The Temple And The Holy Sepulchre How They Were Made Sacred Using Eliade’s’ Terms.

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.Moriah, the place where Abraham took his son for sacrifice. It was there that the angels came down and gave Abraham a goat to use for sacrifice instead. This appearance by the angels is a hierophany, an appearance of the sacred. So by being on this spot and over the foundation stone, their center of the world, the Temple would already be acknowledged as sacred by Eliade. Before he built the Temple Solomon had a theophany, an appearance of god. From this theophany he was given the task to build the Temple by God, “he shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.” When the Temple was completed there was a dedication ceremony attended by all. The priests carried the Ark into the Temple and deposited it in the Holy of Holies. “The biblical account states that the glory of the Lord filled the building in the form of a cloud.” This kratophany, a manifestation of power, is only one of the many acts of a hierophany, appearance of the sacred, which established the Temple as sacred.
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