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The Holy of Holies of the Tabernacle was a perfect cube, formed of the
veil, and the 4 pillars which supported it. This cube was the central
theme of its design, and the unit of measurement by which all parts of
the Tabernacle were apportioned. For practical purposes, one edge of
this cube was divided into 10 equal parts, and each of these parts was
called a cubit. In other words, the Holy of Holies of the Tabernacle was
10 cubits long in each of its three dimensions. The Oracle of the
Temple, on the other hand, measured 20 cubits in each of its three
dimensions. This increase in size destroyed the perfect harmony of
design which had prevailed in the Tabernacle. In the Tabernacle, the
Holy of Holies was placed in the middle of the structure, and the
celestial angle of 23 1/2 degrees was brought down to the center of the
cubical room. This descending angle was the essential ingredient of
Jacob's ladder, and below the center of the cubical it exactly subtended
the 1 1/2 cubits of the Ark of the Covenant in section. It also did the
same for the Ark in longitudinal section. The 7th ordinate of Jacob's
ladder intersected the Arc in its exact center, and joined the celestial
an d terrestrial spheres. It was the axis about which the Tabernacle
formed a symmetrical design. These celestial ingredients set the Holy of
Holies up as a material token that the Tabernacle was indeed none other
but the House of God. This did not hold true of the arrangement in the
Temple, for its Oracle was at the rear of the main room, and its
volumetric displacement was 8 times that of the Tabernacle's Holy of
Holies.
THE ORIGIN OF MASONRY
V. The Holy of Holies and the Resurrection
by Cromwell Mensch 32 degree
THE NEW AGE - NOVEMBER 1948