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Re: The Spanish Solomon's Temple
Posted By: Oscar Calle In Response To: (Message Deleted by Poster) (Prophet Solomon)
Date: Friday, 29 October 2004, at 9:00 a.m.
Mr. Solomon,
evidently, the monastery of El Escorial (built in the 16th Century near Madrid, Spain) is not the Temple of Jerusalem. In fact there were several temples in Jerusalem: the First Temple or Temple of Solomon, depicted in the Book of the Kings, with its columns, its sea and its ark; the Second Temple, built after the Exile, without columns, without sea and without ark; the Temple of Hezekiel (that was a unaccomplished theoretical project), and the Temple of Herod the Great, built as an enlargement of the Second Temple. This is the temple that Jesus saw and Josephus depicted in his works.
The page on El Escorial that I linked shows that El Escorial (that is a Christian monastery, not a temple), unlike the thoughts of the most of Spanish historians, has a design based on the description provided by Josephus on the Temple of Herod. In fact, the lastest research on the figure of King Felipe II of Spain, builder of the Monastery, shows that this king claimed that he was a descendant of King Solomon (and the statues in the Monastery, in the "Patio de los Reyes", are the proof), and even thought he was his reincarnation. Like the Great Pyramid of Keops, one cannot understand the greatness of that building through photos and videos, it is necessary to contemplate it in person, King Felipe II built a "salomonic construction" that is worthy seeing.
-The Oscarial
- The Spanish Solomon's Temple
Oscar Calle -- Tuesday, 10 February 2004, at 5:50 a.m.- (Message Deleted by Poster)
Prophet Solomon -- Friday, 29 October 2004, at 5:10 a.m.- Re: The Spanish Solomon's Temple
Oscar Calle -- Friday, 29 October 2004, at 9:00 a.m.
- Re: The Spanish Solomon's Temple
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