The horizontal axis in the temple was arranged in the same order as the vertical axis in the cosmos. From the courtyard, which contained the elements outside the organized cosmos (cosmic waters and pillars of the earth), one would move into the organized cosmos as he entered the antechamber. Here were the Menorah, the Table of Bread and the incense altar. In the Pentateuch’s descriptions of the tabernacle, the lamp and its olive oil are provided for “light” (especially Ex 25:6; 35:14; Num 4:9). This word for light is the same word used to describe the celestial bodies in day four (rather than
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