"I will commune with thee from above the mercy-seat, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony." — Exodus 25:22
A sacred gold-covered chest housing the tablets of the Law; symbol of divine presence and power. Said to radiate holy energy and destroy enemies, it is the mobile throne of God.
"The Covenant is located at Yesod on the Tree of Life, the Sixth Day of Creation where Adam (human soul) was created. And Adam was sealed in six directions before becoming born on the 7th day, covered under the Garment of the Holy One.... such is the Covenant." - Mike Bais
The Ark of the Covenant belongs in the holy of holies, it is the place where God speaks. A golden item, instructions given to man on how to build, a symbol of the covenant between god and his people….
“Make an ark of acacia wood—two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high. Overlay it with pure gold, both inside and out, and make a gold molding around it. Then put in the ark the tablets of the covenant law, which I will give you.”
“Make two cherubim out of hammered gold at the ends of the cover. The cherubim are to have their wings spread upward, overshadowing the cover with them. The cherubim are to face each other. Place the cover on top of the ark and put in the ark the tablets of the covenant law that I will give you.”
In the Book of 1 Samuel, when the Philistines captured the Ark and took it to their city of Ashdod, the people developed painful tumors, described as: “And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of the Lord was against the city with a very great discomfiture: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and emerods broke out upon them.”
Another theory suggests the Ark was taken by the Knights Templar, a Catholic military order during the Crusades. Known for their secrecy and obsession with religious relics, the Templars established a headquarters on the Temple Mount and began digging, possibly for the Ark. A structure in Zedekiah’s Cave, a guardhouse, suggests they prepared escape routes. Legend claims they found the Ark and took it to Chartres Cathedral in France, where it remained for centuries.
The Ark in Ethiopia
“the Ark of the Covenant, which may be seen as the Grail of its age, and concerning a well-founded tradition the Ethiopian church maintains that it was removed from Jerusalem before the destruction of the temple by Menelik, a child of Solomon and Sheba. It is still kept in the cathedral at Aksum in modern day Ethiopia and has remained a central part of sacred practice within the Ethiopian Church. Known as the Tabot (from the Arabic tabut’al’ahdi, Ark of the Covenant), it is carried in procession at the festival of Epiphany, to the accompaniment of singing, dancing, and feasting, which recalls the time when “David and all the house of Israel brought up the Ark of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of the trumpet.”132 Replicas of the Tabot are kept in every church in Ethiopia, and where these are large enough to possess a Holy of Holies, this representation of the ark is kept within, as it was of old in the Temple of Solomon at Jerusalem.” - Arthurian Magic, John Matthews, Virginia Chandler
The Mercy Seat
The golden lid of the Ark where God’s presence appeared.
The throne of divine mercy and mystical union.
