The Sphinx And The Cherub

Another entry from my old Diary Page 337

Entitled Sphinx And Cherub.

The two sphinx that set at the stairs of the Masonic temple are comparable to the cherubim that guard the way of the tree of life. Likewise the sphinx is to ask you questions which you must solve in order to past. This is comparable to our Latter Day Saint temples wherein you must answer certain questions before coming unto the presents of God. Note that at the Salt Lake temple there use to be statues of Joseph And Hyrum Smith. That stood at the gate of the temple. I believe they are in fact the Cherubim. More to this is the wonderful Joseph Smith sphinx 

I also do believe that they are in fact the two pillars of the temple Jachin and Boaz. As well as the two Oliver trees as spoken of Zachariah 4/2:3
With a golden menorah/tree of life in the center. Who is the great mother Sophia as is spoken of in Proverbs 3/18. See also 1 Nephi 11.
She is represented by the priestess holding the Torah scroll as seen in the tarot.

Note Thoth Tarot card of the priestess is a recent add on. I know it not at the first. 

"The riddle of the Sphinx is no riddle at all.

The strange figure, the lower part animal; the upper part human; and the sprouting-wings epitomize the growth and development of man from the animal, or physical (carnal), consciousness to the soul consciousness, represented by woman's head and breast, to the supra-conscious, winged god."

~Alexander McIvor-Tyndall author of "Cosmic Consciousness; The Man-God Whom We Await", page 43 (1913).

I can see an etymological connection between the words of Cherub and Kolob. For it is written that Kolob is nearest unto the throne of God. See Abraham 3/2. And Cherubim are underneath Gods throne. See Ezekiel 10. They also set upon the mercy seat. One man speculated that the Cherubim pull Gods chariot. This theory fits in quite nicely with the tarot card The Chariot

Ralph Ellis in his book Eden In Egypt
shows the etymological connection between the Sphinx and Churab

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Note that the original Hebrew gives the word a hard ‘k’, giving the pronunciation of ke-rub or ka-rub, rather than the English cherub. This is important, as the Egyptian original also had a hard ‘k’. The word in question was ka , and like the Hebrew this means ‘image’ or ‘likeness’. The second element to ka-rub is the Egyptian rub meaning ‘lion’. Thus instead of Parkhurst's translation of ‘like the mighty one’, the original Egyptian translation was ‘like a lion’; and since the cherubim (ka-rubim) were supposed to have sported the face of a lion, the Egyptian version makes perfect sense. In fact, the biblical keru (cherubs) were possibly magical lions, because the original Hebrew transcripts invariably record them as being hakarubim . It has been assumed that this should really be read as ha-karubim meaning ‘the karubim’, but if the word-break were to be placed back into the position where it just was, we would derive haka-rubim instead. In the Egyptian, the term hakar is spelt in a similar way to ka, but it means ‘magic’ instead. Thus the term haka-rubim would actually refer to ‘magical lions’. Perhaps the full meaning for the karubim (cherubim) is now fully explained. They were magical lion-like beasts with wings, which were used for protection, and in one particular case they were used to protect the ‘mercy seat’ on the Ark of the Covenant. In addition, they sometimes had the head of a lion and sometimes the head of a man, plus some imagery of a bull and eagle too. In Egyptian terms the implication is obvious, the karubim were simply sphinxes. Remember that by the time the Israelite Torah had been rewritten and re-recorded to prevent the ancient, original texts from falling apart, the Israelite heirarchy had spent several generations in Babylon. It is not so surprising, therefore, that by the time the Book of Ezekiel had been written, the traditional Egyptian imagery of the sphinx had also taken on the winged and bovine format of the Babylonian sphinx.

Close quote.

If any one has any further thought or revelation on the matter please let me know. God bless you all. Salut. 

Note that the initial diary had Shalom at the end instead of Salut.