Temple of Solomon

Figure 6.2 A ceremonial Masonic leather apron bears several symbols. Inside the circular ouroboros in the center is the primary Masonic symbol, the square and the compass joined, which is a reference to the alchemical squaring of the circle. The skull of Hiram is in the middle of that, and the landscape below is the Temple of Solomon with the two pillars, named Boaz and jakin, in front. The great pyramids are in the bottom left comer. (Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages [1995])...

A more recent representation of the Temple of Solomon is on the Island of Philae. Isis supposedly found Osiris heart on the Island of Philae. The Egyptians worshiped Imhotep there. The Jewish Temple of Philae was the last Jewish temple that practiced sacrifice. It shows in bas-relief an Isiac ark that fits the description of the Ark of the Covenant including its two cherubim." The arc of arcacia wood was sacred to Isis and Ishtar as it was to Moses and the Israelites. 

Amen Hetep Son of Hapu is an early archetype for the Freemason s legendary Grand Master, Hiram Abiff. The king Amenhotep III is correspondingly an archetype for Solomon, as is the temple of A1 Kamak for the Temple of Solomon. 

Gardiner, Philip. Gnosis the secret of Solomon s Temple revealed. Nottingham William Ernest Publishing, 2005. 288p. 

Circa 1000 One of the greatest magicians of all time, King Solomon, rules Israel and according to legend summons demons to do his bidding and build the Temple of Jerusalem. 

According to the legend, a certain Stone, more valuable than all the rest, was thrown out by the workmen amid the rubbish of the Temple. King Solomon, knowing its value, ordered diligent search to be made for the... 

Sacred vessels used in Solomon s Temple were of old as they had been in the Ark before it they comprised basins, spoons, candlesticks, lamps, snuffers and even flowers It is not difficult to believe that the description is substantially true for the building was closely paralleled, more than two millenia later by the Sun Temple of the Peruvian Incas (p. 135). 

Although there were many older temples on Mount Zion, Jewish and Biblical scholars consider King Solomon s Temple the First Temple of Jemsalem. 

At the time of Solomon, the Danites were still a parallel force to Judah. They exceeded Judah in skills of architecture and the arts, sending Hiram to build the Temple. Hiram was the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan " ... 

The Chapter of Clermont claimed to be the sole true descendant of the Knights Templar, fusing together the themes of chivalry, King Solomon s Temple and alchemy. It taught that the Knights Templar recovered dishes marked for alchemical purposes of the Royal Art from a hollow comer stone in the Temple of Jemsalem. The dishes were for the preparation of an alchemical Eucharist, which we looked at in Chapter... 

In Chapter 3 we looked at the sacred treasures of King Solomon s Temple recorded in the Temple of the A1 Kamak, particularly the plunder from the Palestine campaign of Thutmose III. Detailed examination of these treasures shows the same elongated pyramidal or conical shapes under the items of gold. This, is, white bread or shewbread " This same shape is shown even earlier in the White Chapel at Kamak, where the twelfth dynasty Pharaoh Sesostris I presents the conical shewbread to Amun. "... 

Monson, John The New Ain Dara Temple Closest Solomonic Parallel in Biblical Archeological Review May/June 2000 Vol 26 No 3 pp20-35 Moore, History of Ireland ... 

Kings 5 1 says it was 480 years from the time of the Exodus till the laying of the foundation of Solomon s temple, which date has been established as 967 B.C. 

As I said earlier, we have more detailed descriptions of the coronation ceremony in connection with Solomon and Joash. Interestingly, the two accounts do have several things in common, suggesting that these constituted the basis of a regular ritual. In both the coronation took place in two parts. The first part was in the sanctuary (either the Jerusalem Temple in the case of Joash or by the Gihon spring at the tent sanctuary of the ark in the case of Solomon), where... 

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