KABBALISTS

(Quoted from the book:) You remember that sentence from the Zohar relating to the conjugal union: God will not establish His residence in a place where such union does not exist. That being the case, and from the moment that God had established His residence in the Ark of the Covenant, the conjugal union had to manifest itself on the Ark. The two Cherubim represented, then, the divine Spouses. The Scripture says that they contemplated the sacred Ark, but also each other, “their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubim be” (Exodus 25:20). The tradition of depicting God and His Wife face to face, looking into each other’s eyes, came from Antiquity, dated back to the pagan religions, as archaeological findings can attest. In fact, Blanca, it’s the posture in which spouses, and lovers in general, have always been portrayed (remember the heavenly couple described by Swedenborg, of how they extracted their Beauty from mutual contemplation), and it denotes their own intimate union. 

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