Theos-Talk Archives (June 2005 Message tt00093)

Hallo All,

My views are:

Not many theosophists considers the fact that 
the DOME OF THE ROCK in Jerusalem is Octagonal in shape.

Idries Shah, the Grand Sheik of the Sufis and historian of their faith, commented on the connection between the Templars and the Sufis: 

"That the Templars were thinking in terms of the Sufi , and not the Solomonic, Temple in Jerusalem, and its building, is strongly suggested by one important fact. "Temple" churches which they erected, such as one in London, were modeled upon the Temple as found by the Crusaders, not upon any earlier building. This Temple was none other than the octagonal Dome of the Rock, built in the seventh century on a Sufi mathematical design, and restored in 913. The Sufi legend of the building of the Temple accords with the alleged Masonic version. As an example we may note that the "Solomon" of the Sufi Builders is not King Solomon but the Sufi "King" Maaruf Karkhi (died 815), disciple of David (Daud of Tai, died 781) and hence by extension considered the son of David, and referenced cryptically as Solomon - who was the son of David. The Great murder commemorated by the Sufi Builders is not that of the person (Hiram) supposed by the Masonic tradition to have been killed. The martyr of the Sufi Builders is Mansur el-Hallaj (858-922), juridically murdered because of the Sufi secret, which he spoke in a manner which could not be understood, and thus was dismembered as a heretic.' - 
(Idries Shah, "The Sufis" Octagon Press)


Mansur el-Hallaj was slain in Bhagdad 922.




from
M. Sufilight




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