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The
Key of Elijah pendant is
inspired by the story of the prophet Elijah in the book of Kings. The
story relates how Elijah proposed a test to prove that the Hebrew god
is the true and only god and that Baal
is a false god. He single handedly competes versus 450 prophets of
Baal. Despite their building an altar, sending up a sacrifice,
their imploring and self flagellation, Baal, their god does not heed
their prayers. Seeing this, Elijah mocks them and their god, Baal.
At this point, he sends out for 12
stones and 4 barrels of
water. He builds an altar to god from the 12 stones, and digs up a
trench to encircle it. He orders the drenches to be filled with the
water from barrels and repeats this process 3 times (3×4=12). He
then requests of god to accept the sacrifice. At that moment a fire
descends from the heavens and ignites the sacrifice. All the people who
witnessed this event immediately re-accepted g-d as the one and only
true G-d. The Baal prophets were declared heretics and sentenced to
death.
In the pendant you can see 4 triangles
with 12 vertices, the middle
of the pendant forms a perfect square. The story of Elijah tells us of
12 stones and 12 barrels of water. 12×12=144 which is the twelfth
number in the Fibonacci series,
which is the mathematical series that reveals the secret of the order
of the universe.
The letter in the middle of the pendant is a version of the Hebrew letter SHIN. This
letter is usually only made up of 3
arms. How ever legends say that when the redemption comes this
letter will be made up of 4 arms;
as shown in the pendant.
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