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

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« Reply #30 on: February 20, 2008, 06:55:09 pm »











The Temple Of Herod, The Great





In Fig.6 we show, in perspective and in plan, an ideal reconstruction of the Temple of
Herod, the Great. We see how this temple — built in Jerusalem and often mistaken with
the (fictive) Temple of Solomon — roughly follows the plan of Egyptian temples. In parti-
cular, the triple structure is visible, and so is the separation into an outer courtyard for
the gentiles and an inner one for Israel and the priests.

A third inner court was reserved for the women (hierodules?) and in the innermost region
lay the holy of holies and the sacrificial altar. Herod's temple was built after the ideal
models of the Temple of Solomon and the Temple of Ezekiel. The holy of holies (or inner
sanctum) was separated by a curtain from the outer sanctum. Only the high priest could
enter this most sacred precinct.

There is yet an important point connected with the symbolism of the Temple of Jerusalem:
the insistence on the number ten. This number is precisely the one of the independent realms composing the Atlantean empire, according to Plato. The Sea of Bronze of the Temple had
a diameter of ten cubits. Hiram built ten bronze basins and ten carts for them, so that they
could be easily moved around is order to be used in ritual ablutions.

Likewise, the altar of the Temple, built of bronze, was ten cubits high and twenty cubits
(2x10) on a side. The inner sanctuary was decorated with ten golden candlesticks "built in
the prescribed manner" and posted at ten tables, probably also of gold or bronze. The width
of the Temple was twenty cubits (about 10 meters) and its inner sanctum was a cube of
about 10 meters on a side (20 cubits).13

The vestibule of the inner sanctum was also a cube of about 10 x 10 x 10 meters (20 cubit
on a side). The altar was 20 cubits on the sides and 10 cubits tall, that is, a half cube of
about 10 meters on a side. Ten was indeed the sacred number of Jahveh (the Ten Command-
ments, etc.), just as Seven (the Seven Days of Creation, etc.) was the one of Elohim.
Hence, it is not unreasonable to suppose that there was a connection between Jahveh and
his Temple with Atlantis and its ten realms.
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