mac22
I would give it a poor rating ......AND explain WHY I gave it a poor rating... just a thought....
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Yygdrasilian said:There is still the question, however, of just what it is the Templars did dig up, if anything. As I recall, there was supposedly 9 knights in the original charter that spent something like 4 years digging a tunnel to an area beneath where they believed Solomon’s Temple had been located. Whatever it is they actually found, they invested a good deal of personal time and energy looking for it.
Is it really that far-fetched they could have at least found some scrolls pertaining to what we now call the Kabballah?
I agree, no one should make claims that whatever it is they found is now part of the historical record as, obviously, no one recorded it. Or, if they did, no one's picked up on it yet (Or have they?).
One could make a case for the Grail legends / Arthurian cycle being a Templar translation of such a hypothetical document. Seems there’s a precedent for this type of scholarly speculation; and it starts with a capital Q.
Personally, I think they found the Ark of the Covenant. But you can call me crazy.
Oh, yeah . . . what's your favorite color?
My Education Took A sTRange Occult turNRoss G Caldwell said:Yes, it's far-fetched. What makes you even entertain the idea?
a website citing a book describing a text whose origins are obscure said:“The following text came from the 1906 Public Domain Jewish Encyclopedia. This entry thus needs updating by people familiar with the subject.”
“According to modern historians, the origin of the text is unknown, and hotly debated. Some scholars emphasize its context among various Medieval kabbalistic texts arising after the 10th century CE, while other scholars emphasize the earlier traditions apparently referring to it and its earlier textual features. Some of the core ideas in the book seem to have a Babylonian origin. The idea of the creative power of the various sounds is possibly Egyptian.”
“The Sefer Yetzirah describes the universe as being created through Ten Numbers ('Sefirot,' the origin for the Sefirot of later Kabbalah), Three Mother Letters, Seven Double Letters and Twelve Elemental Letters and that God created the universe through these four structures. These structures correspond to the astrological symbols in the sky, the planets, human physical functions, the parts of the human body.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sefer_Yetzirah
OOOH yes. (I get e-mails like that sometimes.....)Teheuti said:I received a private email from someone saying that I'm behaving badly by presenting this (on another list) and "making facts God." That I'm showing a repressed rage that makes people very uncomfortable and that I shouldn't make accusations.
Have I really been this out of line in bringing it to the attention of the tarot community?
How do you get to rate it ????? Ooh - wicked idea has just surfaced.....mac22 said:I would give it a poor rating ......AND explain WHY I gave it a poor rating... just a thought....
Mac22