Engrave the Names

Selections from Names/Shemot in Tetzaveh Exodus 27.20-30.10

  

Bring clear illuminating oil causing a light to burn continually

In the Tent of Meeting (communion). Such light comes from us

For all time (Pure oil, sign of meditation that brings clear light)

On two sacred stones engrave the names of the 12 tribes

Six names on one and six on the other, in order of their birth

        Rubin, Shimon Levi,   Yehudah, Dan, Naftali,

            Gad, Asher, Issakar,    Zebulon, Yosuf, Benyamin

Attach these stones (each with six names) at your shoulders

As stones of remembering (These 12 names, your inheritance

Are qualities of God.  Visualize them at your shoulders)  

We wear a breastplate of discernment, four rows of stones

Corresponding to the names of the 12.  And on our foreheads Inscribed in gold are the letter symbols: Holy to God 

There too is a thread of blue indicating: all sins have gone

When you come before God to know the way

Feel the anointing oil on your head

And the headdress and symbols of holiness near your forehead

And the precious twelve stone altar in the heart chakra

The breastplate for discerning (the real from the unreal)

Practice this (visualization- meditation) for seven days

And you will enter the sanctuary of remembering

Whoever touches such an altar becomes consecrated

In the morning and at twilight (stop and think of me)

(Also) when you lift your glass and when you dine

These are entrances into my sanctuary

Here I will meet with you and speak with you

(If you so choose) I will abide in your midst and be your God

Who brings you out of narrow-mindedness (mitzra-im)

With the incense (of genuine prayer) you construct

A three dimensional altar (of your physical self)

And overlay it with pure gold (loving compassion)

Which is most holy to me