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SCRIPTURAL REFERENCES TO THE MERKEVAH
JEWISH SCRIPTURES
Genesis
In the creation story (Gen1:2-6), "G-Ds Spirit" moves (hovers) over the waters and causes the "separation of the waters". These "waters" refer to male and female waters, rain and bored waters, semen and womb, best symbolized by 2 interlocking triangles, the geometric essence of the structure.
Rain (masculine) from the vast sky, falls as a single drop, the inverted pyramid.
Bored water (feminine) from the vast subterrain, is tapped from a single source, the pyramid.
The balance of the waters causes insemination and creates life.
Central to the Garden, (Gen 2:9) is the"Tree of Life"(umbilical chord) and the "Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil" (the phallus), from where 4 rivers (Pison, Gihon, Hiddekel and Euphrates) (4 limbs) flow. 4 directions(N-S-E-W) are implied. The square best symbolises a place from where 4 directions originate.
After the fall (Gen 3:24), G-D places Cherubim with flaming swords on the East side to guard the tree. These Cherubim that turned every way, are to be repeated in Ezekiel Ch.1, the high point of Merkavah description.
Architect's Note: The tree and garden are analagous of the human
(male) torso where the serpent at its base, the phallus, tempts. Eating
of the fruit is the recording of an epiphany, of humanity realizing
its fate after coming into awareness of the creative powers of mixing
waters. ie: As procreativity is understood, so individual death is
realised. When beginning is conceptualised, so too is the end. This
is the anxiety of self awareness, of nakedness, of self death that
corresponds with the need for clothing in fig leaves, out of respect
for this dreadful realization. |
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