"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, 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.
