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The Academy of Jerusalem offers via www.thehope.org:

The Secrets of the Dome of the Rock

Course by Dr. Yitzhaq Hayut-Man, Architect-Cybernetician.

Objective: To explore the meaning of the sacred patterns of the Dome of the Rock (DOR) and the use of a model of the Dome as a facility/vehicle for acquiring wisdom and for building understandings among people, cultures and religions. We shall follow an adventure course of historic detective work, using the tools and language of sacred geometry. We aim to illustrate the possible usage of the Dome of the Rock as a Temple of Reconciliation for all “The Children of Abraham”.

Course Procedure: The Course is offered to registered students and for auditors. The fee for registration is only $50 (about a quarter of what we asked initially, in hope of gaining a large audience of committed participants). The registered students will be able to hold discussion with the teacher and will be involved in filling in some course topics indicated, and may add of their own contributions. Auditors (who will get the material later) can become registered course students through offering a couple of answers that will be deemed good enough.

There are, initially, 32 topics (see below). At each presented topic, there will be lacunae indicated and questions raised, which the students will be asked to fill and/or answer. The correct/developed topics will be added to the body of the course material, marked by the contributors’ names, and become a product for the auditor and for the future hypertext presentations for theHOPE.org site. (We may develop explicit procedures for eliciting and marking the understandings reached at the course of this study upon the DOR patterns and for presenting them upon the DOR patterns).

The 32 Course Topics

1.     The Mysteries of the Dome of the Rock (DOR)

·       Will the DOR start a 3rd World War?

·       Why was the DOR built?

·       Why did Al-Mamun or the Crusaders not destroy the DOR?

·       Who were the architects, and what secrets did they possess?

·       What messages were coded through the DOR Architecture?

·       Is this the time to enact these messages?

2.     The Secret Arts likely related to the DOR

·       The Solomonic Temple Legacy.

·       Pythagorean Number Science.

·       Sacred Geometry and Freemasonry.

·       The Kabbalah of Sefer Yetsirah (& Idra Zuta). 

·       Islamic Alchemy and the Sufis; El-Insan Al-Kamil.

·       Geometry of cognition and Higher-dimensional geometry.

3.     Sacred Geometry, Number & Dimensions of the DOR Revelation.

·       The Plant motifs of the 1st and 2nd Temple and at the DOR as geometry guides.

·       “The Abraham Triangle” and “The New Jerusalem Diagram”.

·       The 7 concentric domains of Jerusalem and the Haram A-Sharif.

·       The 4 cardinal directions and the Octagon.

·       The Octagonal Plan of the DOR and the Qa’aba

·       The 7 niches at the 8 sides of the octagon

·       The 12 and 24 pillars inside the DOR

·       The Arched Gates and glazed Windows – the DOR Templates.

·       The “100 Gates” of the DOR

·       The 40 Lower Windows of the Outer Arcade (OAr).

·       The 40 arched Gates of the two Arcades.

·        “The 72 Virgins” of the Shekhinah-Sakina.

·       The 32 Openings of the Inner Chamber.

·       The 32-fold Pattern on the DOR ceiling.

·       The 101st Gate at the Inner Chamber (IC).

·       The Hypercube and the Hyper-Qa’aba Revelation at the DOR. .

4.      Divining the intents of the original architects. (Historic detective story)

·        The Cults of the Heavenly Wisdom (Hagia Sophia) in the ME and Hiero-Salima.

·        Gnostics and “The Sufi Freemasons” noted by Idris Shah.

·        The Church of Jerusalem Judeo-Christianity in the background of Islam.

·        Ishaq ibn Kab, the bookmaker, reexamined – some secrets of Kab-Allah.

Course Material: A) Source Readings:

·        ‘Abd al-Karim al-Jili: “Universal Man”, extracts translated with commentary by Titus Burckhardt. Beshara Publications, 1983.

·        Abraham/Anonymous: The Sefer Yetsirah (scores of different translations and interpretations. Kaplan’s in the most comprehensive, Suarez’s is adequate if erratic).

·        Laleh Bakhtiar: “Sufi Expressions of the Mystic Quest”. London, Thames and Hudson, 1976.

·        Christopher Baumford (ed): “Rediscovering Sacred Science”. Lindisfarne / Floris Books 1994.

·        Couliano I.P: “Out of this World – Otherworldly Journeys from Gilgamesh to Albert Einstein”. Shambhala, 1991.

·        Henry Corbin: “Temple and Contemplation”. London, KPI in association with Islamic Publications, 1986.

·        George Feurstein “Spirituality by the Number”. NY, Tarcher/Putnam, 1994.

·        Joseph Gutman (ed): “The Temple of Solomon”. Ann Arbor, 1976.

·        Oleg Grabar and Saeed Nusseibeh: “The Dome of the Rock”. London, Thames and Hudson, 1996.

·        Moshe Idel: “Golem – Jewish magical and mystical traditions on the artificial anthropoid”. NY, SUNY Press.

·        Schwaller de Lubicz: The Temple in Man – Sacred Architecture and the Perfect Man”. Rochester VT, Inner Traditions 1981.

·        Robert Lawler: “Sacred Geometry”. London, Thames and Hudson,

·        Kanan Makiya’s novel “The Rock”. NY, Pantheon Books, 2001.

·        John Michell “Dimensions of Paradise”. London, Thames and Hudson, 1988.

·        Peter Partner: “The Knight Templars and their Myth”. Rochester VA, Destiny Books, 1990 (OUP 1981). 

·        Rudy Rucker: “The Fourth Dimension”: a Guided Tour of the Higher Universes”. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1984. Hebrew edition, Jerusalem, the Magnes Press, 2000.

·        Priscilla Soucek: “The Temple of Solmon in Islamic Legend and Art”, in Gutman “The Temple of Solomon”.

·        Richard Wilhelm: “The Secret of the Golden Flower” (with intro by C.G. Jung).

B) Further texts to be provided by theHOPE.org for registered course participants:

·        Zohar Hadash, discourse “On Thy walls Oh, Jerusalem, have I appointed keepers”.

·        The Idra Zuta of the Zohar (corrected version of Macgregor Mathers’ translation).

·        Excerpts of Pirkei haTselem (The Structure of the Divine Image given to the Human Soul) from R. Vital’s Etz Hayim (Tree of Life).

·        Selected discourses of the RaShaZ (the Alte Rebbe) on the Stone of Wisdom, the Hypercube of Israel, on the dream state and Redemption, and other topics.

·        Dr. Brian Lancaster’s and others’ texts on the Golem rituals.

·        Excerpts from the Is-Haq Revelation at the Sulimaniyeh Mosque, Istanbul, at the Dome of the Rock and some of the proceedings at the Academy of Jerusalem chambers.

·        Further texts to be provided by the Academy of Jerusalem.

 

The Academy of Jerusalem regards Yeru-Shalem/Jerusalem as literally meaning "Wholist Vision" (in Hebrew). As an innovative institution of higher learning, the Academy draws its inspiration from the spiritual traditions associated with the city of Jerusalem and its multi-cultural environment. The Academy aims to stimulate research and creative thinking on the nature of contemporary life by operating as a think tank and as an organizer of educational seminars, meetings, and discussion groups. The Academy of Jerusalem chambers in the Old City of Jerusalem overlook the Dome of the Rock. (See http://www.thehope.org/ACADEMY.htm)

 

Dr. Yitzhaq Hayut-Man, founder of the Academy of Jerusalem and its dean of R&D, is an architect, cybernetician, and futurist. Studied architecture first at the Architectural Association (AA) in London, where he studied with Keith Critchlow (renowned authority on Islamic Design and Sacred Geometry). Yitzhaq finished architecture at UC Berkeley 1969, where he studied the Pattern Language of Design with Christopher Alexander and Design Methodology with Horst Rittel. He also holds M.Sc. in Urban planning from Israel Institute of Technology and Ph.D in Cybernetics, Brunel University, UK, studying Cognitive Systems, wrote dissertation on “Cybernetic Basis for Human Reconstruction”.

He has worked as apprentice with Buckminster Fuller and with cybernetician Gordon Pask. Worked at the Israel/International Institute for Urban Studies, applying multi dimensional techniques (Linear programming and Multi-Dimensional Scalogram analysis) for urban design questions. Worked at The World Institute Jerusalem and studied its intended “Methodology of Pattern”. Taught architecture and Urban Planning in Israel; in the B.N.H and U.F.Pe Brasil. He was pivotal in the grass root work that triggered the renewal of Neve Tsedeq, Tel Aviv’s first neighborhood. Hayut-Man has won prizes in several architectural competitions, and authored "Let the Old be Renewed and the New Sanctified – Insights about the Temple", a futuristic passion play and short stories titled “Yearnings for Ishmael”. http://www.thehope.org/yitzhak.htm

Hayut-Man’s associates in the Academy of Jerusalem who would be monitoring the course include John Michell, the foremost writer on ancient temple architecture and earth mysteries; Professor Mel Alexenberg, successful artist and art educator, Mohammad Sabet, the discoverer of “The Abraham Triangle”, and possibly some help from Moshe Idel, the foremost Kabbalah scholar.


Possible & Likely subsequent Courses:

A. The Sacred Geometry of the Soul’s Journey modelled at the DOR.

·        Tessellations, Sacred grids, and higher-dimensions.

·        The GaTemplates of the DOR detailed.

·        The New Jerusalem Diagram (John Michell) and Holy Round Tables.

·        The 32-fold Tselem-Matrix.

·        The Sacred Dance and Redemptive Scenarios Possibilities.

 

B. Redemptive scenarios that can be enacted in the virtual DOR.

·        Practicing Al-Isra’ and Al-Miaraj for the faithful.

·        The ultimate intercultural and interfaith interface.

·        The “Learning Womb” for the restitution of Adam – Al Insan Al-Kamil.

·        The DORJer Arena of World Peace – Jerusalem Spiritual Olympics.

·        The Virtual “El-HeJerA” (The Electronic Heavenly Jerusalem Adventure).

 

C. The HeJerA to Dar a-Salaam / Heavenly Jerusalem via the DOR.

1.      Ten thousand admitted to the DOR Platform – sacred movement and song.

2.      The 144 Alifin admitted to the DOR Doors – individual and couple work.

3.      12 Groups-of-Twelve procedures at the Inner Arcade (IA).

4.      The work of (the 36) Tsadikim and their 12 champions at the IC.

5.      The joint Nafs work on the Rock, at the DOR IC for Al-Insan Al-Kamil.

6.      The joint Ru’ah work at the DOR IC by the High Windows.

7.      The joint Neshamah work Work at the DOR WisDom-Matrix.

Some possible common Projects

The WisDome Lexicon:

This will be a growing lexicon of the important terms and concepts that are engendered in the context of this course. It will encompass many basic and profound Sufi and Kabbalah terms: Jewish, Moslem and Christian and sacred-philosophical terms. These may be laid out in specific patterns related to the DOR architecture and tend to form “Conversational Domain” of the topics entailed with this course. Several logical types of topics may be joined together in these domains.

The “Cloud Chambers” of the WisDome:

We may approximate an “envisionary” facility, a kind of an alchemical vessel, where the new terms are clarified and joined together. This is in the form of the Tselem in the DOR pattern and treated in the course. (A fancy illustration of such a facility, in giant size over the whole Temple Mount, is displayed at the Art Gallery at www.thehope.org/artgall.htm.)

Our ultimate aim is to build a virtual version of the Dome of the Rock that reflects all the insights noted above, and allows people, worldwide, to conduct “Virtual Spiritual Pilgrimage” and to interact through this facility to find their soul mates and partners in bringing peace to the Middle East and the world at large.

 

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