0:00

Esau steals the garments of skin

0:02

and then is chased for so

0:05

long that he is

0:07

completely exhausted and completely famished

0:10

and so he bursts into Jacob's tent

0:12

and He trades

0:14

his birthright, but now in the

0:16

context of our story What

0:19

is Esau's birthright? And

0:22

this is of course where we could kind of push these

0:24

things Further because

0:27

Esau's birthright in this context is

0:29

the garments of skin Why

0:32

because Esau is in some ways

0:36

something of Cain in his

0:39

Approach in the what he is as being

0:41

the older brother being the older brother that

0:43

wanted to kill Jacob but

0:45

he's also the descendant of

0:48

Seth and so by stealing

0:50

the skins back from Nimrod He

0:53

is taking back his birthright

0:55

but immediately He because

0:57

of his weakness and because of his

0:59

excess and because he's a passionate person

1:02

Then he immediately gives up his

1:04

treasure for something as immediate as

1:06

his belly This is

1:12

Jonathan Peugeot welcome

1:14

to the symbolic

1:16

world So

1:35

Hello everybody Today, I

1:37

want to tell you a story It's

1:39

usually not the approach that I take although I

1:41

talk about stories all the time But

1:43

telling my own story and telling aspects of

1:45

my story is not something that I delve

1:48

into too often But I thought

1:50

it would be interesting to look at you

1:52

know, sometimes I Know

1:54

some people have written me or I've talked to

1:56

me and told me about their

1:59

own experiences and their own kind

2:01

of discovery of the symbolic world. And so I

2:03

thought I could take you on a little bit

2:05

of a trip to see how

2:07

the idea, the ideas

2:09

that I deal with into the symbolic world,

2:12

as well as that

2:14

which led me to Orthodoxy, but

2:16

also that which also led me to write with

2:19

my brother God's dog and some of

2:21

the ideas that are behind it all

2:23

kind of come together in a specific

2:26

image that I've talked about so many

2:28

times on this channel, which is the

2:30

garments of skin. The

2:32

garments of skin are surprisingly,

2:35

or understanding the garments of skin, are

2:37

surprisingly one of the big things that

2:39

actually led me into

2:42

Orthodoxy. And

2:44

I would say it started

2:46

with post-modernism, that is that

2:48

in the work of the post-modernists,

2:51

I especially Jacques de Hidat, talked

2:53

about the idea of the supplement

2:56

and mentioned this notion of the

2:59

problem of the supplement and

3:01

how he reads that in Plato's

3:05

Phaedra, where

3:07

Socrates talks about the problem of writing

3:09

and of writing as a supplement to

3:12

meaning, a supplement to intelligence. And

3:14

then de Hidat goes into this

3:17

question of supplement as the

3:19

notion of pharmacon, that is the supplement,

3:21

but pharmacia, that is the medicine or

3:23

the drug, that which is a supplement

3:25

in the sense of eating, and all

3:28

of these questions and how he deconstructs

3:30

this problem of the limit

3:32

between the inside and the outside using

3:34

the question of the

3:36

supplement. And so I was

3:38

really troubled by that, or let's say affected by

3:41

that question, because it seemed to have to do

3:43

with this question, the problem of what was happening

3:45

in the world already when I was in my

3:47

20s, about

3:51

what was going on in terms of

3:53

post-modernism and this obsession with the margin

3:55

and this kind of Obsession

3:58

with Transformation. Nation and Change

4:01

and Strangeness. All of that I

4:03

because I was also fascinated by

4:05

that stuff as someone who is

4:07

studying art and so I'm. Wouldn't

4:11

thing that happened of course is I was

4:13

kind of approaching. Orthodoxy is

4:15

I read this book which

4:18

is the. Life. Of Moses

4:20

with segments many, many signs of the

4:22

channels Ah which is an astounding book

4:24

about the is said to Moses. Up

4:27

the whole the mountains this entering

4:29

into the to divide darkness and

4:31

disk and discovering the pattern of

4:33

the tabernacle. But there's a process

4:35

as he moves were say Gregor

4:37

of nice. It talks about the

4:39

removing of the garments a skin

4:42

and he makes his amazing analogies

4:44

between the garments, his skin and

4:46

for skin. And. The Stranger.

4:48

you know, I'm all of these

4:50

added elements. Are these elements about

4:52

that which is outside? Ah, he

4:54

does all these wonderful things with

4:57

the analogies and talks about how

4:59

you have to remove the garments

5:01

a scourge of to remove this

5:03

outer aspect, right? The foreskin. That

5:05

the how Moses kills the The

5:07

stranger The Egyptians if to remove

5:10

this outer parts in order to

5:12

attain the divine darkness. Arm.

5:15

But. Even in reading that, there was

5:17

something about that that I thought this

5:19

rain very much true. but there was

5:21

also something more. And I had intuition.

5:24

there was something more. And it's interesting

5:26

in A when you have these questions

5:28

a d questions in your heart of.

5:31

All the sudden things pop.

5:34

Up in your life right things kind of

5:36

just manifest themselves in this is something that

5:38

I refused many times where you know it's

5:40

as if you always have the just reads

5:43

your hand out and whatever it is that

5:45

you grab is going to be the thing

5:47

that will answer your question is the thing

5:49

that will read further on that line and

5:52

so you know this was now in two

5:54

thousand ensues. Have quite a long time ago

5:56

and I was reading and I was struggling

5:58

arm and I started to take some classes

6:01

in or the Docks. The Allergy although I

6:03

wouldn't orthodox yet myself I was still a

6:05

cat acumen and in my surgeon in my

6:08

questioning I came upon this book. Called.

6:10

The deification in price they

6:12

pay by pannier pants pena

6:14

you. It is Nellis. Arm

6:17

And in this book there's a chapter.

6:19

Cause. The. Garments:

6:21

A. And so.

6:24

Very interesting. I fell right into it.

6:26

You know it's instinct is I I

6:28

picked up the book at a bookstore

6:31

and I didn't notice in a with.

6:33

With. And that the person they're decided

6:36

that he was is a great book for

6:38

Orthodox theology and I fell right into the

6:40

second chapter. and at that moment I didn't

6:42

read the first chapter and I didn't read

6:45

the third chapter right away. I just read

6:47

this chapter on the guns to skin and

6:49

which he does in his book which is

6:52

astounding is that panna you it is. Let

6:54

us know. This shows us how in fact

6:56

there is also a positive aspects to the

6:58

garments. A skin that is that there is

7:01

there the says it was that which is

7:03

added you. Know that which is. Added.

7:06

Is Not just. Negative.

7:08

Because it's also the law is

7:11

also that the notion of marriage

7:13

and of all social institutions the

7:15

city all of these things are

7:17

these supplements this edition of Death

7:20

that Fights Death Arm And so

7:22

you know in kind of a

7:24

counterpoint to think Rigor Misa who

7:27

tends to present the garments is

7:29

kinda something quite negative or there

7:31

is a secret suggested that they're

7:33

not because. In

7:36

the pattern of the Tabernacle, St. Gregory

7:38

Moses discovers the garments of skyn that

7:40

are added to the tabernacle and singer

7:43

Your peace talks about the crucifix in

7:45

there but you know us that nonetheless

7:47

he's most he describes as negative impact

7:50

on a on is that oh as

7:52

he. Talks about how

7:54

they are also is positive seeing in

7:56

some ways like the power of civilizations

7:59

or the power. Oh of

8:01

extra nowadays it's I was

8:03

really fascinated by this question

8:05

and. You. Know. Once.

8:08

Again, it's one of those very

8:11

strange things that happens where. I'm.

8:15

You know? Ah, For.

8:17

Some reason I was reading all kinds of

8:19

things at the time and I had this

8:22

strays intuition and I don't know completely where

8:24

it came from, but I decided to is

8:26

is it. I had to look in the

8:28

Book of Jet of Jasser. Ah, and I

8:30

had the Book of Jasser and a has

8:32

a lot of these apocryphal bullets at the

8:34

Book of you please. And all of these

8:36

books I'd was able to get some copies

8:38

of them and so I had this intuition

8:41

to look in the Book of Jasser. About.

8:43

This question. And. Santana, going through

8:45

the Book of Gesture in the Reading, the

8:47

Book of Jasser and I com on to.

8:50

Jasser. Chapter seven And so

8:52

those don't know? who could Jasser gonna

8:54

go through the woods goes to Genesis

8:56

and Seals in the blanks. And the

8:58

reason why didn't talking to you right

9:00

now? Because Richard role in sent me

9:03

a message the other day where he

9:05

saw this text again and it reminded

9:07

me of a how in two thousand

9:09

two I had sell upon this tax.

9:11

As I was asking myself this question

9:13

and so in the Book of Jasser.

9:16

A Chapter seven it says. And.

9:18

The garments of skin which God made for Adam

9:20

and his wife. They. Went out

9:22

of the garden. When they went out

9:24

of the garden were given to push.

9:28

For. After the death of Abraham and his

9:30

why the garments were given to enough to

9:32

set of Jared and when enough was taken

9:34

up the god he gave them to Methuselah

9:36

his son. And. As a death of

9:38

Methuselah though, it took them and brought

9:40

them to the art. And they

9:42

were with him until he went out of

9:45

the art and in their going out hands.

9:47

So these garments of Noah his father and

9:49

he took them and he hid them from

9:51

his brothers. And so when I

9:54

read that I was astounded because

9:56

here was a mythological version about

9:58

what it is that the garments

10:00

Skyn met. You know it's like

10:02

I don't Not sure that you

10:04

know said Greg of need. Some

10:06

might have access to the traditions,

10:08

maybe not, who knows, but say

10:10

Gregory really has the right intuition

10:12

and understanding this idea of this

10:15

power that is related to the

10:17

guns, his skin and it's externality

10:19

which is related to the garments

10:21

of Skyn. Because in the tradition

10:23

there's this sense in which the

10:25

guards skinner like this relic that

10:27

are passed down from generation to

10:29

generation. And brought all the way

10:31

into the art you know. Ah, and

10:33

art and art related to the sons.

10:35

Of course of the sons of course

10:37

are those that built the Tower of

10:39

Babel and are ultimately the ones that

10:41

would lead to chain in and the

10:43

idea of the Canaanite in the land

10:45

that Israel is going to take. And

10:48

so you know it's like I was

10:50

really amazed by this idea. And

10:53

so as a time in Two thousand

10:55

Two, I wrote a text. Or

10:57

call the garments a skin that I wrote

10:59

for a class at. I was taking a

11:01

theology class and I was taking at the

11:04

time with a a teacher named Professors Simeone

11:06

Roger who has Maya who is sitting duck

11:08

metics arm and I wrote a tax on

11:10

the garments his skin and I remember that

11:12

it completely surprised if you know she gave

11:15

me a very high grade and he wrote

11:17

in the comments where did you get the

11:19

idea of writing about such a thing arm

11:21

and so you know just for the heck

11:23

of it what I'm going to do is

11:26

I'm going to put. A link in the

11:28

description for those want to read that old

11:30

texts from two thousand and Two all the

11:32

way back then I'm and see if know

11:35

what I was thinking back then and how

11:37

all of them. so many of the things

11:39

they talk about right now we're already been

11:42

developed in two thousand and tooth is

11:44

in that text. I talk about St. Christopher

11:46

already in two thousand and Two and about

11:48

the ideas the dog man Christopher, you know

11:50

is related to this question. Of.

11:53

The garments of Skyn. This. Of

11:55

course, brings it to God's Dogs. You know,

11:57

for those who have read the first book

11:59

of. The Dog You've already seen a

12:01

glimmer about what it is that all this

12:03

question in the garments skins how it comes

12:06

together. But for those who have and we're

12:08

going to go, I want to go to

12:10

the front pages with you to see what

12:13

it is that going on and it will

12:15

help us understand also how we can integrate

12:17

some of these traditions into storytelling in a

12:19

manner that Elm. That. Also

12:22

how people see with the meaning

12:24

of these traditions are invokes you

12:26

know in our version of God

12:28

Dog I start We started in

12:30

Genesis and book one of God's

12:32

Og where we. You. Know there's this

12:34

legendary part of the story that is in

12:36

dumb that isn't part of the main story but

12:38

is like the backstory that appears to help

12:40

people understand what's going on. It says on

12:42

the six day God created Man. Authority.

12:45

Was given to him to rule over the beast

12:47

of the world. But. One of the

12:49

beast stripped him. And he

12:51

south. And. Man

12:53

was made subject to death. So.

12:56

Then we see a version already. You

12:58

know I'd been developing this very long

13:00

time ago of this image of everything.

13:02

Where you see this image of the.

13:05

Of. The Garden of Eden in a with

13:07

Adam and Eve that are being safe from

13:09

the garden and says he was banished from

13:11

the sense the world and forced to wander

13:13

in the wilderness. And so the. The.

13:15

Go down the hill wearing the

13:17

garments of i'm Sick, Leave and

13:19

run into the Thorns. Because the

13:22

run into the Thorns. The

13:24

the is he encountered a chair of but

13:26

then it says that God took pity on

13:28

man. He showed him a to stop the

13:31

fall to survive in the world of death.

13:33

He. Offered him a gift with mysterious

13:35

hours, The. Garments A skin. With.

13:38

His guess with was both a blessing

13:40

and a curse. And. Then

13:42

it says. The. Skins of Adam

13:44

were handed down from generation to

13:46

generation. With their power, Man has

13:48

kept death at bay, pushing back

13:51

the limits of darkness, postponing the

13:53

end. The. Skins of

13:55

Adam were handed down from generation to generation.

13:57

They have to be handed down until the

13:59

end. The World: Ah, when the

14:01

serpent is defeated and the world

14:04

begins anew. And. So. You.

14:06

Get the idea that basic skills of

14:08

Adam has we handed down generation to

14:10

generation and a lot of people. You

14:13

know when they read book One, they

14:15

thought that we were of course making

14:17

this out, but we're not making the

14:19

South. These are taken from these traditions,

14:21

but that the the way in which

14:23

my kind of. Inside

14:25

and are insight into this idea of

14:27

the periphery and the role of the

14:29

proofread or that both mature and I

14:31

had at the time. You know God

14:33

can a crunch together. So by the

14:35

time the we wrote the story of

14:37

God's dog, it all got brought into

14:39

this mythological form in a way that

14:41

hopefully will help people understand. What are

14:44

these garments skyn? What is this power

14:46

of the margin than the power of

14:48

the periphery that is being of right

14:50

about now. There's.

14:53

Another part of the story

14:55

in the book of Jasser.

14:58

It. Says that. So.

15:00

Ham steals the garments his

15:02

skin from his father, Noah.

15:05

And. It says that and when hand

15:08

begat his first born course, he

15:10

gave him the garments in secret.

15:12

And. There were with Chris many days.

15:15

And. Could also concealed them from his

15:17

sons and brothers. And when Kush

15:19

had bigoted Nimrod. He. Gave

15:21

him those garments through his love for

15:23

him and Nimrod grew up. And

15:26

when he was twenty years old, he put

15:28

on those garments and nimrod be game strong

15:30

when you put on the garments and God

15:32

gave him might and strength. And he was

15:35

a mighty hunter in the earth. Yeah, he

15:37

was a mighty hundred the field and he

15:39

hunted the animal than you build the authors

15:41

in the offers of a pond and the

15:43

animals before the Lord. And. Nimrod

15:45

strength himself and he rose

15:47

up from amongst his brethren.

15:50

and he fought battles of

15:52

his brethren against all their

15:54

enemies Roundabout. And.

15:57

So this idea that you

15:59

know. That.

16:02

The garments his skin are passed down

16:04

to Nimrod who built the Tower of

16:06

Babel really shows you his business powerful

16:08

image of house that the garments is

16:10

getting these a mighty hundred before God

16:12

that he's powerful because he puts on

16:15

these garments and he concedes that these

16:17

garments are kind of beats becoming this

16:19

image of a strength kind of like

16:21

senses. long hair, right study of this

16:23

hair. This thing that is on the

16:26

outside is really this power the dizzying

16:28

added and that under sit. On the

16:30

one hand, Nimrod is a hunter. And

16:32

so he's able to deceive the animals,

16:34

but he's also a builder. have a

16:36

great city and a bill, or a

16:38

great civilization and ultimately pirates. You know

16:40

in the end, because. He.

16:43

You know, he over does the

16:45

civilizational aspects in a manner that

16:47

becomes excessive and so. So.

16:51

Many so you little peak of

16:53

book to of god's dove given

16:55

so excited about how kind of

16:57

brought all this together. Here.

16:59

You can see of course.

17:02

Adam giving them garments

17:04

of Skyn. To his

17:07

son. But

17:09

ah I, I'm not going to show you

17:12

what happens is there is a part that

17:14

we. That. We took away. We'll see it

17:16

in the book, but I'm not going to sort

17:18

through right now, but obviously eat his son Kane.

17:20

Who. Received the garments skyn When

17:23

he kills able he loses

17:25

them. And. And are

17:27

they are on. The.

17:30

Are given to have. To

17:33

his brother. So. When Kane

17:35

killed able of course he loses

17:37

the garments his skin. And.

17:39

So they are given to the

17:42

third son, Seth who represent the

17:44

kind of restoration of the lions

17:46

are. You can see here how

17:49

Sas and In Owed does that.

17:51

The skins all the way down.

17:53

To the different people and

17:56

down to the souza. And.

17:58

See you see the zoo's a lot The

18:00

oh man who's sitting in a wreck the

18:02

work world where everything has been destroyed and

18:05

so he brings the zoo. That A brings

18:07

the skin. The. Skins to

18:09

Noah who is building the

18:11

ark. And. You see of course

18:14

the daughter. The man. And. His

18:16

sons of God bringing about the

18:18

problem of the giants. Arm.

18:21

And. Then of course the flood. Skipping.

18:24

If you paid good, don't want to

18:26

show you all the misery. These beautiful,

18:28

amazing pages are all drawn by Jesse

18:30

White. And. Colored by

18:32

Matt Christ's. I'm and so we see

18:34

the end of the flood. And after the

18:37

flood. We. See our friend

18:39

Ham here. Who. Is

18:41

coming down into the settlement in

18:43

see the art up on the

18:45

little mountain. Of here you

18:47

know in the second page which is

18:49

kind of signing he goes of course

18:52

into the tent. And he

18:54

steals the garments of skin. And

18:56

so we obviously wanted to have

18:59

the idea that he steal the

19:01

garments his skin when he sees

19:03

his father naked. And. Then

19:06

he is able to leave with those

19:08

garments his skin as his being exiled.

19:10

It's all the sudden the image of

19:12

the exile and the image that ham

19:15

his exile from the world becomes also

19:17

an image of why it is just

19:19

like White Cane built this city wide

19:22

is that. Ham

19:24

is also going to build. that's

19:26

his descendants are going to build the

19:29

great city because they are exiled

19:31

and just like Jesus said did, they

19:33

have to now cover the world with

19:35

power in order to protect themselves in

19:38

the state of ends. Exiles or

19:40

Ham repeats that in his story with

19:42

his descendants. And. Who become

19:44

the who ultimately lead to

19:46

Nimrod. So he also obviously

19:49

show the descendants of Ham

19:51

moving forward until we get.

19:54

Our. friend nimrod who now

19:56

where's the mark of cain

19:58

here on his on

20:00

his vestment, if you remember seeing the Book

20:05

one of God's dog, they wear this dark mark, which

20:07

is the mark of Cain and here it is that

20:09

he is Identifying with Cain

20:11

as a great city builder and

20:13

as the one that is owed

20:16

and should have the garments of skin

20:21

So here we see our friend

20:23

Nimrod holding up the garments

20:25

of skin in his power

20:27

for The building

20:29

of the Tower of Babel now, of

20:32

course that doesn't last the tower gets destroyed That's

20:36

because there is another part of

20:39

the story which appears in

20:42

the book of Jasher And

20:44

this is where it gets really interesting And

20:49

so This is also

20:51

will help you understand how tradition works

20:53

and how sometimes you don't say

20:55

things or you hinted things And

20:58

that leaves up an interesting space that

21:00

opens up for other people to also

21:02

step in to that space and so

21:08

You know, for example we Brought

21:10

about the idea that ham steals

21:13

the garments of skin from Noah

21:15

when he sees him naked He

21:17

takes his garment away. So that's

21:20

not said in the text in

21:22

in In It

21:26

doesn't say that in the text in Jasher

21:28

but it makes complete sense in

21:31

terms of understanding how stories come

21:33

together That he would have taken the

21:36

skins from his father when he

21:38

went into the tent and took

21:40

his clothing away This took

21:42

the clothing away in order to

21:44

discover his nakedness you could say

21:47

and so in

21:50

the book in Jasher 27 the story

21:52

continues and it says and When

21:56

Esau Saw the mighty Men of Nimroz and

21:58

now we're talking about Esau. The son

22:00

of Isaac and the brother of Jacob

22:02

right that the first born of Isaac

22:04

and it says and when he saw

22:06

saw the mighty men of Nimrod coming

22:09

at a distance he fled. And.

22:11

Thereby escaped. Sorry.

22:13

I forgot that effort that a part of the versed.

22:15

In. Starts in says that he saw

22:17

kills Nimrod and so he saw sees

22:20

Nimrod and he kills them and that

22:22

all the sudden his men mighty men

22:24

who didn't say that they're dies but.

22:27

They're. The mighty men of Nimrod

22:29

are coming at a distance

22:31

and of itself. fleas and

22:33

escaped and Isa takes a

22:35

valuable garments of Nimrod. with

22:37

Nimrod. father had bequeath Sydney

22:39

abroad and with which Nimrod

22:41

prevailed over the whole land.

22:44

And. He ran and concealed them in his

22:46

house. And. Isa took the

22:48

garments and ran into the cities on

22:50

account of Nimrod men and he came

22:52

into his father's house where read and

22:55

exhausted from fight. And. He was

22:57

ready to die through grief when he

22:59

approached his brother Jacob and sat before

23:01

him. And. He said to his

23:03

brother Jacob, behold I sell died

23:05

as they were for then do

23:07

I want the birthright and Jacob

23:09

acted wisely. was Esau into this

23:12

matter and east are sold his

23:14

birthright to Jacob for it was

23:16

so brought about by the Lord.

23:18

So soon. For insisting. So.

23:20

Basically he so. Sees.

23:24

Nimrod. Out in the wilderness. And

23:27

then killed Nimrod so that he cuts his

23:29

head off and in the in the text

23:31

forgot to have to put it in this

23:33

be kill them rods. And then he encountered

23:35

the mighty men of Nimrod. Wouldn't we need

23:37

but mighty men. Supremes. Thinks he

23:39

has to fight them. Yes sir, sit run

23:42

away from them. and he takes Nimrod garments

23:44

up. In that sense, it doesn't say that

23:46

is the garments. the skin. Doesn't

23:49

say that, but it also doesn't have to.

23:51

Is it says the mighty garments by

23:53

which he ruled. The. Kinda. And

23:56

back in Dasher Seven, it

23:58

says that. You know

24:00

it is by putting on these

24:02

garments that she became very powerful.

24:05

And so there's this like suggestion

24:07

hint that isn't quietly made explicit

24:09

in the texts, but that it

24:11

is in some ways. Are.

24:14

Two possibilities to then takes this and

24:16

can take it that one step further

24:18

in order to help people understand what

24:20

it is. it's going on in the

24:23

story and so what is it that

24:25

we do in the. In

24:27

God's. So. Here

24:30

we see our friend Nimrod, who

24:32

is. Moving away from

24:34

the destroyed Tower of Babel because

24:36

of his access and so now

24:38

he is Hundred. And. He's hunting

24:41

this line and guess he does

24:43

like it is amazing job at

24:45

drawing Nimrod Killing this line in

24:47

a wearing the garments a skin

24:49

as a kind of cheap around

24:51

a you know on his back

24:53

so he kills the lion very

24:55

dramatically but there in the shadows

24:57

you know behind his this strange

24:59

character in the darkness. who is

25:01

it. Obviously. It

25:04

is our friend he saw. And.

25:06

Esau, Kills Nimrod

25:09

Now We had him. Suit.

25:11

Nimrod with an arrow. Ah,

25:14

It's different from the cutting the of

25:16

that the head off but it has

25:18

to do with the spearing of the

25:21

serpent ah and something which will also

25:23

have to do with other images that

25:25

will appear later in the story. Ah

25:28

and so he suits Nimrod. Through.

25:30

The hearts. And then he

25:32

takes. The. Garments of

25:34

skin. And. Will take the

25:36

gums, the skin. He. Flees away

25:39

from the mighty men. And now we

25:41

know who those mighty men are. because

25:43

Nimrod is a giant and so are

25:45

the mighty men. As as this is,

25:47

of course it's it's a tradition. Thoughts

25:50

about how you know the idea that

25:52

Nimrod, although his after the flood, is

25:54

a giant, is one which is attested

25:56

to in many, many traditions. And so

25:58

in the book. Yeah, sure. Didn't say that

26:01

if this elites of a by calling the Mighty

26:03

Man it's hinting at that. And. So now

26:05

we can bring it all together in

26:07

the story he saw, steals, the garments,

26:09

the skin, and then he ceased. For.

26:11

So long. Dead Sea

26:14

is completely exhausted in completely.

26:16

Sam. Is. And so he

26:18

bursts into Jacobs tent. And

26:21

she trades his birthright. But now

26:23

in the context of our story,

26:26

What? Is he saw his birthright.

26:30

Arm. And. This is of

26:32

course where we. You. Know where we could

26:34

kind of push these things? Further,

26:36

because. He saw

26:39

his birthright in this context is the

26:41

garments of Skyn. Why?

26:44

Because. He saw his in some

26:46

ways. Something.

26:49

Of came. In. His.

26:51

Approach. In the which he is

26:53

being the older brother the d the

26:56

older brother that wanted to kill jacob.

26:58

Ah, But he's also the

27:01

the the descendants of sas.

27:03

And. So by stealing the skins

27:05

back from Nimrod see is

27:08

taking back his birthright but

27:10

immediately. See. Because of

27:12

his weakness, and because of his

27:14

access, and because he's a passionate

27:16

person, Then he immediately gives up

27:18

his treasure for something as immediate

27:21

as his belly. And so he

27:23

sells his birthright to Jacob. And

27:25

so you know. What?

27:28

I wanted to show you is just how

27:30

it is that we can take these legends

27:32

and the story and how it is. Once

27:34

you understand that when you enter into the

27:37

language that they propose, how you can. Find.

27:40

ways to even add little steps to

27:42

that like even kind of hint or

27:44

poor surf nudge a little further so

27:46

that the story becomes more understandable and

27:48

that is of course what it is

27:50

that we're doing in god's dog because

27:52

we're going to take a lot of

27:54

these this is the garments skin but

27:56

there are other traditions that will be

27:59

part of it and and and by

28:01

connecting them together through this story, which

28:03

is fictional, ultimately, we will nonetheless

28:05

be diving deeper into these traditions

28:07

than many people have in the

28:09

past and helping bring about these

28:13

images together in a way that

28:16

will help you understand them. In

28:19

the tradition, the garments of

28:21

skin pretty much end there. It's like

28:23

if there are other traces of the

28:25

garments of skin in the tradition, the

28:29

apocryphal tradition, I don't know

28:31

where I have never seen them. But in

28:33

the Bible, there are still garments of skin

28:35

that are there. And so it's

28:37

interesting to then go back into

28:39

the story and then bring those

28:42

out once again. And so here

28:44

we have our friend Elijah, who

28:47

is sitting in the cave wearing now

28:49

the garments of skin because in the

28:51

story of Elijah, it says that he

28:54

wore a hairy garment. And

28:56

when now Elijah is

28:58

taken up into heaven and

29:01

drops his garment down to Elisha,

29:04

then it

29:07

appears as again a kind of

29:09

transmission of the garments of skin.

29:11

And so it's like going into

29:13

the story and teasing out the

29:15

elements that are connected to the

29:17

meaning of what it is we're

29:19

doing. And it's not

29:21

arbitrary because that which he gives

29:23

down to Elisha is

29:26

his power. And

29:28

so Elisha asked for a double version

29:30

of his blessing, like a double version

29:32

of this kind of glory

29:35

or power that Elijah had. And

29:38

then you can take that all the way up

29:40

to where? You can take it all the way

29:42

up to maybe down the Baptist,

29:45

maybe further. And that's what

29:47

we're doing. And so by the time we

29:49

get to our story, we have, of course,

29:51

St. George, who is the guardian of the

29:53

skins and has them as

29:55

a continuation of all these traditions that

29:58

are found both in scripture and

30:00

in the book of Jasher and represent,

30:02

just like St. George. By the

30:04

way, St. George is the the

30:07

word George means the agriculture, the

30:09

agriculturalist. That's what the notion of

30:11

St. George comes from. And

30:14

so St. George, with his red hair as

30:17

an agriculturalist and as a

30:19

representation of Rome itself, becomes,

30:21

of course, another version of

30:23

Cain. Now, in this case,

30:25

a positive version, but nonetheless

30:29

related to the very same symbolism

30:31

that we find in the in

30:33

the early images of

30:35

the question of the garments of skin and

30:37

also the question of spearing or of

30:40

killing, you know, the

30:44

other and so in, of course, in our

30:46

story, we have him spearing his brother just

30:49

like George is spearing the dragon. Of course,

30:51

it's not the same meaning, but it's

30:53

structurally the same. So

30:55

this can help you understand a little bit

30:58

how it is that symbolism can function, why

31:00

it is that the garments of skin are

31:03

are so important to me. They're right

31:05

there at the very beginning of my

31:07

introduction to orthodoxy, and

31:09

they've been with me all along to help me

31:11

kind of understand the world in which we live,

31:13

this kind of world of the fringe, the world

31:16

of the chaos, the world of the edge. And

31:19

so, you know, don't forget to to read that

31:22

early text if you're interested in seeing to

31:24

what extent saying Gregor of Nisa and the

31:26

Garments of Skin were there right at the

31:29

beginning of my journey towards towards Eurotatak Church.

31:31

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