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"Saint Plato the Victim (Dinner Day - November 18)"
The Revered Victim Plato, brother of the holy Victim Antiochus the Surgeon (July 16), was innate at the metropolitan of Ancyra in Galatia. In view of the fact that restrained a youth he passed away home and went through the cities, preaching the Caveat of God to pagans, exciting his send away with the persuasiveness and beauty of his verbal communication, and his fundamental knowledge of Greek learning.
Since of his preaching he was arrested and brought for trial to the temple of Zeus previously the proprietor Agrippinus. At first, the ruling attempted to travel the saint to turn on view from Christ by sweet talk. He encouraging the youth that he may perhaps be on a par of feel with the facts of the philosophers Plato, if deserted he worshipped both the pagan gods. To this St Plato answered, that the wisdom of the clever, although carry out, was but passing away and top secret, whilst the true, eternal and unbounded wisdom comprised the Gospel experience. Subsequently the ruling promised to see in your mind's eye him his well niece for his spouse if he would deny Christ. He both threatened him with torture and death if he refused. St Plato replied that he chose a temporal death for the sake of eternal life. The broadmindedness of the proprietor was exhausted, and he gave prepare to implacably beat the dead person, and then send him off to send down.
Afterward they led St Plato off to send down, he turned to the strain gathered about the temple, and he called on them not to disown the Christian Character. Seven days ensuing they over led the Victim Plato for trial previously Agrippinus in the temple of Zeus, someplace they had the implements of torture in advance prepared: sticky cauldrons, sweltering silver-tongued and passionate hooks. The ruling vacant the dead person a choice: either to grant expenditure to the pagan gods, or to dash the effects of these implements of torture on his remains. Another time the saint unalterably refused to fondness idols, and last his tortures they threw him in send down for eighteen top-quality days lacking currency or water. But seeing that this did not wobble the dead person, they vacant him his life and freedom if he would deserted say, "Stark is the god Apollo." The dead person refused to deny Chirst or to expenditure to the idols. So, Agrippinus fixed the holy Victim Plato to be beheaded in the court 266.
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Thy Martyrs, O Lord, in their committed contest for Thee normal as the steal the crowns of incorruption and life from Thee, our never-ending God. For since they hectic Thy backbone, they cast down the tyrants and very wrecked the demons' strengthless speculate. O Christ God, by their prayers, save our souls, since Thou art tolerant.
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Thine all-holy remember doth high spirits and uplift the whole world, ability all to come to thine imperial and ven'rable temple; wherein now, with cheerfulness we comprise all gathered, and with odes we hymn thy triumphs, O Victim Plato, and with charge, we cry out to thee: Except thy strain, O Saint, from barbarous foes.
"Almost from their beginnings, magic and religion have been intermingled. " (Believing in Magic The Psychology of Superstition, Stuart A. Vyse, Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford, 1997) The root of the word religion means relinking. And as the Pagan religions are the only religions that I know of that insist that the interaction of the worshipper with their deity be direct and personal, and that the rhythms of our world are the signals and timing for most interaction, we may well be the only religion that has a primary accomplishment of relinking our people with our selves, our Gods, our world, and Nature Herself. Most of the standard definitions for religion specifically refer to the Christian God, or another monotheist deity. Our dictionaries and encyclopedias are so inherently Christian it is difficult to find a non-Christian definition of religion or worship. Raymond Buckland insists that the first call of a witch is the worship of the Gods. But there is little definition of that process of worship that is not also the process of ritual magick - it is hard to discern wherein the difference lies. I have read through many of these books looking for a concise answer. That answer seems to lie in the interactive responsibility of the Witch to focus their awareness and responsibility for the consequences of their magick on the entire system which is comprised of the Gods, Our world, our community and all the other Children of the Gods. This comprehension of their role within the entire scheme is in line with my definition of a Witch, "One who knowledgeably undertakes through their vows to their Gods the obligation to further growth and harmony." What that definition also implies, yet does not outright state, is that that obligation also includes personal growth and development. The Witch never promotes growth and success in the system without offering themselves the same opportunities. There may be rare circumstances where a Witch will spend so much of their energy for a particular outcome, that they compromise their own success and health - but offhand, I cannot imagine what would demand such a sacred gift - sacrifice. It is not healthy or reasonable to demand things of any teacher, healer, priest/ess which lessen that person's own path and powers. We are not victims or martyrs because we have decided to enrich our entire community, we are simply responsible members of our community. And much like the goose that laid the golden egg, if you overtax those who have the gift, you will loose all that it offers. You must always prioritize your health and well-being, for if you are lost or in failing health, then what do you have left to offer.
This is also a religion, that by its very nature, would never demand you harm another. That is not the point. "I am the Mother of all things, and My loved is poured out upon the world." And She who is the mother of all things, never demands that you harm any of her Children. (Charge of the Goddess)
Is this a Goddess religion? Do we have male Gods? Yes. I think the primary reason that we are considered a Goddess religion, is that all other religions have male gods. Thus, in explaining our differences, people take the prominent diverse feature, the female divinity, and focus on it when explaining our beliefs. But the male aspect of our world is a partner and consort of the Goddess. Without the God, we would not have the balance and creative interaction that allows for the Wheel of Life. Do we value men in this religion? Absolutely. We could not be who we are without male and female aspects to balance and provide all the parts to our Sacred World. Why is there any question about the importance of the God? "The image of the Horned God in witchcraft is radically different from any other image of masculinity in our culture. He is difficult to understand, because He does not fit into any of the expected stereotypes, neither those of the "macho" male nor the reverse-images of those who deliberately seek effeminacy. He is gentle, tender, and comforting, but He is also the Hunter. He is the Dying god - but his death is always in the service of the life force. He is untamed sexuality - but sexuality as a deep, holy, connecting power. He is the power of feeling, and the image of what men could be if they were liberated from the constraints of patriarchal culture." (The Spiral Dance A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess, Starhawk, Harper & Row, San Francisco, CA, 1979.
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Voc^es pediram! Imploraram! Alguns eu acredito piamente que se ajoelharam! Colocaram dinheiro em notas no meu suti~a!....... OPA, isso 'e outra coisa!
Mas mesmo que seja para a infelicidade de alguns, eu estou de volta! Trazendo mais um pouco sobre a superstic~ao japonesa, e seus amuletos! A ultima vez eu lhes apresentei[?] o Daruma-san, um boneco que realiza desejos. Mas gente, um aviso: cuidado para n~ao interferir no livre arb'itrio alheio. Por favor! Conheco gente que pediu pro Daruma trazer o amado de volta, sendo que ele j'a estava resolvido com outra! Eu confio em voc^es, sei que s~ao pessoas espiritualmente e mentalmente evolu'idas, se n~ao, n~ao estariam aqui, mas avisar algo assim nunca 'e demais.
Ent~ao, vamos ao nosso post de hoje! Mostrarei um pouco sobre o simp'atico casal de gatos, Maneki-Neko! (ATENC'AO: este eu n~ao sei se deve ser ganho ou pode ser comprado, se alguem souber, por transform, coloca nos coment'arios)
MANEKI-NEKO
No Jap~ao, gato 'e "neko", este em especial tem esse nome pois significa "gato que acena". Algumas pessoas acham que significa uni~ao, casamento, companheirismo, etc. Mas n~ao, meu amigo cheirador de calcinhas, n~ao! O Maneki-Neko traz sorte, fortuna, dinheiro, money baby! 'E comumente usado em estabelecimentos de com'ercio, independente se for um ou dois, mas quase ninguem sabe que cada pata levantada tem um significado: a direita, 'e fortuna; a esquerda, sa'ude.
Tem in'umeras lendas em torno desse casal de gatos, fazendo com que sua origem seja quase desconhecida. Eu selecionei duas, as mais conhecidas, para postar aqui:
Pretinho! Esse 'e de bruxa!
1- Uma senhora cuidava de um estabelecimento a beira de estrada, mas apesar disso, o com'ercio estava a beira da fal^encia. Quase nenhum cliente passava por aquela estrada, e eles estavam fadados a fechar as portas. O gato desta senhora costumava ficar do lado da fora, dormindo ou fazendo quaisquer outras coisas. Num dia, ele estava sentado na encruzilhada, lambendo-se e cocando a orelha (fazendo o movimento de levantar a pata), neste momento, um grupo de viajantes, cansados e famintos, passou pela estrada e viu o felino fazendo esses movimentos, shape eles acharam que o gato os estava chamando para aquele caminho, e foram por ele. Encontraram a hospedaria. Desde aquele dia, muitos clientes foram se hospedar ali pela hist'oria do gato que chama clientes.
2- Um senhor, cansado de viajar, faminto e com frio, decidiu entregar-se a morte. Avistando uma tempestade, ele apenas se jogou ao ch~ao e esperou sua hora. Foi quando ele avistou o felino, fazendo o movimento de cocar a orelha. O senhor pensou que o gato estava apontando em uma direc~ao, ent~ao ele seguiu a direc~ao que o animal supostamente apontou, e acabou encontrando uma caverna, onde pode se aquecer e se esconder da tempestade. Ali dentro, ele ainda encontrou cogumelos e ervas comest'iveis, e saciou parte de sua fome.
Estas s~ao as lendas mais conhecidas, mas existem outras, indo do monge at'e a fam'ilia real japonesa.
Este at'e parece real!....... Perai!
Os Maneki-Neko podem ser encontrado em diversas forma e tamanho. Existem aqueles que cabem na palma de sua m~ao, e aqueles em tamanho fam'ilia. N~ao importa qual voc^e v'a escolher, 'e sempre bom que tenha o par, pois ningu'em gosta de ficar sozinho no mundo (each time freely). Existem at'e alguns que tem as duas patas levantadas!
Algumas pessoas acham que quanto mais clientes o com'ercio tiver, maior fica a pata da est'atua. Alguns at'e medem os anos de vida que o "animal" tem pelo tamanho da mesma. Tem aqueles que gostam tamb'em de dar um pouco de seus lucros ao gatinho, afinal, ele que est'a trazendo toda fortuna pra casa, oras! Ele merece um pouquinho, ao menos!
Mas vamos combinar: abrir poupanca pro gato, j'a 'e demais.
O felino por si s'o tem in'umeros significados, mas isso 'e uma quest~ao mais cultural: enquanto no Brasil o gato preto da azar, nos Estados Unidos ele d'a sorte. Tem gente que acha que QUALQUER gato 'e sinal de m'a sorte! Tem gente que acha que eles d~ao 13 anos de azar pra quem matar um. Em alguns locais ele tem 7 vidas, em outros, 9, e em outros, 13. De qualquer forma, 'e um animal envolto de simbologia. Todos temos que concordar que ele 'e, no m'inimo, misterioso! 'E o tipo de bicho que, ou voc^e gosta, ou odeia.
E pro pessoal que gosta de anim^e (os famosos desenhos japoneses) e tamb'em gosta de gatos, eu recomendo a animac~ao O Reino Dos Gatos, do est'udio Ghibli. N~ao vou postar nenhum connect para download, porque n~ao tenho a permiss~ao, mas 'e s'o procurar por este nome mesmo e encontraram inumeros sites.
Bom, isso 'e tudo pessoal! Eu espero ver voc^es de novo! Eu aqui, no meu velho e querido banco...... Roteiro errado, aaaahhhhh!
Lobos e lobas, espero ter ajudado e trazido um pouco de cultura para suas cabecinhas! Agradeco a atenc~ao, e espero coment'arios!
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Age Of Taurus by Legionarii
The Bull of Fantasy that gets killed is a pungent reference to the end of the Age of Taurus, that's while the Chartbuster of Gilgamesh was in black and white. The demigod/hero Gilgamesh is depicted as wrestling the "celestial bull," understood to drag the sign of the age of Taurus.
Gilgamesh searched for eternal life and inferior to satisfy his probability at immortality. In Gilgamesh the serpent steals the trailing plant that forward motion restore his youth. The trailing plant is eaten by a texture measure Gilgamesh sleeps.
To the same extent Moses threw out the golden calf, he knew it was the end of the Taurus Age. They worshiped the sun as the golden part, and the calf was the bull, or Taurus the bull. So the golden calf represented Taurus the bull.
Moses came down from the heap with horns at the beginning of the astrological age of the Ram stating, "I am the ram of God!
Jesus Christ is the Alpha and Omega, the to start with and keep up (Rev 22:13), Aries and Pisces. He is the sacrificial Beef of God (end of Age of Aries) and the Fisher of Men (dawn of the age of Pisces). His symbol is ICHTHYS or buddy, and he calls to him "fishers of men" as his disciples. His communion relating to diet is selected as buddy, while he asks for as ominously following his resurrection (Jn 21). His offspring Christian buddies were called the "diminutive fishes" and represented by two fishes - a symbol for Pisces.
Peak took fifty time to promote and more and more stage his Luciferian Check to a conquer few within the 33rd Reading Prime Parliament at Charleston. He alike converted the Masonic hierarchy in London, Berlin, and Rome. Clothed in the following not whole of his work, calm down, French atheists began to puncture spiritism and symbolism within French Lodges. By 1877 French Freemasonry freely declared what it had guardedly skilled for instance 1840- that acquaint with is no god but aid organization. English Freemasonry, which stress a belief in deity, impartial broke fellowship with the French Dignified Take to. Peak, as unconventional Pontiff of Broad Freemasonry, desired to heal the gorge by presenting his Luciferian Code of belief at the July 14, 1889, Prime Parliament foundation in Paris, France. Unable to travel due to seedy health, he more accurately explicated the beliefs in a letter to be read on the foundation knock down. Once the letter was published by A. C. De La Rive in LaFemme et t'Enfant dans la Franc-Maconnerie Universelle. The Freemason, a Masonic periodical in England, noted the reading of the letter in its January 19, 1935, well up. Subject de Poncins quotes portions of the letter in Freemasonry and the Vatican. The record all-embracing quote, calm down, comes to us from Edith Miller in Occult Theocrasy. Following is Albert Pike's 1889 proposal of how Lucifer requisite be to be had to high customary Masons, measure charge the lessen customary initiates and the predominant affirm ignorant:
That which we condition say to the troupe is - We amazement a God, but it is the God that one adores defective superstition.
To you, Ruler Dignified Inspectors Customary [of the 33rd customary], we say this, that you may preparation it to the Brethren of the 32nd, 31st, and 30th degrees - The Masonic religion requisite be, by all of us initiates of the high degrees, maintained in the perfection of the Luciferian beliefs.
If Lucifer were not God, would Adonay, the God of the Christians, whose comings and goings keep up his oppression, duplicity, and malice of man, barbarism and Disgust FOR SCIENCE, would Adonay and his priests, calumniate him?
Yes, Lucifer is God, and catastrophically Adonay is alike God. For the eternal law is that acquaint with is no light defective log, no beauty defective ugliness, no white defective black, for the dull can in the past few minutes conscious as two Gods: complexity being rudimentary to light to save as its direct as the plinth is rudimentary to the statue, and the dense to the locomotive.
In analogical and comprehensive dynamics one can in the past few minutes lean on that which forward motion clutch. Hence the construction is hovering by two armed which farm its calculate, the compel of attraction and that of abhorrence. These two armed conscious in physics, philosophy and religion. And the arithmetic certainty of the divine dualism is demonstrated by the phenomena of polarity and by the comprehensive law of sympathies and antipathies. That is why the intelligent disciples of Zoroaster, as well as, following them, the Gnostics, the Manicheans and the Templars comprise admitted, as the in the past few minutes logical metaphysical innovation, the ploy of the divine principles conflict enduringly, and one cannot understand the one slipshod in power to the other.
Hence, the beliefs of Satanism is a heresy; and the true and virtuous philosophic religion is the belief in Lucifer, the add up to of Adonay; but Lucifer, God of Indiscernible and God of Fine, is under pressure for aid organization reluctant Adonay, the God of Gloom and Degenerate.
An age of Lucifer forward motion be an age of enlightenment. Severity me not.
In this age of Internet flame wars and perpetual games of spiritual one-upmanship, have you ever wondered: What would Christian Rosenkreutz do?
When I think of what it means to be a Rosicrucian, one phrase springs instantly to my mind. "To profess nothing, but to cure the sick, and that freely."
This is the first principle of a Rosicrucian, as given in the "Fama Fraternitatis", the original Rosicrucian text. The very first rule. Numero Uno. It seems like a simple exhortation to "be secretive" and try to help others, but it is in fact much more than that. It is also a directive against displays of vanity, arrogance, and self-importance. The primary founder of the Golden Dawn, G.H. Frater N.O.M., clearly understood this.
In his paper on "Christian Rosenkreuz" published in "Theosophical Siftings" and reprinted in R.A. Gilbert's "The Magical Mason: Forgotten Writings of William Wynn Westcott", G.H. Frater N.O.M has an interesting take on this most fundamental of all Rosicrucian tenets. It bears repeating:
"That no public profession of any superior knowledge should be made: but that members should when able endeavor to cure the sick, and that gratis."
In his paper on "Rosicrucian Adeptship" (Flying Roll No. XIX) Westcott compares the feeling and expression of "superior Knowledge" to the Scylla of hypocrisy:
"...a man is liable to compare himself with his neighbours, and say how much better he is than others. Now self congratulation is second only to open hypocrisy, and we hold that it is just as harmful to spiritual progress."
Humility is the underlying principle here. The term "humility" is related to the Latin adjective "humilis "which usually translates as "humble" but has the additional meanings of "grounded, from the earth," or "low," since it derives in turns from "humus" or earth. Humility is the state of "being grounded" in reality. It is a condition of stability and inner strength based upon a sincere appraisal of one's self as compared to the magnitude of the Universal Divine. ("In myself I am nothing. In Thee I am Self.") The polar opposite of humility is "hubris" which "often indicates a loss of contact with reality and an overestimation of one's own competence or capabilities."
In Flying Roll XV ("Man and God") Westcott was able to convey not only the importance of humility, but the truth that each Initiate is responsible for his or her own spiritual growth:
"You who are here today to listen to this lecture (or you who read it hereafter), have come to this Hall only to seek from my words further suggestions of thought on Occult teachings, you are well aware that I represent myself alone, in what I say, and that you are each perfectly free to take what seemeth good unto you and to reject the refuse. In my honour to the Order in which I bear a part, I have always made the clearest distinction between the Ancient Ritual and our modern comments, and this distinction you must always bear in mind, for it must not be considered that the doctrines of any single elder or ruler are necessarily all true to the Hermetic faith. All individuals go astray even if some go farther than others. The Order here then has no Pope nor Popess and our Bible at every stage is imperfect; we are fellow students, still crying for the Light; and every lecture given here is but the expression of personal opinion, from someone who has far longer than most trod the path of Hermetic progress, and the proportion of doctrine or fact which you accept must be estimated by yourselves, for yourselves-it is a duty you owe to yourselves to work out your own transmutation-to change the powers of physical sensuous life into the refined spiritual faculties of Adeptship, in truth as well as in name. As senior Adept among you, just now, my duties are to keep you to the doctrines of our Rituals, as far as they go,-to leave you quite free where they do not lead, but to stimulate your efforts in the search for the Philosophic Gold..."Humility is not only a fundamental Rosicrucian value-it is a prerequisite for all successful workings of high magic as stated in the grimoire "The Key of Solomon the King":
"...it is absolutely necessary to ordain and to prescribe care and observation, to abstain from all things unlawful, and from every kind of impiety, impurity, wickedness, or immodesty, [...] and all sorts of vain words, buffooneries, slanders, calumnies, and other useless discourse; but instead to do good deeds, speak honestly, keep a strict decency in all things, never lose sight of modesty in walking, in conversation, in eating and drinking, and in all things."
The concept of humility is clearly emphasized at least eight times in the Golden Dawn's Adeptus Minor Ritual to the prospective Rosicrucian-more than any other single principle:
1) Upon first entrance, the Aspirant is told:
"O Aspirant! It is written that he who exalteth himself shall be abased, but that he who humbleth himself shall be exalted, and that blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. It is not by proclamation of honors and dignities, great though they may be, that thou canst gain admission to the Tomb of the Adepti of the Rose of Ruby and the Cross of Gold, but only by that humility and purity of spirit that befitteth the aspirant unto higher things."
2) After his knowledge of the Sword and Serpent is tested, the Aspirant is told that his pedigrees mean absolutely nothing:
" Return thou then, and divest thyself of these ornaments. They are not humble enough to entitle thee to be received." A chain is then placed on the Aspirant's neck as a symbol of "repentance and humility" before he or she is lead out.
3) After being brought in for the second time, the Aspirant is told that the Divine is propitious unto whosoever humbleth himself in dust and ashes...
4) Immediately after that, the Third Adept tells the Aspirant:
"Think not, O Aspirant, that the trial of humility through which thou hast passed, was ordained but to jest with thy feelings. Far from us be any such design. But it was intended to point out to thee that the truly wise man is but little in his own eyes, however great his attainments may appear to the ignorant, and that even the highest intellectual achievements are but as nothing in the sight of the Lord of the Universe, for He looketh at the heart. It is written: When I consider the Heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and stars which Thou hast ordained, what is man that Thou art mindful of him, or the son of man that thou visitest him? And couldst thou even attain unto the height of a God upon this earth, how small and insignificant yet wouldst thou be in the presence of God the Vast One."
5) Immediately following this, the Aspirant is told that he has been "purified by humility. Thus in the Second Order of the RR et AC, the prospective new member is not purified and consecrated by fire and water as in the Outer Order, but is instead solely purified through his or her own humbleness of heart and unpretentious attitude.
6) After this, the Aspirant is clearly told in no uncertain terms not to malign others:
"Boast not thyself above thy brother if he hath fallen, for how knowest that thou couldst have withstood the same temptation. Slander not, and revile not. If though canst not praise, do not condemn."
7) Inside the Vault, the Second Adept recites the "Unto Thee Sole Wise" prayer to the Divine on the Aspirant's behalf:
"Not unto us, but unto Thy Name be the Glory...."
Shortly after the prayer, the Aspirant is told to rise and stand "in the symbol of self-renunciation" (i.e. humility).
8) One of the first warnings given to the Aspirant by the Chief Adept (in the guise of Christian Rosenkreutz himself) is a speech that forbids the maligning and disparagement of others:
"Therefore Thou art inexcusable, whosoever thou art that judgest another, for in that thou condemest another, thou condemest but thyself."
Final thoughts: While studying for a college course recently, one of my instructors told us that in order to make something stick in the memory, a student had to hear it at least three times.
Humility is the single, overriding principle of anyone who claims to be a Rosicrucian: the Aspirant seeking to become a Rosicrucian in the RR et AC is told no less than eight times that humility is the only way of gaining entrance to (as well as the magical method of purification used in) the Second Order.
So two questions remain-why doesn't this always stick with some people?
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IV Mt. Gerizim and the Land of Moriah
by E. Cromwell Mensch 32 degree
THE NEW AGE - OCTOBER 1948
The fame of King Solomon's Temple lies in the reflected glory of the House of Moses, for it was planned and built with the idea of replacing the Tabernacle with a more permanent structure. The purpose behind its building is to be found in the history of David, father of Solomon. The original Tabernacle was the vehicle which had welded the Israelites into a united mass, and had kept them united during their successful invasion of Palestine. The initial breakthrough took place at Jericho, after which the Isra elites spread out to the north and south, but they did not succeed in taking Jerusalem.
Their first objective was to locate the "spot" on which to erect the Tabernacle, which was believed to be at Luz. Moses died just prior to the invasion, but he had left certain instructions, which were to be followed out after they reached the promised land. Among other things, they were instructed to put the blessing upon Mt. Gerizim, and the curse upon Mt. Ebal. Neither the geographical location of these mounts, nor the manner in which the blessing was to be bestowed, were specified. It was decided that t he medium was the altar specified in Exodus 20:24, which was to be of earth, or of unhewn stone, and without steps. The allegorical meaning here, of course, is the good earth upon which we dwell.
The Israelites found Luz ill-favoured as a location for the Tabernacle, even though it had been specified by Moses as none other but the house of God and the gate of heaven in Genesis 28:17. They then moved on to Samara and set up their Tabernacle and their altar between the two peaks in that country, which are still called Mt. Gerizim and Mt. Ebal to this day. However, the choice of this "spot" was far from unanimous, and it was not long before the Tabernacle was moved elsewhere.
About 200 years later, or in 1005 B.C.David succeeded in wresting
Jerusalem away from the native Jebusites. After taking the city; he had himself declared king over both Israel and Judah. Israel was the common name applied to the Israelites of the north, for by then they had lost their tribal distinctions. David himself had risen to power under the banner of the Tribe of Judah, which had maintained its tribal identity in the south. At the time David established himself at Jerusalem, the true location of the mount upon which a blessing was to be put was still a live issue.
In the meantime the original Tabernacle had vanished and the Ark of the Covenant had been placed in storage. The lustre of the Ark had been somewhat dimmed prior to this on account of its failure to stop the Philistines on the field of battle. Under this combination of
circumstances David saw a splendid opportunity to restore the Ark to its natural setting, and, at one and the same time, establish a mount of his own upon which to put a blessing. He accordingly purchased the threshing floor of Ornan, the Jeb usite, and this is the "spot" upon which the Temple was subsequently erected.
It was called the Zion, or hill, which is the literal interpretation of the word Zion. Mount would have served the purpose just as well, for it was here that he pitched a new tabernacle in order that the Ark might be brought out of storage. The use of the word Gerizim was probably avoided because this new shrine was designed to serve Israel as well as Judah, and these people of the north already had a Mt. Gerizim. We get a vague hint of this from the use of the word Moriah, which is commonly called Mt. Mori ah today. The original use of this word is to be found in
Genesis 22:2, which states that the sacrifice of Abraham's son Isaac was to take place in the land of Moriah, and upon one of the mountains of which he was to be told. This passage of Scripture was probably cited at that time as an authority, or precedent, for the establishment of a second mount at Jerusalem.
It was after David had pitched this new Tabernacle that he made known his intention of replacing it with a more permanent structure. With this structure he undertook to create a vehicle, which, in the words of II Samuel 7:13, he hoped would establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
This hope lay in the belief that he could endow his contemplated Temple with the powers of the original Tabernacle by duplicating its design.
Hiram of Tyre was called in as a collaborator, because he had previously built the p alace in which David had set himself up as king over the two branches of the Israelites. Hiram was a Phoenician, and his city of Tyre was in a better position to furnish skilled artisans.
However, the basic, design of the Temple was copied from the description
of the Tabernacle, or rather that part of its description which is to
be found in the Book of Exodus. The builders of the Temple apparently
did not understand the true cabalism of the writings of Moses, for the
key to the design of the Tabernacle is concealed in the ladder Jacob
supposedly dreamt about. In the words of Moses, this was none other but
the house of God and the gate to heaven, as set forth in Genesis 28:17.
In the previous verse, Genesis 28:16, Jacob had just awaked out of his
sleep, which refers back to Genesis 28:12, and, "he dreamed, and behold
a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and
behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it."
The essence of the ladder of Jacob was the cubical Holy of Holies of the Tabernacle. It was projected into a column of 7 cubes on the Trestle Board, with horizontal coordinates extending out over the centre of the drawing from the upper levels of the 2nd, 4th, and 6th cubes. Below these horizontals, and on the base line, another cube was drawn to
represent the Holy of Holies itself. From the centre of this Holy of Holies a series of ascending "angles" were projected upward to intercept the horizontals. At t he points of intersection, vertical ordinates were dropped to the base line, and they exactly prescribed the 48 cubits length of the Tabernacle. A 7th ordinate was projected upwards into infinity, from the centre of the base line, and represented the joining of the celestial with the terrestrial sphere. This 7th ordinate was the top of the ladder, which reached to heaven. The cubes were 7 in number because they represented the 7 bodies of our planetary system which are visible to the n aked eye. Each of the ascending angles were 23 1/2 degrees", because that is the celestial angle at which the earth is inclined away from the plane of its orbit.
The unit of measurement was obtained by dividing one edge of the cubical
Holy of Holies into 10 equal parts. The Apex of the curtains of Goats'
Hair was equal to the height of 3 cubes, or 30 cubits. Half this
height, or 15 cubits, was equivalent to the combined widths of the 10
boards of the sheathing, and the upper half prescribed the height of
the pediments. The descending "angles" of Genesis 28:12 exactly
subtended the 1 1/2, cubits cross section of the Ark of the Covenant
below the centre of the Holy of Holies". The descending ordinates
exactly laid out the 7 bents, or vertical bars across which the "six"
boards of Exodus 36:27 were spaced out. This is indeed none other but
the House of God, and the House we proclaim was erected to God and
dedicated to His Holy name.
The 7th ordinate came direct from the celestial, and was symbolic of the path down which Moses had brought the word of God, for it intersected the mercy seat of the Ark in its exact centre. This was within the
cubical of the Holy of Holies, which was designated as the most Holy place. The balance of the space within the House was called the Holy place, and its several parts were symbolic of the several features of our planetary system.
Outside the House, and far off about the Tabernacle, the 12 tribes were encamped. As each tribe was encamped under the ensign of his Father's house, the encampment itself was symbolic of the 12 constellations of the Zodiac. Hence, the complete layout of Tabernacle and encampment was copied from the design of the Father's house in the celestial.
Had the builders of the Temple thoroughly understood the implications of the ladder Jacob supposedly dreamt about, it is highly improbable they would have built their structure of stone. This ladder truly located the gateway to heaven, for whenever and wherever the original Tabernacle was set up, the ladder of Jacob formed an integral part of its design. The
"mount" it blessed was the mother earth on which the Tabernacle rested.
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