The two pillars · scripture, the lodge, the tarot

Three different objects that most people have fused into one, and this wing pulls them apart.

1 · Scripture. Jachin and Boaz, 1 Kings 7:15–22: cast bronze shafts, a bowl (gullah) for a chapiter, nets of checker-work and wreaths of chain-work, two rows of pomegranates, and lily-work for a crown. A flower, not a world. The sources even disagree on the count — 1 Kings says two hundred, Chronicles a hundred, Jeremiah ninety-six to a side — and Jeremiah is the one who watched them broken up and carried to Babylon.

2 · The lodge. The terrestrial and celestial globes everyone pictures on top are 18th-century Masonic furniture, standard on the tracing boards, with no scriptural or Kabbalistic source at all. They stood in this app's own pardes until 2026-07-25, when they were removed and rehoused here — which is what a descendants' bench is for.

3 · The tarot. The image actually carried in the modern mind — two columns, one black and one white, lettered B and J, a veil stretched between them and a seated figure in front — is Waite's High Priestess, 1909, by way of Lévi and the Masonic tracing boards before him.

And the Tree's pillars are three, not two — and they run parallel and never touch, reconciled by a middle column you actually walk. The Temple's two flank a gate. Different objects, fused by a picture.