What Is the History of the Ark of the Covenant?
A question
about the Ark of the Covenant occupied part of the afternoon’s discussion,
and Richard told some of its history. The Ark bears what is the oldest and most
revered relic of the Brotherhoods: the Holy of Holies used in the Tabernacle.
The Ark is
a wooden box about four feet long by two feet wide and two feet deep, made
to carry the Holy of Holies. This is a gold sculpture in the form of two
kneeling cherubim facing each other with arms outstretched to hold between
them a shallow basin called the Mercy Seat, and their wings stretch forward
above the basin. In this basin glows a perpetual Spirit Fire referred to in
the Bible as the pillar of fire by night and the pillar of cloud by day, and
it constitutes the Shekinah Glory. This golden sculpture was made in ancient
Lemuria and was used to inspire emigration of tribesmen from the hinterlands
of Mu to the Lemurian Civilization.
Before the inundation of
Mu, the Holy of Holies was sent to Mexico
and later was taken to Atlantis where it remained in the temple of Poseid
until the civilization of Atlantis began to crumble. It was later moved by
the Osirians who left Atlantis to settle in what is now called Libya and it was installed in the Temple of Isis. When the Great Pyramid of Gizeh
was built about 6,000 years ago, the Holy of Holies was secretly placed in
the sarcophagus for Moses to bring to the Holy Land
2,800 years later. The Old Testament takes up the history of the Ark and tells us of
its desecration and capture by the Philistines when their armies defeated
King Saul. The Philistines took the Holy Ark back to Phoenicia with them, but they could take
little pleasure from their ill-gotten gain because the Ark was charged with a mysterious energy
which meant instant death to any who touched it. Only those Levite priests
who were of the first degree of Brotherhood or higher could attend it.
Finally, the Philistines,
nonplussed and frightened by their strange experiences with the Ark, tied it to a cart behind two oxen and sent it off
in the direction of Israel.
The Bible tells us that King David took the return of the Ark as a good omen and rejoiced at its
recovery. It was the central feature of the Temple
of Solomon, and it was preserved
through the tribulations of the Jews to the time of the earthquake on the day
of Christ’s crucifixion, at which time it was overturned and disappeared from
the Temple.
The Ark of the Covenant is
now somewhere in the Pyrenees, safeguarded
by the Brotherhoods.
Those of us living now may
see the Ark in the Nation of God, where the
Ark will be
restored to mankind. A replica of the Ark of the Covenant will be maintained
in the City of Stelle
as a reminder of a past civilization and of the new one which we are now
building. (12-1969)
What Is
the Ark of the Covenant?
Q:
What is the Ark of the Covenant?
RK:
It is a relic that was made and first used in ancient Lemurian times. It
served in the “Tabernacle in the Wilderness” which was a group of tents that
were moved from place to place to inspire persons still living in the old
tribal valleys of Mu to take part in the Lemurian Civilization. The Lemurian
Civilization did not extend over the entire continent on Mu, and there were
many primitive peoples coexisting on the huge continent while the
civilization was at its height.
The central feature of the
tabernacle is a golden statue, two feet high, four feet long and about 18
inches wide. It weighs nearly a ton and is pure gold. In design there are
two cherubims kneeling and facing one another. They support a shallow plate
between them that is called the “Mercy Seat.” Persons of sufficient
clairvoyant ability may see a “spirit fire” emanating from the plate. The
Bible refers to this “spirit fire” during the Exodus as “the pillar of fire
by night and the column of smoke by day.” This same spirit fire grew to
enclose the inner sanctum of the temple in Jerusalem when it was dedicated by Solomon.
At that time it was known as the “Shekinah Glory.” Prior to the Exodus the Ark was stored in the
sarcophagus in the King’s Chamber within the Great Pyramid of Gizeh. Because
it is a very important relic, it has been preserved by the Brothers to this
day. It will one day be delivered to the Nation of God. (05-1972)
What Is
the History of the Ark of the Covenant?
Q: I wanted to ask you about the Ark of the Golden Covenant. Is that what
it is called? Did they salvage it from the submergence of Atlantis? It is the
same thing as the Ark of the Covenant that the Hebrews had?
RK: Yes. It is the same one. Actually, it was not salvaged, it was
the—the Ark is the wooden box that Moses made in which to carry the Holy of
Holies, which is a golden statuette of two cherubs facing one another with
hands outstretched toward one another holding a shallow bowl between them.
Their wings are outstretched behind them.
The Ark—the box, now—is exactly the same
dimensions as the so-called sarcophagus in the King’s Chamber of the Great
Pyramid at Gizeh. That was because it was in that sarcophagus that the Holy
of Holies was stored, waiting for Moses to uncover it and take it out of the
Pyramid.
It was originally
constructed in early Lemurian times. It was used as, part of what they had at
that time, part of a road-show to try to demonstrate to primitive people the
advantages of becoming part of the Lemurian civilization which was also on
that continent. After the civilization was well under way, a few ten thousand
years later, it was essentially held as a revered relic in a museum. Maybe about
a few years before Mu sank—the continent where Lemurian civilization was—it
was removed by the group that was settling Atlantis, and they held it for
almost the full length of time that Atlantis existed until a few hundred
years before Atlantis sank. At that time it was removed by the followers of
Osiris to North Africa.
After Atlantis sank, it was
used as a rallying point for people who understood its mystical significance
until about the time of the construction of the Great Pyramid. Then it was
placed in the Great Pyramid for protection. It kept it out of the hands of
persons who maybe recognized it and would have used it for evil purposes. It
was taken out of the Pyramid about 3200 years ago by Moses and brought to the
Holy Land. It stayed in the Holy Land area, sometimes in possession of the
Israelites and sometimes by their enemies except their enemies could never
get any use out of it because people who touched it died and they didn’t want
to mess around with it, for the most part. By one means or another, it stayed
in the hands of and under the protection of the Israelites, though
unfortunately it was pretty tenuous at times, until such time as the day when
Christ was crucified at which time it disappeared from the Temple. It was obviously carried away by members
of the Essene Brotherhood. They have had it ever since that time, and it
presently rests in the Pyrenees Mountains in the Essene headquarters. (08-1982)
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