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In several documents at this site there are ideas for constructing a virtual version of the Temple of Jerusalem that would serve people worldwide through the Internet world-wide-web. The virtual Temple of Jerusalem can become a powerful resource for Middle East Peace-making and for assembling the New Jerusalem constituency for the Old City. It will demonstrate how the whole Old City can serve as an aggregated, but unified, Temple of Peace and Reconciliation for all humankind.

This Yeru-Shalem Universal Temple (YeShUT, meaning in Hebrew “viable entity”) will not be a reproduction of the 2^nd Temple that replaces the Islamic shrines at the Temple Mount – which is what the Moslem fear. The virtual YeShUT (Yeru-Shalem Universal Temple) will rather be based on the existing structures of the Old City, demonstrating that there is no need to destroy the Moslem shrines to realize the future Temple, and giving room for a whole range of ceremonial virtual communion. Virtual versions of the very buildings of the Old City will provide the many “cells” and “chambers” of this temple, where individual and group worship and holy work may take place. Complementing these, there will be shown how light structures will be added gradually while hardly touching the ground, much like the vision of the New Jerusalem coming down from heaven. (See pictures No. 2 and No. 4 of “The Quest for the Heavenly Jerusalem”).

The virtual version of the most prominent current shrine - namely the Dome of the Rock – may serve as the ultimate meeting place for the champions of all the holy work, the “Cyber-Knights” saints that represent the Twelve Tribes of Humankind. In fact, the graded system of gates and the patterns on the ceiling of the Dome may serve as the templates for the Temple’s holy work. (See sections on the Dome of the Rock).

This virtual YEShUT will serve to draw people into the New Jerusalem community. There they could perform “a virtual pilgrimage” and undergo various spiritual and healing exercises and perform rites of reconciliation and peace making. The very name “Yeru-Shalem” means