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" … I have decreed [the stablishing] of my throne, and I am the ruler thereof; and in very truth my mouth keepeth an even balance both in speech and in silence. In very truth my forms are inverted. I am Un-Nefer, from one period even unto another, and what I have is within me. I am the only One, who proceedeth from an only One, who goeth round about in his course. … " [Osiris, Papyrus Of Nu, 6] |
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"I am the great Word, I am a redeemer - so shall I be redeemed, and I shall be redeemed from all evil." [Atum, Pyramid Text, 1098]. |
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"Make your prayers with a heart of love, all of which are in secret." [Maxims Of Ani, 6] | "But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; … " [Matthew 6:6] Nice coincidence with the 6s. |
"You know not what you are doing, nor what you are saying, nor who you are." [Dionysus, to King Pentheus] | "Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." [Luke 23:34] |
"He who will not eat of my body and drink of my blood, so that he will be made one with me and I with him, the same shall not know salvation." [Mithraic inscription] | "Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him." [John 6:53-56] |
"He is the wisest who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is worth nothing." [Plato, Apology] | "And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know." [1 Corinthians 8:2] |
"For there is no light of the higher ideas which are precious to souls in the earthly copies of them, they are seen through a glass dimly." [Plato, Phaedrus] | "For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." [1 Corinthians 13:12] |
"Many carry the wand, but few become Bacchoi." [Plato] |
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"It is impossible for an exceptionally good man to be exceptionally rich." [Plato, Laws 743] |
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That's only about 90 feet long by 30 feet wide by 45 feet high (though The Testament Of Solomon gives the foundations as being 250 cubits long, or about 375 feet), the cherubim (not flying babies sans gender, but winged sphinxes) had a wingspan of 30 feet, and the pillars & chapters came to 60 feet.
The dimensions as given are in a ratio of 6:2:3 (strangely narrow for its height), with the pillars & chapters being 4, but some people have tried to read into this simple series the existence of φ, the Golden Ratio. The number is derived from (sqrt(5)+1)/2 or 2cos(π/5), and is approximately 1.61803398875. This number has many interesting features (for example 1/φ = φ-1, & φ2 = φ+1), and it exists in many buildings and geometrical patterns (most notably the pentagram, whose angles of 36°, 72°, & 108° are in the proportions of 1:2:3), and although a full ratio of 1618:1000 is a bit unwieldy, it reduces with minimal rounding to 8:5.
Whichever way you look at it, that is a ridiculous amount of manpower for a building that's only 90 by 30 by 45 feet.
Genesis 49:2-28 | Revelation 7:4-8 |
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Melchizedek is a title rather than a name, and formed from Melech ("King") & Tsedek ("Righteousness"), so calling him "King Of Righteousness" [Hebrews 7:2] merely translates his title; he was also known as the King Of Salem (Peace).
As the eternal priest of El Eljon (God most high / most high God), he was used both as a means of prophesying Jesus (who was himself made a high priest "for ever after the order of Melchisedec") where God says "But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; … " [Malachi 4:2], and of embodying him before his birth via Mary, when he became human and relinquished his immortality.