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Symbol namn : | Boaz and Jachin |
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| Other names : | twin pillars | |
| Symbol type : | Freemason | |
The Jachin and Boaz symbol is a dualistic symbol, they symbolize black and white but also by blue and red. Just like in the movie Matrix. What you don't see is that the entrance is also considered a pillar. This third pillar is called balance or equilibrium and is symbolized by the color white. When you pass the gate when you accept the red pill as in the movie.
The left pillar is female and the right is male.
Since the dawn of civilization, two pillars have guarded the entrance of sacred and mysterious places. Whether in art or architecture, twin pillars are archetypal symbols representing an important gateway or passage toward the unknown.
The concept of the twin pillars standing at the gate of sacred places can be traced back to the ancient civilizations of antiquity.
The word Boaz is [Hebrew] Baaz. [Hebrew] means Strong, Strength, Power, Might, Refuge, Source of Strength, a Fort. The [Hebrew] prefixed means "with" or "in," and gives the word the force of the Latin gerund, roborando Strengthening.
The word Jachin, in Hebrew, is [Hebrew]. It was probably pronounced Ya-kayan, and meant, as a verbal noun, He that strengthens; and thence, firm, stable, upright.
The former word also means he will establish, or plant in an erect position from the verb [Hebrew] Kūn, he stood erect. It probably meant Active and Vivifying Energy and Force; and Boas, Stability, Permanence, in the passive sense.
The adept may find it in the Kabalah. The JUSTICE and MERCY of God are in equilibrium, and the result is HARMONY or BEUTY, because a Single and Perfect Wisdom presides over both.
Two, or the Duad, is the symbol of Antagonism; of Good and Evil, Light and Darkness. It is Cain and Abel, Eve and Lilith, Jachin and Boaz, Ormuzd and Ahriman, Osiris and Typhon.
Source: Morals and dogma
When the two pillars find equilibrium, it is said to generate a third pillar, one in the middle, which esoterically represents man or mankind. It will also signify the union of Sushumna and the Kundalini, this sacred marriage will create and radiate throughout the human body filling it with divine light. It is then that humanity will become the third column, Wisdom.
In Qabbalistic teachings the pillars represent Sepiroth, the Tree of Life and symbolize mercy and severity. When interpreted Qabbalistically, the name of the two pillars mean, "In strength shall my house be established." In the splendor of mental and spiritual illumination the High Priest stood between the two pillars as a mute witness to the perfect virtue of equilibrium, that hypothetical point equidistant from all extremes.
In pop culture the pillars are sometimes used for other reasons, other than decorative and take on an esoteric meaning. The simple act of standing between or passing through them symbolically represents a transformation or initiation. This symbol is cleverly disguised and can be found in music, film and literature. One such place it can be found is in the first book of the Harry Potter series, where he first discovers he is a wizard. His initiation is visually portrayed on the cover as him going through two pillars. One might not know that the original title for the book was "Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone." The Philosophers Stone being an ancient alchemical concept representing illumination. In the music world, rapper Kayne West stands in the middle of twin pillars in his highly symbolic video, "Power." Among the plethora of esoteric symbols found in the 2009 fantasy film "the Imagination of Doctor Parnassus", the twin pillars adorn both sides of the stage as the leader of a traveling theatre group having made a bet with the devil takes them through a magical mirror to explore their imagination and present them with a choice of self-fulfillment or gratifying ignorance.
Very likely many of us have wondered from time to time what the true meaning of the pillars are and why the strange names; and just as easily dismissed the subject as one of those inexplicable things handed down from the Bible from old times which have no practical meaning in todays world. Nevertheless, these strange names are not without purpose. They contain the key to the entire Bible and to the whole order of nature.
Different form of Jachin and Boaz symbols
