One of the most solemn days in history is Tisha B'Av, the ninth day in the month of Av according to the Hebrew calendar. Calamities of various sorts repeated on this very day throughout history. Although the misfortune varied, its impact gave all the people grief for each was severe. The first was the destruction of King Solomon's Temple in 587 BC. Inside the First Temple (Solomon's Temple) were artifacts of significance that became lost when the temple was destroyed. Among these was the Arc of the Covenant, the crucible that held the Tablets of Stone upon which were etched the Ten Commandments, decrees given to the world by God through Moses.
Other significant artifacts were lost upon the destruction of the First Temple including the Pot of Manna (Amritha or Nectar of Immortality), Aaron's Rod (staves of miraculous powers held by Moses' brother), the Jewels (candlestick), the Holy Oil, the Sacred Fire (symbolizing fertility, passion, vitality and inner illumination), and lastly, the Urim and Thummim used for divination. On the same day in 70 AD, as if to reaffirm the loss of inner illumination, the Holy Menorah vanished upon the destruction of the Second Temple by the Roman Army.
The Temple is a metaphor for the body and jewels represent the true ornaments of man: truth, right-action, peace, love and non-violence. Those were the jewels that were truly lost, and the outer casing to house them was destroyed as well. These truths have not yet been formally acknowledged, although they are self-evident upon deep inquiry.
The Golden Age
Although the outer worldly reality appears upside-down since the Land of Israel is crisscrossed today by a maze of walls and dividers, this prison was built from the perception of "keeping out the other to be safe." The only enemy of man is his own ignorance, and ultimately, these walls will collapse when this truth shines in natural splendor. That splendor is The Golden Age.
Some view The Golden Age of man as an event that will manifest on earth after 2012. In order to understand what a Golden Age is we need to know what the priority is for divine consciousness. What does our higher consciousness want for us?
You may feel tremendous comfort to know that there's merely one thing our higher consciousness wants from us, and that is not our devotion, nor all of our desires to be endlessly fulfilled. What our higher consciousness wishes for us is our spiritual transformation. This has been and always will be true. You may research any scripture, any spiritual teaching, and they all refine down to this one divine request.
So, I'd say then that whatever will stimulate our greatest spiritual transformation would be a Golden Age. It may not look like a cushy field in Paradise where humans exhibit extraordinary healing abilities, where there's a period of peace in the world, or where there is no starvation or lack. Rather a Golden Age might in fact be a confluence of events, structures, outer pressures and disturbances that push upon us to transform spiritually.
I realize this is not a common viewpoint, yet if we reflect deeply upon the purpose of human life, then we come closer to understanding, and also to detaching, from the worldly events that seem to be so disturbing. Acceptance reigns.
Retrieval of the Arc of the Covenant
Now, to the retrieval of the Arc of the Covenant: as you already felt, these artifacts of significance, these tremendous divine gifts, were lost as a reflection of the consciousness shifting darker. The artifacts no longer reflected the peoples' state of awareness. As soon as there is enough of a shift in global consciousness upward toward our true inner paradigm of love, these artifacts will once again be "found", or simply reappear based upon the following natural laws:
The outer always mirrors the inner.
We always regain what was lost when the time is right.
These Universal artifacts belong to everyone and were the gift of God to benefit humanity. When sufficient groups of people demonstrate "humanity" by practicing the core positive traits of love, peace, truth, right-action and non-violence, the tipping point will ensure the manifestation of a multitude of lost gems. One of the greatest of those, and one that will affirm our growth, will be the Tablets of Stone encased inside the Arc of the Covenant.
Diane Carol Mark has an active Amazon Author Page, a well-read Blog (with an admirable Google ranking), a multi-episode Podcast published on iTunes, is recognized as an Expert Author on Ezine Articles, and is published on Kindle and Nook. Diane is a professional fine artist who lives in the Pacific Northwest. Her novel Gold: The Zen of Dr. Shu Li will be published by FriesenPress in 2013. She has studied in an Intensive Individual Writers Program with author and teacher, Tom Bird. Her editor is the renowned Paul McCarthy, New York editor of nine #1 New York Times and international bestselling authors.
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