I picked this noun “The Holy of Holies” from my Sun-Gate Star Poem and made associations to make a noun-cluster. This is a focused form of mind-mapping. One also can include drawings and pictures and colors and fanciful script for words or a collage or description of gestures that arise. Adjectives may be included as ornamentation to the noun(s).
We are now entering traditional symbolism, which will offer the opportunity to bring the important imagery of William Blake’s mythology’s portraying the soul’s journey into our personal development work. A good example which will be further developed is Blake’s concept of The seven Eyes of God as a symbolic framework of how human spiritual consciousness evolves from a fallen, selfish state, through flawed systems of law and judgment, towards a reunification with the mercy and forgiveness that Blake saw as the highest spiritual truth.
The Holy of Holies was the innermost and most sacred area of the ancient Hebrew temples. It contained the Ark of the Covenant, a sacred chest that held the stone tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments. The Ark’s lid was called the Mercy Seat, believed to be the dwelling place of God’s presence. Only the High Priest could enter the Holy of Holies, which was separated from the rest of the temple by a veil.
Blake saw the Ark as representing the human soul, with the Mercy Seat representing God’s mercy triumphing over the law inscribed on the stone tablets. Blake contrasted the wrathful God of the Old Testament, often referred to as Jehovah or the Elohim (meaning “judges” or “gods”), with the merciful God revealed through Jesus Christ.
## The Elohim and the Eyes of God
In Blake’s cosmology, the Elohim represents the judging, rationalizing aspect of the human mind that divides reality into good and evil. In Blake’s mythology, the Elohim represent the aspect of God as the stern, judging Creator and enforcer of justice and law. Blake associated the Elohim with the creation of the physical world and the concept of dividing everything into “good” and “evil” – an error he believed was corrected by Jesus’s teaching of forgiveness. In his color print “Elohim Creating Adam,” Blake depicts this as a moment of profound torment and agony. The Elohim is shown as a monstrous, fierce figure crouched over the agonized form of Adam.
The Elohim represents the conversion of infinite spiritual reality into a finite material realm of conflict and division. This “fallen” Elohim is responsible for humanity’s separation from the Divine. Blake saw this as an error that needed to be transcended to reunite with true spiritual vision and mercy. In Battles of the Elohim: They Walked As Men by Apostle Doctor Christian Harfouche explores the history of the “Elohim,” the titans or giants birthed through the union of fallen angels with human women (as recorded in Genesis), and outlines evidence that these beings existed and explains the agenda behind their cruel reign upon the earth– to corrupt Adam’s race.
In Blake’s system, the Elohim is just one of the “Seven Eyes of God” or stages that the human soul must progress through. It is the third eye, following Lucifer and Molech. His mythology seeks to liberate the human imagination from restrictive systems of morality and restore a direct, visionary connection to the divine. This rends the veil to the Ark and the Intercessor Cartel.
I also continue to work on my giant personal Astrosophy chart. I am now overlaying all of the Blake Tarot cards in a spread of Blake’s souls journey on this chart. I will illustrate this in a later exclusive post.