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The Temple/Tabernacle was a microcosm of the
creation
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Day One was the Holy of Holies, the Unity beyond
time and matter, the world of the angels and the Kingdom of God.
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The eternal covenant held visible and invisible
creation in one system.
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The fallen angels taught mortals how to abuse
knowledge and thus break the bonds of the covenant.
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The liturgies maintained the creation
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Atonement was the ritual self offering of the
Lord to renew the
eternal covenant and thus heal the creation. This was the covenant
renewed at the Last Supper
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Priests were angels and angels were priests
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The
Lord, the God of Israel, was the Son of God Most High,
the Second God.
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Jesus was recognised as the
Lord in this sense.
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The royal High Priest was the
Lord with his people
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Incarnation was symbolised by the vestments
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The Queen of Heaven, also known as Wisdom, had
been part of the original Temple cult as Virgin Mother of the
Messiah.
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Humans could become angels. This was known as
resurrection or theosis.
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The Temple was remembered as Eden.
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Adam was the original high priest, and
leaving Eden was losing the Temple.
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The New Testament reverses the story of Eden
and brings Christians back to the original Temple.
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Pythagoras knew this system of thought and it
appears in Plato’s Timaeus.
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