STONEFLOWER KABBALAH

StoneFlower Kabbalah
A site based on the healing of the ancient wisdom of the Geocentric worldview. The understanding of sacred texts and wisdom is based on a relationship to the Source. This Central Source is the Fount from which the three distinct movements of the Earth globe flow. These three turns-rotation,revolution and precession are a great secret/sod and key to the profound teachings of the mekubalim/kabbalists. These movements provide us with the experience of shanah/time, olam/matter and nephesh/soul(being). The Earth turn called precession is the slow wobble that causes the polar skies to change slowly over a 26,000 year cycle.
The chart of "72" names relates to this great cycle and is a key to unlocking where we are in "time".

Sunday, December 27, 2020

Chanukah 5781/2020 Promise of a Never ending new temple Earth

 

Ancient temple menorah and the visible celestial bodies

The planetary raquain/firmaments(spheres to the ancients) placed on the menorah image below in pairs join to align with the central axis of Pluto/Earth-Daat/Malchut 248/365- Pluto's orbit in years/Earth days a year and the 613 mitzvoth/deeds of traditional Judaism. The 613 called the Taryag are divided into 248 positive and 365 negative deeds. Mars/Meadim and the levanah/Moon pair(Red and white-gevurah/chesed) are a key to the opening of the upper gates. A sacred solar calendar(Christianity) geared to the seven day week(7 headed chayah) needed to help bring us to the raquian/firmaments "above" the sun/chamah in the ancient Hebraic worldview which are Mars/Jupiter/Saturn and connect it all to the true Shemesh/Sun so Esau and Yaakov, There is a physical sun in Hebrew called the Chamah and a spiritual sun called the shemesh, the wolf and the lamb are forever joined in PEACE. The dimensional grids called Kameas of the three planets- Mars,Jupiter and Saturn are magic squares whose inner "halls" or small squares all add to FIFTY. These are the fifty gates of holiness.
The three Kameas/grids of the planets Saturn,Jupiter and Mars that connect to the planetary firmaments in the ancient world view. They total FIFTY small squares/halls or gates that are "above" the sun(see next diagram).

This is an ancient 5-D cross section of the shape of the cosmos. The physical Earth is in the center surrounded by the planetary firmaments as concentric spheres. All of the physical creation emerges out of the ocean of soul called Okeanus in the Hebrew.

When we dive deeper than the spin of dogma we may understand how the soul level unifications/yichudim have been accomplished by the types of sacred calendars ie solar and lunar and their prayer forms(religions). All synchronized with the seven day week. We may find how a realignment of the various planetary raquain/firmaments with the center of the ocean of soul(Okeanus in the ancient Hebrew diagram of the cosmos) and Earth has required for Jews their exile among different peoples. 248/365 is the fundamental ratio- Pluto 248 years to circle the sun(between 247 and 248 years) and 365 the days of an Earth year. This is also the types of mitzvoth/deeds both positive and negative that orthodox Jews need to adhere to in tradition. Pluto is the central axis with the Earth in the center of the menorah in the image. Pluto has the same Iron/nickel core as the Earth. The metal iron is of great importance in the ancient Jewish alchemical mystery tradition. It's called in Hebrew "Barzel" and it is a word made of the four letters B-R-Z-L that are the initials of the four wives of Jacob and the mothers of the tribes of Yisrael. Bilhah,Rachel,Zilpah and Leah. The two letters in the center make the word R-Z Raz which means secret. There is a great secret in this name of the metal iron.

A full turn of the Hebrew calendar is 13X19 year cycles=247. This brings a birthday back to the same day of the week as well as solar and lunar date. Pluto's orbit is 247/248 years. Shamash/Shemesh. This ratio is also the number of eyes to the number of faces of the Chayoth/living angel creatures from the ancient book of the Hebrew Enoch. Uranus/Neptune/Pluto align with the three Mother letters in the Sepher Yetzirah, Sheen, Mem, Aleph, from the primer of kabbalah. These "upper" element Mothers are also the qualities in ancient astrology called cardinal, fixed and mutable. They also directly align with the three ways our sacred Earth globe turns. Rotation, Revolution and Precession. The planetary pairs on the Menorah explain a lot more details for those with a background in astrology from ancient times and the basics of kabbalah and the tree of the sephirot. . We are now witnessing the very rare conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter(seen as a pair on the menorah) on the solstice, not seen since the times of the Ramban/Rumi. I need to add this all to my ninth chapter of my free online treatise. Add the sephirot- the five levels of soul and five dimensions- a whole book of commentary could be written on this menorah. Chag Chanukah Sameach and Feliz Navidad! May we have the never ending Peace.



On July 11, 1991, Tammuz 29, 5751, the Yahrzeit of RASHI a total eclipse of the sun occurred at the north nodal point of the planet Pluto. The nodal axis of a planet is where it's plane of orbit slices through the Earth's ecliptic plane. The Moon is not the only sphere that has a nodal axis and nodal points. Pluto's nodal axis and it's slow movement through the circle of the zodiac is a key to the greater cycle of civilizations rise and fall. This total solar eclipse in 1991 was also at the the south nodal point of the Moon. This was one of the important eclipses recorded in the ancient Mayan Dresden Codex. It lasted about eight minutes in totality directly over the Mayan homelands. This marked what the Mayans called an entrance into new solar epoch or new sun and the Pueblo peoples call a new Earth.

We are now precisely one full solar orbital period(30 years) of the planet Saturn since that eclipse. The eclipse also saw the joining/conjunction of Neptune and Uranus(a pair on the menorah) at the south nodal point of both Pluto and the Moon in Capricorn. Saturn had just moved into the sign of AQUARIUS. We have now seen Saturn move into Aquarius along with Jupiter together in a completion of a full cycle thirty years from the great eclipse of Meso- America.

The Earth is our sacred Temple.

Friday, February 21, 2020

Chapter Eight of "The Turtle Talks Torah"


Chapter Eight: Esau and Jacob; Rome and Yisrael
            Twins called Teomim in Hebrew, emerge from the womb of the Jewish matriarch Rebecca. One called Esau is big and red and hairy and his foot is being clutched by the hand of the other one. The other one second to be born is a nerdy, nervous skinny child who is later to be called Yaakov, meaning he clutched the heel. Esau is said to become the progenitor of the nation of Edom who is usually explained by the Jewish sages as the people of Rome. A great saga begins within a continual turmoil and struggle between these two twin brothers that Torah tells us even began in the womb, in the great waters of all life. Esau like the later Roman Empire is a great accumulator of wealth and territory. He is a successful empire builder as well as cunning and wise with things of the very real world of men and land and ownership. He is powerful and subdues others by the sword easily. In the writings and tradition of the Kabbalists Esau has a nation angel or guardian. There are 72 of these angelic sarim or princes who rule the 72 nations and languages of the world.
Astro wheel with 72 angel sarim/guardians and their zodiacal five degree correspondences
As we discussed in the chapter about the Jewish Shamanic lineage, the work for the practical kabbalists has been to unite all of these nation “roots” or soul lines together and this is the work within the Hebrew lineage in connection to other great traditions/religions. This is one explanation for why the Jews have been exiled from their original homeland and made to wander the world. In order to help bring these soul lines of the nation’s together. This is called in the Kabbalah of the Arizal(Isaac Luria) the yechidum or unifications of soul sparks The drama of the exodus from Egypt in the Torah is in a sense an archetypal form of the people of Yisrael “swallowing” and transforming the soul root/guardian of another people and ancient wisdom lineage. Hence we have the famous event of the staff of Aaron becoming a Tanin, a great dragon and swallowing the staffs of the Egyptian magicians that had transformed also into a tannin/dragon.
ח  וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה, אֶל-מֹשֶׁה וְאֶל-אַהֲרֹן לֵאמֹר.8 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying:
ט  כִּי יְדַבֵּר אֲלֵכֶם פַּרְעֹה לֵאמֹר, תְּנוּ לָכֶם מוֹפֵת; וְאָמַרְתָּ אֶל-אַהֲרֹן, קַח אֶת-מַטְּךָ וְהַשְׁלֵךְ לִפְנֵי-פַרְעֹה--יְהִי לְתַנִּין.9 'When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying: Show a wonder for you; then thou shalt say unto Aaron: Take thy rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it become a serpent/Tanin-Dragon.'
י  וַיָּבֹא מֹשֶׁה וְאַהֲרֹן, אֶל-פַּרְעֹה, וַיַּעֲשׂוּ כֵן, כַּאֲשֶׁר צִוָּה יְהוָה; וַיַּשְׁלֵךְ אַהֲרֹן אֶת-מַטֵּהוּ, לִפְנֵי פַרְעֹה וְלִפְנֵי עֲבָדָיו--וַיְהִי לְתַנִּין.10 And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so, as the LORD had commanded; and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a tanin/dragon.
יא  וַיִּקְרָא, גַּם-פַּרְעֹה, לַחֲכָמִים, וְלַמְכַשְּׁפִים; וַיַּעֲשׂוּ גַם-הֵם חַרְטֻמֵּי מִצְרַיִם, בְּלַהֲטֵיהֶם--כֵּן.11 Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers; and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did in like manner with their secret arts.
יב  וַיַּשְׁלִיכוּ אִישׁ מַטֵּהוּ, וַיִּהְיוּ לְתַנִּינִם; וַיִּבְלַע מַטֵּה-אַהֲרֹן, אֶת-מַטֹּתָם.12 For they cast down every man his rod, and they became taninim/dragons; but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.

 The dragon(and serpent) has always been referred to as a symbol of a wisdom lineage among other qualities. Here we have the word Tanin translated as serpent but serpent in Hebrew is Nachash, not usually tanin. This work is in part what the great 16th century ce. Kabbalist Rabbi Yitzhak Luria called the yechidim or unifications and raising of the holy sparks that fell amongst the nations and into the material realm.
In Jacob's vision of the angels up and down the sulam/ladder we have the seed of the unifications
of the Sarim/guardians of the nations throughout history according to midrash
The blood lines of these different nations could facilitate this joining if there was actual intermingling of the people and languages with the Jewish people and their respective ceremonial calendar rhythms. . This happened throughout the African and European continents. During these migrations of this shamanic/priestly people there were four distinct occupations of the people according to the Jewish sages. The first was the Babylonian exile. The second was the Persian occupation. The third was the Syrian-Greek from which we have the famous Hanukkah story.
Merging of Greek religion of the Muses and the Hebrew angelic realms/planetary spheres/sephirot
The last and final was the Roman occupation where the Roman armies destroyed the second temple and the Jews were eventually forced under the evil emperor Hadrian into the diaspora or wandering exile throughout Europe. The Kabbalists have always linked the end of this last Roman occupation with the end of the entire exile of the people of Israel and the beginning of the era of redemption. This is in part what we have sought to explain in this writing. This is in part why the Creator has established different religions developing out of ancient wisdom traditions. We all have played a crucial part. Exactly how this last occupation has ended from a view of the global wisdom tradition or lineage of initiation we are explaining. What is very incredible is that at the very beginning of this fourth and last Roman occupation of Israel, is the story of the life of a Jewish Rabbi named Jesus and the beginning of a new and very successful religion. In the deepest sense the Jewish wisdom is a line of initiation. That initiation is a place of being an initiate, a person who is particularly called Israel because she has struggled with the divine guardian of his/her brother Esau, in the desert and overcame him. This has many interpretations. He was named Jacob and after this struggle was given a new name, Israel. The place of Israel within the context of kabbalah, is that of a seat or place of initiation as much as a great person who lived long ago. In this sense the legendary Rabbi Jesus of Christian teachings speaks out to us with a profound life and profound words. He is very much an initiate who may have carried the name and neshamah soul spark of ISRAEL. So we see the Christian drama beginning as a meeting of the two brothers Israel (Jesus) and Caesar (Rome) at least on a symbolic level that is a mirror of historical events. What the Romans called the “Jewish wars” were hard fought from both sides and the Romans were deeply occupied with subduing these troublesome Jews. This drama is a major part of a new epoch that had brought some of the Jewish teachings and wisdom to billions of people. There is a section in the Sefer HaZohar in the commentary on the Torah portion Terumah that speaks of a certain celestial prince who rules over 1990 firmaments or expanses/raqian. When I first read this line in the 1980’s I somehow knew that this really was a Gregorian Christian secular year date and somehow something big would happen in the year 1990. After the coming of the sacred comet in the spring of 1990 as related in chapter one and my experience with that event then I was able to reflect on how accurate this hidden prophecy was. A celestial prince making a direct connection to Eliyahu who comes on a fiery chariot - star fire comet. Then I have also figured something special about this one date, since speaking with ultra-orthodox Jews who will deny that there ever could be a Christian date in a holy writing like the Zohar. In this instance it is so perfect because I have come to understand that with the return of Elijah by way of the sacred chariot/comet this year 1990 marked the very end of the fourth or Roman occupation of the Jewish people. We had entered the period in time called the kibbutz goliot, the ingathering of exiles even from the farthest reaches of the heaven/spirit world. How proper that a Roman year/date would be used in the Zohar to signal this exceptional event. Also the corresponding year 5750 is discussed in Zohar in regards to the 6 millennial periods and how 750 years into the sixth thousand (5750) is like 3/4 of the way through the day before Sabbath Eve or Friday noon. This means that in the scheme where the seventh millennium in the Hebrew dating is the great millennial Sabbath, that 5750 means we are like at noon on Friday afternoon already welcoming the coming Sabbath at any moment. Another commentary on the six archetypal days of creation place the eating of the forbidden fruit by Adam equal to the year 5750 in the expansion of the first six days through historic time as each equals a thousand years. The day of HaShem equaling a thousand years is mentioned in the book of Psalms. Psalms 90:

ד  כִּי אֶלֶף שָׁנִים, בְּעֵינֶיךָ--    כְּיוֹם אֶתְמוֹל, כִּי יַעֲבֹר;
וְאַשְׁמוּרָה    בַלָּיְלָה.
4 For a thousand years in Thy sight are but as a day when it is past, {N}
and as a watch in the night.
. We also have the six days as referring to the six thousands years of the Hebrew calendar count as hinted at in six letters aleph/alephim mentioned in the first sentence of the book of Genesis. Each letter aleph is also as referring to the number one thousand as well as the usual number one.First verse of the Torah with six letter alephs representing the six thousand years of Jewish history:

בְּרֵאשִׁית

א  בְּרֵאשִׁית, בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם, וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ.1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
This means that the year 5750 would be the appropriate year for the “rectification” of the eating from the tree of knowledge, which shifted the balance of the creation. Bringing in both Eliyahu ha Navi and the guardian prince of Rome into the Hebrew lineage would make for this rebalancing of creation. Samael is directly related to death and sex and Adam’s eating from the tree of knowledge. He is the guardian angel of Esau and Rome and has come to be equated with an evil “devil” but this is not a true spin. Yes he carries a deep power of the nephesh or soul level of desire but it is only the misuse of desire in hurting others that is really “evil”. Like many angel guardians he carries a quality that in itself is pure.
From the Book "The Early Kabbalah" Shochen books on "The Treatise of the Left Emanation"
"I will now set down the names of the princes of jealousy and enmity. Yet since their essence and their service is true and pure, their mouths are free from mendacity and neither lies nor falsehoods pass between them.

   The first prince and accuser, the commander of jealousy, is evil Samael, accompanied by his retinue. He is called "evil" not because of his nature but because he desires to unite and intimately mingle with an emanation not of his nature, as we shall explain.
   The second prince is called his deputy, and his name is Za'afi'el, accompanied by his entourage.
   The third prince is called third-in-command, and his name is Za'ami'el, accompanied by his staff.
   The fourth prince is Qasfi'el, accompanied by his retinue.
   The fifth prince is Ragzi'el, accompanied by his staff.
   The sixth prince is 'Abri'el, accompanied by his staff.
   The seventh is Meshulhi'el, accompanied by his staff. These latter comprise the delegation of evil angels.
   19. In answer to your question concerning Lilith, I shall explain to you the essence of the matter. Concerning this point there is a received tradition from the ancient Sages who made use of the Secret Knowledge of the Lesser Palaces, which is the manipulation of demons and a ladder by which one ascends to the prophetic levels. In this tradition it is made clear that Samael and Lilith were born as one, similar to the form of Adam and Eve who were also born as one, reflecting what is above. This is the account of Lilith which was received by the Sages in the Secret Knowledge of the Palaces. The Matron Lilith is the mate of Samael. Both of them were born at the same hour in the image of Adam and Eve, intertwined in each other. Asmodeus the great king of the demons has as a mate the Lesser (younger) Lilith, daughter of the king whose name is Qafsefoni. The name of his mate is Mehetabel daughter of Matred, and their daughter is Lilith.
   This is the exact text of what is written in The Chapters of the Lesser Palaces as we have received it, word for word and letter for letter. And the scholars of this wisdom possess a very profound tradition from the ancients. They found it stated in those Chapters that Samael, the great prince of them all, grew exceedingly jealous of Asmodeus the king of the demons because of this Lilith who is called Lilith the Maiden (the young). She is in the form of a beautiful woman from her head to her waist. But from the waist down she is burning fire--like mother like daughter."


Basically what is being expressed here in this chapter is that the angelic prince of Rome, who is named Samael by the Jewish Rabbis of old, has been brought in and connected with the Jewish lineage. This has been a very old arduous work that involved the appearance of Christianity and its influence throughout the entire world.  The kabbalists have explained that when this bringing in of Esau's guardian angel, Samael into the Hebrew lineage would occur, he himself would undergo a name change of sorts. Since he is the angel of death, som(samech-mem), the root word of his name, meaning both poison and elixir or potion of the divine and also the "blind of the divine", the letter mem would be removed from his name and he would have a new name = SAEL(samech-aleph-lammed). This name Sael is one of the 72 three letter names of the special holy Shemhamphorash of Kabbalah. It is written that death, as we know it anyway, would be vanquished and transformed and the world would be healed of the imbalance that has allowed so much suffering to exist.
                        It was not until I had made a deep study of Kabbalah with applied experience that I came to understand how the actual joining of the 72 nation roots could be accomplished from both mixing of the peoples and prayer and ceremony. The naming ceremony involving a blood covenant insured that there would be occasions when a child would be named in this ancient unbroken rhythmic ceremony on a holy and sacred day within all the other traditions of the various countries the people were living in. This rhythmic dovetailing between religious traditions and their respective calendars all geared to the same seven day week has been set up by the Creator to make the unifications of the soul roots a real possibility. This possibility of ceremonial synchronicity works in both directions between various religious traditions. 
Here is the sacred seven day week connected with the ancient kameas/magic square grids, the metals
planets, and heavenly spheres. The actual order of the days is originated here when you follow the path of the star. All religious traditions connected to this seven day week are part of the high "magic" work.
     
We in the nation of America have inherited a lot from ancient Rome. We have our Senate and representative republican form of government. We have a vast successful merchant and trade empire and a way of living based on agreed upon Laws. We have an eagle on top of our flagpole. Our 50 stars on the same flag is the number of the Yovel, the Jubilee period of release, redemption and freedom in the Jewish tradition. Our thirteen stripes is the number spoken of in the Zohar, the 13 streams of healing Balsam, the sacred dew of bdellium, that flows between worlds to flood this Earth with the waters of Love.
 
The angel  Samael, guardian of Rome, is foremost a being who governs sexual desire and hence the connection with the traditional Garden of Eden story, sex and death coming into the human world together. Christianity is the dominant religion within the United States. After Rome destroyed and overtook Judaea an upstart Jewish sect later to be called Christianity overtook all of Rome in a couple of centuries. Samael the guardian of Rome then became connected to this new Roman religion. He is also connected to their deity of the underworld called Pluto who has sometimes also been likened wrongly to a traditional "devil". There is a connection here between Rome as an empire where the ruler held the supreme socio-political and religious power like the sun at midday in relation to the Earth and sky. The kamea of the sun, one of the seven related by ancient peoples and kabbalists to the seven celestial bodies contains all numbers from one to thirty-six whose total value=666. This is a key to the mysteries of Christianity and the true meaning of this number mentioned in the Christian book of the revelation of John and now so much reviled as something terrible. We discussed earlier how this number represents the solar lightning spark and the male pole of generation, a centrifugal outward flowing power. This is how John Michell in his seminal book, City of Revelation describes the real meaning of the number 666,
The solar hierarchy of Gnostic numbers(from Revelation Greek) on the grid/Kamea of the Sun 
“We have already seen the importance of the number 666 in the dimensions of the Temple and in the ratios of metrology, reflecting the dominant position which this number occupies within the hierarchy of powers. 666 is the number of absolute positive energy, emanating from the nucleus to the satellites. Like all symbolic numbers it has no single identity or personification, being of Plato’s essences, a concept of the mind, invented to express a certain tendency, which is apparent within all classes of phenomenon.....As an elemental force, 666 represents the sun and the influence of solar radiation, corresponding in society to the emperor, and in the individual to the principle of intellect and will. 666 is the generative power of the male, it is the electric shock that orientates the molecular structure, the leader directing the masses, the word of command instinctively obeyed. Every situation in life contains an element, which corresponds to 666, the supreme solar representative within the hierarchy of numbers. Where the proportions are correct, the influence of the number 666 promotes fertility, gives life and colour, but where it becomes excessively dominant, the consequences are apparent in the tyranny of the self-willed governor, and in the development of a society obsessed with fantasies of violence, material wealth and power...The force of the number 666 is expressed by the Chinese in the symbol of the procreative dragon, relating to the first hexagram of the I Ching oracle. According to Wilhelm’s commentary, “the dragon is a symbol of electrically charged, dynamic arousing force that manifests itself in the thunderstorm. In winter this energy withdraws into the earth; in the early summer it becomes active again, appearing in the sky as thunder and lightning. Whoever acquires this elemental view of nature is not likely to attribute eternal values to the various theologies and moral codes of human invention, and for this reason the authority of the early Roman Church was in direct opposition to the science of the Gnostics, who encouraged their pupils to develop their sensitivity, and to perceive for themselves the interaction of cosmic forces...The Chinese dragon and the beast in revelation have the same origin, but the histories of the two creatures have widely diverged since the collapse of the former world order, in which both were represented by the number 666.”
Michell continues to explain in his book how the early Roman church attempted to discredit the force of the electrical "dragon", by tearing down the steeple houses, and attacking the ancient celebrations of this power in stone monuments and maypole celebrations and the like amongst the folk of old Europe. In the tyranny of the early church they themselves were acting out the tyrannical imbalance of this radiative dragon like power within human society. Michell's outlines the true meaning of the New Jerusalem and the holy city within the book of Revelation. He does a superb job and all students of the mysteries need to study his work. He goes deeply into the Greek gematria or number values encoded in the Christian scripture and the importance this was to the Gnostic initiates who understood the inner meanings. About the value of 666 itself he has something, which really relates to our writing here and says it all in a way. Since I have related the few lines about 666 in the book of Revelation to the inner line of initiation associated with the Jewish wizard king Solomon, a value of the Greek gematria for the words, “and his number is six hundred threescore and six” is calculated by Michell to equal 2368. Michell gives the Greek words and breaks down the calculation of their letters and the total value. He then tells us that this number value 2368 is the number that is most revered by Christian mystics since it is the value of the Greek name, “Ieousos Christos” Jesus Christ. Michell then tells us that
“following the cabalistic system of replacing words and phrases of sacred texts with others of the same numerical value, Revelation 13:18 can be read, ‘Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the living animal-Therion in greek(mis-translated as “beast”: for it is the number of a man;2368,Jesus Christ.”
This association of the 666 with the solar oriented gnostic Jesus as an initiate in the wisdom lineage of King Solomon is in close alignment with the theme of this writing. This however emphasizes that Jesus here is besides being an historical individual and rabbinic teacher is also the symbol of the place and attainment of the initiation of an “Israel” within the solar power paradigm with all that means within in the context of the ancient whispered tradition we call Kabbalah and how this is also related to the moon and the Earth as an embodiment of the divine. The Christian church involving billions of people over two thousand years has played a critical part in this bigger work of transformation. They have brought their hearts to the eucharist and prayer ceremonies in a rhythmic prayer form geared to the solar calendar and the same seven day sacred week of the Jewish people. In the biblical book of 1 Kings, X,14 we read that it was 666 talents of gold that came to King Solomon in one year of the census. 
  Kings I- chapter 10: verse 14:
יד  וַיְהִי מִשְׁקַל הַזָּהָב, אֲשֶׁר-בָּא לִשְׁלֹמֹה בְּשָׁנָה אֶחָת--שֵׁשׁ מֵאוֹת שִׁשִּׁים וָשֵׁשׁ, כִּכַּר זָהָב.14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,
This value of the wise solar King is intimately connected to Solomon and the wisdom lineage that he is a big part of. His work according to the teachings of the Rashbi in the sepher HaZohar is to “complete the moon”. This is the aligning of the Chayah or living lunar soul level of the Earth with all of humanity.
Sun Kamea/Magic Square using Hebrew letters as numbers
            The number 666  is also the total value of the number square or kamea of the sun. These number squares we have mentioned before being a must study for people serious in the study of the mystery school traditions. This language of numbers and math cross language and cultural boundaries and provide a deep level of knowledge about the true wisdom traditions. The square of the sun is a 6 X 6 magic square (contain plate with values), which contains the numbers 1 through 36. If we add up the numbers 1 through 36 we get 666, the obvious total power of the grid.
the Kamea/Magic square of the sun

A great study of these grids in the Gnostic tradition can be found in (Jesus is the sun of God) a little book (will add author's name). The epitome of this solar power in a political/economic environment would be the image of the early high Caesars of Rome, their power and dominance being unvanquished but of course easily corrupted and misused as we see it happening in the decline of Rome as a civilization. In the story of the brothers Esau and Jacob we see Esau with this possibility of raw totalitarian power and Jacob learning to struggle with it and incorporate within his own person in a balanced way. Actually this is the meaning behind the name change to Israel. The Christian story in its early years continues this struggle and transformation as Israel and the meaning of Israel as a place or seat of initiation develops on the greater world scene. We really need to discuss the chapters in the book of the Revelation of John to better understand the 666 and the Christian - Jewish story and dance. This book is the only book in Christian scripture to have TWENTY TWO chapters which are numbers of the HEBREW letters and hints at those as a key to unlock it's seal so to speak. The only other book in all Jewish and Christian scriptures that has Twenty Two chapters is the Hebrew Book of  1 Kings.
            In chapter 10 of the book of Revelation we see the angel...who has the voice of the seven thunders:

Revelation 10 King James Version (KJV)

10 And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,
And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.
And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not."
 This angel comes down to earth, one foot on the ocean, one foot on earth. He tells John a vision of the entire future. As the scribe is about to write this incredible all encompassing vision down that he heard in the great voice the angel tells him to not write what he uttered h but instead to write what he tells him to write.  And so we have the rest of the revelation to John as he was told to write, obviously different from what he was told by the angel originally. 
There have always been different possibilities of how the great mystery play of human life on earth could develop. This would of course be dependent on how successful the wisdom schools would be in the yichudim, the unifying, of the 72 soul sparks that are distributed to the various language groups or nations. Perhaps we could see then what the angel showed John would be the outcome promised to Israel from old dependent on the success of the initiatory  line of Israel through the Jewish people and the other religious lineages. Of course what John was told to write including the horrible sight of Armageddon would possibly happen only if the work of the wisdom schools was not successful. This is just like how the Hopi Indian prophesy reads, the two roads that humanity could travel on and the different outcomes
Hopi Native Prophecy rock and two paths for humanity in the time of "purification"
from each.The zigzag road that leads to oblivion or the good road of Peace that leads to the new world where corn grows in plenty. 
 In the biblical story of Noah and the flood, the descendants of the Hebrews and the world are made a promise. The Creator would never destroy the world again as in the time of the flood. The rainbow would be a sign of this promise and a remembrance of our help and guidance. The Hebrew Scriptures talk of the final conflagration of gog and magog and the commentaries on this by the rabbinic sages say that there would be three distinct phases of this final battle. This parallels exactly the three stages of the great purification in the Hopi prophetic tradition(see image Hopi above with three circles of change).. The first two world wars(first two circles) and our times right now being the third and final phase of purification. The Hopi elders have always said as the ancient Hebrew sages and other wise sages from around the world, that the purification and movement to a new “world” would not have to be violent. This would be dependent on our level of accomplishing the beautiful vision of bringing care, kindness and balance into our Earth world.
            In looking at chapter 13 of the Christian book of the Revelation of John we find the source quote for the degradation and defamation of a particular important number in the Gnostic and kabbalistic traditions. The number "666" is a sacred number in ancient Jewish tradition. We are shown a “beast” arising from the sea. Then we are shown a “beast” arising from out of the earth and this creature causes all to worship the image of the first “beast” from the sea. I again highly recommend the reading of John Michell’s book; City of  Revelation. The word beast(therion in Greek) itself is hopelessly mistranslated and misunderstood. These are not necessarily horrible creatures that the idea/word of beast means for us today. Remember that the high angelic beings called in Hebrew the Hayyoth HaKodesh, or holy creatures, are sometimes translated as living beasts or animals. At least one way of interpreting these two “beasts” could be that the first one is the consciousness of the oceanic soul world called the dragon in ancient traditions and the Taninim Gedolim in the Torah.

כא  וַיִּבְרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֶת-הַתַּנִּינִם הַגְּדֹלִים; וְאֵת כָּל-נֶפֶשׁ הַחַיָּה הָרֹמֶשֶׂת אֲשֶׁר שָׁרְצוּ הַמַּיִם לְמִינֵהֶם, וְאֵת כָּל-עוֹף כָּנָף לְמִינֵהוּ, וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים, כִּי-טוֹב.21 And God created the great sea-dragons, and every living creature that creepeth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after its kind, and every winged fowl after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
 The book of Revelation tells us that the first beast mentioned gets his authority from the dragon. The dragon is the power of the original elements and forces of the physical creation as mentioned in the Torah/Genesis. The initiatic seat of a Jesus/Israel himself involves becoming conscious of these powers and balancing their influence in the human world. Dynasties and world powers and leaders often get their authority from tapping into these original creative powers. These are aligned with the name of the 72 parts, the shemhamphorash of Kabbalah, sometimes called the guardian angels of the 72-nation/language groups of the world(see image at top of page). These are also called the Sarim and there individual powers may be related to the power of the female water dragon. The second “beast” mentioned in Revelation that causes all to worship the first could actually be a form of the Christian church that makes an image of the first “beast” Jesus/Israel and cause many to worship this image into to capture the place of authority and power for the church as an organization. This according to John Michell was a way the gnostic authors of the book were hinting at the dominant and tyrannical power of ancient Rome and the Church it took over.The last lines tell us:
 “Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred three score and six.” 
This says that this number is the number of a man. This is the initiatic seat of the line of a Jewish King. The previous lines tell us his exact identity, at least who he is related to. Much of the Hebrew and Christian bibles depend on a thorough knowledge of the entire scriptures. This sentence is taken from a quote in the book of Kings about King Solomon. 
1 Kings Chapter 3:
 And the speech pleased the LORD, that Solomon had asked this thing.
יא  וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים אֵלָיו, יַעַן אֲשֶׁר שָׁאַלְתָּ אֶת-הַדָּבָר הַזֶּה וְלֹא-שָׁאַלְתָּ לְּךָ יָמִים רַבִּים וְלֹא-שָׁאַלְתָּ לְּךָ עֹשֶׁר, וְלֹא שָׁאַלְתָּ, נֶפֶשׁ אֹיְבֶיךָ; וְשָׁאַלְתָּ לְּךָ הָבִין, לִשְׁמֹעַ מִשְׁפָּט.11 And God said unto him: 'Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern justice;
יב  הִנֵּה עָשִׂיתִי, כִּדְבָרֶיךָ; הִנֵּה נָתַתִּי לְךָ, לֵב חָכָם וְנָבוֹן, אֲשֶׁר כָּמוֹךָ לֹא-הָיָה לְפָנֶיךָ, וְאַחֲרֶיךָ לֹא-יָקוּם כָּמוֹךָ.12 behold, I have done according to thy word: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there hath been none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.
  Solomon only asked for wisdom and understanding and this is referring to a MAN, a human being who for those who are understanding the gist of this whole writing is an initiate in the wisdom lineage very much and often associated with the Jewish King Solomon. Solomon was also the son of David, Ben David in Hebrew and so this reference to a man who has calculated the number 666 is related to the work of what is known as the building of the third holy temple. As Solomon built the first temple so is the initiate referred to here by the number associated with that king also involved with that number. We also can now understand that the 666 would mean the potential for a person to carry the solar lightning, the very spark of radiative light from within the EARTH that is related to one of the polarities of being associated with the male. In Tibet this lightning spark would be called the Dorje Chang and in Native America this is the twin brother of the hero twins called Flint Boy or Monster Slayer. The other brother, Born of Water carries the power of the feminine element of water which sometimes is referred to as the dragon of the sea.
            Christianity adopted some of the old sacred calendar dates of Rome and pagan Europe in order to spread the influence and magic of it's creed. In fact there were early pagan Europeans who believed and accepted that Jesus was an incarnation of their moon goddess who is the being or very soul of the mother Earth. This struck a chord in that the seat of initiation of an Israel, which is one way to view the life and person of Jesus, involves the joining together of the being of the Earth, Her Chayah or higher soul as mentioned in chapter 7 on the shechinah, needed to be brought into the human world and married to her own lower nephesh soul which the human soul tree is rooted in. So pagan Europe is really very connected to the roots of Christianity. The ancient pagan/European new year, November first became transformed from the old European New Year to all Saints day. The New Year was moved to January first and the Christian Roman church celebrated the eight-day bris and naming ceremony of their messiah/Jesus on this New Year day, the eighth day after Christmas and the end of the Roman festival of the Saturnalia.
We will end this chapter which really is a succinct summary of all that Rome and Christianity and Judaism and Yisrael is about with a quote from the prophet Isaiah Chapter 11. Remember that the wolf is an ancient symbol for Rome,
Ancient coin with the wolf as a symbol for Rome
 the legend tells us that the twin brother Romulus and Remus, progenitors of Rome were orphaned and suckled by a she wolf. The lamb is an ancient symbol for Israel and also for a transformed Christianity:

ו  וְגָר זְאֵב עִם-כֶּבֶשׂ, וְנָמֵר עִם-גְּדִי יִרְבָּץ; וְעֵגֶל וּכְפִיר וּמְרִיא יַחְדָּו, וְנַעַר קָטֹן נֹהֵג בָּם.


6 And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
 
 


Sunday, August 25, 2019

"The Turtle Talks Torah" table of contents(Eight of ten chapters uploaded with links below))

The Turtle Talks Torah

Table of Contents
Chapter one: Return of the Star Maiden(Shechinah)

Chapter two:Elijah the Prophet and the Heights of the Angels
Chapter three:Comets as Messengers with a Sacred Fire
Chapter four:Angels Called Ophanim/Wheels, Celestial Bodhisattvas and the joining of Lineage Traditions
Chapter five: The Ten Depths and True Shape of the World
Chapter six: The Shechinah: Holy Tree
Chapter seven: The Technology of the Hebrew Priesthood
Chapter eight: Rome and Yisrael 
Chapter nine:Qumran scrolls and the True Third Temple
Chapter ten: The Song of All Songs, Solomon's vine and the Temple Earth
Here are all the links to each chapter in order:
https://seventytwonames.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-turtle-talks-torah-book-chapterone.html
https://seventytwonames.blogspot.com/2019/06/chapter-two-of-turtle-talks-torah.html
https://seventytwonames.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-turtle-talks-torah-chapter-three.html
https://seventytwonames.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-turtle-talks-torah-chapter-four.html
https://seventytwonames.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-turtle-talks-torah-chapter-five-ten.html
https://seventytwonames.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-turtle-talks-torah-chapter-six.html
https://seventytwonames.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-turtle-talks-torah-chapter-8.html
https://seventytwonames.blogspot.com/2020/02/chapter-eight-of-turtle-talks-torah.html

Thursday, July 25, 2019

"The Turtle Talks Torah" Chapter 7 The Technology of the Hebrew Priesthood


Chapter Seven: The Technology of the Jewish Priesthood:
Depiction of the biblical ark of the covenant from the internet(live science)
            In this chapter we will follow the discovery as to what the “Kedoshim”, the sacred holy vessels/Kellim in the ancient Jewish tradition are and how these sacred items play a part in the grander scheme of how there is even life on the physical material Earth. Also with these materials and the knowledge about them we discover how all the wisdom traditions relate to the one initiatory tradition that is partly responsible for the very existence of the whole world. We will discuss the four specific forms of this technology referred to in the aggadot/legends and the Tanach, the Jewish scriptures. The first form we encounter being the special book made of sapphire stone given to the first human, Adam Rishon. The is a play on the Hebrew word for book/sepher which contains the same letters as the word for the jewel-sapphire. The second form we encounter is the jewel that it is said Noah hung up in his ark to give light. Then we find that Abraham is also said to have carried this same jewel around his neck. The third form is the Mateh/staff of Aaron and Moses which ends up in the ark of the covenant. The fourth and final form is the special signet ring of king Solomon we read about in the Sepher HaZohar, the aggadot about Solomon and in the psuedepigraphical literature about Solomon.
A point to begin here is that two specific uses of one of the vessels, the sacred tool known as the scepter of Aaron, are spoken of in the Sepher HaZohar. The one use when one end of the rod is held is the biblical account of the crossing of the Red Sea as the Israelites made their exodus out of slavery in Egypt. The Zohar says there is another secret use when the rod is held by the other end. This is not explained about however at this point in the Zohar. The rod or mateh/staff has a long tradition of descent and by tracing these legends we are actually following the tradition of the hidden Jewish wisdom throughout history. The Scepter holds a particular era of the wisdom lineage down to present times of the Kabbalah. We will begin with the legends regarding the hoary early beginning of this secret technology.  There are stories concerning a secret book given to the first human, Adam, by the angel Raziel, who knows all secrets and whose name means the secret/raz of the divine/El. This angel is said in the legends to have given Adam a book made of pure sapphire, which contains all the great mysteries of the world and with which Adam could become very wise. When Adam died the book was secured in a cave. Then Enoch had a dream about the cave and finds the book again. He then also secludes the book again in a cave. It is this very same book made of sapphire and set in gold that is discovered in a cave by a Rabbi named the Adam Baal Shem in the old Hasidic legend. The cave he discovers this book in is connected to the cave of Machpelah where the biblical Patriarchs and Matriarchs are said to be buried. The Rabbi Adam discovers the book and gains the knowledge of how to pronounce the sacred name of the Creator. This knowledge includes everything else. The legend relates how the secret sapphire book is passed on to the successor of Rabbi Adam, the very Baal Shem Tov, who is known as the founder of Hasidism. The use of the secret book in a legend from the 18th century explains how the technology of the Jewish mystery tradition is connected throughout history since the first appearance of an artifact that teaches a person the great mysteries, is first described as a holy book. This technology however goes through a metamorphosis of sorts as we follow the oral Torah and the legends that make up the writings of the oral Torah. The following is from the Sepher HaZohar folio I- on Bereshit/Genesis 55a-55b(page 176 the volume one of the Sperling translation): “ That when Adam was in the Garden of Eden, God sent down to him a book by the hand of Raziel, the angel in charge of the holy mysteries. In this book were supernal inscriptions containing the sacred wisdom, and seventy-two branches of wisdom expounded so as to show the formation of six hundred and seventy inscriptions of higher mysteries. In the middle of the book was a secret writing explaining the thousand and five hundred keys which were not revealed even to the holy angels, and all of which were locked up in this book until it came into the hands of Adam. When Adam obtained it, all the holy angels gathered around him to hear him read it, and when he began they exclaimed: “Be thou exalted Lord, above the heavens, let thy glory be above all the earth”(Ps. LVII,12). Thereupon the holy angel Hadarniel was secretly sent to say to him” “Adam, Adam, reveal not the glory of the Master, for to thee alone and not to the angels is the privilege given to know the glory of thy Master.” Therefore he kept it by him secretly until he left the Garden of Eden. While he was there he studied it diligently, and utilized constantly the gift of his Master until he discovered the sublime mysteries which were not known even to the celestial ministers. When however he transgressed the command of his Master, the book flew away from him. Adam then beat his breast and wept, and entered the river Gihon up to his neck, so that his body became all wrinkled and his face haggard. God thereupon made a sign to Raphael to return to him the book, which he then studied for the rest of his life. Adam left it to his son Seth, who transmitted it in turn to his posterity, and so on until it came to Abraham, who learnt from it how to discern the glory of his Master, as has been said. Similarly Enoch possessed a book through which he learnt to discern the divine glory.”
The oral Torah is the voluminous hallowed literature including the Talmud and Zohar that has come since the giving of the written Torah at Sinai or along with the written Torah as some believe. The first transformation we may perceive from the Sapphire book is to a glowing crystal carbuncle that lights up the ark of Noah during the flood. It is actually the Book of Raziel that Noah has received by the Angel Raphael who was sent to him by the Creator just before the flood. It is the information from the book that he uses to build the ark. The glowing crystal stone is found hinted at in the story from the Torah about the Tzohar or window that is mentioned in the ark. The commentators say that this is the stone of the legends. This glowing stone is closely related to the secret book of the angel Raziel itself. This Sapphire book is then given by Noah to Shem just before Noah dies and from Shem the book is passed on to Abraham. From Abraham the descent goes through Jacob, Levi, Moses, and Joshua to Solomon. This descent of inheritance of the secret book covers two more stages where the book as the technology of the hidden wisdom appears in two more forms at two different periods in the tradition.  With Moses we begin the saga of the great Scepter of Moses, which the Zohar tells us is the very same scepter called the Rod of Aaron. This mateh/staff was one of ten miraculous items created in the twilight of the first Sabbath according to the fifth chapter of the Pirke Avot/Sayings of the fathers.
“Ten things were created on the eve of Sabbath, between the suns. And these are they: The mouth of the earth, the mouth of the well, the mouth of the ass, the bow/keshet, the manna, the rod/hamateh, the shamir, the writing and the pen and the tables/haluchot….” From Pirke Aboth The Ethics of the Talmud: Sayings of the Fathers  Shocken Books.
This scepter tradition is openly written about in the book of Shemot/Exodus of the Hebrew bible. Everyone has heard of the rod of Moses and Aaron and the Exodus story. In the legends the scepter appears as a the same staff made of Sapphire that the Creator had made in the twilight of the first Sabbath Eve.  From the Ginsburg book of legends of the Jews we have this concerning the staff and the line of it’s descent.
“When Adam was sent out of Eden he carried this staff with him as one of the gifts he received from the creator. He gave it to Enoch who in turn gave it to Noah who gave it to Shem. Then Abraham was given it and he gave it to Issac who gave it to Jacob who brought it with him to Egypt and handed it to his son Joseph. When Joseph died, his house was pillaged and the pillagers brought the sapphire rod to the Pharaoh. Reuel was one of the counselors of pharaoh. He wanted the rod for himself stole it and carried it with him out of Egypt. He planted it in his garden in Midian. (The story here takes on an Arthurian sword legend twist-note by editor). Reuel, whose name later became transformed to Jethro, announces that whoever could pluck out this rod from the ground could marry his daughter Zipporah. Many strong chiefs from all over the lands tried but failed to get the staff out of the ground and win the beautiful Zipporah. Moses ends up in the garden and seeing the staff with the ineffable name of haShem, the Creator engraved upon it, he easily plucks it out of the ground.”
 So we have the beginnings of the saga of the holy scepter, which after the exodus from Egypt was said to have been placed in the Ark of the Covenant and eventually placed in the mishkan, the moveable sanctuary, and in the holy of holies of Solomon’s temple. It is said to have disappeared after the destruction of the first temple. The legends have stated that it would reappear in the messianic age.
            So we have followed the stories about a sapphire book, a crystal stone and the sapphire scepter which follow pretty closely the same lines of transmission. This transmission actually also resembles closely the secret whispering from “ear to ear” of the wisdom of the kabbalah itself. The next and final stage of these legends comes in the literature after the destruction of the second temple. This includes the pseudopigraphical writings such as Enoch and the Sepher hechalot (palaces) as well as the Zohar and kabbalistic writings. In the famous pseudopigraphic writing called the Testament of Solomon we read about a special ring made of a precious gem and engraved with the ineffable name of the Creator upon it. It is referred in the traditions as the ring of Solomon. In the Testament of Solomon it is specifically by means of this ring technology that the wise magician king is able to summon all the spirits, genii and demons of the fire, water and air and make them appear before him and reveal their nature and secrets. He then puts them to work to build his Beit hamikdash, the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem. In the hechalot literature, which is a type of writing of early Kabbalah, we have information about the various heaven worlds and upper palaces that make up the divine landscape. We also have the names and attributes of the beings that guard the gates and make up the denizens of these palaces and halls. One gatekeeper is called Anaphiel YHVH and he is one of those special being angels who actually has the divine four lettered name as part of his name. Anaphiel especially is the keeper of the seal ring of HaShem, which contains engraved the ineffable name. Here is a quote from chapter 23 of The Greater Hecahalot, from Understanding Jewish Mysticism , by David R.Blumenthal KTAV Publishing House
“Anaphiel the Lord of Israel, a prince honored and beloved and fearful and terrifying and dear and splendid and strong and mighty and powerful and just and gallant, a prince whose name is mentioned on high before the throne of His glory three times each day from the day when the world was created and until now, for praise. Why? Because the signet ring of the seal of heaven and earth is given over into his power.. And whenever they see him all those on high kneel and fall down and prostrate themselves before him, a thing which is not done in the height [before any other prince]. If you say, 'They do not fall down before the Prince of the Presence‘ [This is true] for those who stand before the throne of His glory, who do not prostrate themselves before the Prince of the Presence, but before Anaphiel the Prince [even] so with the permission and according to the will of Atratas, the great master, Aphimiel Shama Birtsa-YHVH, Lord of Israel”.
We also find this reference specifically to the Ring of Solomon in the Testament of Solomon: page 962 of The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, edited by James H. Charlesworth Doubleday:
And it came about through my prayer that grace was given to me from the Lord Sabaoth by Michael his archangel. [He brought me] a little ring, having a seal consisting of an engraved stone, and said to me: "Take, O Solomon, king, son of David, the gift which the Lord God has sent thee, the highest Sabaoth. With it thou shalt lock up all demons of the earth, male and female; and with their help thou shalt build up Jerusalem. [But] thou [must] wear this seal of God.”
It is in the Zohar, the wonderful book of the Kabbalah that we find some beautiful references to this ring of Solomon and get an idea of its function in the greater scheme of the bigger school of wisdom initiation. It has a very long word name, “degushpankha” in the Aramaic that means a seal ring and its origins according to Hebrew etymology point to Persia. This is interesting since a very popular Persian fairy tale called Bahram the Snake Prince, 
From the book, "Persian Fairy Tales"
mentions the ring of the great King Suleiman (Solomon) who has a high rank in the stories and legends of Persia, Arabia and Islam and the Koran. What is very wonderful is how the author of the Zohar tells us what Solomon uses this ring for.
“Therefore, the Song of Songs is holy of holies, and there is no verse in this Canticle which does not contain the mystery of the “thousand and five”. There are five grades contained in the title, as we have said. But why is the “thousand” not indicated? The truth is that this is hidden and will remain hidden until the Wife(the Shekinah) unites Herself with her Husband.Therefore Solomon endeavoured to bring that “Thousand” to the Bride in secret, by aid of the mysterious ring whereon is engraved the seal of the supernal wisdom(cf. Targum on Eccl. I,7). As soon as he had completed the making of the Holy of Holies below, the mystery of the Holy of Holies above ascended and was hidden,so that the concealment of the Union might be complete above and below, according to the Divine purpose. The mystery of the Holy of Holies above is the mystery of the Supernal Wisdom and Jubilee.” From page 12 The Zohar IV, Sperling translation of Sepher HaZohar folio 2: page 145b.
Solomon is most revered for having built the first Temple and this of course best embodies the physical Kedoshim or holies that houses the technology that has been given to Israel. The Zohar in the commentary of the Torah portion Terumah goes into the sublime Song of Solomon and the inner meaning of this wisdom. It says that Moses by building the holy tabernacle in the wilderness brought about the union of the upper holy mother or matrona with the world here below Solomon in building the temple brought a perfect union of the Matrona (Shekinah) with the Bridegroom above. The Zohar has a detailed commentary on why the Song of Songs said to be Solomon’s is the Holiest of all the writings which we will further discuss in chapter Ten.. Concerning the ring of Solomon it particularly tells us that Solomon endeavors to bring the Thousand pieces of silver, which is the very Tree of Life mentioned in the Song of Songs, to the bride (Shekinah) by means of the mysterious ring upon which is engraved the seal of the supernal wisdom. (Terumah 145b) It is specifically the knowledge of this whispered tradition within Kabbalah about this “sapphire” technology that the adepts in the wisdom tradition warned to keep the Zohar and the other writings of kabbalah away from only those serious students of the mysteries. There are two places in the Song of Songs that particularly point to the secret “sapphire” technology. The one in chapter IV:9 where the male protagonist says one jewel, "Ankh", of your necklace and one glance of your eyes is as... 

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ט  לִבַּבְתִּנִי, אֲחֹתִי כַלָּה; לִבַּבְתִּנִי באחד (בְּאַחַת) מֵעֵינַיִךְ, בְּאַחַד עֲנָק מִצַּוְּרֹנָיִךְ.9 Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my bride; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one jewel of thy necklace.

We have here a relation to the famous Egyptian tool shown in the hands of many carved Egyptian deities the famous and venerable Ankh, which is now always depicted as a wand like cross. The other obvious place in Solomon’s song which refers to the "sapphire" technology is where the female protagonist says your arms are as rods of gold set with Tarshishim.


יד  יָדָיו גְּלִילֵי זָהָב, מְמֻלָּאִים בַּתַּרְשִׁישׁ; מֵעָיו עֶשֶׁת שֵׁן, מְעֻלֶּפֶת סַפִּירִים.14 His hands are as rods of gold set with beryl; his body is as polished ivory overlaid with sapphires.

 The tarshim are usually translated as beryls. The word for rods is Gilaylai, which denotes a kind of circling or whirling and matches up perfectly to the helical rods of the Hermes/Thoth, deity of wisdom being depicted in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs (picture from book cover).
In the fundamental book of kabbalah, the Sepher Yetzira, we have a reference to the three means by which the creator formed the world; these are sepher/text, sephar/number and sippur/speech. These three also explain how our world is built of number/time, shape-text/space and speech-story/being. Although usually related to speaking, writing and numbering they all have the root for the word sapphire-sameck,peh,resh, a jewel often mentioned in the biblical writings and we find is a keyword denoting the sacred gem technology. In Ezekiel’s vision of the merkabah we read a description at the heart of the vision of a throne or seat of sapphire stone. The Zohar has a commentary on this sapphire stone,
From Soncino Zohar Shemoth, sect.2 Page 126a “And under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone”-what was this which they saw? They beheld the precious stone with which the holy one will build the future sanctuary, as it is written, “I will lay thy stones with fair colors and lay thy foundations with sapphires”(Isa.54, 11)        In the description of the stone tablets that Moses brings down from Sinai we are told that they are made of a pure work of sapphire stone. As earlier stated the book of the angel Raziel, and the rod of Aaron are also sometimes referred to as being made of Sapphire. In the Sepher HaZohar we have a story where the soul spark of Moses (quote). Shemoth, section2, page 240b,” "When the hour arrived at which Moses the faithful shepherd and prophet was to descend into this world, God brought forth a holy spirit from the depths of a sapphire stone in which it was hidden, and crowned it with crowns." 
 So we have here an origin for the soul spark of Moses himself from the depths of a sapphire stone. In the aggadah, the Jewish legends from the Talmud, we also have many stories regarding sacred jewels and precious gems, either making up the halls or palaces of heavens or being found on the thrones or garments of great personages. One legend is about the seven things that were said to actually be created two thousand years before the Earth was created.  From Ginsburg’s Legends of the Jews, we read, “In the beginning, two thousand years before the heaven and the Earth, seven things were created: the Torah written with black fire on white fire, and lying in the lap of god; the Divine Throne, erected in the heaven which later was over the heads of the Hayyot; Paradise on the right side of God, Hell on the left; the Celestial sanctuary directly in front of God, having a jewel on its altar graven with the name of the messiah, and a voice that cries aloud, “Return, ye children of men.” Also from Ginzberg's Legends of the Bible, page 4 JPS edition:"Corresponding to the seven heavens, God created seven earths, each separated from the next by five layers. Over the lowest earth, the seventh, called Erez, lie in succession the abyss, the Tohu, the Bohu, a sea, and waters."  Another such legend, which can also be found in Islamic traditions, is how the seven heaven worlds are actually made from seven different kinds of jewels mirrored by seven under Earth world..
From "Eire Islam"(internet)derived from the Quran seven heavens and seven "Earths" mirror the seven crystal systems. The same structure is spoken of in the ancient Jewish midrashim with seven "underearths"
What is interesting about this is that modern science has discovered that there are actually seven distinct types of matrices or lattice structures that the crystals form within the Earth's crust. Some scientists have changed this to six with one of these having two distinct divisions.
seven crystal systems from the internet boomeria.org

            It is necessary at this point in this discussion to reveal how the nature of the sacred technology is a key to this story, to reiterate some of Rudolf Steiner’s writings about the mineral kingdom and it’s relationship to the living world and the angelic world. Steiner was quite the expert on these interrelationships and with the understanding of the five continuum world view laid out in chapter six we can get a picture of a technology that interfaces with substances or energies that modern physics does not yet measure or understand, but is very real. In Twylah Nitch’s book on the Other Council Fires were Here before Ours, we are related a history of the world from the consciousness of the mineral world and we are given a much wider understanding, a greater ‘depth” so to speak on how the crystals, metals and minerals are far more than modern science confirms. Detail of how the minerals fit into the larger scheme of the complex living cosmos can be found in Steiner’s writings, in his Lecture #8, The Spiritual Beings in the Heavenly Bodies and in the Kingdoms of nature, he goes deeply into the nature and interrelationship of the mineral world. He has a chart see below, which show the types of four different “bodies” that the mineral(physical-guf), plant(etheric-ruach), animal(astral-nephesh) and human(egoic-neshamah) possess in four different realms.
Steiner's chart of souls and their respective bodies/sheaths from internet rutupic.pw
These realms match up well with the four worlds discussed in chapter six on the worldview of Kabbalah. Rabbi Gershon Winkler teaches that in Kabbalah there are four realms of beings- the still ones/minerals, the sprouting ones/plants, the moving ones/animals and the speaking ones/humans. Steiner explains how there are four worlds, physical, astral, devachanic, and higher devachanic and they correspond to four types of bodies or sheaths, physical body, etheric body, astral body, and egoic body. The human being as seen in the chart has all four bodies or sheaths including the egoic, which is kind of an individual soul consciousness, in the physical world. The animal has the three bodies, physical, etheric and astral in the physical world while their ego is in the astral world. The plants have their physical and etheric bodies in the physical world while their ego is in the devachanic world. The mineral, and this is most important for this discussion here, has the physical body in the physical world, the etheric body in the astral world, the astral body in the devachanic world and the ego in the higher devachanic world. This basically shows us that although the crystal appears inanimate and fully inert and unconscious, it has an interface with more conscious realms in each of the “higher” worlds though with only a physical sheath it doesn't manifest physically the qualities of the "higher" sheaths.. Even though the mineral does not manifest an egoic or individual consciousness in the physical world it is connected to a collective soul consciousness in the higher world that Steiner calls the higher devachanic world and in kabbalah is called the world of emanation or Atziluth. This quote can help clarify Steiner’s view on the minerals, “Now it is easy to see in the physical world that we have only the physical body of the minerals. Hence the mineral appears to us as inorganic, devoid of life; on the other hand, we have it’s etheric body in the same world in which are the group-egos of the animals, and the astral bodies of the plants...All this takes place in those beings which lie behind the mineral kingdom as its astral body, and which we find in the devachanic world. The actual ego, the real group-ego of the mineral kingdom is to be sought in a higher world, which we will call the higher Devachanic world. Here only do we find the group-egos of the mineral kingdom...We must not identify what we recognize as the individual principles of beings, with the corresponding worlds, but must accustom ourselves to presuppose differentiation's among the various beings. A more occult discernment makes this quite clear. Thus provisionally we have to find only the group-souls of the minerals in a higher devachanic region.”
            We have discussed in an earlier chapter how the use of blood in ceremonial prayer is a critical part of the Jewish tradition; however how it is truly important has remained obscured. The connection of the metal Iron is of great importance here. In a sense blood is a biological form of iron, this metal playing a key role in the hemoglobin molecule that makes up the blood. The iron is the element that gives blood its red color. We know from the works of Kabbalah that Iron is very connected to the initiation of an Israel because the Hebrew word for iron is barzel and the four letters of this word, Beit, Resh, Zain and Lamed are the initials of the four wives of Jacob, Bilhah, Rachel, Zilpah and Leah. These are the mothers of the entire twelve tribes of Israel. The iron element also forms cubic shaped crystals as do some other crystals that have iron as a main part of their chemical make up.  This cubic pattern is very important in the geometrical language of the kabbalistic mysteries. In the Sepher Yetzirah, a handbook of Kabbalistic teachings and world view we have the description of a three dimensional cube in chapter one, the six faces of the cube being sealed with the letters of the name of HaShem. The structure of this basic geometric form not only holds the spatial reality and orientation of our everyday world but it carries the symbolic archetypal structure of the Jewish wisdom tradition as a temple of initiation. The three fundamental axis of the cube, are the three patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as well as three “mother” letters of the Hebrew alphabet, aleph, mem and shin. The six faces of the cube are the six matriarchs of Israel, Sarah, Rebecca, and the four wives of Jacob. The twelve edges of the cube are the twelve tribes of Israel. The central point of the cube is the holy one, the divine HaShem. This geometric knowledge in kabbalah holds basic language that is very well developed and we can relate it here materially as the cubic form of crystal lattice structure being very important in the structure of the sacred technology of the wisdom tradition. This brings us back to the metal iron. Iron ore forms in cubic shaped crystals. The element iron has an atomic number (number of protons) of twenty-six which by gematria is the value of the four lettered name of the creator, Yod-10, Heh-5, Vav-6, Heh-5 = 26. Iron hence is of central importance in the mystery of the name of the creator and the structure of our world, human, living and material. The core of the globe of the  Earth is metallic iron. Iron is found mentioned throughout the Jewish scriptures and the prophet/navi Isaiah does say that Yisrael will be as a pillar of iron.
From Sepher Eshel Avraham(1701ce) with the metal Iron/barzel in the central wheel
            The most important sacred stone in the later Jewish tradition is the Eben Shetiyah, the foundation stone that the holy of holies of Solomon’s temple was built upon. We are also told in many alchemical and kabbalistic treatises that this stone is a cubic stone and the dimensions of the holy of holies gives us a cubic geometrical form. The goal in the alchemical traditions throughout the centuries of this stream of the wisdom tradition found particularly in Europe is to achieve or possess the most holy Stone of the philosophers and we many writings and teaching in alchemy about this although they are very veiled and sealed, to protect the knowledge in this line of the wisdom tradition. A lot of the alchemical wisdom was derived from the kabbalists and the writings of kabbalah. We find that many alchemical teachings involve the making of gold, however we are told that this gold is not the common form of gold. In making this gold we are directed to find the very “seed” of gold and all the metals and the quality that is “seed” is really at the core of alchemy and how it connects to this chapter and the entire writing. We are really stating in this writing that certain crystals within the Earth are the true “seeds” of the mineral world which carry a special interface with the “higher” worlds in kabbalah. This is where the works of Rudolf Steiner help us connect all this together and why we discussed them earlier in this chapter. We can summarize at this point that our sacred stone or seed we are looking may have a  cubic structure and somehow be connected to the metal iron or contains the metal iron. This is directly related to the very physical holy of holies at the heart of Solomon’s temple and the wisdom tradition of Solomon as it developed for thousands of years. The Torah book of Shemot/Exodus contains many more teachings about stones being used as in the Choshen or breastplate of the Jewish High priest.
High Priest's breastplate from Congregation Beth Mordehai

             There are hints that the technology that allows the interface between the world of the throne and the physical creation is found in different traditions.  In the story of the Tibetan lineage tulku of the Karmapa we have shown his sacred Black Hat/Crown which is said to have been woven by dakinis out of pure sapphires. The eight celestial bodhisattvas of Tibet have consorts who are female devis/Taras with relationship to the crystal substances. An example of this is the white Tara who is the consort of the bodhisattva Chenrezig(Avilokeshvara). She is related to a clear diamond like crystal and prayer beads for connecting with this Tara and bodhisattva are often made of some form of crystal. The diamond is one of the stones with a cubic crystal form. The other Taras of different colors who often are depicted as consorts of the celestial bodhisattvas and Buddhas are related gems of different colors.
 In the Zohar it tells us that the scepter of Moses and Aaron had two functions, which we discussed briefly earlier.  One was if it was held on one end would be to perform a miracle as in the parting of the red sea. The other use would be if it was held by the other end but the Zohar chooses to remain silent at this point in the text. The part on the seal ring of King Solomon joining above and below gives us the rest of the information. This is the same form of sacred technology that allows the soul fire of an upper world to be brought into the physical world possibly by way of a magnetic fire brought from celestial realms by means of a sacred special kind of star/kochab as discussed in chapter one.
The sacred stone said to have been placed by the patriarch Abraham in the wall of the Kaaba in Mecca. ,
Some say it has a celestial origin and had been given to the first human Adam(from hadith)
This allows for what is called in ancient Kabbalah, Ibbur, the soul impregnation of soul substance into our physical living world.  We will further touch on this in the chapter on the place of the third temple and Jerusalem. We can understand now that several ancient traditions had secret teachings about a specific crystalline technology that is an interface between the realms of being and soul substance and the physical human Earth world. Prophecies from the Tibetan, Native American, Christian, Islamic and Jewish traditions point to the possibility that a new manifestation of a holy temple or shrine will play a significant role in bringing about the long wished for epoch of a peaceful world here on Earth.
New Jerusalem depiction with twelve foundation jewels from internet Revelation scriptures.com

Geometric depiction of New Jerusalem from the Christian book of Revelation with twelve foundations stones