This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world. Hello everyone. I thought we could look at a little bit of architecture. I've mentioned several times in my videos that the church architecture, the Christian church architecture, is based in some ways both on Old Testament temple imagery,

but then ultimately also this imagery that we find in the book of Revelation.

There's also a third strain which is related to the manner in which the church architecture was developed,

and that is the visions of the prophets, a vision of Ezekiel. So we're going to kind of

get into all of that, look into several of these strains, but ultimately what I want to do

is begin with the words of Christ himself. And so before we begin, you know, don't forget,

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And so the way we want to start here is with,

of course, this very particular verse, which talks about the relationship between Christ and

architecture. So Christ says the stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone.

This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes.

And so when I was young, people would talk about this verse. I remember, and they would often

reference what we often call the cornerstone today, which is the idea of putting a very

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