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11 Menorah

Sixty pounds of pure gold. That's two medium sized ingots. If the base, center rod and arms were solid and about half an inch in diameter, it would be about eight inches tall. According to Blavatsky's Ebionites it was a cubit tall and a cubit across and made of hollow tubing. Then with tubes of half an inch in diameter it would have a wall thickness of about a sixteenth of an inch which would be strong enough as long as it was handled carefully.

Since the Menorah was a recursive parallelism of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil it would have to have an appropriate structure. So, not seven separate little lamps on a stand each with their own supply of olive oil. It was known to those who knew that sort of thing at the time that the planets shown with the reflected light of the sun. The big debate, at that time and for some time after was whether the fixed stars were also reflected sunlight or shown with their own light.

So as an analogy, or symbolic allegory, it would have a middle lamp and six little mirrors. But it was a recursive parallelism so it didn't. What it was, was a single lamp with seven lamp heads and seven wicks with seven flames all fueled from the same olive oil that filled the entire lamp. Thus very effectively parallel to the nature of Causality within the structure of Structure.  


Top view to the left and a tippy tilted side view to the right. The side view is what is usually represented in its portrayals, but the top view shows how it was actually put together. The planets are read around the circle in the order of Recursion, the Rainbow, Purple Blue Green Yellow Orange Red. Thus a recursive parallelism.

And the specific absence of that which is Recusion is Purple Green Orange Blue Yellow Red which forms a six pointed star. Purple Green Orange on the Black Causal side of the Tetractys and Blue Yellow Red on the White Structural side.

Which makes it apparent that the six pointed star is the recursive parallel symbol of Recusion. That which humanity is supposed to do to the Recursive world in order to adjust it to the needs and wants of the entirety of the world.

And the source of the six pointed star as a symbol of Judaism. Which was apparently a quiet secret up until the late middle ages. That's when it first became used in an open manner. And has thoroughly puzzled historians as to where it came from.

It is known as the Star of David, the Shield of David and the Seal of Solomon.  

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