What Happened to the Treasures of Solomon's Jerusalem Temple? Exploring the Early History & Legends
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- čas přidán 29. 09. 2022
- Since the destruction of Solomon's Temple in 587/6 bce, legends of the final fate of the treasures within have swirled. What was the fate of these sacred objects, especially the famed Ark of the Covenant? In this episode I trace out the early history of these myths and legends focusing especially on the little known Treatise on the Vessels in which prophets, kings and even angels conspired to hide this divine treasure.
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Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures - 978-0802827395
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Halloween Eve 2020. God showed me to read Revelations 12:01. The woman is Israel. 2020. Biblically the year of Jacob.
it's so funny to me, it's always the hidden treasure or forgotten secret like when Juan Rodriguez was looking for the city of gold, while literally walking in tons of gold, humans are always fascinated by the hidden or secret, hence the name of your channel, I guess?
What if the treasure was the friends we made along the way?
Take that Babylonians!
Or the knowledge learned from friends along the way?
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No it's skull and bones alchemicaly transformed by heat and pressure while dying out
Then I would be very very poor as I, mow near the end of my life's journey, have no friends at all.
RPG campaign idea: a scroll detailing the locations of hidden artifacts from your nation's glory days has surfaced and the party is on a mission to collect them. The first one is relatively easy to obtain but complications arise in tracking down the subsequent treasures. The quest giver might also have ulterior motives, and the party might have to deal with the consequences of gathering a collection of artifacts that grant such great power when assembled in just the right way. They might have the opportunity to indulge in this power themselves, and then they will have to contend with holding on to this power and what it does to them. It could go in a lot of ways depending on your group! Lots of opportunities for the players to make meaningful decisions about the way the plot goes.
This also has the making of one of the comedy bits I've always wanted to see played out - translation portrayed realistically in a fantasy/historical medium. "Yeah this character either means a specific kind of cactus or resurrection, it's only attested to in two sources"
Knowledge is the real treasure… well that & “the friends we made along the way.”❤
The arc of the covenant truly contained...the friendships that were made along the way.
Dr. Sledge you are an amazing teacher. History becomes a story that is entertaining and funny. You have this special form of humour that makes listening to you a real treat. This episode was interesting and I will now ask my special trained dog to start searching for treasure in our garden.She is especially good in digging pits between my flowers - she never found a treasure though 😄 Still you never know. Maybe someone has buried some golden artefacts that were recovered from the temple in my backyard. It’s as good a place as any to start looking.
I am 100% a Goonie about this stuff 😅 Your videos and presentation style is fast becoming my favorite! Thank you for all that you do!
If I ever find any Solomonic treasure, Dr. Sledge will be the *first* person I'll call about it
The author of "The Lord of the Rings" in his notes indicated that Ravenna served as the prototype of the fortress city of Minas Tirith. However, I think that the fortress of Masada also influenced this image.
The Aragorn character and the Stewards of Gondor is clearly a reference to the Merovingians (there is an assumption that the Merovingians of Jewish origin) and thе Mayors who replaced them.
Elves also have clear Jewish attributes and names.
It would be interesting to analyze "The Lord of the Rings" from the point of view of Jewish mysticism and esotericism.
the author of the lord of the rings, this random dude named J.R.R. Tolkien?
@@Flum666 😄😆🤣
Tolkien actually said in a live interview that the Dwarves had Jewish influence.
@@nowhereman6019 I believe he said their language was Semitic influenced actually
Tolkien was both a Catholic and a Philologist. We know he was familiar with the Eddas, the Mabinogion and European history - Pepin the Short was a King of the Franks and Meriadoc was Breton. It's entirely reasonable to suppose he was equally familiar with Biblical texts. I would love you to elaborate on the Jewishness of his Elvish names with some examples.
Ancient Mesopotamia is my wheelhouse. Good to see people talking about the titanic events of ancient southwest Asia.
That'd be quite good in a D&D adventure - a trap, or secret door, which you can discover, and perhaps take advantage of, but which kills you instantly if you try and tell anyone about it. There'd need to be a way to get around it, of course (just keep your mouth shut, and tread on the flagstone?)
I always loved the story, I forget the actual works of art in particular, but there were stolen masterpieces that some guy in Europe just kept and stared at every day in his little apartment. There is a part of me that wants the same for these treasures, if they were real or existed as described, that some family in the Middle or Near East has had them for untold generations and just keep them around because they are pretty family heirlooms, forgetting their true origins or worth. The Ark being used as a storage ottoman makes me giggle. It is God's home on Earth and also where Nanna stores her knitting needles and yarn.
Wouldn't that be great!
Now I am imagining the golden tree that produces golden fruit in the list of d8 rumours at the beginning of the D&D adventure module.
Maybe the treasures of Solomon's Temple were the friends we made along the way...
#3 gets it
I love the whole Solomon saga. I have two books on practicing the magic in the Goetia, but I've never attempted use, probably out of fear. I'm usually interested in the demons and their different attributes, but I'm here for ALL of it.
Aztec trump's magic, A to Z TEChnology.
Much od the stories about Solomon interacting with demons are influenced by other cultures gods. The Greek gods are known to be turned into demons in these tales for example.
The sigil of Solomon are an interesting fabrication with alleged functional use but take the myths with salt
There is no such thing as either demons or magic, There was no Solomon either, for that matter.
@@Ken_Scaletta I bet you're fun at parties. 🤦♂️
can i ask where your picture is from?
I saw Tolkien mentioned in the comments.
He was obviously very educated.
I would love to hear you break down esoteric references, aspects and influences in his work.
Dr. Sledge! Haven’t been able to watch in a while, but I wanted to stop and say what a blessing it is for what you do! Hope you and yours and well.
Love the channel and especially your level headed approach to subjects that are most definitely multi-layered & veiled.
Continued success & good health my friend.
Thanking Egon Spengler 👏
Love what you do, how you go about doing it, and how well you do it; and I'm a fan of the type of humour you utilize as well. Keep it up & keep them coming! (Please!)
The Tomb of Horrors comment was hilarious!
Yeah, as someone who played AD&D that was awesome. Had no idea that our teacher here played D&D, but sure makes him cooler.
Thank you so much. I love watching and listening to your talks, very educational and enlightening. Love your sense of humor as well. Shabat Shalom...today's my last 60th birthday.
I would love episodes on various items. I'm slowly going though your video's - and if you talk about items, I'm converting them to D&D specs. :)
Good stuff! You have the best content on CZcams.
Love these videos! They are so interesting and relaxing to watch/listen to.
Fantastic video. Definitely easier for a regular person to follow.
Definitely want to second the PaleoJudaica blog. Great source for anyone interested in this sort of stuff. I would also recommend the 4Enoch wiki as well. I agree that most, if not all, these treasures are lost. That didn't stop me from believing the History Channel insanity 15 years ago or so. Oh well. Thanks for putting the right information out there. Edit: wording and grammar
I don't even want to think about the amount of misinformation spewed by the 'history' channel - ugh
Thanks, you’re making me feel better.❤
Don't worry Dr. Sledge "Top Men" are on it ... "Top Men!"
Wonderfully done 🎉 I always enjoy your videos.
rocks, stick, and a pot, that's funny. interesting way to put it.
If there were anything in there that's what Babylonian soldiers would have seen
@@TheEsotericaChannel What about the pagan legend of there being a donkey headed idol in the temple?
Will def update 😉🤟🏻 This channels topics and presentation are excellent. And has helped in my pseudo divine research😇 beyond belief . Once again , Thank-you for all the knowledge 🙏🏻
That's a lovely one well done -a lovely one
Tomb of Horrors got a shout out. Love it!
"Behold! Angelic beings descend upon us, as if from the very heavens! Surely, g-d is with us!"
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"Wh-where are they going? The enemy is at the gate! Oh I see, they rush to protect the temple!"
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"What do you mean, they are repossessing the temple pillars? *The Babylonians have breached the gates!* "
Yeah the column tips, that must have been a real bummer
Dead
Great work, Justin. Thx
Fantastic episode. Thanks so much
amazing video
Can’t wait for the Solomon’s Ring episode!
Thanks!
Love your program
Not sure if it’s within your wheelhouse Dr. Sledge, but I’d personally like to see a video covering particular sections of the Temple. Why pomegranates as pillar caps, etc.
Gonna be calling you,,thanks for all you do
Love me a good treasure hunt. Thanks Dr.
Wouldn't it be a daisey to find some of this stuff!
So much goodness here!
Love the d&d refererence!! I still have hope that it will be found.
Next video i want the salomon ring stats.
Thank You 🙏
Thank you!
I love videos like this, and the video explaining the activities on Yom Kippur at the Temple. The story of the Ark being found, and restored in a Messianic Third Temple once again reminds me of that strange alliance between the more extreme Zionists, and Fundamentalist Christians who subscribe to dispensational eschatology.
Finding the Ark is like finding concrete proof of extraterrestrials… I want to believe. But… I don’t think it’ll be found, providing it still exists. I think the explanation that it was destroyed is probably correct, likely by the Babylonians when they sacked the city. The thing that keeps hope alive is that it wasn’t listed by the Babylonians as one of the objects taken. Given the Babylonians’ (like the Assyrians) penchant for taking religious objects as trophies after victories, that’s surprising (unless there’s truth, or wide spread belief, of what happened to the Philistines who once took the Ark before returning it after suffering medical ailments after taking it). I but then, you would think it would have been kept, secretly, by the Hebrews, and restored in the Second Temple, which there’s no record or tradition of happening. So that leaves two major theories (not including divine intervention, and I just don’t buy the Ethiopian story): 1) it was hidden before the Temple’s destruction, and remains hidden, or 2) it was taken by Shishak to Egypt. I’d love to believe the Shishak story, probably because it’s the one from “Raiders of the Lost Ark”… but either way, I’d love for it to found, or at least it’s fate truly uncovered… but mostly to be found.
Goonies never say die…
I assume these legends of things surviving from the temple is related to the Algerian Jewish story of one of their synagogues having the door of the first temple.
You know, I was going to show some experts this nifty ring I found that can summon demons, but it's probably nothing
I have just recently read a book by David Rankine on how to conjure treasure spirits for the purpose of finding treasure. So.......
Good luck!
Love these shorter vids, much obliged.
Could 'Lost and not missed' be taken to mean that it's better that it stay lost because it being found could trigger the end days?
Thank you
speaking of Mt. Carmel, it would be cool to see something on the Ascension of Mount Carmel by St. John of the Cross. (which was also partly inspiration for Jodorowsky's absolute classic The Holy Mountain). I'm agnostic with a predilection for atheism, but I find esotericism and all of these videos simply fascinating.
Awesome
I always enjoy the genuine comments of, "If you find treasure as a result of this program, you gotta hit us up."
I mean, it's only proper, but it still always hits when I hear it.
Don't worry, assuming I don't botch the summon and the angel shows up to beat me with a shovel, I'll always kick back to those who helped along the way.
Thanks
This would make a good animated series along the lines of The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
I haven't watched this through yet, but the topic sparked a request that you might make a work on Makeda-Sheba, Menelik some day? Or a dive into the Book of Solomon?
Can you do one on the theory of the temple itself. Know some people say what is thought of as the temple is really the remnants of the Roman fort. That they removed a block for repairs and found a Roman coin under. Other people say this idea is bonkers. Would be interesting to hear all the theories laid out kinda like you did on this one.
Yeah 💎🙏 thk u💜
Would you ever consider making a discord server for fans (or perhaps patrons) of Esoterica?
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If I find anything, I'll be calling you from the antichamber to get us through the traps. "The Pentient Man Kneels!"
After the grail, eh? ;)
Don't worry Dr. Sledge you'll be the first person I call when I find Solomon's treasure.
Nother mazing video
Solomon's necromancer ring to control demons is pretty wild.
Wow, great episode!! I love all things "Lost Treasure" hunting! I can envision an episode where you and Josh Gates chat with each other about such things, that would be fun!!
As always, I do wonder what Jews, especially Israelis think about these things. I know there's a whole long list of VERY good reasons that there's not and probably never will be any plans to build a new temple but with so many holy and sacred treasures lost to the tides of time and war, legends like these have plenty of room to take root.
Secular Israelis don't care about it other than perhaps if they have personal interest in history. Ultra Orthodox want a third temple but mostly think God will take care of everything if they're righteous enough. Religious Zionists want to actively do these things and would try to build a third temple if they had enough power.
Here for Solomon, stayed for Dr Justin!
Dr Justin, Calling you to tell you that I found treasure after viewing your video! The treasure is YOU! :)
Interesting 🤔
Nice, as a rastafari I really appreciate that you have mentioned the kebra negast (the glory of kings) because from this story of the queen of sheba with king solomon it is said that a son is born to them called Menelik and is this man who on a visit to jerusalem takes the ark of the pact to Ethiopia and it is from there that the Solomonic distance was founded in Ethiopia or the royal house of David in Ethiopia, of which, Haile selassie Ist (another title in his coronation was The lion of the tribe of Juda) is The last king since he was overthrown by Ethiopian Marxist revolutionaries at 1974, Haile Selassie Ist is the one whom Rastafarians see as Jah, or the second coming of Christ, others see him as one of the kings of Israel.
It's a shame but totally plausible that so many so-called scholars of 'the Treasures' neglect or are unaware of this text, which to me is pretty damning evidence for the Ark's destruction and thus its absence from otherwise extensive Babylonian records, as frequently cited in conspiracy theories. Thanks for your work and stay blessed.
My view the treasure was taken and melted down most likely. I am Jewish and used to think maybe they were hidden but nah they are long gone. The supposed Ark in east Africa Ethiopia now is likely a replica. Great informative video I must say I love the myths of the Knights templar. Mind you many buried treasures likely exist. So maybe Israelite gold is out there. The menorah from the second temple was taken to Rome where it later disappeared.
I promise if I find some Solomonic treasure, and my soul isn't instantly taken from my body, you'll be the first to know Dr Sledge
Finding treasure would be nice. If ever I do, I will hook you up with some.
Historical Destruction sounds like a dope band name.
Litanies of Treasure also a very cool adventure module for thieves and fallen clerics/paladins.
So will this be a precursor or companion essay on The Mines of Solomon and/or a ritual-guided globe-trotting search for its location?
And are you recruiting party members for this expedition? Because, well, “Have Bullwhip-Will Travel” is the first (and only) line on my résumé.
Hey Doctor, the Kebra Nagast describe a reality, a very alternate one tho. How a group perceivws and later desxribes those events....well you know how that goes.
Tell ya what. If I find any Solomonic temple treasure as a result of my having watched this video, I'll send you a copper scroll with allusions to its whereabouts. If you're a true, hair-shirted worthy, its decipherment will come to you! Thanks again for drawing from your well of knowledge and posting.
Dr. Sledge, what the meaning in using chopin for ur intro music?
pretty
24:06 Gonna need some Balm of Gilead for that burn.
I totally agree with you. I think it would be awesome if there were evidence of any of it. beyond the mundane reality. I don't care about treasure lol. I'm only interested in the history.
Kebra Nagast would be fantastic!
Immortal Technique lead me here after searching about Al Aqsa for a couple hours
IMHO. I believe the Ark of the Covenant is metaphoric for the story, carrying a nested lesson. The stories are the ark and are still being carried and still not being looked inside of.
As a result of this video, how likely do you think it is that we'll hear of some weird American treasure hunters going about on top of the Temple Mount with a ten foot wooden pole, poking over the edge at various points?
The British Israelite Society's actions in Ireland, and then a subsequent pamphlet (written in the '70s or '80s, if I am not mistaken...I saw it in the University College Cork library one day early in my studies, and checked it out and read it, shrugged, and mentally logged it), are things worthy of their own episode indeed! The pamphlet (running to 30ish pages, if I am not mistaken) says, basically, that the idea that the Ark of the Covenant was in Tara is absolutely daft; however, the possibility that it was moved somewhere on the Iveragh Peninsula is much more likely...just look at all the evidence in Co. Kerry for there having been Jewish influence on Irish culture! It's misreading things, to be certain; however, it's also an interesting kooky set of ideas, and what is the wider topic of "esoterica" if not exactly that? ;)
Ceasars made seizures and templars were in the temple for a while but i have doubts about the cathars catharsis.
I have seen the church in Aksum Ethiopia where the Ark is supposed to be. The legend is part of Ethiopia also
This is so interesting but your voice is so relaxing I always fall asleep dammit
Any thoughts about Jim Barfield’s work on the Copper Scroll?
Not really+ everyone talks a big game about "being so close" but I'll start listening when they pull a talent of gold out of a trench or something
the Solomonic gold from the golden fruit trees may be different from most most we know
Ha! Fun stuff. But we all know that the Ark of the Covenant is locked up in a US Government warehouse at Area 51. Don’t you guys watch Indiana Jones??
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there’s already a movement of ultra-orthodox judaism in israel who made complete replicas of the furnishings of the mishkan.
I read the Visigoths took the table of Solomon from Rome to Southern France.
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what was the name used of the site "kcholit"?