The Cubits

Reminiscent of Noah's Ark, with its ratio of one to six, the symbol of the Tree of Life appears four times in the Crown Diamond diagram. The vertical symbols, with their cubit, pertains to man's roots on Earth; the horizontal pair, with its cubit, to man's roots in heaven: the vertical, to the individual; the horizontal, to the collective; the vertical, to the pilgrim; the horizontal, to the sanctuary.

Because of complexities, the prophet Ezekiel is allowed the flexibility of a hand's breadth for the measurements of the third temple: not the length nor the width, but the breadth--the thickness. Common to both paired symbols, the cubits can be understood as Ezekiel's broken sticks, which are to be rejoined in the day of the Deliverer: not end-to-end, as an accomplishment of man; but at their centers, in restoration of bonds between the remnant of Judah and the throngs of Ephraim.

Pythagoris and the Cubits