Revelation takes the hexagon to a representation of the Garden, but there is no way of telling whether the author recognised a cube. I was wrong in saying the rivers flow into the hexagon. They flow out of it. I still don’t know why they are shown. I suppose if the location is Mt. Gerizim then the representation of the rivers is appropriate. Remember that at some level of existence the rivers flow out of the occulted Garden on the mountain or just above the mountain and flow out over the world from under the mountain. This means the author of Revelations was right in seeing the hexagon as the Garden.
I seem to remember there is a tradition somewhere that Isaac actually was sacrificed and was brought back to life. Or was I thinking of Ishmael in an Islamic version? The words of the Torah will support an interpretation of Isaac actually having been sacrificed, and there is a strong hint in the Palestinian Targum and Fragmentary Targum.
Disregard my reconstruction of the original top-piece, except for the observation that there must have been something rather like the woman with twelve stars and the sun and moon, and some solar imagery suggesting the Christ with the radiance of the sun at midday. The two suns are still there in the new version. Logically the top-piece ought to show the last stage, so if there is a rising sun just below it on the back there ought to be a symbol of the sun at midday on the back of the top-piece. This would be the second-last stage. If the sun gives protection through the whole twenty-four hours, the last stage ought to be a representation of the sun shining brightly at midnight along with the full moon and the stars on the front of the top-piece. The full moon is at the midheaven at midnight. I don’t know how you would draw this, unless the sun is meant to be shining brightly not next to the moon but from the Imum Coeli (the point opposite the midheaven, underfoot). This is where the sun actually is at midnight. Have a look at Zechariah XIV:7, “There will be one day that is known to God, no day and no night, and at the time of evening it will be light”. I will have a look at the interpretations of this verse later.NOTE: This verse is quoted in the PRE in the passage about Genesis XV, though its interpretation is not relevant to what is said in the next paragraph.
A sample of what appears in the Real Messiah order it here
