The Temple Hijacks the Energy Center: Marc Gafni

The Fourth Face of Eros:
The Interconnectivity of Being

Patterns that Connect= Magic= Eros= Love.

Longing, desire and tears remind us of the fourth strand in the erotic weave. They whisper to us that we are all interconnected. No human stands alone.

The word “religion” traces its source to the Latin root ligare which, similar to ligament, is about connectivity. Religion’s goal then is to re-ligare — to reconnect us. Religion’s original intention was to take us to that inside place where could indeed experience the essential interconnectivity of all reality. All of existence is one great quilt of being and we are all patches in its magnificent multifaceted pattern.

Eros is what allows us to move past the feeling of isolation and separation and experience ourselves as part of the quilt. To sunder our connection to eros is therefore to sin. Not only would we lose the source of life’s greatest pleasure, but we would undermine the building blocks of connection without which the world would ultimately collapse.

At this point then it does not surprise us to learn that in the Temple myth it is said that the Holy of Holies is the place of the Even Shetiya, the foundation stone of the world.

In myth, it is that stone, symbol of Eros, which holds the world together. Eros is the interconnectivity of reality. Eros, wrote Emerson, is “an ascendancy of the soul” Its place could be no where other than the Holy of Holies.

The temple is is built on an earth energy center which incarnates the patterns that connect, the eros and interconnectivity of the all with the all. Only later were temples built on the earth energy centers. Hijacked.