http://thebabylonmatrix.com/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Template%3AObelisksTemplate:Obelisks - Revision history2026-07-30T08:09:27ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.36.1http://thebabylonmatrix.com/index.php?title=Template:Obelisks&diff=12211&oldid=prevCommendatori at 14:24, 25 August 20132013-08-25T14:24:07Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* The pagan association of the obelisk was something well understood by the church. '''The [[911:Jesuit_Order|Jesuit]] scholar, [[w:Athanasius Kircher|Athanasius Kircher]] [http://www.associatepublisher.com/e/a/at/athanasius_kircher.htm] in his book [http://diglib.hab.de/wdb.php?distype=thumbs&dir=drucke%2F66-1-quod-2f Obeliscus Pamphilius], published in 1650, gives an account of the ancient views of the obelisk as the ''"<u>digitus solis</u>"'', or ''"<u>finger of the sun</u>"'' '''. [[w:Pope Sixtus V|Pope Sixtus V]] (1585 - 1590) had the Egyptian obelisks erected all over Rome, as [[w:Counter-Reformation|Counter-Reformation]] monuments. [http://www.hol.com/~mikesch/wheel.htm] (Also see: [http://books.google.com/books?id=NXIJKxoFmJ0C&pg=PA174&lpg=PA174&dq=%22digitus+solis%22&source=bl&ots=gQp0qZVain&sig=_m4zjdrJRMWxiulQEkm4VjS98jc&hl=en&ei=s-jzTO-dGs2hOrGU8NMK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&sqi=2&ved=0CE0Q6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=%22digitus%20solis%22&f=false Nature as model: Salomon de Caus and early seventeenth-century landscape design] p. 174, By Luke Morgan)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* The pagan association of the obelisk was something well understood by the church. '''The [[911:Jesuit_Order|Jesuit]] scholar, [[w:Athanasius Kircher|Athanasius Kircher]] [http://www.associatepublisher.com/e/a/at/athanasius_kircher.htm] in his book [http://diglib.hab.de/wdb.php?distype=thumbs&dir=drucke%2F66-1-quod-2f Obeliscus Pamphilius], published in 1650, gives an account of the ancient views of the obelisk as the ''"<u>digitus solis</u>"'', or ''"<u>finger of the sun</u>"'' '''. [[w:Pope Sixtus V|Pope Sixtus V]] (1585 - 1590) had the Egyptian obelisks erected all over Rome, as [[w:Counter-Reformation|Counter-Reformation]] monuments. [http://www.hol.com/~mikesch/wheel.htm] (Also see: [http://books.google.com/books?id=NXIJKxoFmJ0C&pg=PA174&lpg=PA174&dq=%22digitus+solis%22&source=bl&ots=gQp0qZVain&sig=_m4zjdrJRMWxiulQEkm4VjS98jc&hl=en&ei=s-jzTO-dGs2hOrGU8NMK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&sqi=2&ved=0CE0Q6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=%22digitus%20solis%22&f=false Nature as model: Salomon de Caus and early seventeenth-century landscape design] p. 174, By Luke Morgan)</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** From Masonic Literature, the only place where we can get some understanding of the symbols we are confronted with when we go to Rome and visit St Peter's Square. "The Sun is symbolized by a point in the middle in Freemasonry.. In this case the obilisk serves as the middle. The Ancient Astronomers saw all the great Symbols of Masonry in the Stars, (l'Etoile Flamboyante). The Sun is still symbolized by the point within a Circle; and, with the Moon and Mercury or Anubus, in the three Great Lights of the Lodge. .. (they) were ascribed peculiar divine powers. (It is also) an emblem of UNITY. ([http://www.sacred-texts.com/mas/md/md26.htm Morals and Dogma , by Albert Pike- p. 486]) '''"The celebrated Labyrinth was built in honor of the Sun; and its twelve palaces, like the twelve superb columns of the Temple at Hieroplolis. The figure of the pyramid (on top of the obelisk) and that of the obelisk, resembling the shape of a flame, caused these monuments to be consecrated to the Sun and the Fire. Obelisks were erected in honor ot the Sun. ([http://www.sacred-texts.com/mas/md/md26.htm Ibid., - p.459,460]). The worship of the Sun became the basis of all the religions of antiquity.''' To them the Sun is author of life, heat, and ignition.. His (the sun's) beneficient influences caused his identification with the Principle of Good; and the Brahma of the Hindus, the Mithras of the Persians, and Athom, Phtha, and Osiris, of the Egyptians. the Bel of the Chaldeans, the Adonai of the Phoenicians, the Adonis and Apollo of the Greeks became but personifications of the Sun, the regenerating Principle, image of that fecundity which perpetuates and rejuvenates the world's existence. ([http://www.sacred-texts.com/mas/md/md29.htm Ibid., - p. 593]) [http://www.cephasministry.com/masonic_influence_on_the_vatican_4.html]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** From Masonic Literature, the only place where we can get some understanding of the symbols we are confronted with when we go to Rome and visit St Peter's Square. "The Sun is symbolized by a point in the middle in Freemasonry.. In this case the obilisk serves as the middle. The Ancient Astronomers saw all the great Symbols of Masonry in the Stars, (<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[http://www.levity.com/alchemy/etoile.html </ins>l'Etoile Flamboyante<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]</ins>). The Sun is still symbolized by the point within a Circle; and, with the Moon and Mercury or Anubus, in the three Great Lights of the Lodge. .. (they) were ascribed peculiar divine powers. (It is also) an emblem of UNITY. ([http://www.sacred-texts.com/mas/md/md26.htm Morals and Dogma , by Albert Pike- p. 486]) '''"The celebrated Labyrinth was built in honor of the Sun; and its twelve palaces, like the twelve superb columns of the Temple at Hieroplolis. The figure of the pyramid (on top of the obelisk) and that of the obelisk, resembling the shape of a flame, caused these monuments to be consecrated to the Sun and the Fire. Obelisks were erected in honor ot the Sun. ([http://www.sacred-texts.com/mas/md/md26.htm Ibid., - p.459,460]). The worship of the Sun became the basis of all the religions of antiquity.''' To them the Sun is author of life, heat, and ignition.. His (the sun's) beneficient influences caused his identification with the Principle of Good; and the Brahma of the Hindus, the Mithras of the Persians, and Athom, Phtha, and Osiris, of the Egyptians. the Bel of the Chaldeans, the Adonai of the Phoenicians, the Adonis and Apollo of the Greeks became but personifications of the Sun, the regenerating Principle, image of that fecundity which perpetuates and rejuvenates the world's existence. ([http://www.sacred-texts.com/mas/md/md29.htm Ibid., - p. 593]) [http://www.cephasministry.com/masonic_influence_on_the_vatican_4.html]</div></td></tr>
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</table>Commendatorihttp://thebabylonmatrix.com/index.php?title=Template:Obelisks&diff=8164&oldid=prevCommendatori at 03:01, 6 March 20112011-03-06T03:01:20Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* The pagan association of the obelisk was something well understood by the church. '''The [[911:Jesuit_Order|Jesuit]] scholar, [[w:Athanasius Kircher|Athanasius Kircher]] [http://www.associatepublisher.com/e/a/at/athanasius_kircher.htm] in his book [http://diglib.hab.de/wdb.php?distype=thumbs&dir=drucke%2F66-1-quod-2f Obeliscus Pamphilius], published in 1650, gives an account of the ancient views of the obelisk as the ''digitus solis'', or ''"finger of the sun"'' '''. [[w:Pope Sixtus V|Pope Sixtus V]] (1585 - 1590) had the Egyptian obelisks erected all over Rome, as [[w:Counter-Reformation|Counter-Reformation]] monuments. [http://www.hol.com/~mikesch/wheel.htm] (Also see: [http://books.google.com/books?id=NXIJKxoFmJ0C&pg=PA174&lpg=PA174&dq=%22digitus+solis%22&source=bl&ots=gQp0qZVain&sig=_m4zjdrJRMWxiulQEkm4VjS98jc&hl=en&ei=s-jzTO-dGs2hOrGU8NMK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&sqi=2&ved=0CE0Q6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=%22digitus%20solis%22&f=false Nature as model: Salomon de Caus and early seventeenth-century landscape design] p. 174, By Luke Morgan)</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* The pagan association of the obelisk was something well understood by the church. '''The [[911:Jesuit_Order|Jesuit]] scholar, [[w:Athanasius Kircher|Athanasius Kircher]] [http://www.associatepublisher.com/e/a/at/athanasius_kircher.htm] in his book [http://diglib.hab.de/wdb.php?distype=thumbs&dir=drucke%2F66-1-quod-2f Obeliscus Pamphilius], published in 1650, gives an account of the ancient views of the obelisk as the ''<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"<u></ins>digitus solis<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></u>"</ins>'', or ''"<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><u></ins>finger of the sun<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></u></ins>"'' '''. [[w:Pope Sixtus V|Pope Sixtus V]] (1585 - 1590) had the Egyptian obelisks erected all over Rome, as [[w:Counter-Reformation|Counter-Reformation]] monuments. [http://www.hol.com/~mikesch/wheel.htm] (Also see: [http://books.google.com/books?id=NXIJKxoFmJ0C&pg=PA174&lpg=PA174&dq=%22digitus+solis%22&source=bl&ots=gQp0qZVain&sig=_m4zjdrJRMWxiulQEkm4VjS98jc&hl=en&ei=s-jzTO-dGs2hOrGU8NMK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&sqi=2&ved=0CE0Q6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=%22digitus%20solis%22&f=false Nature as model: Salomon de Caus and early seventeenth-century landscape design] p. 174, By Luke Morgan)</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** The word ''matstsebah'' in Hebrew means standing images or obelisk and it can be found in many places of the Bible. Here is Strong's definition of the Hebrew word ''matstsebah'': [http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H4676&t=KJV H4676. matstsebah], ''mats-tsay-baw''; fem. (causat.) part. of [http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H5324&t=KJV H5324]; something stationed, i.e. a column or (memorial stone); by anal. an idol:--garrison, (standing) image, pillar.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** The word ''matstsebah'' in Hebrew means standing images or obelisk and it can be found in many places of the Bible. Here is Strong's definition of the Hebrew word ''matstsebah'': [http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H4676&t=KJV H4676. matstsebah], ''mats-tsay-baw''; fem. (causat.) part. of [http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H5324&t=KJV H5324]; something stationed, i.e. a column or (memorial stone); by anal. an idol:--garrison, (standing) image, pillar.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** From Masonic Literature, the only place where we can get some understanding of the symbols we are confronted with when we go to Rome and visit St Peter's Square. "The Sun is symbolized by a point in the middle in Freemasonry.. In this case the obilisk serves as the middle. The Ancient Astronomers saw all the great Symbols of Masonry in the Stars, (l'Etoile Flamboyante). The Sun is still symbolized by the point within a Circle; and, with the Moon and Mercury or Anubus, in the three Great Lights of the Lodge. .. (they) were ascribed peculiar divine powers. (It is also) an emblem of UNITY. ([http://www.sacred-texts.com/mas/md/md26.htm Morals and Dogma , by Albert Pike- p. 486]) '''"The celebrated Labyrinth was built in honor of the Sun; and its twelve palaces, like the twelve superb columns of the Temple at Hieroplolis. The figure of the pyramid (on top of the obelisk) and that of the obelisk, resembling the shape of a flame, caused these monuments to be consecrated to the Sun and the Fire. Obelisks were erected in honor ot the Sun. ([http://www.sacred-texts.com/mas/md/md26.htm Ibid., - p.459,460]). The worship of the Sun became the basis of all the religions of antiquity.''' To them the Sun is author of life, heat, and ignition.. His (the sun's) beneficient influences caused his identification with the Principle of Good; and the Brahma of the Hindus, the Mithras of the Persians, and Athom, Phtha, and Osiris, of the Egyptians. the Bel of the Chaldeans, the Adonai of the Phoenicians, the Adonis and Apollo of the Greeks became but personifications of the Sun, the regenerating Principle, image of that fecundity which perpetuates and rejuvenates the world's existence. ([http://www.sacred-texts.com/mas/md/md29.htm Ibid., - p. 593])</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** From Masonic Literature, the only place where we can get some understanding of the symbols we are confronted with when we go to Rome and visit St Peter's Square. "The Sun is symbolized by a point in the middle in Freemasonry.. In this case the obilisk serves as the middle. The Ancient Astronomers saw all the great Symbols of Masonry in the Stars, (l'Etoile Flamboyante). The Sun is still symbolized by the point within a Circle; and, with the Moon and Mercury or Anubus, in the three Great Lights of the Lodge. .. (they) were ascribed peculiar divine powers. (It is also) an emblem of UNITY. ([http://www.sacred-texts.com/mas/md/md26.htm Morals and Dogma , by Albert Pike- p. 486]) '''"The celebrated Labyrinth was built in honor of the Sun; and its twelve palaces, like the twelve superb columns of the Temple at Hieroplolis. The figure of the pyramid (on top of the obelisk) and that of the obelisk, resembling the shape of a flame, caused these monuments to be consecrated to the Sun and the Fire. Obelisks were erected in honor ot the Sun. ([http://www.sacred-texts.com/mas/md/md26.htm Ibid., - p.459,460]). The worship of the Sun became the basis of all the religions of antiquity.''' To them the Sun is author of life, heat, and ignition.. His (the sun's) beneficient influences caused his identification with the Principle of Good; and the Brahma of the Hindus, the Mithras of the Persians, and Athom, Phtha, and Osiris, of the Egyptians. the Bel of the Chaldeans, the Adonai of the Phoenicians, the Adonis and Apollo of the Greeks became but personifications of the Sun, the regenerating Principle, image of that fecundity which perpetuates and rejuvenates the world's existence. ([http://www.sacred-texts.com/mas/md/md29.htm Ibid., - p. 593]) <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[http://www.cephasministry.com/masonic_influence_on_the_vatican_4.html]</ins></div></td></tr>
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</table>Commendatorihttp://thebabylonmatrix.com/index.php?title=Template:Obelisks&diff=8163&oldid=prevCommendatori at 02:55, 6 March 20112011-03-06T02:55:48Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** From Masonic Literature, the only place where we can get some understanding of the symbols we are confronted with when we go to Rome and visit St Peter's Square. "The Sun is symbolized by a point in the middle in Freemasonry.. In this case the obilisk serves as the middle. The Ancient Astronomers saw all the great Symbols of Masonry in the Stars, (l'Etoile Flamboyante). The Sun is still symbolized by the point within a Circle; and, with the Moon and Mercury or Anubus, in the three Great Lights of the Lodge. .. (they) were ascribed peculiar divine powers. (It is also) an emblem of UNITY. (Morals and Dogma , by Albert Pike- p. 486) '''"The celebrated Labyrinth was built in honor of the Sun; and its twelve palaces, like the twelve superb columns of the Temple at Hieroplolis. The figure of the pyramid (on top of the obelisk) and that of the obelisk, resembling the shape of a flame, caused these monuments to be consecrated to the Sun and the Fire. Obelisks were erected in honor ot the Sun. (Ibid., - p.459,460). The worship of the Sun became the basis of all the religions of antiquity.''' To them the Sun is author of life, heat, and ignition.. His (the sun's) beneficient influences caused his identification with the Principle of Good; and the Brahma of the Hindus, the Mithras of the Persians, and Athom, Phtha, and Osiris, of the Egyptians. the Bel of the Chaldeans, the Adonai of the Phoenicians, the Adonis and Apollo of the Greeks became but personifications of the Sun, the regenerating Principle, image of that fecundity which perpetuates and rejuvenates the world's existence. (Ibid., - p. 593)</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** From Masonic Literature, the only place where we can get some understanding of the symbols we are confronted with when we go to Rome and visit St Peter's Square. "The Sun is symbolized by a point in the middle in Freemasonry.. In this case the obilisk serves as the middle. The Ancient Astronomers saw all the great Symbols of Masonry in the Stars, (l'Etoile Flamboyante). The Sun is still symbolized by the point within a Circle; and, with the Moon and Mercury or Anubus, in the three Great Lights of the Lodge. .. (they) were ascribed peculiar divine powers. (It is also) an emblem of UNITY. (<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[http://www.sacred-texts.com/mas/md/md26.htm </ins>Morals and Dogma , by Albert Pike- p. 486<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]</ins>) '''"The celebrated Labyrinth was built in honor of the Sun; and its twelve palaces, like the twelve superb columns of the Temple at Hieroplolis. The figure of the pyramid (on top of the obelisk) and that of the obelisk, resembling the shape of a flame, caused these monuments to be consecrated to the Sun and the Fire. Obelisks were erected in honor ot the Sun. (<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[http://www.sacred-texts.com/mas/md/md26.htm </ins>Ibid., - p.459,460<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]</ins>). The worship of the Sun became the basis of all the religions of antiquity.''' To them the Sun is author of life, heat, and ignition.. His (the sun's) beneficient influences caused his identification with the Principle of Good; and the Brahma of the Hindus, the Mithras of the Persians, and Athom, Phtha, and Osiris, of the Egyptians. the Bel of the Chaldeans, the Adonai of the Phoenicians, the Adonis and Apollo of the Greeks became but personifications of the Sun, the regenerating Principle, image of that fecundity which perpetuates and rejuvenates the world's existence. (<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[http://www.sacred-texts.com/mas/md/md29.htm </ins>Ibid., - p. 593<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]</ins>)</div></td></tr>
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</table>Commendatorihttp://thebabylonmatrix.com/index.php?title=Template:Obelisks&diff=8161&oldid=prevCommendatori at 19:06, 5 March 20112011-03-05T19:06:40Z<p></p>
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</table>Commendatorihttp://thebabylonmatrix.com/index.php?title=Template:Obelisks&diff=8160&oldid=prevCommendatori at 19:03, 5 March 20112011-03-05T19:03:07Z<p></p>
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</table>Commendatorihttp://thebabylonmatrix.com/index.php?title=Template:Obelisks&diff=8159&oldid=prevCommendatori at 18:58, 5 March 20112011-03-05T18:58:16Z<p></p>
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</table>Commendatorihttp://thebabylonmatrix.com/index.php?title=Template:Obelisks&diff=7299&oldid=prevCommendatori at 19:55, 13 December 20102010-12-13T19:55:59Z<p></p>
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