Rebuilding Solomon's Temple.

[Red Knight]

For further on this subject there is a very good article in a part of the Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon Website, which clearly and succinctly rebuffs the notion. Go to http://fremasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/r ... emple.html.

[Anonymous]

You are talking about rebuilding Soloman's Temple. Where was the first temple? I heard that king Soloman's temple is a very important place to masons and templars.

[Dashinvaine (GN)]

The supposed site of Solomon's Temple is presently occupied by the Islamic shrine the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, one of the most beautiful buildings in the world.

This notion of rebuilding the mythic Temple on Temple Mount seems even more outrageous and crazy, bearing in mind that even the medieval Crusaders respected the sanctity of the Dome of the Rock, and that even the Templars, when in control of the site, were sensitive enough to allow Muslim visitors space to worship there.

I understand that there is also talk of rebuilding the Temple elsewhere in Israel, which would not mean the destruction of the mosques on Temple Mount. This would, it seems, require the diverting of 'sacred energy', somehow, to the new site.
There are those who want to rebuild the Temple over the court between the Dome of the Rock and the Al Aqsa Mosque. If nothing else the result, if the plan was carried through, would be aesthetically disastrous! It would also be likely to start a war.

[Anonymous]

I'm just wondering if the "rebuilding of Solomons Temple" might be a metaphor or esoteric in nature?

[Dashinvaine (GN)]

No, in some quarters the desire seems to be to realize a quite solid and material construction. Probably most mainstream Jews wouldn't have much interest in the project, however. I suspect it's an extremist Zionist fantasy.

The medieval Templars did have think of themselves metaphorically as the Temple rebuilt, however; an idea Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux encouraged.