31,679 happened, but that this is only knowable through what he called genuine and original 761 00:53:31,719 --> 00:53:36,320 documents, and so this attitude towards history. So what that meant was you 762 00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:40,679 couldn't actually trust ancient historians like you have to ignore them and you have to 763 00:53:40,679 --> 00:53:45,920 go for like other things. And this attitude towards history is it's not unlike 764 00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:50,840 the obsession with, like the idea of like the original articles in biblical textual 765 00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:54,159 criticism, which has driven many people away from the faith quite frankly since since 766 00:53:54,199 --> 00:54:00,360 we don't have any such articles. So this is how this all released costs 767 00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:02,880 taken in the medieval sense. Jubilees is this work of history. This is 768 00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:07,639 why I'm so interested in it. We'll probably do more videos about it. 769 00:54:07,639 --> 00:54:13,599 It's a work of universal history because shows the way in which the basic patterns 770 00:54:13,599 --> 00:54:19,599 of religious life, which are feasting and fasting, Sabbaths and Holy days, 771 00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:23,519 are the very shape of reality itself. That's the whole point of the Book 772 00:54:23,559 --> 00:54:30,880 of Jubilees. And by conforming our lives to these patterns, we exist and 773 00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:36,880 cohere, we remember ourselves, and we host angels. Like if I could 774 00:54:36,880 --> 00:54:40,559 tell on myself a little bit, when I was a Protestant, there was 775 00:54:40,639 --> 00:54:44,480 like one year and I was on staff at the church, so I'm telling 776 00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:49,199 on myself there was one year when people just sort of forgot that Easter was 777 00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:52,039 next week, and so it was rolling around and we're like, oh, 778 00:54:52,079 --> 00:54:55,360 crap, Easter's next week. We didn't plan anything, and somebody said, 779 00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:59,480 well, let's just push it out a month, because there's no reason we 780 00:54:59,559 --> 00:55:00,719 might have act. You've been on old calendar Easter of that year. I 781 00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:04,800 don't know, but they were like, well, let's just pushed out a 782 00:55:04,800 --> 00:55:08,360 month. It doesn't really matter when we celebrate it. Right, If you 783 00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:14,840 live this way, your life and your society, your culture will be scattered 784 00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:21,679 and overtaken by a royaling chaos of competing principalities, because all of these lower 785 00:55:21,719 --> 00:55:25,840 principalities are basically fighting over a vacant throne. And I think that we see 786 00:55:27,039 --> 00:55:30,239 that the account of Pentecost and Acts alone is enough to kind of convincingly show 787 00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:34,639 versus the way that histories like Jubilees are seen by the inksit Jews, by 788 00:55:34,639 --> 00:55:37,800 the Apostles, by the early Church. And there are a lot of other 789 00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:42,599 examples of that that I haven't mentioned. But when I first kind of conceived 790 00:55:42,599 --> 00:55:45,719 of this talk, I was just thinking, let's just do neat extra biblical 791 00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:49,800 traditions about Genesis, like and I'll just talk about that at the summit. 792 00:55:50,039 --> 00:55:52,000 But as I started digging into Jubilees more closely, and the more closely. 793 00:55:52,039 --> 00:55:54,920 I looked at the traditions around the Tower of Babbel. I realized that this 794 00:55:55,000 --> 00:56:00,360 is really a perfect case study for the whole idea of universal history. Right, 795 00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:05,400 this is why we're doing this project. It's my deep belief that the 796 00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:09,119 time of Scripture is the time of our own lives. That we're not fundamentally 797 00:56:09,159 --> 00:56:15,400 different people from the human beings who first attempted to build Babylon the Great right. 798 00:56:15,119 --> 00:56:20,039 So the question that I'm asked most frequently by listeners is how do you 799 00:56:20,079 --> 00:56:22,199 integrate all this universal history stuff into your daily life? Like what should I 800 00:56:22,199 --> 00:56:30,119 do? And the suggestions that people sometimes come up with worry me a little. 801 00:56:30,159 --> 00:56:32,880 Sometimes it seems like everybody's reflex is to like make up some own little 802 00:56:32,920 --> 00:56:37,159 rituals or practices to give their lives meaning. And I just want to say, 803 00:56:37,199 --> 00:56:38,119 like, don't do that. That's what I want to just tell people 804 00:56:38,199 --> 00:56:43,599 is don't try to roll your own okay, Instead, start by doing what 805 00:56:43,639 --> 00:56:46,440 God commanded Noah. According to the Book of Jubilees, every human being that 806 00:56:46,480 --> 00:56:51,480 has ever lived is commanded to pray each morning and evening, together with your 807 00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:55,559 family or with other people if you can, if you need help figure out 808 00:56:55,559 --> 00:57:00,119 what to pray. I have suggestions. Keep yourself clean from idolatry, and 809 00:57:00,199 --> 00:57:04,960 keep the feast of Pentecost, and I mean really keep it. Be present 810 00:57:05,159 --> 00:57:08,159 in church on the day of Pentecost, participate in the sacrifice of the people 811 00:57:08,159 --> 00:57:14,639 of God. And of course a Saint Peter ends his his great Pentecost sermon 812 00:57:15,199 --> 00:57:17,719 repent and be baptized, Right, that's how he ends it. Actually, 813 00:57:17,880 --> 00:57:21,280 like I like, I like how even Saint Peter ends with go to church. 814 00:57:21,440 --> 00:57:24,360 So yeah, so that's but he says, he says that when he 815 00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:29,000 says repent and be baptized for the giveness, forgiveness of sins, he says, 816 00:57:29,039 --> 00:57:32,519 this promise is for you and for your children. And this idea of 817 00:57:32,559 --> 00:57:36,480 the promise being for you and for your children. Even in there, there's 818 00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:39,920 this idea that thing we're doing in religion, in Christianity or really any other 819 00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:45,239 religion for that matter, isn't just like here's a nice individual choice that I 820 00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:50,679 am making on behalf of myself, but rather I am joining myself and also 821 00:57:50,719 --> 00:57:54,360 the people who come after me to a community, to a story. Right, 822 00:57:54,440 --> 00:57:58,199 and therefore the promise and what's another word for promise, Well, it's 823 00:57:58,199 --> 00:58:00,960 covenant, right, is for you and for your children, and so Peter 824 00:58:01,119 --> 00:58:05,199 is showing them the way. Here's how Now, if you want to participate 825 00:58:05,199 --> 00:58:07,840 in the covenant, right, God's law coming and being written as it was 826 00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:10,760 prophesied in the Old Testament, not on tables of stone, but on our 827 00:58:10,800 --> 00:58:14,880 hearts, if you want to be a part of that, you have to 828 00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:20,000 join that covenant and and come in, you know, come in as a 829 00:58:20,039 --> 00:58:23,559 family, into the family, so to speak. So anyway, that's that's 830 00:58:23,639 --> 00:58:27,679 just a some of that's rehashing some of that stuff that I ran out of 831 00:58:27,719 --> 00:58:30,920 time to stay the summit. So but I think the big, the big 832 00:58:31,639 --> 00:58:37,320 interesting review, at least for people interested in the idea that Pentecost is the 833 00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:39,480 anti babble, right. We hear that at church, and when you see 834 00:58:39,519 --> 00:58:44,239 the story in scripture, you can see it. But it's very odd. 835 00:58:44,360 --> 00:58:46,840 It's kind of you get a sense of what it is. But then the 836 00:58:46,880 --> 00:58:53,320 best way to understand it is that Pentecost is really the full revelation of that 837 00:58:53,559 --> 00:58:59,199 pattern because it has both, you know, the unifying and the multiplying right 838 00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:05,280 in extreme in an extreme way, because the multiplying is an aspect of unifying 839 00:59:05,400 --> 00:59:07,880 right, so as the people here in their own tongue, as there's this 840 00:59:08,039 --> 00:59:13,480 celebration of diversity right in the right way, which is that the logos can 841 00:59:13,519 --> 00:59:17,039 manifest themselves all the way into your own culture. Which is what we keep 842 00:59:17,079 --> 00:59:22,079 saying in terms of what universal history is, is that all the true cultures, 843 00:59:22,119 --> 00:59:29,320 all true stories, can be connected to the universal ones, right to 844 00:59:29,400 --> 00:59:34,840 the story of the Logos manifesting in the world without completely losing its quality, 845 00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:37,719 right, because that's also what Christianity is. And so in the story of 846 00:59:37,719 --> 00:59:43,599 Pentecosts, you really get in some ways the full revelation of what universal history 847 00:59:43,719 --> 00:59:49,480 is. And you know this image of this wind, sorry, the wind, 848 00:59:49,679 --> 00:59:52,239 I mean it's the wind. The same wind is the same wind. 849 00:59:52,360 --> 00:59:55,199 The wind that knocks over the tower is also the wind that feels the holy 850 00:59:55,360 --> 01:00:00,039 that the apostle is the Holy Spirit, like in both cases, Like I 851 01:00:00,079 --> 01:00:02,840 mean, I'm sorry, I I interrupted you. But just like the idea 852 01:00:02,920 --> 01:00:07,039 that of like God manifesting as wind, by the way, is something that 853 01:00:07,079 --> 01:00:10,079 really bothers me, like in a good way, but like it's like, 854 01:00:12,920 --> 01:00:17,719 well, you know, it's so funny because the people people, they're they're 855 01:00:17,760 --> 01:00:21,559 so hung up, like as soon as when you start to see it. 856 01:00:21,840 --> 01:00:22,800 A good example, do you know, if you you know, during the 857 01:00:22,880 --> 01:00:29,400 liturgy, if there are several priests in the altar, they'll take the I 858 01:00:29,400 --> 01:00:31,280 forget what the name of the cloth is, right, and then they'll do 859 01:00:31,360 --> 01:00:37,480 this over the yea yeah. And so I remember a priest one saying, 860 01:00:37,519 --> 01:00:40,679 oh, we have proof that maybe this is just to chase away the flies, 861 01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:45,239 and I'm like, really, to chase away the flies? Well, 862 01:00:45,280 --> 01:00:49,599 actually maybe it is to chase away the flies, but that doesn't that doesn't 863 01:00:49,639 --> 01:00:52,320 prevent it from being all exactly what it is, which is the descent of 864 01:00:52,400 --> 01:00:57,840 wind onto the even even the action of chasing way flies, by the way, 865 01:00:58,000 --> 01:01:01,079 is that bipally symbolic action, Like yeah, it's exactly like this. 866 01:01:01,280 --> 01:01:05,679 You want the things that don't belong to scatter, and you want to win 867 01:01:05,800 --> 01:01:08,719 to come and unify that which is there. It's by and by the way. 868 01:01:08,719 --> 01:01:12,639 Do you know why it's called the air? No? What do you 869 01:01:12,679 --> 01:01:15,159 mean? Well, I'm trying to remember if if that the particular thing that 870 01:01:15,199 --> 01:01:17,320 moving is their I think the air is actually the veil that you put over 871 01:01:17,400 --> 01:01:21,440 the Some priests out there will correct me on this. I think the air 872 01:01:21,519 --> 01:01:23,000 is actually the you know what, I have a theory about this, but 873 01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:27,840 I'm gonna stop talking to me. I think I've got words confused in my 874 01:01:27,880 --> 01:01:30,360 head and I don't want to embarrass anybody. So but but for sure, 875 01:01:30,400 --> 01:01:34,559 what you can see is that you know, even in the story in the 876 01:01:34,559 --> 01:01:37,480 Gospel, when Jesus actually blows on the disciples, like he just he just 877 01:01:37,519 --> 01:01:42,119 blows on them. You know, all of these things which which it is 878 01:01:42,119 --> 01:01:44,079 the air. It is the air. Okay, what is the air? 879 01:01:44,639 --> 01:01:46,719 It's it's called the air a e r A e r. That's what the 880 01:01:46,760 --> 01:01:52,639 cloth is called. And it's but it's I mean, the word means like 881 01:01:52,719 --> 01:01:55,840 air, it means it means the atmosphere. M h. And if you 882 01:01:57,280 --> 01:02:00,719 uh, there's that prothesis ritual, like the liturgy before the liturgy, the 883 01:02:00,719 --> 01:02:04,519 little thing that the priest and the deacon do to get the gifts ready prepared, 884 01:02:05,119 --> 01:02:08,280 and if you pay attention to the service, they're actually like it's like 885 01:02:08,639 --> 01:02:12,400 it's the it's the recreation of the world, the genesis, but it's also 886 01:02:12,440 --> 01:02:15,679 the crucifixion, and both of those things are happening. So the air is 887 01:02:15,719 --> 01:02:19,000 like, that's the that's the atmosphere. That's the air. Yeah, the 888 01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:21,960 dome, the dome Heaven that's placed there. So anyway, that's always been 889 01:02:21,960 --> 01:02:24,199 super cool to me because like when Saint Maximus the Confessor says something like, 890 01:02:25,599 --> 01:02:29,239 uh, you know, when Christ was on the cross, he was creating 891 01:02:29,280 --> 01:02:31,920 the world or like finishing the creation of the world, right, Like you 892 01:02:31,960 --> 01:02:37,079 actually see that in the pro thesis ritual itself. Like it's it's like that's 893 01:02:37,119 --> 01:02:39,880 just baked in and I'm sure nobody did that on purpose, so to speak, 894 01:02:39,920 --> 01:02:45,000 like it's just like this is what we do. But anyway, yeah, 895 01:02:45,039 --> 01:02:46,480 so so but yeah, that that that the air, like the wind 896 01:02:46,559 --> 01:02:50,079 descending, the air descending the spirit. I mean, that's what the word 897 01:02:50,599 --> 01:02:52,519 is, right air. We don't and we don't have to, you know, 898 01:02:53,199 --> 01:02:59,039 once you understand that these things are not separated, that that the use 899 01:02:59,159 --> 01:03:05,800 of the physical, it's a manifestation of the deep pattern is not a superstition, 900 01:03:06,639 --> 01:03:08,320 right, it is the uniting of heaven and Earth. And so of 901 01:03:08,360 --> 01:03:13,599 course blowing on something is not sufficient like I could if I blow on and 902 01:03:13,679 --> 01:03:16,559 if I blow on the on a cup just out of in my it does 903 01:03:16,639 --> 01:03:21,679 not make it the Eucharist. But in the proper context, within the proper 904 01:03:21,679 --> 01:03:25,880 meaning structure, you know, in the proper hierarchy. Then this physical act 905 01:03:27,239 --> 01:03:31,360 becomes the vehicle for the higher pattern necessarily, because that's actually how the world 906 01:03:31,599 --> 01:03:37,679 functions, just two more instances of like air and blowing. Right. So, 907 01:03:37,800 --> 01:03:40,840 Christ when it comes to the apostles, when he appears to them after 908 01:03:40,880 --> 01:03:46,039 his resurrection, says that he breathes on them. That says, received the 909 01:03:46,039 --> 01:03:49,400 Holy Spirit. And of course, like the fullness of that doesn't come till 910 01:03:49,440 --> 01:03:51,800 Pentecost, which is a weird thing by the way. Yeah, no, 911 01:03:51,840 --> 01:03:54,320 I don't really understand why. But it's also to show that, look, 912 01:03:54,599 --> 01:04:00,400 folks, the spirit that the disciples receive from heaven is all ready the spirit 913 01:04:00,440 --> 01:04:03,880 that makes the world exist. It's like there is a newness to it, 914 01:04:03,920 --> 01:04:08,119 but there's also a deep continuity. It's not like this thing that all of 915 01:04:08,159 --> 01:04:12,039 a sudden happens and this, ever it is, it is in some ways 916 01:04:12,079 --> 01:04:15,519 something both new but also a repetition of something that has always been true. 917 01:04:15,840 --> 01:04:20,280 So I'm not I don't want to to say that. Can I say this? 918 01:04:20,360 --> 01:04:24,960 I don't want to diminish the reception of the Holy Spirit after baptism, 919 01:04:24,960 --> 01:04:30,159 but it is activating something which is true about being human. So there's an 920 01:04:30,159 --> 01:04:35,079 important difference between something being new and something being novel. Like novel is like, 921 01:04:35,159 --> 01:04:39,079 oh, I've never seen this before. Something being new is in the 922 01:04:39,119 --> 01:04:44,159 sense of like it it hasn't like hasn't decayed, right, you know. 923 01:04:44,280 --> 01:04:47,440 Like so it's like you can have something that's that's that's new in the sense 924 01:04:47,519 --> 01:04:53,280 of its like the we seing in like the Pascal canon. Come let us 925 01:04:53,320 --> 01:04:56,119 drink the new vintage. Right, this is the new vintage. This is 926 01:04:56,159 --> 01:05:00,440 the new wine. Right. But it's not like Pasco or wasn't around before, 927 01:05:00,719 --> 01:05:02,840 right, but this is the this is the better vintage, right, 928 01:05:02,920 --> 01:05:06,800 you know. And it's not like Adam wasn't literally created that way, right, 929 01:05:06,800 --> 01:05:11,960 exactly, created by this Holy Spirit, the same spirit down Pentecost, 930 01:05:12,000 --> 01:05:15,280 the one you receive after baptism going into Adam. And that's actually how humans 931 01:05:15,280 --> 01:05:19,360 are made. So and that brings me to the other example, which is 932 01:05:20,320 --> 01:05:26,840 when we make a catechumen in the Orthodox Church. Okay, the priest reads 933 01:05:26,880 --> 01:05:30,559 exorcism prayers and by the way, those exorcism prayers kick all kinds of butt, 934 01:05:30,639 --> 01:05:34,159 they're so cool. He reads extorcism prayers and he comes over to the 935 01:05:34,159 --> 01:05:39,239 catacumen, and we'll actually do this, even if it's a baby or an 936 01:05:39,239 --> 01:05:44,159 adult or whatever, will come over and he'll breathe three times in the face, 937 01:05:44,320 --> 01:05:45,760 over the face and breast of the of the person who's being received in 938 01:05:45,840 --> 01:05:54,639 the shape of a cross. And that breathing is especially with connection to baptism. 939 01:05:54,719 --> 01:05:58,000 Right, there is a sense of like God breathing a spirit into Adam. 940 01:05:58,920 --> 01:06:01,960 Right. But it's all so it's also like a scattering, right, 941 01:06:02,000 --> 01:06:05,880 because it comes with the exorcism, right, it comes with the exorcism. 942 01:06:05,960 --> 01:06:12,679 The whole point of that breath it does. Like, I don't like there's 943 01:06:12,800 --> 01:06:15,679 there there's there's probably like a more intellectual way to explain this, but yeah, 944 01:06:15,800 --> 01:06:18,599 like you're just like, it's a it's a it's a wind that scatters 945 01:06:18,639 --> 01:06:23,280 the demons, right, it blows the demons out, like and and and 946 01:06:23,320 --> 01:06:26,440 there's something about the in the context of the right that's being performed, in 947 01:06:26,480 --> 01:06:29,480 the context of the person who's doing who is a priest, who's who's you 948 01:06:29,480 --> 01:06:32,159 know, been ordained for the purpose, et cetera. Like, But but 949 01:06:32,199 --> 01:06:39,320 it's it's just I mean, that is to me, that's one of my 950 01:06:39,360 --> 01:06:43,440 favorite that's one of my favorite rights because it's so earthy and and you get 951 01:06:43,440 --> 01:06:45,480 to spit on the devil. And I know that some people are like, 952 01:06:45,480 --> 01:06:47,199 oh, let's spitting on the devil. Thing that probably came later and and 953 01:06:47,199 --> 01:06:51,199 and whatever, like I don't care. I like it. But anyway that 954 01:06:51,480 --> 01:06:58,039 the the like, there's no way to like explain this stuff to to like 955 01:06:58,079 --> 01:07:00,519 a modern person without them like feeling it's perstitious. But more and more I 956 01:07:00,559 --> 01:07:05,039 think people are are coming back around to being able to understand the world in 957 01:07:05,039 --> 01:07:10,960 this way. And it's it's it's the like for for a child or for 958 01:07:11,000 --> 01:07:13,679 a saint, it's very easy to understand what's he doing. He's blowing the 959 01:07:13,679 --> 01:07:16,800 demons away? Right, And then if you ask a stupid person like me, 960 01:07:16,920 --> 01:07:19,079 then you what's he doing? Oh well, it's like the bread and 961 01:07:19,239 --> 01:07:23,719 and you know, like it's symbolism and stuff like this, like I have 962 01:07:23,800 --> 01:07:27,039 to I have to like pouch on all these things. But then like basically 963 01:07:27,159 --> 01:07:30,599 you know it's but it's both of those things. It's the way it's the 964 01:07:30,639 --> 01:07:34,280 way that the wind works, right, A great name for like a seventies 965 01:07:34,559 --> 01:07:38,599 like I don't know, like Celtic band. Anyway, the way that the 966 01:07:38,599 --> 01:07:41,199 wind works. It's the it's the it's the way that the wind works in 967 01:07:41,320 --> 01:07:45,159 terms of it gives life, but then it also blows things away they shouldn't 968 01:07:45,159 --> 01:07:46,760 be there. So yeah, going back again to like keeping the flies off 969 01:07:46,760 --> 01:07:49,400 the gifts or whatever, which is you know, this is one of the 970 01:07:49,400 --> 01:07:53,679 purposes of like the liturgical fans as well. Right, well, that has 971 01:07:53,719 --> 01:07:58,239 nothing that that does not in any way negate like the symbolism of what's happening 972 01:07:58,480 --> 01:08:01,320 on a spiritual level, Like that's the whole point. Yeah, Somebody's like 973 01:08:01,360 --> 01:08:03,039 this was to get rid of the flies. I'm like, I know, 974 01:08:04,719 --> 01:08:10,280 I know, but like you know, there's literally a demon called Lord of 975 01:08:10,280 --> 01:08:12,280 the Flies, so you know, you do what you want to do with 976 01:08:12,320 --> 01:08:15,600 that. But anyway, so I'm rambling now, but this is good. 977 01:08:15,640 --> 01:08:19,720 So I think I think that you know what the point I wanted to make 978 01:08:19,760 --> 01:08:26,159 before we end is mostly to understand how this is what universal history is. 979 01:08:26,560 --> 01:08:32,159 Universal It is about this idea, the pentecost as being the possibility of both 980 01:08:32,239 --> 01:08:38,880 multiplicity and unity. Fully, you know that everybody hearing the word in their 981 01:08:38,920 --> 01:08:43,239 own story, in their own logos, in their own uh the logos, 982 01:08:43,239 --> 01:08:45,520 hearing the logos in their own their own lives and in their own traditions. 983 01:08:45,600 --> 01:08:48,239 All of this is possible. It doesn't mean that everything is good and that 984 01:08:48,319 --> 01:08:50,880 everything is kept in it's all good. That's not what it means. But 985 01:08:50,920 --> 01:08:56,039 it means that that possibility is there, and that the connection between the two 986 01:08:56,479 --> 01:08:59,880 will reveal what is true and what is good about about the story. So 987 01:09:00,159 --> 01:09:02,560 yeah, yeah, all right, it's beautiful. It's beautiful like that. 988 01:09:02,680 --> 01:09:04,520 And that's why, like when I started looking at I was like, this 989 01:09:04,560 --> 01:09:08,079 is what this is what we have to talk about, because it's the whole 990 01:09:08,119 --> 01:09:11,479 projects, the whole thing that we've been tryed to do, like all contained 991 01:09:11,479 --> 01:09:14,399 in a single story. And I would just tell people, listen, you're 992 01:09:14,399 --> 01:09:17,479 going to celebrate Pentecosts actually whether or not you want to. And and the 993 01:09:18,479 --> 01:09:25,399 society, the society that you live in is trying to build Babbel, right 994 01:09:25,479 --> 01:09:28,840 and we'll see. You can see what's happening. You can see the scattering 995 01:09:28,880 --> 01:09:34,680 coming, right, so you know, celebrate Pentecost be like Noah, be 996 01:09:34,880 --> 01:09:40,359 like you know, and then yeah, anyway, that's it all right everyone, 997 01:09:40,520 --> 01:09:45,239 And so so yeah, this is we're continuing on with the universal history. 998 01:09:45,720 --> 01:09:47,600 Pay attention. We you know, we're coming back, so we'll see 999 01:09:47,600 --> 01:09:53,479 you very soon. And everyone pay attention because, as we hinted at earlier, 1000 01:09:53,560 --> 01:09:57,000 Richard and I are going to go to Hell very soon. Actually we're 1001 01:09:57,000 --> 01:10:00,000 going to go to Hell after Pasca, which is a bit odd. Yeah, 1002 01:10:00,159 --> 01:10:03,439 well Lent was really busy, too busy going to Hell in other ways 1003 01:10:03,520 --> 01:10:08,960 another ways, exactly so, and so we are going to do a first 1004 01:10:09,000 --> 01:10:13,680 pass at Dante. We're going to go to to do the Inferno, you 1005 01:10:13,720 --> 01:10:15,079 know, We're going to do the contos, go through the contos. We're 1006 01:10:15,119 --> 01:10:19,760 going to give ourselves a lot of time now for each episode to listen to 1007 01:10:19,920 --> 01:10:26,119 Richard's analysis, but then also I'll do some symbolic interpretation as well with questions. 1008 01:10:26,319 --> 01:10:30,079 This is going to be a massive symbolic world feast, and so we're 1009 01:10:30,119 --> 01:10:34,000 definitely looking forward to going to Hell with all of you after Pasca. My 1010 01:10:34,119 --> 01:10:39,079 favorite thing about Dante is that by the time you get through the comedy, 1011 01:10:39,119 --> 01:10:42,840 you will have talked about everything it is. It is in many ways the 1012 01:10:42,880 --> 01:10:45,199 sort of the apex of the whole universal history project of the Middle Ages. 1013 01:10:45,199 --> 01:10:50,920 Because Dante leaves almost nothing on the table. He integrates something from everything that 1014 01:10:50,960 --> 01:10:57,079 came before him, and so it's going to be incredible. I love the 1015 01:10:57,119 --> 01:10:59,840 comedy as most people do. I've taught through it several times, so I'm 1016 01:11:00,399 --> 01:11:03,439 looking forward to doing this with the Symbolic World community. So that's coming out 1017 01:11:03,560 --> 01:11:06,720 May the sorry, did we are to say the day? May the ninth, 1018 01:11:06,960 --> 01:11:11,199 So that's coming up May the ninth, and you should be able to 1019 01:11:11,359 --> 01:11:13,800 sign up for the class on symbolic World too, but I think there's already 1020 01:11:13,840 --> 01:11:15,520 like a place, so you can go to symbolic world dot com and you 1021 01:11:15,560 --> 01:11:19,079 will find a place where you can sign up, so you get the news 1022 01:11:19,119 --> 01:11:23,479 as soon as we open the class, and so there's already quite a few 1023 01:11:23,520 --> 01:11:26,720 people in there, so we're excited to see how it comes. So everybody, 1024 01:11:27,479 --> 01:11:28,680 talk to you soon. Bye bye,