2 Chronicles 3:15,17 Before the house two pillars

                              Solomon's Temple



'Also he made before the house two pillars... And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.' -2 Chronicles 3:15,17

The two pillars, which we must walk between in order to enter into the Temple of God, may represent the left hand path and the right hand path of the Qabalah. The Jewish Qabalah Tree of Life consists of three main paths. The left hand, the right hand and the Middle Path which runs straight up the middle. As I understand it, the left hand path is the negative path of evil, the right hand path is the positive path of good and the Middle Path is the strait and narrow Path of Ascension. I believe the Qabalah Tree of Life is a clever mixture between the Bible's Tree of knowledge of good and evil, the Tree of Life and also the inner and outer worlds. The problem is that it represents an esoteric Jewish point of view so it needs to be translated into a Western modern point of view. In the Qabalah Tree of Life all the 3 paths come together at the top of the Middle Path indicating to me that eventually those who follow the left hand or the right hand paths must come onto the strait and narrow Middle Path in order to gain the Ascension. To me the lowest sphere of the Qabalah Tree represents the earth and the 3 spheres directly above it on the Middle Path represent the 3 Divine Higher Planes where our Higher Selves dwell; First the purple or violet Higher Mental Plane; Second the golden yellow Soul Plane and Third the white Higher Soul Plane at the top of the Tree of Life. All the other worlds on the left and right hand paths are associated with the lower human state of consciousness.

The Mormon Temple

                     Salt Lake Temple Terrestrial Room
 (The Terrestrial Room represents the Terrestrial Kingdom, the 2nd Kingdom of Heaven)

In the Mormon Temple there is the representation of the 3 Kingdoms of Heaven and in order to enter into the Celestial Room, or the Celestial Kingdom, one must pass thru a veil. These 3 Kingdoms of Heaven are represented in their teachings as having the glory of the Sun, Moon and Stars. Joseph Smith was apparently a Mason therefore there are some similarities to Masonry. In his book 'The Hidden Life in Freemasonry' (p275) by C. W. Leadbeater who was a 33rd Degree Mason teaches us: "The path of the moon is said to typify the life of the ordinary man, who clings to objects of desire and parts with them reluctantly at death. After a period in the astral and heavenly worlds he returns to earth, to repeat the process. It is the path of rebirth after intervals. The path of the sun is that of the occult aspirant, the man of spiritual desires, who values life only for what it can give to the higher Self in others as well as himself. He also is reborn, but usually without an interval, or after a very short one. The path of fire is the path of ascension, from which there is no longer any rebirth under the law of necessity, but only...for the helping of the world."

The Mighty Ascended Master Victory teaches that He came forth from His Great Planet of Complete Freedom, Venus, to dwell in our earth. When the Earth is cleansed, permanently harmonized, the Kumaras, including the Great Presence Sanat Kumara, will return to Their Home on Venus. The Beloved Goddess of Justice asks us: "Can you comprehend- is there anyone here who can tell Me how great is the Love of the Mighty Sanat Kumara, Who is called the "Voluntary Exile"- leaving His Great Cosmic Work on Venus, to come and stay in the atmosphere- mark you, the lower atmosphere for two and a half million years?" ('The Voice  of the I AM' 1951 December p19)


In his book The Hidden Life in Freemasonry, C. W. Leadbeater teaches: Referring to King Solomon’s temple… the two great pillars… at the… entrance… were Tat… and Tattu. (p58) In Tat the lilies represented always the flower of humanity. Arranged in line around the edge of the disc they indicated the Great White Brotherhood- the jewels in the crown of mankind, hovering above the human race and directing its evolution. The four pendant flower-chains symbolized the Holy Four who reside at Shamballa- the Spiritual King and His three pupil-assistants, the sole representatives on earth of the Lords of the Flame who came down long ago from Venus to hasten the evolution of mankind. ( p68)