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"The stone which
the builders once rejected has become the head corner stone."
(Psalms 118,22)
The Dome
of the Rock on Jerusalem's Temple Mountain, now “The Stumbling Stone” and “The
Stone of Contention” between Israelis and Palestinians could become the
corner stone for the future Universal Temple. The inside story of the dome
contains a message from its designers, coded in the language of sacred geometry,
that could lead to reconciliation between the three major religions who
consider Jerusalem a sacred city.
Re-envisioning the
Dome of the Rock
Contents
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Introduction
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Investigation of the Dome of the
Rock
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Description of the Dome of The
Rock
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The Dome of the Rock Picture
Gallery
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Course of study and
project proposal
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Introduction
One of the deepest fears of
the Palestinian Moslems is that the Jews want to blow up Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock and the
El-Aksa Mosque, in order to rebuild their own Jerusalem Temple. There are,
perhaps, those who want to do just that. Some have depicted the contrast of
the Dome of the Rock, the Temple Mount, the
Heavenly City and new secular Jerusalem as antithetical. And some have
depicted them as components of unusual synthesis. Actual
plans or intentions to their realization are often too provocative for
widespread acceptance. People the world over are afraid that the total blow
up of these religious and secular shrines would bring Armageddon - "the
worst parts of the bible" (quote from the 1998 movie, Armageddon).
Fortunately, we have
already found a way to defuse one of the worst threats to world peace.
Conceptually we have blown it up to the size of an Independence Day
spaceship, an illustration that could assist and guide towards both local and
world peace. In this vision, the Dome of the Rock hovers over Jerusalem's
Temple Mount ready to participate in the illumination of a non-apocalyptic
show. Several artistic renditions that expand upon this theme are available
as The Yoru-Shalem Heavenly Temple
Show.
We have metaphorically
cracked up the Dome and pried it open to get its inside story. We have
come up with a momentous historical discovery which helps spell out the
possibility for the future use of the Dome of the Rock as a splendid
ecumenical peacemaking temple.
The exterior form of the Dome is
very famous. The Khalif Abd el-Malik gave the funds to build it to make
the political statement that the Moslems are now supreme in Jerusalem, better
represented on its landscape than the Christians with their dome of the
Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Nowadays, the dome has become the most
cherished Palestinian symbol (or even idol) declaring to the Israelis
"we are here", and "the Temple Mount is Ours".
But there is also an inside
story. It is not hidden. Anyone who has eyes can see. It is told in the figures that decorate the
inside of the famous golden dome. But so far, neither the Moslems nor the
Jews and their Christian allies have figured out these figures. One has to
know some of the esoteric lore of Judaism (like the very early Kabbalah in Sefer
Yetsirah) and of Islam (like Sufi Freemasonry and its use of sacred
architecture) to read the overall plan and the pattern of the inside of the
Dome of the Rock as a message from the designers to the future enlightened
users of this shrine.
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