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and each corner rests on a pillar. Many Freemasons will recognize the
floor of the gods as the tessalated pavement of their lodge.
All arks, chests, tholi domes and rounded hats, especially conical
Phrygian caps with the top turned forward or caps like Mercury’s winged
cap, are emblems of his celestial vault.
The Sufi's object of search is divine light from the North celestial
pole. Palaces there are ablaze with immaterial matter. This blazing light
emanates out of the other good beings that have died and ascended to the
mansions of light. The seeker is a particle of this same light. He finds
himself drawn to this celestial pole at the Corona Borealis.
As we saw in Chapter 17, an initiate must pass through the
luminous darkness that surrounds the Pole to achieve a reunion with his
own dimension of light. Then he must look vertically upwards from the
terrestrial toward the celestial pole. The stairway to heaven is a Jacob’s
ladder. It leads to the constellation of the Bear, Ursus Major. This same
stairway to heaven existed in Dilmun for the Sumerians and Pharaohs of
Egypt.
In the first Chapter, we saw that modern science stumbled onto
the fabled Philosophers' Stone that had evaded the alchemists for
thousands of years. There is of course a considerable amount of disquiet
about this discovery for the reasons Samuel Baruch described in Chapter
20:
This is the great secret of the fathers, this is what God gave them
as a consolation, which they used when they were in plight and
trouble; otherwise they did not use it, because they were satisfied
with the Highest, and with little. This was the masterpiece of the
wise masters with which they prepared everything necessary that
belonged to the Temple.
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