Are you, like myself, getting sick and tired of these narcissistic maniacs meeting behind closed doors and in secret to make decisions about how to run the world in which we live. Strategizing how make us conform to their will.
This plan for the One World Religion has been in the works for some time, we have been aware of that. However, I don’t think most of us knew just how far their plans had progressed without arousing our attention.
If you read through this post you will find that they admit an awful lot in their writing:
1 Since at least World War II, the elite have been working to transform the world in the period after the Second World War decisive changes in the ecumenical direction have taken placeconcerning the Christian world
2 Israeli’s returning to the land by the hand of pagans just as the returning of Jews home to the Holy Land was organized by atheists,
3 they have tried to bring about the changes by economic oppression, dictatorships and war The need to integrate economic, politic and cultural lifeof nations manifests itself clearer than ever in the modern world. This process is realized in the two major directions: under pressure – through power of one over another: dictatorships of all types, ancient despotism, colonial systems, fascism, communism, Islamic Wahabbism) or financial power expansion (dollar’s market invasion and globalism)
4 they are planning all this to pay for the work and maintenance of the New Israel the position ofeconomical profit, To meet that purpose it is necessary to build new roads and pedestrian paths apart from consisting economic roads and ways, and build price-worth hotels, engineering communications, carry out, – where there is necessary,- the scientific researches with the aim to restore ancient stands of Forefathers. All that things will need a good maintenance. Simultaneously all these efforts will help to take away problems of unemployment of the great mass of Palestinians. either peace and job or war and unemployment. If you have given the people the job – it is easier to wean them from extremism and terrorist acts… So, for Jewish money using Arab hands you may do welcome to God deeds
5 that the ultimate purpose of this conglomeration is to serve Israel Then the new religions will rehabilitate their lost positions(which had been caused by stagnation and ritual warship) in the future life of conciliated nations. As a center of this salutary, if it would have any chances to be put into reality, could serve Israel in unionwith most progressive in divine epistemology people from USA and Russia
The way they describe this structure and how it will be used is very reminiscent of the Greek or Roman centers of Philosophy. And why not, because that is exactly what it is all about. Gnosticism, elevating the wisdom of man. Naturally, you have to assume that those who will be in the High positions, in the seats of Honor, the educators, lecturers, judges and rulers will be the JEWS. Right?
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The following posts are all related to this topic. You might want to view them all to get the full picture:
We must recognize that those who do not know GOD are not capable of seeing the error of their ways. They cannot see the TRUTH and they don’t even know what drives them. You cannot except godly behavior from ungodly beings. That is not to say that there are not people within the different groups who do not truly wish to serve God. He and He alone knows who are HIS. But, we cannot align ourselves with anything or anyone who is not aligned with the WORD of GOD.
The need to integrate economic, politic and cultural lifeof nations manifests itself clearer than ever in the modern world. This process is realized in the two major directions: under pressure – through power of one over another, and by free will – as a brotherhood of people devoted to their common Father-Creator. Right off the top, this is about money, politics and culture. NOT ABOUT Man’s relationship to GOD!
It would be lovely, IF all were communing with our Common Heavenly Father. Sadly, that is not the case. If humans were capable of finding their way back to GOD on their own, through their own effort than there would have been no need to JESUS CHRIST to come and redeem us. Pagan religions reject the Father and His commandments, they reject the Prophets he sent and the REJECT the GIFT of Salvation through Jesus Christ. Therefore, their prayers are not heard. Their efforts are in vain. They are bound for HELL unless the come to the TRUTH.
The first directionis the oppression exercised by stronger nation over weaker one that destroys the way of life and spiritual values of the latter (dictatorships of all types, ancient despotism, colonial systems, fascism, communism, Islamic Wahabbism) or financial power expansion (dollar’s market invasion and globalism).
The second direction will come true when people realize their mutual spiritual relationships and brotherhood, as soon as they see clearly that the soul of each of them comes of the one and the same origin that is the Divinity. In this case they’ll manage to return the power over themselves to their common Creator and will get down to peaceful terms acknowledging the specific features of each way of lifeand legitimacy of each way to God. Then, at last, the nations will end their wars caused by territories, property or ideological system, as they will find out that all their possessions, lands and their mere life belong to the Creator.
The first direction is a blind alley that leads to a succession of new world conflicts; the second one is hardly achievable. However, in the period after the Second World War decisive changes in the ecumenical direction have taken placeconcerning the Christian world (i.e. mutual approaching of Catholicism, Protestantism and partly, Orthodox Church). (Lifting of anathemas, creation of World Council of Churches, the experience of “particular” many-days common prayers, arrangement of extra-confessional communities, analogous to communities of the first Christians).
Certain success of the Ecumenical movement has strengthened the basis for the creation of the common European marketas the first step to national union on the grounds of the free will. The European Union is the Beast system of Revelation. Check out my post: BABEL Then and NOW!
In the recent half of the century the goodwill dialogue of Christianity and Judaism has for the first time been possible (the whole rehabilitation of Judaism as a world-wide religion, acknowledgement of legality and equality of the two Testaments, acknowledgement of Jesus a great prophet by Israelites and acknowledgement by some Christian-theologians, that Jesus was created by the Heavenly Father). [1] Jesus Christ is not a great prophet. He is the Son of the Living GOD. He is not a “created being” He is GOD, One with the Father, He was present when the World was created. His earthly body was begotten, not made.
All these gives stimulus for mutual approaching of religions of Abraham origin (i.e. Judaism, Christianity and Islam), and afterwards, all monotheistic religions, according to the saying: the one Shepherd (Creator) – the one flock (mankind). Those who worship pagan gods are not of the family of GOD, unless they accept HIS salvation. Believers are called to love all people and to work to bring them all into salvation. We are not brothers of pagans. We do not pray to the same gods.
In the middle of the 20th century there appeared a theory of a Russian mystic D. Andreyev described in the book “Mundane Rose”. Published only in the beginning of the nineties, it depicts the opportunity of inventing a common “concluding religion” or “interreligion“ in the perspective of 2-3 centuries that will be based on the synthesis and preservation of “valuable impact” (as Rav Kook put it) of each historically formed congregation. The way of their purification lies through confessional burst protruded from the essence of faith in the One Lord for all the people on Earth. They claim that they are not starting a new religion, but their own words belie them.
The mutual approach of religions, already started today, may promote the construction of multi-congregational temples in a number of religious centers of the world (e.g. Benares, Rome, Istanbul, Mecca, Moscow, London, cities of the New World, China, Japan, etc. It is worth to notice, that in the town of Deli at the end of the 20th century a Temple of Nine Religions was built).The image of the Third Temple of the whole mankind on the Jerusalem Temple Mountain can make a protoimage for inspiring such new type of temples and its realization, in turn, may be their ultimate result. With such new attempts of Jews sharing with Christians and with Muslims, the Promised Land can be transformed into the center of pilgrimage, while Jerusalem can become the spiritual capital of the world.
This activity welcomed to the Almighty could at the same time remove the economical and religious reasons of the terror nowadays spread in Israel. The heart of that peacemaking initiative is to change now “occupied” areas into worldwide center of pilgrimage for believers of all three religions of the same origin. This is a lie right out of the pit of HELL! Terrorism, as all evil, comes from hearts that are not surrendered to GOD, but serve the DEVIL. This is a spiritual battle between good and evil. It can only be won in the spirit. Evil will exist until JESUS CHRIST returns. Those who belong to the devil HATE everything that is of GOD. Especially those people who are born again. The devil wants to kill all those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
It happened so that the main routs and camps of nomads of our Forefathers, Prophets, the founders of Christianity and Islam are located in the Jordan valley, round Kinnereth (round Galilee sea), Salt sea, Jerusalem and further in the North of Sinai. Here are in short nominations of Abraham’s stands in the Promised Land: oak grove More eastwards of Shchem, the outskirts of Bate-El, oak grove Mumre in Hebron, Chalem (the future Jerusalem), the well between Kadeish and Beradom, Gyrar, Beer-Sheva, Moria Mountain in Shalem, Cave Machpella in Kiryat-Arba. That way appeared an idea to create a new infrastructure of the pilgrimage under the aegis of Jerusalemwith participation of interested states.
There is an architect in Israel who has designed a full-size program of developing an infrastructure of the kind. He also has written a work to say that it is of vital importance for Israel to approve the idea and create facilities for broad scaled pilgrimage to the secret parts of the country. He timed his program to the 2000th jubilee of Christianity, but he met a full misunderstanding from the authorities on all the levels. The fact is, that Israel is not ready to have deeds of the kind and does not understand what for it has seated in the Holy Land. Now, let me proclaim the idea of that architect (see Reoven Romem: “Pilgrimage-2000“. A detailed report. Manuscript. Jerusalem, 1998). So, again this is all about commerce, money. About providing for the Jewish people to have an income and to keep tourism feeding the coffers.The Jews want to exploit our inherent love for the Holy Land for their own gain.
In his reasoning he stood on the position ofeconomical profit, though understood also the peacemaking effect of his proposals. His logic is a simple one. There are more than a milliard Christians on the Earth. Each of them dreams of visiting the Holy Land at least once to go the rout of Abraham, the father of all believers and the rout of Israel Prophets and the rout of Christ as well as the rout of founders of Islam. To meet that purpose it is necessary to build new roads and pedestrian paths apart from consisting economic roads and ways, and build price-worth hotels, engineering communications, carry out, – where there is necessary,- the scientific researches with the aim to restore ancient stands of Forefathers. All that things will need a good maintenance. Since the most parts of ancient stands and camps of nomads are located in the area of compact residence of the Palestinian – they might be entrusted with the construction and maintenance of the new infrastructures of pilgrimage. Simultaneously all these efforts will help to take away problems of unemployment of the great mass of Palestinians. By means of these measures probably would be solved one more important problem – delivering jobs. That’s the way to peace. It is clear, that the inhabitants of the autonomy will have to understand and make their choice: either peace and job or war and unemployment. If you have given the people the job – it is easier to wean them from extremismand terrorist acts. So, for Jewish money using Arab handsyou may do welcome to God deeds.
One can add some important considerations to the effect of religious reconciliation of nations. Who among the faithful Israelites, Christians and Moslems would be against going along the routs of Forefathers of monotheism, if there is an opportunity? The routs would be arranged in the shape of shady alleys, arranged from both sides by green trees, supplied with grounds for rest in some intervals of the not tiresome passages, which connect the stand-grounds of Forefathers and Prophets and are presented as spacious forests and oak-groves and oases, where the restored sacred objects would be exposed, as well as billeting facilities of the camping type for summer pilgrims and solid buildings – for winter period. Peculiar clothes and special foods be served of the Bible times, unhurried marches, vigil in prayers – all this would help to plunge into unique situation of pioneers of monotheism. No wonder, that the pope John Paul IIdreams to go once the rout of the Father of all believers – the rout of Abraham.
The similar way could be arranged on the paths of the founder of Christianity, of the Sages (the wise men) of Talmud and Cabbala,of the religious figures of Islam on the Holy Land. Jesus Christ did not come to found a new religion. He came to fulfill the WORD of GOD and to restore us to right standing by paying the price for our salvation. He ever lives to make intercession for us with the FATHER. He is our ADVOCATE. It is ONLY by HIS shed blood that we can be free from sin and death.
It is clear, that the Holy Land is waiting for its awakening. There is no doubt, that the initiative of such a penance must issue from Israel, though the whole project can be designed and be carried into reality under the aegis and participation of the main religious organizations 0f whole world(the Worldwide Council of Churches, Vatican, World Rabbinate and Imamate).
There is no PENANCE that one can do to save their soul. All the organizations mentioned above are pagan, ungodly, evil and unable to do good. They KNOW NOT the GOD of our Fathers, the God of the Bible, The TRUE AND LIVING GOD. They can only lead you into damnation.
It seems though, that orthodox people of all kinds will act against the above mentioned project, because they used to share Holy Grounds according to the belonging and the property of territories. But, just as the returning of Jews home to the Holy Land was organized by atheists, – the peacemaking religious projects are, of course, in power of all creative believers, and with no exception of the ones, who are customary called “secular believers”/ this is term of the religious writer A. Baratz/. Secular Believers?? What kind of oxymora is that? No, they do not object because of any claim to land. They object because what is being purposed is EVIL and Ungodly and WRONG!
So, I think, we must build new relations in the mutual understanding and cooperation between the religions of one origin applying to the authority of our common Forefathers and Prophets. The Jews killed the Prophets including Jesus Christ, and the Muslims have no prophet but Mohammed! The whole world shares the same Forefathers, if you go back far enough. That won’t save anyone. There is only ONE WAY TO GOD, The Creator. That is through the SON.
The second group of measures possibly could strengthen the unanimity, which begins to show in the practice of pilgrimage through creation in Jerusalem a scientific and theological center of God-cognition. Just a minute…a “scientific” theological center of God-cognition. Another Oxymora. Scientist HATE GOD and want nothing to do with HIM. Theology can’t save you nor can religion. Theology is the study of Religion.. Religion was designed by narcissists to control the masses. GOD is not about Religion and could care less about theology. GOD is about RELATIONSHIP. He is only interested in those who want to KNOW HIM. And the ONLY ones who will be saved are the ONES HE CLAIMS TO KNOW!!!
The Council of Elders of Israel could possibly develop together with creative organizations of Christianity and Islam and the State of Israel could put into reality the following programs to be carried out in Jerusalem:
No matter how wise, intelligent, clever, talented or creative man might be, mankind can never come up with a better plan that the one provided for us by OUR HEAVENLY FATHER. He laid it all out, it is there in His WORD. We don’t need to look elsewhere.
The Highest Ecclesiastical Academy of all three religions of Abraham origin,
World Center of Ecumenist movement,
Scientific Center of Problems common to all man-kind (history, philosophy, psychology, ecology),
Center of Legislative Basis Perfection for new social relations of people using the experience and the achievements of Israel’s Galachia and juristic norms of other nations as well as move to Jerusalem some of functions of UNO concerning humanitarian, elucidative, and charity activities.
Creation of largest libraries, video libraries, computer centers, hotels, grounds for carrying out forums and conferences will complete the program of making Jerusalem a spiritual capital of the world.Public opinion of the world, seeing the activity of Israel of the positive kind would possibly acknowledge Jerusalem as the capital of the new Israel. This is all about man’s wisdom. It is all about man’s ego, and about man lording over other men. They want to determine who is the “expert” the “learned and enlightened ones’ who will lead and instruct and rule. YOU are not in need of any man to teach you. If you receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, the HOLY SPIRIT of GOD will enter into you and HE will lead and guide and comfort you. HE will reveal ALL TRUTH to you. Libraries and books and videos can all be altered and controlled. NO ONE can stop GOD from revealing TRUTH to you. DO NOT PUT YOUR TRUST IN MAN!
The peak of these peacemaking efforts would be the erecting of the Third Temple belonging to the whole mankind on Temple Mountain in Jerusalem. (The author of the term is a modern Israeli cabbalist Lightman). Cabbalism is witchcraft. There will be no PEACE without the PRINCE OF PEACE. JESUS CHRIST.
But the orthodox Judaism imagines this great action of future conciliated religions and nations as a simple restoration of the Second Israel Temple on the spot of demolished building called “The Dome of the Rock”. Why is it so?
The present-day orthodox people imagine the eschato-logical far away future of the mankind as transition of the survived people to Judaism after apparition of Messiah. Meanwhile, the ancient promises of the Lord to prophets concerning future surviving of all the nations do not mention the conditions of transition of all nations to Judaism:
“Look into me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else”. (Isaiah 45:22) “for as the earth bringeth forth her bud, as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations”. (Isaiah 61:11) That is RIGHT! GOD will do it and no one else. All man’s efforts to bring Peace and/or Unity are doomed to fail. God will bring it all IN HIS TIME, AND HIS WAY. They are trying like Abraham and Sarah to bring the promise of GOD by the means of man. How did that work out for them? That is the reason we have Arabs fighting Jews. Because Abraham did not wait on GOD.
“Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burned offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon my altar; for mine house shell be called an house of prayer for all people”. (Isaiah 56:7).
How sly of them to only snatch that small bit of scripture. If you read the preceding lines you get a better idea of what GOD is saying. Here is the Scripture from the beginning to that point.
Isaiah 56:1 Thus saith the Lord, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
2 Blessed is the man that doeth this,and the son of man that layeth hold on it;that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil. (that keepeth the Sabbath AND keepeth his hand from evil…evil according to the Word of God.)
3 Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the Lord, speak, saying, The Lord hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
4 For thus saith the Lordunto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
5 Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters:I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord,to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;
7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain,and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar;for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.
It is very clear that GOD will ONLY accept those who are living according to HIS WORD, His LAW, His SABBATH! HONORING HIS NAME! AND NO OTHER. NOT ALLAH, OR SHIVA, OR BUDDHA, OR MOHAMMED OR ANY OTHER NAME THAT CAN BE NAMED.
So far as other nations have found their way to God, their common house on the Temple Mountain in Jerusalem must take into consideration valuable achievements of each such ways. They may have found a way to the god of their choosing…but it is NOT THE CREATOR! Believers in the TRUTH of the WORD of GOD do not need to take into consideration ANYONE ELSE’s WAYS other than to live at peace with them. NOT TO WORSHIP WITH THEM. We are called to live at peace with all people as best we can. We are not called to subjugate our beliefs in order to live at peace.
Consequently, the common temple belonging to the whole mankind cannot be a temple of one religion or denomination only,vice verse it must grunt room for all four now known religions of One-God (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism). Modern Judaism claims to worship the One True God, but they fell away from Him long ago. They worship the Talmud and Mishnah and Babylonian traditions. They, like the Catholics put man’s teaching and laws above GOD. The Muslims worship Mohammed and Allah. Allah is a moon god. Not the God of the Bible. Neither of these two religions recognizes the Messiah/Jesus Christ sent by the Creator. And Hindus teach all kinds of stuff that is totally out of line with the word of GOD. You can hardly call them a Monotheistic religion…see below:
How Many God and Goddess are There in Hindu Religion? There are eleven Rudras in all that is considered as a part of thirty-three Godsin the Hindu pantheon. The Vamana Purana describes the Rudras as the sons of the sage Kashyap and his wife, Aditi. They are named as follows: Nirriti Shambhu Aparajita Mrigavyadha Kapardi Dahana Khara Ahirabradhya Kapali Pingala Senani
At this,each of the four religions must be presented by two of its equal essences: in the traditional form and in the mystical (accordingly as Cabbala, Mundane Rose, Sufism and Buddhism). So, the Third Temple of the mankind must have a compound structure, including eight prayer houses. Say WHAT?? So, not only do they demand that we join ourselves to pagan religions, but they want us to include the MYSTICAL forms of them as well??? Mysticism is TOTALLY FORBIDDEN. Witchcraft, magic, Divination!! These things are an ABOMINATION to OUR GOD!
If you look at the building “The Dome of the Rock“, which the Israeli Orthodox people dream to demolish, you can make sure, that the building entirely suits for the common altar of the Third Temple to come. It has a symmetric plan with eight facets and one clearly expressed axis swooped upon into the sky. The building is crowned with a magnificent gold dome 23 meter in diameter and towers above the upper platform by 36 metersand above the lower platform more than by 40 meters.
The Dome of the Rock, with the Holy Rock itself, can serve as the Foundation Stone of the Third Temple, as it can easily grant the proper condition for placing the Common Altar (Sanctum Sanctorum) of unified religions. Eight sides of the Cupolas may be treated as basis for construction of prayer buildings of various monotheistic congregations, according to their accepted orientation in relation to the Altar (Judaism from the eastern side, Christianity – from the western one, Islam from the Northern side, Hinduism – from the southern one). The apartments for mystical practices (Cabbala, Mundane Rose, Sufism and Buddhism) can be situated near the corresponding buildings of traditional theologies. (see figure below)
OPEN YOUR EYES PEOPLE! SEE this RELIGION of the ANTICHRIST for what it is! Do not align yourself with the works of darkness. COME OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE.
The structure shown below is an octagonal starburst within an octagon. In Babylonian symbolism, the goddess Ishtar is represented by an eight-pointed starburst, and she is associated with the planet of Venus. Source
-The Enemy within-
>>>”The Octagon – The Empire of Darkness: They are ruling the world. They are everywhere. Just follow the signs. The enemy within, the interior army, the enemy both foreign and domestic. Just follow the signs. The worldwide police force as octagon nazitemplars from octagon Switzerland. NATO is a part of Octagon. Octagon rules over Pentagon. The NAZIs are within the NATO. They are rubbing Sand in our Eyes. Just like the pharaonic Viper Snake that is hiding under the sand.You should not underestimate
Nazism has nothing to do with protecting the whites. So Nazism is in fact an organization against the white of Europe. Octagon is the military part and hexagon is the political part (Freemasons).Watch the 8 dots of the submarine, which is the executional force of Jahwe. The word Satan comes from the pharanonic and semetic word Shaitan, meaning a snake, and the snake is the pharanoic honed Viper, which hides in the sand underneath the surface. We hide amongst you, you cannot see us, until we suddenly strike with deadly power. They all do it. V Symbol for fast striking Viper. V for Victory is the Templars V.Octagon is the encoded key password for the Templars and for Switzerland. The Templars founded Switzerland in 1291. The Swiss financed the Germans. //. and even the pope has to obey them. //
We the People must show these young nazis where the real enemy is and the enemy is not the immigrant or the foreigner. The Obelisk is a phallic symbol…it is the symbol for the circumcision. An old pharaonic tradition for the Slaves and a covenant with Satan. This is the symbol for the pharaonic warfare.Mix first…and fight the enemy from within, as a Virus and strike unseen as a wound. Viper, means the satanic hand…they had to take over all position in society, you can´t recognize the enemy anymore, the enemy within is very real, the fight is from the inside out. Penetration has indeed succeeded…As these Pharaos rule the whole world… Ka is pharaonic for the soul when still alive and Ba after Death.And when Allah stands beside it it becomes Kaballah.. Mer or Merkel is the pharaonic word for Pyramid.. The soul as in Mer ka or Merkabah, almost like America.. So let´s all unite mankind, we have no choice, forget about Religions and Races…and get rid of these Pharaohs together…These Pharaohs have their basis in Switzerland. So Nazism is in fact an organization against the white race of Europe. Audi the Illuminati Car from Ingolstadt…
SS = Skull & Bones. SS stands for ISIS,in hebrew only the consonates are written.
So Hexagon is the political wing for the Freemasons and Octogon is the military wing for the Nazi Templars,..here is the Swiss secret service, so it is not a coincidence that this is Octogone..In fact the Nazis are using the 8 as a code, (Sean Hross)(2013) Source
This already became reality in India — a country with high level of religious consciousness. Two multi-confessional Temples built in India in the end of the 20th century are mentioned in the article: the Baha’i Lotus Temple in Delhiwhose design symbolize nine religions, and Matrimandir Temple in Auroville near Madras (see figures below).
Matrimandir Temple in Auroville
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The structure below is in the shape of the Lotus Flower a major symbol in Hinduism: In ancient Egypt, the symbol for “plant” meaning “Tree of Life” was the three sacred lotus lilies. To ancient Egyptians and their children who still honor these customs, the lotus is the symbolic plant of life, immortality, resurrection and sacred knowledge.In the funeral and re-birth ceremonies, the lotus was closely associated with processions and the imagery of the funerary Cult of Osiris, in which we find the God of light and truth; Horus, seated upon the lotus (pictured to the left). Evidence of the lotus being involved in their funeral ceremonies had been found in the tomb of Ramesses II.
The lotus was chosen as a symbol for the brotherhood because the ancient Egyptians believed that all life had originated from the Lotus and that creation began when the lotus had gave birth to the dual God, Amon- Ra, on the surface of a primordial ocean. Like the sun, the lotus at dusk closes its flowers as it prepares for the dark night and at the first sign of the morning rays of the sun, it opens its flowers again as if it is “reborn by the light.”
This lotus symbolizes the separation of the God Amon-Ra who is both Amon, the Hidden God and the God of Truth who is our Ammon’s Horn (Hippocampus) and also Ra, the God of light who is Lucifer (Phosphorus) in our DNA represented in imagery by the sun. Source
Baha’i Lotus Temple in Delhi
The Heavenly analogies of the different religions can be reflected in the color spectacle of the Temple(opposite buildings should be painted in contrast colors, the center – Altar – should have synthesizing white color). Preserving specific features of each congregation all buildings, although, are to face the common Altar (Sanctum Sanctorum), thus being unified in one and the same complex. Multiplication of prayer pronounced in mutualsolidarity by the believers of all the mentioned congregations will become a new sacrifice-present to the Almighty,who has a long time been articulating the idea of peace and brotherhood into the ears of the whole human population of the Earth. This is what GOD calls burning strange fire on His Altar.
This way or that, one of the possible versions is a freewill amalgamation (joining up) of One-God religions on the Temple Mountain in Jerusalem by means of constructing the Third Temple for all the mankind. Then the ancient town will be changed into spiritual and ecclesiastical capital of the worldand into the world center of divine epistemology. Then the new religions will rehabilitate their lost positions(which had been caused by stagnation and ritual warship) in the future life of conciliated nations. As a center of this salutary, if it would have any chances to be put into reality, could serve Israel in unionwith most progressive in divine epistemology people from USA and Russia as it was once noted by Dm. Radyshevsky in one of his interviews, devoted to the issue of the book “Babylon and Jerusalem“. (MCF, Moscow – Jerusalem, 2002). In Israel, the Holy Land itself (the original mother of the three religions of One-God)is the perfect environment for ascetics (dèvotée) in the ecclesiastical and spiritual sphere. Side by side with inhabitants plunged in mercantilismthere are still many people ready to do welcome to God deeds, and those ones who are anxious for the fate of their nation. They are, of course, inhabitants of settlements, the followers of the rave A. I. Kook, religious Zionists, continuers of heroic deeds, started by the first Kibbutz settlers. They are many immigrants of all kinds of countryman associations, who have arrived here because of ideological reasons or who became the ones under the influence of Sacred environment here. They are also so called “secular believers”according to the well-aimed expression of A. Baratsa. Their anxiety and dèvotée show themselves first of all in the current of articles including also Russian-language press as well as in elucidative and political activity in Israel. This is all very interesting seeing that the Jews have outrightly declared the Israel is for JEWS ONLY, and they have very little tolerance even for those who have been known to be Jews from Ethiopia. They don’t allow Christians to immigrate to Israel but they here make it sound like we are all countrymen brought to the Holy Land for “ideological reasons” or came under the influence of the Sacred environment.
In the end, there are searches with the aim to bring up people able to combine enlightenment and moderateness with thirst for the greatest source of life, peace and people – thirst for the Most High.
Footnote: [1] Just the longevity and vital capacity of Israelite is the result of their faithfulness to their Heavenly Protector. Just the same way failures and tragedies of the Elected People are explained by deviation of a certain part of Israelite from the God’s Testaments: they don’t propagate inner national ethics to their interrelation with other nations: they have been the initiators and leaders of the mutiny in East Europe, persistently warship the idol of “Golden Calf”, hinder the Creator from spreading his authority among people. January 2005.
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REFORM MOVEMENT FUMES, CONSERVATIVES GIVE CAUTIOUS WELCOME
Although freeze of long-negotiated deal for mixed-gender prayer remains in force, government begins building enlarged space, but without key demands of liberal Jewish groups
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New construction of a permanent pluralistic prayer platform in the Davidson Archaeological Park at the Western Wall, February 5, 2018. (The Masorti Movement in Israel)
Workers on Thursday began construction of a long-delayed and controversial permanent pluralistic prayer pavilion at the Western Wall, in a move that met a mixed reaction, even from the egalitarian space’s biggest proponents.
Workers could be seen erecting scaffolding next to large sacks of building supplies in the Robinson’s Arch area near the existing temporary prayer platform it is meant to replace.
The original government decision to build the pavilion dates back to January 31, 2016, when the Israeli government — spurred by decades of high-profile activism by the Women of the Wall feminist prayer group— approved the so-called Western Wall compromise. Painstakingly negotiated since 2012 with leaders of liberal Judaismandother prominent figures, this provided for the construction of a permanent pluralistic area. Other key aspects of the plan included a single entrance shared with the Orthodox sex-segregated prayer pavilion, and the establishment of a board of pluralistic Jewry to oversee the mixed-gender area.
But on June 25, 2017, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu froze the 2016 compromise. While killing off the joint entrance and pluralistic governing board, however, he vowed to continue with construction of a permanent platform.
“In June 2017 the Prime Minister ordered construction to be expedited of the new plaza. What we are seeing now is the implementation of that order,” an official at the Prime Minister’s Office said on Monday.
Monday’s start of construction was cautiously welcomed by the Israeli Masorti movement— the local Conservative Movement — which oversees the existing pluralistic platform and holds twice-weekly prayer there.
Head of the Masorti movement Dr. Yizhar Hess said that while the movement objects to the June 25 freeze of the other key sections of the plan, “there is also importance to the physical parts of the outline that we have agreed upon, and I hope they at least will be completed.”
The Masorti movement emphasized in a press release that it was not privy to the scope of the construction.
New construction of a permanent pluralistic prayer platform in the Davidson Archaeological Park at the Western Wall, February 5, 2018. (The Masorti Movement in Israel)
“We still won’t be able to consecrate the finished product, but we can certainly welcome something, and I am not downplaying that,” said Hess.
In contrast, the Reform Movement condemned the government for pushing ahead with the constructionwithout consulting any of the other parties involved.
“The state has started work on the section without coordination and without informing us what will be built. We only found out about the construction by chance,” a Reform spokesperson told the Times of Israel.
The Jewish Agency said in response, “We continue to maintain that the plan presented by Chairman [Natan] Sharansky and adopted by the government after extensive talks with all relevant parties remains the most reasonable, equitable, and workable solution, which will ensure that the Western Wall remains, in the Prime Minister’s words, ‘one Wall for one people.’”
Earlier this week, Israeli broadcaster Kan had reported that the Israel Antiquities Authority began overseeing preparation work for the permanent prayer platform in the southern portion of the Wall.
The IAA would not respond to queries, referring questions to the Prime Minister’s Office.
Likewise, Women of the Wall told The Times of Israel on Monday, “Our only statement is that we’re waiting for the High Court’s decision.” Petitions on a variety of issues relating to the Western Wall from several bodies, including the Women of the Wall and Israel Reform Action Center (IRAC), both headed by Anat Hoffman, have been joined together by the High Court. Among these issues is the legality of the June 25 freeze.
A March 2016 view of the mixed-gender prayer section at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Old City. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Although back in 2016the initial plan was warmly embraced by liberal and Diaspora Jewry, it was immediately met with controversy as Israeli ultra-Orthodox politicians stepped into the fray and vowed to stop it.
As a result, Diaspora Jewry took up the cause of the pluralistic platform, which has become a point of increased friction between Israel and world Jewry. The ongoing saga quickly reached the High Court, which has held countless hearings on the matter since.
The plan would create a unified, 9,700-square-foot prayer space that touches the Western Wall at a narrow point in the southwest corner and broadens as it extends backward. The prayer space would touch a 31-foot segment (9.5 meters) of the wall. This picture also shows what the section’s entrance will look like: a wide staircase and flat walkway leading to the prayer space. (JTA)
A remnant of a wall supporting the Second Temple complex destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE, the Western Wall has been honored by Jews for thousands of years. It is the holiest place where Jews can pray because of its proximity to the Temple Mount, the holiest place in Judaism, which is administered by the Muslim Waqf and houses Islam’s third-holiest site, al-Aqsa mosque, and the Dome of the Rock.
The pluralistic pavilion is located in the Davidson Archaeological Parkin an area called Robinson’s Arch. It is out of sight of the current “mainstream” Orthodox prayer plaza, separated from it by the ramp leading up to the Mughrabi Gate, which is the only entrance for non-Muslims to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
If completed, the new permanent pavilion will greatly enlarge the modest prayer deckwhich has served liberal Jewry since 2000.Likewise it will replace the larger temporary bleacher-like platform that was put upby Diaspora Affairs Minister Naftali Bennett ahead of the High Holy Days in 2013.
What exactly was the plan and how did it go awry?
Upon the passage of the January 2016 government decision to move forward with the pluralistic platform, the Women of the Wall released a statement to international media, proclaiming, “In approving this plan, the state acknowledges women’s full equality at the Kotel and the imperative of freedom of choice in Judaism in Israel.The creation of a third section of the Kotel sets a strong precedent in women’s status in Israel:women as administrators of a holy site, women as leaders, women as influential force not to be ignored or silenced.”
Police escort Anat Hoffman holding a Torah scroll from the Western Wall, on July 12, 2010. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
Much of the impetus of the plan was the plight of the Women of the Wall, whose colorful arrests for attempting to pray or read from the Torah at the Western Wall had captured the attention of international media.This new “pro-woman” plan would also decriminalize women’s prayer at the Western Wall,which was previously theoretically punishable by up to six months in prison or a fine of NIS 500.
In addition to being a “victory for women,” the plan was seen as an official recognition of liberal Jewry. The day after its announcement, a jubilant Rabbi Rick Jacobs, head of the Reform Movement, told The Times of Israel, “Clearly there’s more than one authentic way to be a Jewish person,and the State of Israel is built on that, but it hasn’t always lived up to it. Today it is echoing in our communities… in Kansas and in Oregon, that the State of Israel knows they are there. Symbolically this is something that shifts how we think about ourselves, how we think about the state.”
The compromise was long in coming: In 2012, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tapped Jewish Agency head Natan Sharansky and then cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit to negotiate a compromise between liberal Jewry, the Women of the Wall, and the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, headed by the rabbi of the Western Wall, Shmuel Rabinovitch.
On January 31, 2016, the government passed the decision that mandated an enlarged permanent prayer platform, which would be easily accessible 24 hours a day and visible from the Western Wall plaza. The existent temporary prayer platform would double in size to allow for up to 1,200 worshipers.
Rabbi Rick Jacobs, center, and other progressive Jews clashing with security guards in front of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, November 16, 2017. (Noam Rivkin Fenton/via JTA)
There was to be a joint committee overseeing the southern site, made up of two Reform leaders, two Conservative leaders, two non-Orthodox women representatives, the Jewish Agency chairman, and six government officials. As part of the compromise, the “mainstream” Orthodox pavilion would be continued to be administered by Rabinovitch.
The government’s 2016-17 budget set aside NIS 35 million (almost $9 million) for the plan. According to the cabinet decision, NIS 5 million would come from the Prime Minister’s Office, NIS 5 million from the Diaspora Ministry (2017) and NIS 5 million from the Finance Ministry. The Jewish Agency pledged another NIS 10 million and the Finance Ministry was to come up with the remaining NIS 10 million for 2016.
The compromise soon faced criticism by ultra-Orthodox politicians, who threatened to pull their support from the Netanyahu government over its planned implementation.
Head of the Jewish Agency Natan Sharansky fights for a ‘strengthened connection between world Jewry and Israel’ at a July 6, 2016, demonstration in support of the conversions of New York Rabbi Haskel Lookstein. (Ezra Landau)
In 2016, at a press conference in Los Angeles, a prescient Sharansky put the issue into perspective, saying, “I personally believe… that the biggest challenge for the Jewish people… our biggest internal problem is how not to become two different people.” The Western Wall, said Sharansky, is merely “the most visual example of the problem.”
“Why is the Kotel such a big problem? It is the number one religious site, and the number one national site. There is no place in the world which is at the same time the number one religious site, the closest place to God, and number one national site which includes all our history, from King David through the Six Day War,” said Sharansky.
By the government freeze in June 25, 2017, the compromise had stagnated for 17 months, to the growing frustration of all involved. In pressing pause on the plan, Netanyahu supports said in June that it was actually being given new life.
“The symbolic piece was holding the practical piece hostage,” an anonymous government official told JTA. “What was frozen yesterday was the symbolic part. The practical part of advancing the prayer arrangements, that can now move forward.”
For one week in September, a small structure of four walls and a bit of balcony, called the Alpert Youth Music Center will become AMEN.
By NOGA TARNOPOLSKY/THE MEDIA LINE
Published: JUNE 27, 2016 05:38
A Christian man dressed up as Santa Claus rings a bell as he sits on a camel at Mt. Olives back-dropped by Jerusalem’s Old City skyline
(photo credit: AFP PHOTO)
In theory, this should not be a big deal: men and women of faith, who share a belief in one God and a love for the city of Jerusalem, coming together to pray, study and sing.
In practice, it is about as plausible as a snowball’s chance in the desert.
But, for one week in September, a small structure of four walls and a bit of balcony, called the Alpert Youth Music Center will become AMEN, a home for something that has never before been attempted in the Holy City– a place of worship for the three great monotheistic religions “who share a passion for Jerusalem in which they will co-exist temporarily under the wings of the Almighty.”
Under the radar, away from the public eye,a small clutch of religious leaders have been gathering for years to believe, to hope and to reconnect via the atavistic language of faith.
The experiment, of which the public will see merely the tip of the iceberg in the weeklong joint house of worship, is no less a turning inwards towards an ancestral form of communionthan it is an explicit turning away from the polarization and vulgarity of contemporary political discourse.
Speaking with The Media Line, TamarElad-Appelbaum, the rabba (feminine form of rabbi) and founder of the Zion synagogue community in Jerusalem, told The Media Line “This sort of thing is very natural for an entire sector of the public. You pray together. It goes back to the most ancient ways people here in this city prayed, and prayed communally, so communicated. Today we live in categories that, frankly, we could do without.”
“When you move beyond certain empty but limiting borders in which we are by and large constrained today, you find a yearning for a shared experience that our forefathers invented, that is in no way separate from the distinct heritage each of us carries. There is nothing new age about this. We are not creating anything new. It is very important that it be clear: It is the real Jewish tradition in which others were invited and we were invited; and in our joint work we are very strict about hosting and visiting.”
The concept they have created, which the believing public is invited to join between September 5 to 11, is part of a festival known as Mekudeshet, Blessed, part of Jerusalem’s Season of Culture.
“The reality is based on Isaiah’s prophecy, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations.’” It is, the festival organizers say, “an old-new reality that draws its inspiration from the ancient traditions of meeting and cooperation. A reality that turns what is holy for you and for me from separate rooms into one open temple that is filled with shared and sacred inspiration and faith.”
Said simply, the organizers’ ambition, strategy and hope is that, in fact,religion is the key to a lasting life in the region, and not the source of the strife.
“I think many of us who grew up in a very wide spectrum of traditional worlds grew into the Torah concept of darchei noam, pleasant ways. Political dialogue has alienated many of these publics that are deeply steeped in traditions, many people who come from Jewish education, many of them intuitively find themselves in this place in which the language of invocation is the language of communication between people,because society and politics now speak only in a very polarized way. Nothing else is given expression.”
“I was quite astonished,” said Elad-Appelbaum, “to find how naturally, a very wide range of people were drawn to return to a simple, natural, primal place of fellowship and pleasant ways. As the years have passed, I see there are hundreds of people who with proper leadership can create something entirely new.
Sheikh Ihab Balha, of the Sufi Muslim community in Jaffa, who also teaches and studies at the Islamic College in Baqa al-Gharbiyye, in the lower Galilee, told The Media Line that the leaders of this movement, revolutionary as it is, “did not have difficulty connecting to create this idea, most of us have a great spiritual aspect and an awarenessthat when you cling to many things like land (pull us apart) on the contrary, we cling in to the love of God. So it was not at all difficult to bring us together.”
“In terms of the idea,” he said, “our reality is that in the State of Israel and with the Palestinians we live in a reality of war and with media that harm people left and right and maximize cleavages and estrangement, and we have leaders that maintain this attitude – it’s clear as light. So we intend creating something religious and true against the lie that everything is a lie and only war exists. We people of faith believe that the distance of politicians and leaders from the world of religious life and we have come to see that it is specifically religionthat can bring peace, not contentious negotiations.”
Yair Harel, the cantor, composer and liturgical leader at the Zion community, who works with Elad-Appelbaum told The Media Line “my role is to find how the religious connection also has an artistic and musical dimension, how the encounter that we live can be opened up to the public as well, to a public that does not live in its daily life with the intensity that we do, but a way that remains organic and holds a space that belongs to any sort of religious people, not just believers.”
“We are a group for whom the pure desire was to create a group for whom this is the daily practice of life, it is our way of encountering ourselves, though we do not necessarily do it all day. But prayer does not only occur in the world of knowledge or tradition; we listen very much to the learning that has accumulated among us and try to peel back what the differences are without falling back onto a lower common denominator or have anyone of us feel that our work is inauthentic. We are coming from a deeper root, a deep human language. We believe in the power of prayer to influence what is taking place,” concluded Harel.
Maybe we should not be too surprised. Maybe we should have seen it coming. Incredible as it seems, it is now a shocking reality. What people would have thought impossible not so long ago is now coming to pass.While not actually new on the scene, it is relatively new to America. What is it? The answer is Chrislam! Christian and Muslim leaders have been meeting together for months to work on mixing together Christianity and Islam into one religion.They are trying to form an ecumenicalmerger of these two opposing creeds into a new and strange partnership. And they are giving it the combination name of ―Chrislam.‖ It is incredibly true that some well-known Christian leaders are encouraging Christian pastors across America to embrace this ecumenical concept of combining Christianity and Islam. The conservative Christian Coalition newsletter reports that already some 130 Christian leaders in 22 states have revealed their involvement.They are falsely declaring that Christians and Muslims worship the same God, and they are ridiculously claiming that Christianity and Islam are both peaceful, monotheistic religions with similar beliefs and values. This is a lie straight from the great deceiver himself.Islam and Christianity are exact opposites.Just as water andoil do not mix, it is impossible for Christianity and Islam to mix. The Bible calls on Christians to seek peace and love their neighbor. Islam calls on its followers to kill all who will not convert to Allah‘s teachings. In other words, fundamental, Koran believing Muslims believe everyone must convert to Islam or die. Informed Christians and Jews know that Allah was an Arab moon god whose name Mohammed elevated to be the name of Islam‘s highest power. That is why the crescent moon and a star are on the Islamic flag and on Islamic houses of worship. Informed people know that fundamentalist Muslim clerics have loudly and clearly declared jihad, or holy war, against all infidels ― that is, all non-Muslims of the world.And informed people know that the Koran says that by killing an infidel, a Muslim is assured of a place in heaven. We must stand against the evil spirit of Islam which says all who love the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob must be eliminated.
In an article dated January 22, 2011 written by Debra Rae in NewsWithViews.com, she reports that Memorial Drive Presbyterian church in Houston, Texas has joined with other Presbyterian churches in Atlanta,Seattle and Detroit to encourage ecumenical reconciliation between Christianity and Islam. In the article she said, ―Theirs was a celebration of a worldview potpourri mixing together elements of Christianity and Islam.‖ In her article, part 6 of the ―Lost Art of Critical Thinking,‖ Ms. Rae went on to reveal that these churches have declared the Bible and the Koran to be of equal authenticity as sacred texts and even placed copies of the Koran in the pews next to the Bibles. Ms. Rae points out that some Christian supporters of Chrislam believe that ―if American tolerance of ‛Chrislam‘ were rejected, then the ongoing conflict between East and West would escalate beyond repair.This slippery-slope fallacy presumes a sort of chain reaction, destined to end with dire consequences that otherwise might have been averted.‖ In other words, it would be purely the Christians‟ fault for not joininghands with those of the Islamic faith.
The Bible clearly states that Christians are to be „in the world but not of the world.‟ Christian leaders who are embracing “Chrislam” and encouraging others to do the same are literally playing with fire. Have they not studied their Bibles?
Are they hearing and believing the voice of the serpent in the Garden of Eden when he enticed Eve to be disobedient by saying, “Surely thou shalt not die?”
What does any of this have to do with Israel? By now we all know that the heart and soul of Islam is to see all Christians and Jews removed from the face of the earth. If proponents of Chrislam are successful in recruiting numbers of people who call themselves Christians, then not only will the Muslims want to see Israel and all Jews annihilated, but the Chrislamists will also now become of part of this evil,anti-Semiticforce. Chrislam is apostasy and anyone who buys into this false concept is on a very slippery slope. http://www.thejerusalemconnection.us/blog/2011/10/06/chrislam-straight-from-the-pitsof-hell.html Religious Leaders Say Best Hope For Peace Lies In United Global Super Church
Denver’s religious leaders said on the 10th anniversary of 911 that the best hope for peace begins with the world’s faith traditions coming together.
In service of that ideal, representatives of the three Monotheistic faiths — Judaism, Islam and Christianity — gathered at St. John’s CathedralSunday to have “Conversations That Matter” and “A Multifaith Service of Remembrance Healing and Hope.” In forums held all afternoon, people talked about difficult subjects, including what bothers them about their own religions. They talked about their greatest fears about other religions. They learned some of what each faith’s sacred texts says about the other. They discussed ways for different groups to conduct respectful dialogue with each other.
To wrap up the forums, Jonny 5 of the Flobots, a Christian rapper, hosted a final
special event called “an interactive, interfaith performance/workshop.” http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_18874132?source=rss
The Elijah Interfaith Institute approached SKOLNICK to develop an interpretive master plan, architectural concept, and promotional materials for The Center of Hope. The Center is envisioned as a space of learning, a framework for meeting,an opportunity for friendship, a site for inspiration, a presentation of enlightenment, and a place where prayer for peace can rise together from the faithful of all faiths and all peoples, in Jerusalem.
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A JOURNEY OF PEACE
The new facility will include spaces for lectures and conferences; an auditorium for public events and concerts; an exhibition hall for interreligious art exhibits; meeting spaces for scholars’ seminars, think tanks, and interreligious activity that takes place in and around the Holy Land; a museological display featuring the life of prayer in world religions; and inspiring prayer spaces where people of all faiths can pray alongside one another. spacer
There are a few things I want you to notice about this structure. Number 1, It looks like a question mark, all the way down to the dot at the bottom. Number two, The curve at the top is designed to resemble a scimitar (Muslim Sword) Number three, what is that little thing that looks like a Martian head at the head of the scimitar? and Number four, Not that part that looks almost like a piece of cloth reaching up and out? It resembles the Tallit or prayer shawl of the Jews. and Number five, what is that bell shaped structure directly beneath the “prayer shawl”? spacer
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In addition to providing visioning and architectural design services for this unique project, SKOLNICK also designed a booklet that has allowed the Elijah Interfaith Institute to help spread awareness about their vision and to assist them in raising funds for the creation of the Center.
“Jerusalem, holy to Islam, has been a pilgrim’s destination for Muslims for hundreds of years. The vision of creating a center holy to all religions allows every pilgrimage to open up to an interreligious experience. This is what today’s world needs.”
The firm Lee H. Skolnick Architecture + Design Partnership has been selected to design the Center for HOPE, a new, 46,000-square-foot center in Jerusalem for religious education, cultural sharing and prayer among members of different faith traditions.
Like a United Nations for the religious world, the planned Center for HOPE is conceived by its backers as a place where people of all religions have a welcoming home and a place to help “bring about world-changing peace and harmony,” according to The Elijah Interfaith Institute, the project’s leader.
Support for the Center for HOPE has come from around the world from financial supporters as well as religious leaders including: the Dalai Lama; Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Austria; Bhai Sahib Bhai Mohinder Singh of the U.K.; Grand Mufti Mustafa Ceric, of Bosnia; Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks of the U.K.; and Mata Amritanandamayi Devi of India.
Bosnia primarily Muslim Country, member of the UN and the EU, was once ruled by Austria. All the rest are part of the UK or related to it. Isn’t that interesting? We can imagine the “financial supporters”…who has the money and has been holding secret meetings to determine the fate of the world?
According to Lee H. Skolnick, FAIA, the Center for Hope will be located onProphets Street near Jerusalem’s Old City, designed with symbolic meaning that reflects its redolent (odorous, aromatic, odoriferous).location.
“HOPE stands for ‘House of Prayer and Education,’ and the Center for HOPE experience is designed to unfold as a journey of peace and ascension,” says Skolnick. “It is designed to provide beautiful prayer spaces, museum elements, art exhibition spaces, a library, a hospitality center, and study and lecture rooms for resident scholars.”
The ribbonlike, sloping buildings curve around a verdant courtyard with reflecting pools, and feature green roofs and sustainable design elements. The mission of the new center, according to the Elijah Interfaith Institute, is as follows:
“Through prayer, education and cultural sharing, the Center of Hope seeks to bring about transformation in the lives of participants, increased understandingand appreciation between members of different faith traditions and a meaningful contribution to processes of peacemaking,community building and reconciliation between diverse faith communities in Jerusalem, thereby serving as a sign and model for religions and their possible relationships worldwide.”
The Elijah Interfaith Institute was founded in Jerusalem in 1996 by Rabbi Dr. Alon Goshen-Gottstein, and it is recognized as one of the leading global organizations advancing the cause of interfaith understanding.
In ancient Egypt, the symbol for “plant” meaning “Tree of Life” was the three sacred lotus lilies. To ancient Egyptians and their children who still honor these customs, the lotus is the symbolic plant of life, immortality, resurrection and sacred knowledge. In the funeral and re-birth ceremonies, the lotus was closely associated with processions and the imagery of the funerary Cult of Osiris, in which we find the God of light and truth; Horus, seated upon the lotus (pictured to the left). Evidence of the lotus being involved in their funeral ceremonies had been found in the tomb of Ramesses II.
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