A Quest for Community
Thursday, October 02, 2003
During the big Summer Solstice celebrations at Damanhur in July 2002, I had an opportunity to spend the night in Damanhur's magnificent underground 'Temple of Humanity.' It's been built by the Damanhurians over the last 25 years, in complete secret for the first 15! - It's located inside a small mountain in the foothills of the Italian Alps, is 21 stories (210 feet) deep and consists of 8 large halls filled with monumental Damanhurian art work. For example, the Tiffany glass cupola in the 'Hall of Mirrors' is the largest in the world, the floor of the 'Hall of Metals' is covered with human figures each composed of thousands of pieces of hand-wrought ceramic tiles, the walls and ceilings of the 'Hall of Spheres' are covered with 24-carat gold leaf, and in the 'Hall of the Earth' a beautiful hand-painted ceiling is held up by eight 20-foot high columns, each covered in silken smooth white varnished ceramic adorned with hundreds of raised ideogrammatic symbols embossed in pure gold.
