1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:05,280 Speaker 1: Hello everyone. We are halfway through the Symbolism Masterclass. As 2 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:08,080 I record this, it's been a wild ride. I'm really 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:12,199 pushing people to their limit. I like to watch in 4 00:00:12,279 --> 00:00:16,719 the chat and see people's brain's fizzle. People seem to 5 00:00:16,719 --> 00:00:20,760 be following. It's tough, but it's important stuff. And we 6 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:23,359 thought we could post a little section from the Symbolism 7 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:27,120 Masterclass in which I describe in more detail than I 8 00:00:27,239 --> 00:00:29,960 ever have before, what it is that I mean by 9 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:34,320 fractal symbolism or the fractal structure of reality, and especially 10 00:00:34,399 --> 00:00:38,159 how it relates to that weird and wonderful vision that 11 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:42,679 Ezekiel has of the wheels within wheels within wheels in 12 00:00:42,719 --> 00:00:46,880 the chariot of the divine revelation. And so we thought 13 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:48,679 this could be fun for you to realize and kind 14 00:00:48,719 --> 00:00:50,600 of see how deep it is we're going in the 15 00:00:50,679 --> 00:00:53,280 Symbolism mass Class. You can still sign up. Of course, 16 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:55,520 we have three weeks left, but all the videos are 17 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:58,799 available for those that sign up forever. Once you sign up, 18 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:01,039 you have access to them because you will definitely want 19 00:01:01,079 --> 00:01:05,000 to rewatch these videos. People I know are saying I 20 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:07,280 need to rewatch this two or three times because there's 21 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:10,439 a lot it is very coherent, but it is it's 22 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:13,120 like drinking from a fire hose. Well, have three episodes 23 00:01:13,239 --> 00:01:15,519 left to record, so I hope that by the end 24 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:21,200 people will will be let's say, well trained in symbolic visions, 25 00:01:21,239 --> 00:01:36,760 and so please enjoy. This is Jonathan Pejel, Welcome to 26 00:01:36,799 --> 00:01:52,200 the symbolic world. This symbolic structure is really a moral 27 00:01:52,439 --> 00:01:54,159 and this is one of the most important things to 28 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:57,840 understand about it. It's not We talked a little bit 29 00:01:57,879 --> 00:02:00,959 about how the pyramid in the image on the dollar 30 00:02:01,079 --> 00:02:04,760 can be parasited, like that there can be a parasitic 31 00:02:04,879 --> 00:02:07,959 version of it. And this is true of all of this, 32 00:02:08,199 --> 00:02:10,800 Like so all of these images, the idea of hierarchy, 33 00:02:11,319 --> 00:02:13,919 if it's a there can be false hierarchies, right, the 34 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:16,000 image of a ladder, there can be There can be 35 00:02:16,599 --> 00:02:19,759 false ladders. It can be taking a ladder that you 36 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:22,639 like going up. The corporate hierarchy is actually not the 37 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:25,520 same as the virtue, the ladder of virtues. It is 38 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:29,240 a real ladder that has the that has all of 39 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:32,120 this coherence to it, but it doesn't lead to the 40 00:02:32,159 --> 00:02:34,240 same place. If you're actually it's it can be a 41 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:37,680 dangerous ladder to climb because it can lead to more 42 00:02:37,719 --> 00:02:40,520 and more kind of pride and power. And that is 43 00:02:40,719 --> 00:02:44,479 really the image of the hierarchy that is off off kilter, 44 00:02:45,039 --> 00:02:48,199 is this image of an idol, right, the image of 45 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:51,120 a false a false hierarchy, of a false truth that 46 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:53,439 is ordering the world. And it's kind of like this 47 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:56,960 demonic imagery or like the dark mountain. And so this 48 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,919 is what you see in the image of You see 49 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:04,120 this in the image of the statue of nebukan Netzer. Right, 50 00:03:04,159 --> 00:03:06,840 So the image of the statue of nebukan Netzer has 51 00:03:06,879 --> 00:03:12,960 this powerful hierarchy in it, but it's represented as an idol. Right. 52 00:03:13,319 --> 00:03:16,360 It's said that it has a head of gold, and 53 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:18,759 that the head of gold is the origin, right, it's 54 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:22,159 the first empire. And then it has a torso of silver, 55 00:03:22,199 --> 00:03:25,000 and that's an empire that's lower down on the hierarchy, 56 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:28,560 and that is also lower. Let's say further in time, 57 00:03:29,439 --> 00:03:32,159 it has the hips of brass, the legs of iron, 58 00:03:32,199 --> 00:03:34,960 and the feet of clay, and the toads that are 59 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:39,919 a mix of iron and clay. Right, and so this 60 00:03:40,039 --> 00:03:44,520 is a perfectly coherent vision of a hierarchy. Right. So 61 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:49,840 the gold, right, gold in some ways is the less 62 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:53,479 solid metal. It's the one that is most its most 63 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:58,520 looks like light, right, it's shiny, it's reflective, it's precious 64 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:01,719 because it's rare. It's more like you know, but it's 65 00:04:01,759 --> 00:04:04,360 also doesn't You can't make a sword out of gold. 66 00:04:05,599 --> 00:04:08,400 That's not possible. And as you move down the ladder, 67 00:04:08,439 --> 00:04:11,759 you can see that the metals are darker and darker 68 00:04:12,319 --> 00:04:16,839 and are also more and more strong, right, they have 69 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:20,240 that kind of stability as you move down, and they're 70 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:23,279 more and more stable, more and more stronger and stronger 71 00:04:23,639 --> 00:04:25,800 until you reach the last one. And then in the 72 00:04:25,879 --> 00:04:29,360 last one you have the image of fragmentation. You have mixture. 73 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:33,199 You have the toes made of clay and of iron 74 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:36,800 mixed together. So you have this powerful image of a 75 00:04:36,879 --> 00:04:40,959 hierarchy where it's actually an idol. It's like a false hierarchy. 76 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:45,160 It's an image of civilization in its false hierarchy. But 77 00:04:45,199 --> 00:04:50,240 it's using the same type of symbolism that would be 78 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:55,199 used in other contexts to describe an order of qualities. 79 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:59,839 From the most precious at the top right, that is 80 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:04,360 also the less hard two things that are less precious 81 00:05:04,399 --> 00:05:08,120 and harder and harder until they become brittle and until 82 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:11,600 they become confused and then they shatter. So you have 83 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:14,759 this weird image of heaven and earth. And what's interesting 84 00:05:15,319 --> 00:05:18,639 is that this image is reflected, So now's the negative 85 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:22,319 aspect of the hierarchy. And then this image is reflected 86 00:05:22,759 --> 00:05:28,040 in the order of the tabernacle, right, And so the 87 00:05:28,079 --> 00:05:34,519 tabernacle has the same order, similar order as the order 88 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:38,160 that you see in the statue of nevigand Netzer, which 89 00:05:38,199 --> 00:05:43,079 is that gold is held just for the Holy of Holies, right, 90 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:46,759 which is the place on which the heavens come down 91 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:53,839 onto the top of the of the structure. Okay. And 92 00:05:53,879 --> 00:05:57,360 then there's silver that are made out of parts in 93 00:05:57,399 --> 00:06:01,319 the holy place in the sanctuary. But gold is just 94 00:06:01,399 --> 00:06:04,480 for the Holy of Holies, the highest place of the sanctuary. 95 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:08,560 And then after that you have bronze is used in 96 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:10,560 the outer court, So you have the bronze that is 97 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:15,319 used out here, you know. And then ultimately on the 98 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:18,759 outside you have the clay. Right, you just have the dirt. 99 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:21,240 You just have the the dust of the of the 100 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:24,199 ground that is outside and is not part of the 101 00:06:24,759 --> 00:06:28,720 of the sacred order. We could say, okay, and so 102 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:32,480 so kwame Owusu says, why is the nebukand Nezar statue 103 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:36,680 symbol of false hierarchy. Well, in the story of Daniel, 104 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:40,319 it's represented as an also as an idol that is 105 00:06:40,399 --> 00:06:44,240 meant to be worshiped. And so the image Daniel sees 106 00:06:44,319 --> 00:06:47,000 the story of Nebugdzer in a dream and he sees 107 00:06:47,079 --> 00:06:50,639 this statue that is that is above and then it 108 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:54,240 sees that there's a mountain that is next to it, 109 00:06:54,519 --> 00:06:56,639 and a stone comes from the mountain. It's really a 110 00:06:56,639 --> 00:06:58,839 good idea to understand the stone as being from the top. 111 00:06:59,079 --> 00:07:03,439 So a stone at the top of the mountain breaks 112 00:07:03,519 --> 00:07:08,480 off and then rolls down and then destroys the statue. 113 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:10,279 So that's the dream of Nebuk Nzer, and so you 114 00:07:10,279 --> 00:07:13,079 could understand that it is an image of a false 115 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:16,199 hierarchy that gets set up. And then that which comes 116 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:18,839 from the holy mountain, from the top of the Holy mountain, 117 00:07:19,199 --> 00:07:22,879 this kind of this stone that is actually uncut by men, 118 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:26,920 which is only made by God, rolls down the mountain 119 00:07:27,079 --> 00:07:30,920 and then breaks the statue apart. Right, So that image 120 00:07:30,959 --> 00:07:32,839 of the stone that is that of course it's an 121 00:07:32,839 --> 00:07:36,120 image of Christ, but you could understand it as something 122 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:39,439 that is not artificial, the true nature, the true hierarchy 123 00:07:40,079 --> 00:07:43,920 manifesting itself and destroying the false hierarchy. So that image 124 00:07:43,959 --> 00:07:47,040 can be represented. It's represented in many places in scripture 125 00:07:47,199 --> 00:07:51,639 where you have the let's say the Egypt the Israelites 126 00:07:51,759 --> 00:07:55,000 leaving Egypt, where they have a pharaoh and they have 127 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,879 a whole civilization that is that is falsely aligned. Is 128 00:07:58,959 --> 00:08:03,600 very powerful, but it's false align. And then they go through, right, 129 00:08:03,639 --> 00:08:06,360 they leave that, and then they go up the mountain 130 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:10,319 to receive the true revelation, right, and in that process 131 00:08:10,439 --> 00:08:12,759 the pharaoh's men get drowned in the sea. And so 132 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:14,759 you can kind of see it's a similar idea where 133 00:08:14,759 --> 00:08:19,040 it's like you have to destroy the evil hierarchy in 134 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:21,439 order to build. So think about it like you have 135 00:08:21,519 --> 00:08:25,160 to you have to you have little hierarchies in you, 136 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:28,759 like sins that are little hierarchies that order behavior towards 137 00:08:28,839 --> 00:08:31,879 purposes and that are evil purposes, and so you have 138 00:08:31,959 --> 00:08:36,759 to deconstruct those before you actually move up the up 139 00:08:36,799 --> 00:08:40,320 the path, right, And so it's just important to understand that. 140 00:08:41,639 --> 00:08:44,799 So the reason why I'm saying that is that gold 141 00:08:44,879 --> 00:08:46,639 is used in the Holy of Holies and it's used 142 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:48,840 to make idols. And so the question is what does 143 00:08:48,919 --> 00:08:53,080 gold mean? And gold means it depends where in what 144 00:08:53,279 --> 00:08:56,399 story you're placing the gold. And so gold can be 145 00:08:56,480 --> 00:09:00,639 an image of the holiest thing dedicated to God. And 146 00:09:00,799 --> 00:09:05,919 gold can be like King Midas worshiping riches and turning 147 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:08,559 everything into gold in a way that makes him have 148 00:09:08,639 --> 00:09:12,559 no body. Right, So he's just ahead, and because he's 149 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:17,399 worshiped gold, he now cannot cannot feed himself anymore. He 150 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:20,080 no longer has access to his body. So you can 151 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:23,480 see how the same image is used in different context 152 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:29,799 in order to manifest the different purposes. Okay, Zach Max says, depends. 153 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:32,799 It's always a safe answer, but it doesn't depend on anything. 154 00:09:33,399 --> 00:09:38,960 It actually depends on the context and the context. When 155 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:42,200 I say that, the word context means purpose. The context 156 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:46,039 is defined by purpose. And so you know money, how 157 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:50,120 can I say this? It's like I can give I 158 00:09:50,159 --> 00:09:54,120 can give food to the poor, and I can do 159 00:09:54,159 --> 00:09:55,799 it in the right way, and I can also do 160 00:09:55,840 --> 00:10:00,200 it just to increase my stature and my pride. It's 161 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:04,360 the same action. But because the purposes are different, then 162 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:08,639 the same symbol, the same behavior will play a different role, 163 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:11,559 and that's really important. That's why, like you can totally 164 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:14,720 have images with evil kings and you can have images 165 00:10:14,759 --> 00:10:17,879 with good kings. You can have images with evil peasants, 166 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:20,720 and you can have stories with good peasants. And it 167 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:23,879 just depends on how you structure things in order to 168 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:26,919 manifest the purpose of why you're putting that image in 169 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:29,679 there in the first place. And this is super important 170 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:31,519 because if you don't understand that, it's like you'll never 171 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:34,679 you'll never understand the stories of scripture, because then you'll 172 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:40,960 think something like the snake represents the devil, because look 173 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:44,159 at Genesis Wan and then by the time you get 174 00:10:44,159 --> 00:10:46,440 to Jesus saying that he's the serpent in the desert, 175 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:49,720 you're going to become very confused and you're not going 176 00:10:49,759 --> 00:10:52,480 to be able to understand what the heck he's talking about, 177 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:56,159 because I thought, I thought the serpent was evil, and 178 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:58,399 I thought the serpent was the devil, and in fact 179 00:10:58,519 --> 00:11:02,679 that's not the case. The serpent represents something far greater, 180 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:09,000 like greater represents something which has different manifestations depending on 181 00:11:09,039 --> 00:11:12,960 where it is. Right, And that's true of that's true 182 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:16,759 of everything. Right, everything is the best way of understanding 183 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:19,159 is that things have a place on this order of 184 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:22,399 being right. They have their place, and this is obviously 185 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:24,200 we're just in the second class. We're going to go 186 00:11:24,279 --> 00:11:27,960 through all of this as we move forward. But that 187 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:33,519 place can be aligned differently depending on the reason right 188 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:37,480 of why they're put there. And so every level of 189 00:11:37,519 --> 00:11:40,799 the think about it this way. Every level on the 190 00:11:40,919 --> 00:11:43,200 ladder of divine ascent that we saw earlier with the 191 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:47,039 monks going up the ladder towards Heaven, every step on 192 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:52,039 that can be a step towards God, or it can 193 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:56,559 be representing a distance from God. It can be represented 194 00:11:56,639 --> 00:11:58,840 you not being close to God and a place of 195 00:11:58,879 --> 00:12:04,159 falling off. That's true of every single level. All of 196 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:07,159 them can become a type of forgetting, because that is 197 00:12:07,399 --> 00:12:10,120 the relationship of the of the many to the one. 198 00:12:10,919 --> 00:12:13,559 Is that the many to the one. The many. If 199 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:17,639 they remember their connection to the one, then the many 200 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:21,960 becomes an image of glory, comes an image of fullness. 201 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:25,399 But if the many forget their connection to the one, 202 00:12:25,679 --> 00:12:28,159 then they become an image of fragmentation. They become an 203 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:30,759 image of sin, They become an image of death right 204 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:35,200 because they're veering away from the purpose. But the same structure, 205 00:12:35,519 --> 00:12:38,600 the same things that you that you do can be 206 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:41,240 one or the other. Another way of saying is that 207 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:44,840 every virtue you can do in pride and every in 208 00:12:44,919 --> 00:12:49,840 every virtue that you do in pride is actually it's 209 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:53,840 it's a kind of sinning because you're you're using the 210 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:57,080 virtue to increase yourself and you're building an idol. You're 211 00:12:57,080 --> 00:13:00,679 building a little never never connect a statue which looks 212 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:04,559 really good but ultimately is not connected to the highest, 213 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:09,159 highest purpose. All right, all right, so Lewis Blanco said 214 00:13:09,159 --> 00:13:10,840 the snake is still a symbol of sin. We'll see 215 00:13:10,879 --> 00:13:15,120 about that. We'll get to that. We'll get to that, 216 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:19,639 and we'll see if the serpent is just an image 217 00:13:19,679 --> 00:13:26,600 of sin. All right. Okay, Now we just looked at 218 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:30,759 the tabernacle and we kind of saw how the tabernacle 219 00:13:30,799 --> 00:13:34,639 represents this mountain again. Right, So the image of the tabernacle, right, 220 00:13:34,679 --> 00:13:40,919 even though it's represented horizontally, it's still structured kind of vertically. 221 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:46,559 So it has this hierarchy which moves from the outside 222 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:50,720 into the inside from the many that are there in 223 00:13:50,759 --> 00:13:53,120 the tabernacle. So you have all these people coming in 224 00:13:53,759 --> 00:13:58,039 right to the priestly cast that are fewer to the 225 00:13:58,159 --> 00:14:01,600 high priest, that is, one that moves into the place 226 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:05,799 where the glory of God descends down on it in 227 00:14:05,879 --> 00:14:09,279 the same way that Moses receives the law that comes 228 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:12,480 down from heaven. So when Moses goes up the mountain, 229 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:16,759 he goes up with the seventy, and then he drops 230 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:19,519 them on his way up, and then he goes up 231 00:14:19,559 --> 00:14:22,679 with Joshua and I forget the name of the other person, 232 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:27,240 and he and Aaron, and then he lets Joshua and 233 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:29,600 Aaron remain at a different level, and then he ends 234 00:14:29,679 --> 00:14:33,080 up alone at the very top where he receives the 235 00:14:33,159 --> 00:14:35,759 law from heaven. That is the kind of the structure. 236 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:39,080 And so this structure can appear, of course as the 237 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:47,639 kind of mountain, but it can also appear horizontally as right, 238 00:14:47,799 --> 00:14:53,960 a kind of concentric structure. Right. So you can understand 239 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:56,320 now if you look at the way that the camp 240 00:14:56,360 --> 00:15:00,679 of the Israelites is set up, that the place where 241 00:15:00,759 --> 00:15:05,840 Heaven and Earth meet is in the tabernacle, right, And 242 00:15:05,879 --> 00:15:10,120 then that what that does is it radiates out and 243 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:16,039 it gathers all of the tribes together. Right. So this 244 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:20,039 is the camp of the Israelite. You have all the 245 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:23,720 different tribes that are named around their edge, and in 246 00:15:23,759 --> 00:15:27,240 the middle you have the levites that are in the center. 247 00:15:27,799 --> 00:15:29,440 And then in the middle of that you have the 248 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:33,720 actual tabernacle, that is the place where God reveals himself. 249 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:36,480 And so you have this kind of concentric model now 250 00:15:36,759 --> 00:15:42,080 where Heaven comes down from above and then manifests itself 251 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:47,080 horizontally as this extension. And so that's why you can 252 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:51,039 also represent Heaven and Earth this way. You can represent 253 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:56,279 Heaven as the middle and Earth as the edge, or 254 00:15:56,279 --> 00:15:59,399 at least you could Heaven in the sense of the 255 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:03,960 image of Heaven on Earth appears as the center. Right. 256 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:06,519 We use it in common parlance all the time. Right, 257 00:16:06,559 --> 00:16:09,960 we say it's the center, it's the central thing, it's 258 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:12,720 the reason why we're doing things. Like all of these 259 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:16,399 all of these aspects are completely coherent in terms of 260 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:22,679 the symbolism, right, And that's why the image of the 261 00:16:22,679 --> 00:16:27,279 wheel is one of the images that represents this so powerfully, 262 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:32,639 because a wheel is exactly the image of you could say, 263 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:37,000 a way in which all the multiplicity. Right, So all 264 00:16:37,039 --> 00:16:43,200 of these multiple aspects are joined in and joined by 265 00:16:44,039 --> 00:16:49,360 the center, right, so that the center is collecting all 266 00:16:49,399 --> 00:16:54,120 the multiplicity into itself. It's giving it its direction, is 267 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:58,960 giving it its purpose, you know. And in the wheel, 268 00:16:59,039 --> 00:17:03,559 it's it's particular literally true and particularly interesting because when 269 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:08,400 a wheel is turning, the actual axis, like the actual 270 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:11,839 axis of the wheel, the place around which the wheel 271 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:16,920 is actually turning is a virtual point. It doesn't have 272 00:17:17,839 --> 00:17:20,599 it actually doesn't have extension, it doesn't have extension in space. 273 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:24,039 It's it's it's just like a virtual point in the middle, 274 00:17:24,359 --> 00:17:30,200 and then all the multiplicity is turning around that virtual point. 275 00:17:31,799 --> 00:17:35,279 And so there's like a you could say, there are 276 00:17:35,319 --> 00:17:39,079 different reasons of why to represent the purpose or the 277 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:43,160 heaven or the reason as the top of something at 278 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:47,759 the top of the ladder, the head, or as the heart, 279 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:52,880 right as the middle, and there's a distinction between the two, 280 00:17:53,079 --> 00:17:57,920 right you could think of the heart tends to emphasize 281 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:01,440 more the place where heavy and an earth meat, you know. 282 00:18:02,799 --> 00:18:07,319 But ultimately they play very similar roles, like they play 283 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:11,960 very similar roles in practice, right, and so sometimes there's 284 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:15,119 a reason to distinguish them, and we can look at 285 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:18,759 those at some point, but they play distinguishing roles and 286 00:18:18,799 --> 00:18:23,480 they kind of compete like in a way, like they 287 00:18:23,559 --> 00:18:27,039 kind of compete in different ways of representing it. So 288 00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:29,400 a good example of not that they compete, but that 289 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:33,079 they kind of alternate. So a good example of place 290 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:38,559 a place where they alternate is of course in Dante. 291 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:42,519 Like in Dante, he is joining this imagery of a 292 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:50,359 kind of concentric world and a mountain, right. And this 293 00:18:50,519 --> 00:18:53,359 is also where you can start to understand the yin 294 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:56,200 yang symbol a little more. This is going to get 295 00:18:56,240 --> 00:19:03,400 a little esoteric because until now I've represented heaven as 296 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:07,759 a point, right, I've said Heaven is a point. It's 297 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:10,759 things that culminate to each other, you know. But that's 298 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:15,400 really you could say where heaven appears, you know, because 299 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:19,039 it's the place where things meet and when Heaven manifests 300 00:19:19,039 --> 00:19:22,759 itself and always manifests itself as a point. But you 301 00:19:22,799 --> 00:19:28,039 can also represent heaven as an expanse, Heaven as an 302 00:19:28,079 --> 00:19:34,519 expanse of actualities, like as an expanse of names, right, 303 00:19:34,599 --> 00:19:39,200 and an infinite like opening up. And then it's only 304 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:42,880 when it comes down onto the world that it manifests 305 00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:46,759 itself as a point. You know. This is where the 306 00:19:46,799 --> 00:19:49,599 image of the trinity becomes relevant, you know, where it's like, 307 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:53,559 we don't actually believe that the world culminates just into 308 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:56,319 one that it is in some ways, there's an expansive 309 00:19:56,359 --> 00:19:59,160 element to that one, that to that unity, which is 310 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:03,640 beyond the unity itself. And in Dante, he's always trying 311 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:08,960 to represent this, and so basically he represents both in 312 00:20:09,039 --> 00:20:13,920 some ways, the idea that God is the center, but 313 00:20:14,039 --> 00:20:17,680 that also God is also kind of surrounding all of us, 314 00:20:18,039 --> 00:20:21,559 and so God appears in your heart, but the truth 315 00:20:21,599 --> 00:20:24,559 of it is that you are in God. Right. So 316 00:20:24,599 --> 00:20:29,480 that's when symbolism because very very very subtle. Usually most 317 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:31,119 of the time when I talk about it, I'm always 318 00:20:31,119 --> 00:20:34,759 saying talking about the point and the center and how 319 00:20:34,799 --> 00:20:39,200 things kind of culminate into one. But this is supposed 320 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:41,599 to be the masterclass, folks, and so you have to 321 00:20:41,599 --> 00:20:44,079 be able to kind of expand your mind and understand 322 00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:48,839 that ultimately, the truth of it is that it's a 323 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:53,440 point and a center. But we are also, you could say, 324 00:20:53,559 --> 00:20:57,079 in God. And that's why a lot of some representations 325 00:20:57,079 --> 00:21:00,119 will look will look different, and this is why. And 326 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:02,839 Dante he plays with that. So on the one hand, 327 00:21:02,839 --> 00:21:06,519 he makes these mountains that you're constantly ascending in order 328 00:21:06,599 --> 00:21:09,640 to kind of go up, but he represents the heaven 329 00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:13,720 as this thing in which we're contained. And then once 330 00:21:13,799 --> 00:21:16,599 he gets to the very very top of the heavens, 331 00:21:17,039 --> 00:21:20,480 then once again God appears as these kind of concentric 332 00:21:20,519 --> 00:21:24,519 circles that are moving into one. She's constantly playing with 333 00:21:24,559 --> 00:21:27,960 you and trying to help you understand that God appears 334 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:32,480 as this point of light, but that ultimately God, we 335 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:41,759 are in God. Right, So this accounts more for this imagery. Right. 336 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:43,720 This is probably the first time that I've even talked 337 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:47,880 about this, which is that that's why the tree looks 338 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:50,960 the way it does. Is that the tree has a 339 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:54,839 central axis, which is like this connection between heaven and earth, 340 00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:58,200 and below it has all this multiplicity that is, the 341 00:21:58,279 --> 00:22:00,720 roots that kind of connected to the earth distribute it 342 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:03,240 in the earth. But then when you reach the top 343 00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:07,440 of the of the trunk, it opens up and has 344 00:22:07,519 --> 00:22:10,599 all of these stars all above, like all of this 345 00:22:10,799 --> 00:22:16,440 kind of all of this multiplicity of actuality that is 346 00:22:16,519 --> 00:22:18,640 up in the heavens, right, And that's what it counts 347 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:21,759 also for this image of the Star of David or 348 00:22:21,799 --> 00:22:28,799 the Seal of Solomon, which is that in this image heaven, right, 349 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:35,400 is this one Heaven is this triangle that's coming down. 350 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:40,559 So a way of understanding it that makes sense is 351 00:22:40,599 --> 00:22:46,400 to understand that as Moses goes up the mountain and 352 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:50,880 he reaches the top of the mountain and then he 353 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:54,680 encounters God, you can imagine that encounter as being like 354 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,640 a triangle that goes up like that, right, a triangle 355 00:22:57,720 --> 00:23:00,799 that goes up into the infinite and then comes down 356 00:23:01,319 --> 00:23:05,960 and points itself right to manifest as this this center, 357 00:23:06,039 --> 00:23:08,880 as this seed, as this you know, as this pearl, 358 00:23:09,079 --> 00:23:11,200 as this all of these images that we have in 359 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:14,720 scripture of the center, and then redistributes itself into the 360 00:23:14,759 --> 00:23:21,240 earth as this, this kind of of of redistributes itself 361 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:25,640 into potentiality, Okay. And then that which is at the 362 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:29,319 bottom is like the water and the food comes up 363 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:32,960 right and then becomes the fruits, all the fruits that 364 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:36,039 are that are up above. And so this is really 365 00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:38,839 the This is really like the most subtle version of 366 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:42,440 symbolism you'll we'll hear about I. Like I said, I 367 00:23:42,599 --> 00:23:47,440 usually I don't go this far in in in my 368 00:23:48,279 --> 00:23:52,720 presentation because for some people this could be confusing. And 369 00:23:52,759 --> 00:23:55,160 so now we're back to this, like this is what 370 00:23:55,279 --> 00:23:58,640 also accounts for this the structure of this symbol, which 371 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:03,640 is that both Heaven and Earth are in each other 372 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:11,640 in the sense that right, Heaven has to be in 373 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:17,039 Earth in order to activate its potential right towards the purpose. 374 00:24:17,839 --> 00:24:21,680 But Earth also has to be in Heaven so that 375 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:26,319 Heaven can distribute itself right and can be motivated to 376 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:32,359 act towards towards potentiality. And so this can really help 377 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:34,559 you kind of understand, I hope can kind of help 378 00:24:34,599 --> 00:24:38,920 you understand the ascension to some extent and why the 379 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:42,759 ascension is necessary in the image in the story of Christianity, 380 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:46,160 which is that the ascension is the continuation of the 381 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:50,400 incarnation Christ coming down into the world and manifesting himself 382 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:52,720 in the world. Is if you think of it in 383 00:24:52,799 --> 00:24:57,519 terms of metaphysical structure, it's simultaneous to him going up 384 00:24:58,319 --> 00:25:02,480 taking man up into heaven, and that those two Christ 385 00:25:02,799 --> 00:25:07,519 incarnate in the world and Christ's body up in the heaven. 386 00:25:08,039 --> 00:25:11,000 That is the ultimate structure, right, that is the ultimate 387 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:14,440 structured reality. And this and this the yin yang is 388 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:19,160 actually one of the most successful images that manifest that 389 00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:23,680 right of this double, this this double being inside each 390 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:26,640 other in a different way. And as we move forward 391 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:32,000 in the class, we'll see the difference between the way 392 00:25:32,039 --> 00:25:34,640 in which the man is in the woman and the 393 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:37,039 way in which the woman is in the man. Will 394 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:41,519 will show how the what is the difference between, uh, 395 00:25:41,599 --> 00:25:47,279 you know, the way in which for example, you'll you'll 396 00:25:47,279 --> 00:25:49,680 hear it because often when you hear like people talk 397 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:53,720 about symbolism, they'll say things, simple things, and they're not wrong. 398 00:25:53,799 --> 00:25:57,480 They'll say the masculine is active and the feminine is passive, 399 00:25:57,799 --> 00:26:00,720 and it's like, anybody who's paid attention to reality knows 400 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:02,720 that that's not the case at least, Like what are 401 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:07,240 you talking about. It's like, so the masculine is active 402 00:26:07,279 --> 00:26:10,200 and the feminine is passive, and then you realize, well, 403 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:13,400 actually no, actually, okay, no, the feminine is active, right, 404 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:15,839 The feminine is doing all the things, and the man 405 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,720 is passive because he's giving. The king is passive, right 406 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:21,000 because he's giving the orders and the people are doing 407 00:26:21,079 --> 00:26:24,599 the things. So what's active what's passive? And it just 408 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:28,559 really depends on how how from what perspective you're looking 409 00:26:28,559 --> 00:26:32,240 at it and how you're seeing what in what you know, 410 00:26:32,279 --> 00:26:35,079 And we'll distinguish all this, like you'll see it'll make sense. 411 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:37,440 But I wanted to kind of take you on a 412 00:26:37,519 --> 00:26:41,960 on a on a limb and push you a little bit. 413 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:44,279 There's no way we're getting to the end of this 414 00:26:44,319 --> 00:26:50,119 presentation today. It's just absolutely no way. All right, okay, 415 00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:52,200 but let's get back to the wheel, because the wheel 416 00:26:52,759 --> 00:26:56,799 is an important image to kind of understand this. So 417 00:26:56,839 --> 00:26:58,920 we have this beautiful quote from say Nicodemus of the 418 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:02,200 Holy Mountain. He says, we must therefore keep in mind 419 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:04,400 that as the center of a wagon wheel has a 420 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,519 certain number of spokes going out to the circumference of 421 00:27:07,559 --> 00:27:10,680 the circle, and so returning to the center where they meet, 422 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:13,799 so also is the heart of man like a center 423 00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:17,119 where all the senses, all the powers of the body, 424 00:27:17,319 --> 00:27:21,880 and all the activities of the soul are united, all right, 425 00:27:22,519 --> 00:27:25,839 And so say Nikodimus talking about this image of the 426 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:29,839 wheel as an image of the relationship of the heart 427 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:33,319 to the externalities of the person of the heart, to 428 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:36,319 your senses, to your to your being. And so that's 429 00:27:36,319 --> 00:27:39,359 why you can have all this type of imagery that 430 00:27:39,519 --> 00:27:48,319 is represented. That is represented, you could say, as image 431 00:27:48,319 --> 00:27:52,119 of radiation from a center, and many religious images have 432 00:27:52,279 --> 00:27:55,000 that structure. And that's why it's important to understand it, 433 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,960 because if you want to be able to know why. 434 00:27:58,279 --> 00:28:02,319 Sometimes you represent the relationship of Christ to the world 435 00:28:02,839 --> 00:28:08,720 like this, right, instead of Christ at the top of 436 00:28:08,759 --> 00:28:12,000 the mountain, like you can totally understand how now it 437 00:28:12,079 --> 00:28:15,839 makes complete sense because Christ is the center of the cosmos, 438 00:28:16,279 --> 00:28:19,839 and around him are the twelve right, the twelve, the 439 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:25,039 twelve tribes, the twelve signs of the zodiac, the extension 440 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:30,519 of his rule and his identity in the world. Okay, 441 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:34,240 but this is this is again, this is a universal image. 442 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:39,039 It's I think that it takes its highest form in Christianity, 443 00:28:39,279 --> 00:28:43,119 but you will see it manifested in every single culture. 444 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,640 So the symbolism of the wheel. Obviously some of you 445 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,160 will know this, this is this is the this is 446 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:52,839 the what is it called the wheel of Karma? Which 447 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:56,720 is this idea of the Buddhist wheel. We have the 448 00:28:56,759 --> 00:28:59,640 way in the center and then the eighth fol path 449 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:03,839 of the Buddha, you know, going moving away from the 450 00:29:03,839 --> 00:29:08,440 central vision of enlightenment into the practices that people are 451 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:11,799 supposed to embody in order to reach the center of 452 00:29:11,839 --> 00:29:15,160 the wheel. But it's there in every like it's just everywhere. 453 00:29:15,279 --> 00:29:18,160 Here a few examples you have. This is the native 454 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:24,359 medicine wheel which is this wheel that is separated into four, right, 455 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:27,640 and the four are joined together in the center of 456 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:33,799 the wheel. Obviously you see people making mandalas. Everybody loves 457 00:29:33,799 --> 00:29:38,920 mandala today because the mandala has the same structure, and 458 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:42,200 of course that's what the swastika means as well. You know, 459 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:46,759 I know the swastika has been captured by horrible political forces, 460 00:29:47,119 --> 00:29:49,319 but the swastika is one of the oldest images in 461 00:29:49,359 --> 00:29:52,799 the history of the world. Like it has this sense 462 00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:56,839 of a unity of multiplicity in this kind of turning 463 00:29:56,839 --> 00:30:03,559 wheel that is related to a central axis. Yeah, someone said, 464 00:30:03,559 --> 00:30:05,519 the compass rose. What do you think my next slide is? 465 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:07,279 I mean you might You're probably are looking at the 466 00:30:07,599 --> 00:30:12,279 at the at the slide presentation, right, So the compass 467 00:30:12,359 --> 00:30:16,279 rose is a good way to kind of understand one 468 00:30:16,359 --> 00:30:18,359 aspect of this symbolism and how it's all going to 469 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:21,920 kind of join together in this fractal pattern that I'm 470 00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:24,200 telling you about, and how there is this cosmic way 471 00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:29,359 of representing how all of these purposes embed themselves together. 472 00:30:30,759 --> 00:30:35,319 And so in the directions, right, this idea of the 473 00:30:35,799 --> 00:30:41,440 roads of directions, you are acting as the center, right, 474 00:30:41,759 --> 00:30:45,960 you are the ones standing here in the middle of 475 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:50,359 this rose, and you are connecting heaven and earth. Why 476 00:30:50,359 --> 00:30:53,079 are you connecting heaven and earth because you are the 477 00:30:53,119 --> 00:30:56,279 one who knows where they're going. You're the one who 478 00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:58,720 cares where they're going. You're the one who needs the 479 00:30:58,759 --> 00:31:02,200 world to be separated into direction in order to direct 480 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:06,119 your action. And so you stand there and then you 481 00:31:06,279 --> 00:31:09,359 have this directionality that lays itself out in front of you, 482 00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:15,200 which represents also you're separated into four, because you're separated 483 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:18,200 into four as well. Look into that later. You have 484 00:31:18,319 --> 00:31:20,799 in front of you, you have behind you, and you 485 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,480 have left, and you have right. And that is how 486 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:27,839 the human being functions. And it makes complete sense to 487 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:31,279 separate the world that way because when you experience the world, 488 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:33,680 that is also how you experience it. As you look 489 00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:35,960 at the things move up in the heavens and you 490 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:39,559 see these things moving east to west, east to west, 491 00:31:39,799 --> 00:31:42,240 you notice that in the north the light never goes 492 00:31:42,359 --> 00:31:45,200 You notice you know that the sun always moved from 493 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:48,240 the east to the south and then comes back into 494 00:31:48,279 --> 00:31:51,400 the west. That there is a kind of coherence to 495 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:54,279 the world, and that you have to understand that you 496 00:31:54,319 --> 00:31:58,759 look at the heavens, this rose right comes from looking 497 00:31:58,799 --> 00:32:01,160 at the heavens. By the way, it doesn't come from 498 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:04,720 looking at the earth. You can't get directions from looking 499 00:32:04,799 --> 00:32:08,000 at the earth. You get them from looking at heaven. 500 00:32:07,839 --> 00:32:10,839 Then you infer them in the earth, but you get 501 00:32:10,839 --> 00:32:17,880 them from looking at heaven. Right. And so now once 502 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:20,400 you get that, like, once you get that kind of sense, 503 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:23,880 you can understand that one of the best images of 504 00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:27,839 the world that you can come up with is this right. 505 00:32:28,039 --> 00:32:35,000 And so have you have this vertical heaven right, and 506 00:32:35,039 --> 00:32:38,599 then you have the earth as a wheel. The earth 507 00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:42,240 is a wheel that turns around the vertical heaven. So 508 00:32:42,319 --> 00:32:45,039 the heaven is the axle of the wheel, is the 509 00:32:45,079 --> 00:32:51,880 axis of the wheel. It provides stability, it also provides direction. Right, 510 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:56,880 it provides the say, the center of the movement. It's 511 00:32:56,920 --> 00:33:00,880 the stillness in the turning right, it's the thing, it's 512 00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:03,000 the heart. Right, it's the place where all the multiplicity 513 00:33:03,039 --> 00:33:06,960 is gathered. And so this axis represents a kind of connection, 514 00:33:07,359 --> 00:33:11,759 you know. And then the wheel is turning like this right, 515 00:33:11,839 --> 00:33:14,799 so you can you can see how it is just 516 00:33:15,039 --> 00:33:19,319 another version of this. So you have heaven, which is 517 00:33:19,359 --> 00:33:24,000 the axis, and then you have the wheel which is turning. Okay, 518 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:27,200 that is one of the images you can have. Now. 519 00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:30,480 The thing is that it's a fractal system, right, and 520 00:33:30,559 --> 00:33:35,440 so you have Heaven, you have Earth. That's the wheel. 521 00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:37,240 But that's not the best way of representing it. The 522 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:42,880 best way of representing it is like this, right, because 523 00:33:43,039 --> 00:33:47,359 what because you have the ladder, right, this is the ladder. 524 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:51,480 So you have the vertical, and then each horizontal is 525 00:33:51,599 --> 00:33:57,160 a wheel. Each horizontal is a gathering of multiplicity towards 526 00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:02,559 the purpose at that level in the ascent into heaven. Right, 527 00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:10,039 So you have wheels stacked on wheels. All right, he's 528 00:34:10,119 --> 00:34:12,519 even better way of representing it. And you could represent 529 00:34:12,559 --> 00:34:15,719 it this way, right, This is even better way of 530 00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:19,079 representing Why is it better to represent it this way? Right? 531 00:34:19,159 --> 00:34:24,480 Because the higher you are on the on the axis, 532 00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:28,039 the closer you are to the very very purpose of 533 00:34:28,079 --> 00:34:31,679 the whole hierarchy in itself. So you have a hierarchy 534 00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:35,840 of purposes like this. The wheel at the top is smaller, 535 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:39,719 just like the high priest in the tabernacle, just like 536 00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:42,400 Moses at the top of the wheel. He's gathering his 537 00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:46,679 small possibilities into the top, but he has under him 538 00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:50,480 a bigger wheel that has more and under that a 539 00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:53,719 bigger and bigger and bigger wheel that are all gatherings 540 00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:58,840 of multiplicity into the axis. And so you have this 541 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:03,719 ladder that moves up into heaven. That is a series 542 00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:07,519 of wheels, right, that are going up the ladder of 543 00:35:07,559 --> 00:35:13,639 of of the world. Right, So you can think of 544 00:35:13,679 --> 00:35:18,239 it like the right, this border of the wheel that 545 00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,920 goes around the axis. Right, you can think of it 546 00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:22,920 as a serpent. It's a good way of thinking about it. 547 00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:25,559 It's chaos on the very very edge, right, it's the 548 00:35:25,679 --> 00:35:31,679 arobios on the edge. Okay. Now, the truth is that 549 00:35:32,159 --> 00:35:35,119 none of these things are separated, right, and so it's 550 00:35:35,119 --> 00:35:38,039 like we separate them and they then make sense. But 551 00:35:38,079 --> 00:35:41,360 they're all actually connected together, right, And so the the 552 00:35:41,559 --> 00:35:45,280 although the right, although the the the Let's say if 553 00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:46,679 you have a car and you have different parts of 554 00:35:46,679 --> 00:35:50,000 the car, right, the cars are connected in their purpose, 555 00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:53,719 but they're also connected like they have to be connected 556 00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:57,079 even in space. They have to have some like proximate connection, 557 00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:02,280 some measurable connection, you could say, that makes them participate 558 00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:05,440 in the hole. And that's why an even better way 559 00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:08,440 of representing this, which is not just a bunch of wheels, 560 00:36:08,679 --> 00:36:12,400 it's a spiral. Right, So you have a spiral that 561 00:36:12,559 --> 00:36:16,840 is turning and that is going around an axis. Right, 562 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:21,039 So it is like this, this is the way that 563 00:36:21,079 --> 00:36:27,360 you represent the world. Right, the world is a spiral 564 00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:31,320 of wheels, right that is going up an axis. It's 565 00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:33,199 a it's a it's a ladder, but it's not just 566 00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:35,840 a ladder. It's like a spiraling ladder that go the 567 00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:38,440 way to the top. That's what Again, the same thing 568 00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:42,000 the serpent around the pole or the serpent around the tree. 569 00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:45,159 That is what it is representing, you know, in the 570 00:36:45,199 --> 00:36:47,639 story of the Fall. Now you could say it's something 571 00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:51,079 like it's the periphery of the wheel that's competing with 572 00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:54,559 the tree. It's competing with the structure. But it can 573 00:36:54,559 --> 00:36:57,719 also be an expression because it is this, it is 574 00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:01,039 all of these possibilities kind of move up and joining 575 00:37:01,119 --> 00:37:04,239 together right towards the highest purpose. And that's of course 576 00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:08,119 why the Christmas tree is the best is one of 577 00:37:08,159 --> 00:37:11,360 my favorite examples. Obviously, the Christmas tree is one of 578 00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:15,320 my favorite examples because it's one that we make every year. 579 00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:18,760 You put it there, it's a triangle. It's it's like 580 00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:21,360 a cone that moves all the way down and then 581 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:25,360 you put these these you put these things around it 582 00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:29,719 that move up into the star, and the star is 583 00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:33,000 the top. The star is the thing that gives the 584 00:37:33,039 --> 00:37:36,000 whole thing, meaning it's the image of Heaven itself that 585 00:37:36,119 --> 00:37:38,719 is at the top of the tree that now orders 586 00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:43,719 the entire structure in this way. Okay, and so this 587 00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:49,800 is what you mean. So so we have this relationship 588 00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:54,599 of macrocosm to microcosm. Right, So you have these these 589 00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:58,840 little wheels that are microcosms that are joined to the macrocosm, 590 00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:02,480 which is this hierarchy that joins it together. You can 591 00:38:02,639 --> 00:38:07,199 understand it in any single way that you want, and 592 00:38:07,199 --> 00:38:12,599 then all things that exist will have that structure. There'll 593 00:38:12,599 --> 00:38:16,639 be little incarnations of Heaven and Earth that are connected 594 00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:18,800 more and more and more and more to the heaven. Right, 595 00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:22,239 So let's go crazy before because we're almost done. I'm 596 00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:23,800 not I'm going to finish very soon here. So let's 597 00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:26,400 go crazy. Let's realize that that the way that I've 598 00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:29,079 shown it until now is actually not sufficient. You can 599 00:38:29,159 --> 00:38:32,360 have an even better way of showing it, which is 600 00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:38,320 this one. Right, Because every spoke of the wheel is 601 00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:42,079 a connection between Heaven and Earth that has on it 602 00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:48,119 all these wheels that are also little versions of the 603 00:38:48,159 --> 00:38:53,119 same pattern that go up into heaven. So now remember 604 00:38:53,519 --> 00:38:57,239 just remember this, Just remember the image of Ezekiel, right, 605 00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:01,079 just remember the image of Ezekiel. That is what Ezekiel 606 00:39:01,199 --> 00:39:04,840 is seeing, not necessarily represented exactly the way that I'm 607 00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:08,920 showing you here, but the idea of him seeing the 608 00:39:09,039 --> 00:39:13,679 throne of God that is manifested on these wheels within 609 00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:17,440 wheels within wheels, right, and that can move in every 610 00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:23,000 which direction. That is, That is what I'm trying to 611 00:39:23,079 --> 00:39:26,280 help you see, is that the world is made that way, 612 00:39:26,639 --> 00:39:29,480 and there's no limit to how much it can be. 613 00:39:29,679 --> 00:39:33,559 It's an indefinite process. Right, you can have you can 614 00:39:33,599 --> 00:39:36,639 separate the world in as many beings as you need to, 615 00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:42,280 and all of those beings will have this structure. Okay, 616 00:39:44,039 --> 00:39:46,159 so just for fun, I even went further. And so 617 00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:48,000 it's like, imagine now a giant wheel that you can't 618 00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:54,320 even see with every spoke, having a wheel with the spoke, 619 00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:56,320 with wheels with the spoke, and you could keep going, 620 00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:59,760 keep going, and definitely and definitely and definitely right, everything 621 00:40:00,519 --> 00:40:04,760 is is heads and bodies. Everything is this kind of 622 00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:08,960 causing structure moving all the way up and all the 623 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:13,360 way down. All right, all right, So now that I've 624 00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:20,960 driven you all completely insane, what we're gonna do is 625 00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:23,559 we're gonna take, We're gonna take, We're gonna I'm gonna 626 00:40:23,599 --> 00:40:26,159 take a few questions. I know we're past our time, 627 00:40:26,199 --> 00:40:28,519 but I kind of made you suffer there for a 628 00:40:28,559 --> 00:40:31,800 few minutes. We're gonna take some questions, and then next 629 00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:34,840 week I'm actually gonna I'm gonna separate so that we 630 00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:38,320 can continue this part and and hopefully we can make 631 00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:40,960 it land a little more, because I was like, I mean, 632 00:40:41,079 --> 00:40:43,639 I'm in some way stopping in the worst possible place 633 00:40:43,639 --> 00:40:46,039 because I'm gonna take you. It's gonna kind of take 634 00:40:46,079 --> 00:40:49,559 you into crazy land and then make you land in 635 00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:53,760 like completely in like completely just everyday life. But sadly, 636 00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:56,719 we're gonna have to do that next week. So police 637 00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:59,840 trust me that I'm not insane, uh, and that this 638 00:41:00,079 --> 00:41:04,239 will this will absolutely make sense to you. But I 639 00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:07,440 wanted to kind of I wanted to show you how 640 00:41:07,599 --> 00:41:12,039 far this vision of fractals and this vision of how 641 00:41:12,559 --> 00:41:17,639 little purposes are embedded in larger purposes. And like I said, 642 00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:20,159 that's what Ezekiel saw. Ezekil saw the wheel you know,