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The Atlantean Symbolism Of The Egyptian Temple-Prof.Arysio Santos

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« Reply #15 on: February 20, 2008, 08:08:26 am »









The Temple As An Allegory Of Paradise





The city-temple just described is indeed an allegory of Paradise. More exactly, it represents
Lanka, the Celestial Jerusalem that was the archetype of its biblical counterpart. In Ezekiel,
the "lofty Mountain" that corresponds to Mt. Atlas (or Meru) is called Ariel (or Harel = "Mount-
ain of God"), and is identified with the sacrificial altar (ara). This Sacrificial Mountain is, as
usual, an allegory of Mt. Meru (or Atlas), where the Primordial Sacrifice — that of Atlantis
(or Paradise) — was performed in the dawn of times.

In front of Solomon's temple stood the two huge pillars of bronze called Jachin and Boaz.
These two pillars closely evoke the two "Pillars of Hercules" that were the central feature
of the Phoenician temples of Baal Melkart. Baal Melkart, "the Lord of the City", was the alias
and archetype of both Hercules and Atlas, the two deities commemorated by the twin pillars
of the Phoenician temples. These twin pillars indeed commemorated, as they did in Gibraltar,
the strait that led into Paradise. The Pillars of Gibraltar were just a replica of the primordial
ones of Eden (Eden = India or, rather, Indonesia, the "Indian Islands"), just like so many the Phoenicians posted in the temples they built at all such crucial passageways to honor Hercules
(Baal Melkart), their supreme lord and patron of navigants.

The two pillars also correspond to the twin obelisks invariably posted at the front of Egyptian
temples. The inner sanctum of the Temple was a cube of about 9 meters on each side. This
structure evokes the Kaaba of Meccah, whose name and shape are those of a cube. But, as
usual, the cubic structure is just a variant of the similarly shaped pyramid.4

The fancy capitals of the pillars Jachin and Boaz were all decked with lilyworks and pomegra-
nates, in the traditional way used for both the Tree of Life and the omphali found all over the Mediterranean Basin. The "lilyworks" are really lotus motifs, as many experts have recognized.
This type of decoration, very much used in Egypt, ultimately derives from the Indies, as we
discuss elsewhere.

Such "lilyworks" invariably figure on top the Indian stupas, which are the true archetypes of
omphali and decorated pillars everywhere. And they indeed represent Mt. Meru submerged
under the seas, with reeds and sargassos attached to it. Alternatively — and that amounts
to the same — they symbolize the stump of the Tree of Life with its dual, the Tree of Death,
growing down from its top. The motif is famous in India, as we discuss elsewhere.
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