Only a few looked for the door to the treasury of the Ancient.
But the rings had a magical quality, too. Although they were keys,
they were not used directly in opening the door to the treasury,
It was sufficient to look upon them without contention or too
much attachment to one or the other of their qualities. When this
had been done, the people who had looked were able to tell where
the treasury was, and could open it merely by reproducing the
outline of the ring. The treasuries had another quality, too: they
were inexhaustible.
Meanwhile the partisans of the three rings repeated the tale of
their ancestor about the merits of the rings, each in a slightly
different way.
The first community thought that they had already found the
treasure.
The second thought that it was allegorical.
The third transferred the possibility of the opening of the door
to a distant and remotely imagined future time.
This tale, supposed by some to refer to the three religions of
Judaism, Christianity and Islam, appears in slightly differing
forms both in the Gesta Romanorum and in the Decameron of
Boccacio.
The above version is said to be the answer of one of the
Suhrawardi Sufi masters, when asked about the relative merits
of various religions. Some commentators have found in it the
origin of Swift's Tale of a Tub.
It is also known as the Declaration of the Guide of the Royal
Secret." From the Book "Tales of the Dervishes" by Idries Shah
This is a popular ancient fable about the three Abrahamic faiths. It has a deeper meaning concerning
how the "rings" each represent a secret aspect of each
prayerform/religion that when intertwined produces a key to a great repository
of treasure for the entire world.
This now may be understood how each
religion carries a particular secret form of the precious "ring" which
mystery together will allow for the binding of the Malach HaMavet, the
angel of death. When after many centuries this magical binding is accomplished
a new epoch for all of humanity begins.
The secret form of the "ring" for Christianity is the sanctification of Yom Rishon/Sunday.
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