"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