The Latter Day Saint movement was conceived as a restoration of practices believed to have been lost in a Great Apostasy from the true religion of Jesus Christ. Temple worship played a prominent part of the Bible's Old Testament and temples are mentioned in the New Testament and also in the Book of Mormon. On December 27, 1832 — a mere two years after the organization of the Latter Day Saint church — the movement's founder, Joseph Smith, Jr., reported receiving a revelation that called upon church members to restore the practice o ...

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Temple Mormonism, Temple Mormonism - History, Temple Mormonism - Purposes, Temple Mormonism - Temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Temple Mormonism - History, Temple Mormonism - Purposes, Temple Mormonism - Temple ordinances, Temple Mormonism - Requirements for entering LDS temples, Temple Mormonism - Temples in Other Latter Day Saint denominations, Temple Mormonism - Temple Comparison Chart

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Mahabodhi Temple - Rise of Buddhism. Traditional accounts say that, around 530 BC, Gautam Buddha, wandering as a monk, reached the sylvan banks of Falgu River, near the city of Gaya, India. There he sat in meditation under a peepul tree (Ficus religiosa or Sacred Fig), which later became known as the Bodhi tree. According to Buddhist scriptures, after three days and three nights, Siddharta attained enlightenment and the answers that he had sought. Mahab ...

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Legend has it that Hindu god, Ram paused at that spot on his way from Ayodhya to Lanka in pursuit of the demon, Ravana who had kidnapped his wife, Sita. He is said to have constructed the original lingam of sand, after having tired of waiting for his brother, Lakshman to bring a idol. The name is etymologically derived from the Sanskrit name for an idol made of sand - Valuka Iswar, an avatar of Shiva. When Ram was thirsty, as there was no fresh water readily available (except sea water), he shot an arrow and brought Ganga over ...

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Kedareshvara Temple: (Sanskrit) A temple in Karnataka which belonged to the Kalamukha sect of Saivism. Inscriptions upon it (1162) are a main source of knowledge about this now nearly extinct sect.

See: Kalamukha.

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Solomon's Temple.

See TEMPLE OF SOLOMON

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As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there are 54,514 people, 21,543 households, and 14,110 families residing in the city. The population density is 322.1/km² (834.2/mi²). There are 23,511 housing units at an average density of 138.9/km² (359.8/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 69.76% White, 16.49% African American, 0.51% Native American, 1.53% Asian, 0.09% Pacific Islander, 9.23% from other races, and 2.39% from two or more races. 17.82% of the p ...

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From the outside, the Jedi Temple appears as a high-raised ziggurat building in a stepped design, with five spires built on top, one taller spire surrounded by four smaller ones. These spires symbolize a Jedi's climb to enlightenment. Its design suggests that of a fortress, but for more than forty generations, it has stood as a symbol of peace and justice. The tallest Central Spire is known as the Temple Spire, and is traditionally the most important, since it holds the ancient texts of the Founding Jedi, and those scroll ...

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The Romans used the Latin word fanum for the temples of all other divinities than those traditionally revered by their native paganism, the state cult. As the corresponding Latin adjective is fanaticus, the modern word fanatic still reflects the disapproval by devote traditional Romans of various exotic religious practices. Nevertheless under the empire some of the imported cults, mainly from conquered people, such as the Persian Mithras and Egyptian divinities such as the mother-goddess Isis and Sera ...

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Roman temple, Roman temple - Pagan history and architecture, Roman temple - Fanum

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Vadakkunnathan temple is surrounded by a massive stone wall enclosing an area of nearly 8-9 acres. Inside this fortification there are four gopurams indicating the four directions - North, South, East and West. Apart from this four gopurams there is a multi-shrined complex in the center with three principal shrines dedicated to Siva or Vadakkunnathan, Sankaranarayana and Rama. In the northern side there is a circular structure with the deity facing west. The figure of Siva-Parvati faces east and is just behind Siva, in the same ...

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The sacred site at Ephesus was far older than the Artemisium. Pausanias understood the shrine of Artemis there to be very ancient. He states with certainty that it antedated the Ionic immigration by many years, being older even than the oracular shrine of Apollo at Didymi. He said that the pre-Ionic inhabitants of the city were Leleges and Lydians. The Temple was designed and constructed around 550 BC by the Cretan architect Chersiphron and his son Metagenes. This early construction was built at the expense of Croesus, the weal ...

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Temple was married first to actor John Agar in 1945; she was then 17, and they had one daughter, Linda Agar, later known as Susan Black, in 1948. They divorced in 1950 and later that year she married the Californian businessman Charles Black (1919-2005) and took his name. She may have looked favourably on his admission during their courtship that he had never seen any of her films. Together, they had two children; Lori and Charlie Black. They remained marri ...

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Shirley Temple, Shirley Temple - Film career, Shirley Temple - Family and career as Shirley Temple Black, Shirley Temple - Books, Shirley Temple - Filmography, Shirley Temple - Trivia

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Sri Narada purana mentions Guruvayurpura mahatmyan and describes how Janamejaya was cured of leprosy by taking refuge under the feet of Guruvayuruppa. The Pandavas handed over the kingdom to their grandson Parikshit, and left for the forest to spend their last days. Parikshit died of the curse of a saint, who cursed that Parikshit will die of snake bite by Takshaka, the king of serpents. After the death of Parikshit he was suceeded by his son Janamejaya. Janamejaya conducted a sacrifice to destroy all the snakes of the world in ...

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Guruvayoor Temple, Guruvayoor Temple - Legends, Guruvayoor Temple - Sthala Purana, Guruvayoor Temple - Temple Architecture, Guruvayoor Temple - Famous Devotees

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The temple, when completed, was consecrated and the sacrificial observances known as the korbanot were commenced once again, amid great rejoicings on the part of all the people (Ezra 6:16), although it was evident that the Jews were no longer an independent people, but were subject to a foreign power. The Book of Haggai records a prediction (2:9) that the glory of the second temple would be greater than that of the first. This temple, during the different periods of its existence, is often regarded by believers as but one house, the one only house of God. See also:

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In 1986 Jouret and Di Mambro moved to the Canadian province of Quebec, establishing a chapter of the Order of the Solar Temple near Montreal and Quebec City. They bought a chalet complex in Morin Heights, complete with indoor pool, along with a center in St-Anne-de-la-Pérade. Jouret also brought some other of his loyal followers from Switzerland. The group believed that there was going to be a coming global catastrophe. Jouret declared that "the world would soon be engulfed in warfare and famine. Only Quebec would be spared…" A "giant concrete nuclear air-raid shelter ...

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Korean Buddhist temples - South Korea. These famous temples are grouped by province. Seoul Gyeingguksa Gwanneumsa Doseonsa Bongeunsa Yeonghwasa Jogyesa Jingwansa Gyeonggi Bogwonsa Bomunsa Jeondeungsa Bongnyeongsa Bongseonsa Silleuksa Yeonjuam Yongjusa Jajaeam Gangwon Guryingsa Naksansa Deung ...

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Various contemporary groups perceive themselves as fulfilling the tradition of the Knights Templar — an ancient Christian Order of warrior monks, authorized by the Pope during the Crusades, that had amassed great wealth and possessed great treasures. These treasures are variously speculated to be the Holy Grail, the head of Baphomet, proof of the survival of the historical Jesus after the crucifixion and/or marriage to Mary Magdalene. This wealth of the Templars disappeared without a trace after the leaders of the group were branded ...

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It is stated that the OTS absorbed another neo-templar organization called Foundation Golden Way, which was led by Joseph Di Mambro (1926 - 1995), who was born at Pont Saint-Esprit in France. Before founding the OTS, Joseph Di Mambro was also part of a Rosicrucian organization called AMORC (Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis), from 1956 to 1970. Di Mambro, who had been trained as a clock maker and jeweler, became interested in esoteric religions at an early age. He was arr ...

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This substantial structure was built by members of the early Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormonism) under the leadership of church founder and president Joseph Smith Jr.and dedicated March 27, 1836. The early church reported a great outpouring of spiritual experiences, including visitations by angels and holy messengers during the dedication. The temple was used as a meeting place for the Latter Day Saint worship, as a school, and included offices f ...

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Kirtland Temple, Kirtland Temple - History

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The Temple of Atal'Hakkar is located on an island in the Swamps of Sorrow in Azeroth. The ancient Gurubashi trolls during a civil war driven to desperate measures, sought the aid of the darkest god from the trolls' collective pantheon of primitive deities: Hakkar the Soulflayer. Hakkar was a vile and bloodthirsty spirit who exulted in blood sacrifice. Though he aided the Gurubashi trolls in greatly expanding their civilization throughout all of Stranglethorn and the islands of the South Seas, he demanded a great price. The bloodthirst ...

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The Sunken Temple, The Sunken Temple - Background, The Sunken Temple - Nomenclature, The Sunken Temple - Instance zone

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Of the many temples in Kumbakonam, the most striking is the Lord Sarangapani Temple, a Vaishnavite temple. This twelve storied 147 feet high temple was built by the Nayak Kings during 15th Century. The Ramaswamy Temple which depicts the paintings of Ramayanam is another important Vaishanavite temple in Kumbakonam. The greatness of Ramasamy Temple is said to be the only temple where Rama, Sita are in the same platform and also that Hanumar instead of Reading the Ramayana is playing the Veena. The entire deity is said to be made from Saligrama ...

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Kumbakonam, Kumbakonam - History, Kumbakonam - Geography, Kumbakonam - Administration, Kumbakonam - Economy, Kumbakonam - Temples, Kumbakonam - Chakrapani Temple, Kumbakonam - Somessar Temple, Kumbakonam - Kumbeswara Temple, Kumbakonam - Nageswaran Temple, Kumbakonam - The temple at Thirunageswarar, Kumbakonam - Airatesvara Temple, Kumbakonam - Education, Kumbakonam - People from Kumbakonam

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Temple of Solomon The building of this temple, according to the Bible, was first projected by King David, but on command of the Lord was not carried out by him because he had "shed much blood." David, however, assembled materials and workmen. To aid him in building the Temple, his son Solomon appealed to Hiram or Huram, King of Tyre, to send him a skillful artisan, and King Hiram sent Hiram Abif to Solomon, also workmen and additional supplies of timber.

According to the Biblical account the Temple was completely built, while according to Masonic tradition the building was left unfinished on account of the death of Hiram Abif. The temple after its completion retained its original splendor for only 33 years when the Egyptian King Shishak made war upon Rehoboam, Solomon's son, captured Jerusalem, and took away all the treasures of the temple and of the king's house. Its history is one of repeated profanation and of alternate spoilations and repairs, until finally in 588 BC it was entirely destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar in the reign of Zedekiah. Yet Herodotus who, some 150 years later, visited Tyre and described the temple of Melkarth and Astoreth, does not even mention the Temple of Solomon, supporting the view that there never was such a structure actually built.

Granting that there may be some historical background for the Biblical account, it is nevertheless allegorical throughout. Blavatsky compares the measurements given in the Bible with those of the Great Pyramid and the Tabernacle of Moses, all of which were constructed upon the same abstract formula derived from the number of years in the precessional cycle, and also upon integral values of pi, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to the diameter. Moses symbolized these "under the form and measurements of the tabernacle, that he is supposed to have constructed in the wilderness. On these data the later Jewish High Priests constructed the allegory of Solomon's Temple -- a building which never had a real existence, any more than had King Solomon himself, who is simply, and as much a solar myth as is the still later Hiram Abif, of the Masons, as Ragon has well demonstrated. Thus, if the measurements of this allegorical temple, the symbol of the cycle of Initiation, coincide with those of the Great Pyramid, it is due to the fact that the former were derived from the latter through the Tabernacle of Moses" (SD 1:314-5). And she refers to "the undeniable, clear, and mathematical proofs that the esoteric foundations, or the system used in the building of the Great Pyramid, and the architectural measurements in the Temple of Solomon (whether the latter be mythical or real), Noah's ark, and the ark of the Covenant, are the same" (SD 2:465).

The key to the meaning of Solomon's Temple is given by W. Q. Judge: it

"means man whose frame is built up, finished and decorated without the least noise. But the materials had to be found, gathered together and fashioned in other and distant places. . . . Man could not have his bodily temple to live in until all the matter in and about his world had been found by the Master, who is the inner man, when found the plans for working it required to be detailed. They then had to be carried out in different detail until all the parts should be perfectly ready and fit for placing in the final structure. So in the vast stretch of time which began after the first almost intangible matter had been gathered and kneaded, the material and vegetable kingdoms had sole possession here with the Master -- man -- who was hidden from sight within carrying forward the plans for the foundations of the human temple. All of this requires many, many ages, since we know that nature never leaps. And when the rough work was completed, when the human temple was erected, many more ages would be required for all the servants, the priests, and the counselors to learn their parts properly so that man, the Master, might be able to use the temple for its best and highest purposes" (Ocean 20).

Thus David, who collected materials for the building but was not permitted actually to build the temple, represents the evolutionary and preparatory work of earlier rounds and of the earlier root-races preceding the middle of the third root-race of this round, when humanity appeared upon the scene -- Solomon, David's son -- takes up the task of the actual building of the human temple. David thus mystically may stand for the lunar or barhishad-pitris, and Solomon for the solar or agnishvatta-pitris.

According to the Old Testament, the building of the temple was completed, but it was used for its high purposes only briefly. Allegorically this was during the Golden Age of the childhood of the human race -- the building was complete only as regards childhood when the gods walked among mankind and were their divine instructors; but humanity was not yet truly human, for manas (mind) had not yet been awakened by the manasaputras of whom Hiram Abif was a type. It is here that Masonic tradition should be studied together with the Biblical account. Then with the awakening of manas, and the eating from the Tree of Knowledge and hence the power to choose between good and evil -- in other words, with the beginning of self-directed evolution, the temple was desecrated again and again. "The building of the Temple of Solomon is the symbolical representation of the gradual acquirement of the secret wisdom, or magic; the erection and development of the spiritual from the earthly; the manifestation of the power and splendor of the spirit in the physical world, through the wisdom and genius of the builder. The latter, when he has become an adept, is a mightier king than Solomon himself, the emblem of the sun or Light himself -- the light of the real subjective world, shining in the darkness of the objective universe. This is the 'Temple' which can be reared without the sound of the hammer, or any tool of iron being heard in the house while it is 'in building' " (IU 2:391).

Again, the building of a temple, sanctuary, Holy of Holies, etc., always signified in the occult language of ancient days the founding and dissemination throughout the world or a portion of mankind of a secret doctrine of nature. In a more restricted sense, the building of a temple referred to the actual establishment of an initiation center, where not only for such territory the ancient wisdom and its divine significances were taught, but disciples were trained and brought to the "new" or "second" birth, and thenceforth themselves became adepts or initiates. On these lines the building of Solomon's Temple was the inauguration and establishment of the teaching of nature's occult wisdom in Judea and surrounding territory.

(See also: Temple of Solomon, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body mind and Soul)

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