Mazovia Museum in Płock, May 8, 2024
The Jerusalem Temple was described very thoroughly in the Old Testament and in later sources as a building erected on the plan of an elongated rectangle. Regardless of what was known about the architecture of the Temple from ancient descriptions, in the Christian and judaic planet the tradition of depicting it as a circular structure or, more broadly, a central structure developed. These were symbolic images, referring to mystic notions of the planet and ancient beliefs binding perfection to colistism.
The dissemination of the mystical imagination of the Temple of Solomon as the central ellipse of creation was 1 of the effects of the improvement of the cabal, which aroused large interest in the Christian world. On the another hand, the Christian Cabal flow was 1 of the sources of the Rosary Crusader movement, in which the concept of the Temple was filled with fresh content. With the birth of the Masonry, the Temple of Solomon became the guiding subject of this movement of the image of the past and ethical goals of humanity, the warping free-mural program of unification of people of different nationalities and religions.
Dr. Paweł Fijałkowski from the Emanuel Ringelblum judaic Historical Institute in Warsaw will talk about all of this during the lecture entitled "Mystic Visions of Solomon's Temple. From Cabal to Masonry’.
Paweł Fijałkowski is an archaeologist, historian and publicist, doctor of humanities. He deals with the past of Jews in the Old Polish period, the past of Polish Protestantism, the pre-historic Mazovia, homoeroticism in European culture and the heritage of masonry. He is the author of respective books and respective 100 articles.
We invitation you on 11 June at 6 p.m. to the Museum of Mazowieckie Jews at 7 Kwiatka Street. Free admission.
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