The last judgment is not just something that happens at the end, but it is a perpetual reality.

It is basically an image of how reality functions.

And it's not arbitrary to think that that would be the case because it is an image of the end.

And you have to remember how the ancients thought of the end of something.

It's not just the moment when the time runs

out, but it is the moment that shows you the reason for everything that came before.

This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world.

I'm very glad that you've all decided to join us for what I know is going to be a very special evening,

and I want to make a few introductory remarks about our speaker, though I know he's already well-known to many of you, Mr. Jonathan Pejo, who has emerged as a truly powerful and prophetic voice

in the last years speaking deeply to our culture's longing for meaning and coherence, both

at the individual level and at the level of our shared corporate existence.

He has been identified, I think, not playfully, alongside of Jordan Peterson, John Berwicki, and Bishop Robert Barron,

as one of the four horsemen of meaning.

And I know that many of you have benefited from his gifts as an interpreter.

A couple of years ago, I had the privilege of sitting next to Jonathan

in a seminar on Exodus with Jordan Peterson and other friends,

and that was an example for me of the kind of thing that Jonathan does so very well, this opening up

of the texts and the images, of the symbols, of the structures of meaning and narrative

of the past here in the present. A few months ago, our students had the pleasure of seeing

Jonathan in Greece, where our program

begins.

And I had the great pleasure of going to Meteora, that were the oldest sites, monastic

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