"The mountain is the link between Earth and Heaven. Its top touched the world of eternity and its base has branches in several counters in the world of mortals. It is the way by which man can rise to divinity and divine revelation to man. " These words are taken from Mount Analog René Daumal only appearance in alpine adventure novel, but in reality is the account of an unfinished journey towards "the center and summit" where every man can become what it is. The mountain sacred symbols is one of the most powerful and present into the human imagination. As high, vertical and close to heaven, is associated with transcendence. As a center of hierophanies theophanies and is linked to the event. The sacred mountain is the axis of the world and segnacolo of true elevation. It is no coincidence that St. John of the Cross has described the stages of the mystical life as an ascent or the Earthly Paradise Dante expected to lie on top of the mountain of Purgatory. And it is fitting that Sahrawardi of Aleppo and the esoteric Ismaili invite to climb the "Sinai's own being" to lead to knowledge of themselves and then God
Transcendence and manifestation are the traits that distinguish the sacred mountain par excellence, the biblical Horeb, that Mount Sinai, on top of which God spoke to Moses and gave him the Tablets of the Law. It is one of the most fascinating and mysterious of the planet. I've been there. I faced with my loved ones the night ascent of Jebel Musa (Mount Moses) in order to watch the sunrise from its summit. It was the morning as part of the world, as it says in the Book of Genesis . There is no travel experience more mystical or lasting. At the peak of Sinai every man who is looking for a way to find it. Every creature may renew the bond with the Creator. The night ascent of Mount Sinai is not only an unforgettable excursion. It is a metaphor for the ongoing transformation of our soul, of his need to relate to the One not to lose the cosmic course. St. Gregory of Nyssa called Horeb "mountain of desire." It is the desire of the sublime that guides the steps of the finder to the top where the Sky entered into an alliance with Earth.
The ascent begins at the Monastery of Saint Catherine, the oldest monastery in the world. The first stone was erected in 330 by Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine. You go up to 1,570 m. height up to 2244 m. The Bible warns those who want to challenge the mountain. "Beware of the ascent of the mountain and touch his foot. Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death (Exodus 19, 12 ). The top of the rise can be reached through two routes in the last stretch, the harder, come together in a single, steep trail suitable for goats and ibex. The first path is completely cut into the rock leads to the summit by 3,750 steps carved by monks hermits irregular since the third century AD They are known as "steps of penitence" and it seems it is the original path of Moses - but also of Aaron, Nadab, Abihu and seventy elders of Israel, which "contemplated with the God of Israel" - but it is impossible to be certain in the absence of witnesses. What seems certain is that this scale goes up to as tight bends and steep cut from the legs exercise. The second path is called the "way of camels and is less hard, especially because the camels trained and led by the Bedouins of the desert are a valuable aid for hikers in distress. This is a longer route (over 7 km.), Which goes around the mountain to the SE bend in about three hours and which is connected to the express line just before the summit, making it compulsory overcome the last 700 steps of smooth rock, the most steep and rough at the end of which stands a platform overlooking the perpetually empty and windswept. The slope of the last tear is deadly. Yet, it is believed that Muhammad's horse has passed the barrier and brought up to the top of Islam because the Prophet ascended to Heaven. The Bedouin love to show pride with two strange footprints engraved in a rock, which they say would be the signs of the hooves of the legendary beast.
slow and dangling stars twinkling in the womb of a cold night in which the moon was anemic and distracted. The sky was explained as a quilt of stars shining on the desert dreaming. Fatigue dell'incedere was mitigated by the excitement of the senses on alert to catch the sounds and smells of the mountain, and mind, unable to keep quiet. The path that climbs up and goes to coil unraveling into a realm of shadows and silence enchanted, broken only by the advances of the Bedouins and the guttural cries of some Gamal (the camel), invites the traveler to rival Moses, Elijah and of the many saints that Hesychasts chanting the name of the Nazarene experienced ecstasy, to reflect on their condition. One question: Who really was Moses, whose name means "saved"? Icon takes shape in the mind eponymous masterpiece sculpted by Michelangelo. That Moses marble, which lacks only the word embodies the ideal of superhuman strength, stability, firmness and predestination that always fascinates and attracts souls fearless. Her gaze is that of a man who knew how to dream and fulfill their dreams without becoming a slave, who has never deceived to be master of his fate and by virtue of his humility in this range was rewarded by God with highest awards: the revelation. To determine the merits of Moses just this simple axiom: founded monotheism. No one before him had proclaimed with authority that there is only one God truth is that it becomes Moses and is "saved" when it makes its own learning path. A save is not so much the sacrifice of the rise since the recognition that we are all children of one God in us the gift of the Ten Commandments has given us the need to conduct rescue our souls.
The wait is unreal dawn, moving. Once this mountain was called Gebel Moneigiah, which means "mountain of the meeting." It is the meeting to make sense of fatigue. In the hours before dawn, the peak shows a dramatic appearance, looming as if everything and anything, as if there dwell in the person's destiny. Enveloped in darkness and pounded by a chilly wind, the peak seems to howl at the stars, giving birth seems atavistic questions to which the star moon can not answer. But suddenly, something is moving horizon. At the beginning is only a promise impalpable. The heart begins to beat warning of the approaching moment we've longed for. The metaphysics of the early dawn light began to pierce the solid front of the night. With the passing of minutes, the hope becomes certainty. The sun appears in all its beauty, its glory. At that moment, it happens a prodigious event. We feel the presence of this unknown god announced that St. Paul in the Areopagus of Athens. You feel the spasms of the soul, desperately stretched toward the sky. It follows the light as the wire follows the cop, if only he could. Slowly the sun rises and floods the soft-ray profile of mountain ridges that stretch in front of the viewer. Here are the rocks of Serbal, a realm in which wild and rugged loins are cut copper mines and caves since the dawn of time devoted to supernatural visions. And here is a gloomy-looking valley. Erebus is the Semitic legends, full of pits and pyramids of stones, walls and petrified waves. Beyond this gray curtain opens an extraordinary view, which embraces the four cardinal points. Suddenly, the vision of cola a river of gold and fire blazing up. It is a primitive spectacle. The sun rises on his throne and the sky above the Sinai turns into a blue lake. The heart is confused. In the mind, proven by strong emotions, such as orchids open the words of a song that Ben Shalom Yehudah al-Harizi, the great Hebrew poet who lived in Muslim Spain in the twelfth and thirteenth century, rose to the holy mountain never seen and always dreamed of . "Many lands are attractive, but no eye has ever covered a beauty like yours. I do not know if it's the sky that bends down to you or are you to raise up to him. " Doubt it melts. But one thing is certain: the sacred mountain remains faithful to the promises. As envisaged by the author of an ancient text Jewish known as The Song of the Sea "from your peaks every man will be ripped into the vortex of your fire."
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