King Solomon's Temple

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King Solomon's Temple as W Bro John Watson, Provincial Grand Almoner, Remembers It

"As if W Bro John Watson didn't have enough to worry about at the moment, he has been concerned about his memories of King Solomon's Temple and what was on top of the pillars at the entrance!"

I have in the past made comments about the pillars at the Temple having 2 globes on them, when at the time the temple was built, they thought the world was flat. Not being satisfied with the reply that it was just symbolic, I did a bit of research and found the following.

Contrary to popular belief, the celestial and terrestrial globes, were not present on the two columns which adorned the porch-way to King Solomon’s Temple, how could they be; given that at that time people believed the earth to be flat! It is likely they were originally ‘bowl shaped’ as the Hebrew word ‘Goolot’ (plural), or ‘Goolah’ (singular) means globes, bowls or vessels, and were confused in translation. These bowls were filled with burning oil, which while burning gave light to the brethren to remind them of the happy deliverance of their forefathers when going to and returning from worship.


I thought this to be a reasonable explanation, but formed the opinion that GL would not give it any credence, then last night escaping a further episode of Location, Location, on Amazon I watch a video Inside the Freemasons a documentary made in 2010 featuring John Hamill and at about 51 mins into the program it showed Lodge room 10 at Great Queen Street, and the two pillars behind him clearly show bowls on top of the pillars, not globes.

"Many thanks to W Bro John for clearing that up for us  😎"

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