THE SYMBOLISM OF THE TEMPLE The church gathers within itself the sacred space and time. Just trespass your door, there is a clear difference between the outer and profane world where time linearly and indefinitely and amorphous, and the holy place where mythical time is perceived and significant: "time" of the origins of man, eternity and simultaneity, known and included in the inwardness of the man who set this ritual communication from the depths of the temple. Moreover, the temple is a model of the universe that mimics in form and "proportions", and like it, is to hold and be the means of the full and effective realization of human beings. In the most primitive tribes, found the cabin ritual (or the family home) as a intermediary between the high and the low. Indeed, it the roof symbolizes the sky and the earth floor, the four posts which sits are the columns which supports the macrocosm. It is very important to note that these constructions always there is a zenith point which is open to another space. Example: caput or summit stone, not placed in the construction of cathedrals, or the outlet of the ceremonial hut (in the family home this output is symbolized by the hearth, home). This construction, image and model of the cosmos, has as a gateway that opens the horizontal run of the temple (Transposition of the door, passing through the waters of the baptistery, lost in the labyrinth whose exit leads to the altar, heart of the temple), and then an outlet on the vertical axis, this time located in the sumidad, symbolizing the Coronation of the Work and income to another space, or world, entirely different, which is "beyond" of the cosmos, which the temple symbolized. Temple is also a vivid image of the microcosm and represents the body of man created in the image and likeness of his creator, conversely, the human body is your temple. The vertical communication center is the heart, and there, in that place, it lights the sacred fire can generate the Real Adventure of Transmutation, after testing knowledge and experiences leading up to that place. Sephirotic our diagram, the door opens horizontally Yesod Malkhuth while Kether Tifereth vertical. This means that all previous work, aimed at knowledge, must have immediate goal arrival at heart of the temple, the perennial fire altar on which sits the tabernacle empty space constructed with the rules and harmonic proportions of the temple itself, and that is their synthesis. There will then be finished with the first part of the Lesser Mysteries (mysteries of the earth) and will begin simultaneous rise in the second part (the mysteries of heaven), being to beyond the temple, ie to the supracosmic, the Greater Mysteries, which can not be inexpressible take place, no comment here. Actually this process is prototypical and valid for any change of plane or state, in which is manifested in their own way.
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