imakegarb
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Post by imakegarb on May 12, 2006 23:21:06 GMT
I've been rereading RamBam and I'm trying, for the first time, to figure out Merkabah Mysticism. I'm finding all sorts of references *about* it. I know that this was a largely first Century phenenom in which you would fast, meditate, pray and chant to, hopefully, experience of the Throne/Chariot of the divine, as described by Ezekiel 1. Details, however, are lacking.
Has anyone here ever looked into this and had better luck finding source material and other information? If so, could you point me the right way?
On a (sort of) related study, I'm trying to find information on the intitation rites for priests in the first and second temple.
Thanks in advance.
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Post by hollandr on May 13, 2006 0:36:06 GMT
imakegarb
From my point of view the chariot(s) is the light body (on various planes or sephira). As we learn to build light bodies we may use them to act on the plane/sephira on which the light body exists.
This is obliquely referred to in the EA TB in which the stair (referred to as a ladder) allows us to ascend to the star from which we obtained the 7 liberal arts and sciences.
In other words, when we have built our light body on 21 steps we have one of the preconditions to advance to the star of The Widow.
(Ruff, don't you love this stuff!)
And as time passes we are able to join our light bodies to form group light bodies. This is supposed to happen in lodge.
And when we open in the 3rd degree our individual light bodies are supposed to join together on the higher mental subplanes (5.3, 5.2 and 5.1) to form a lodge/temple not made with hands as a miniature of the temple in the heavens.
And if we do it properly (extremely rare) the 7 Officers of the temple in the heavens will join our lodge and make it perfect
But of course the methods of doing these things are largely lost. Still there are some signs of externalisation of the esoteric if you look around the web.
Cheers
Russell
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Post by imakegarb on May 13, 2006 18:24:31 GMT
K.
About 98 percent of what you said in your post was very new to me. So when a lodge meets, properly, it is effectively working the chariot? Oh my.
(ponder)
Thank you.
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Post by transcendental on Nov 23, 2006 15:48:50 GMT
You can find a decent intro to the relation of Flower of Life to the Merkaba and the Sacred Geometry that binds them in videos by Drunvalo Melchizedek. video.google.com/videosearch?q=drunvaloI just recently found these myself.
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