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BETA
CREATING A SANCTUARY
The sanctuary of the home is more important to the spiritual life of the family
than
any church building or temple.
~Basic
Beliefs #19
The Sanctuary is a room set apart within your home and consecrated to God. It is designed and intended specifically for the purpose of experiencing the divine and creating sacred moments. The Sanctuary should be the most beautiful room in your home because it is your gift to your Heavenly Parents. The room should have a special door, and should never be in a basement.
Your Sanctuary should be a place of holiness, a sacred place. If you do not believe your Sanctuary is sacred, and treat it accordingly, then your Heavenly Parents will not believe it is sacred. It is a place where all the elements of faith, prayer, meditation, solitude and fellowship are forged together to empower your spiritual identity, purpose,and priesthood. It is in the Sanctuary where the peace of God is experienced, and the mind of God is revealed.
Your Sanctuary should be a protected place. Those who scorn, ridicule, or hold in contempt the teachings of the Song of God should not be allowed to enter your Sanctuary. Allow no one to disrespect your Sanctuary.
This most special room should have an altar and a mercy seat. The altar symbolizes the place of covenants: where you and God meet upon your sacred word of honor. The altar is also where you write and keep a journal of your experiences with God. The mercy seat is not a chair, but an elevated podium-like structure from which the will and grace of the divine is revealed. The mercy seat may take some architectural ingenuity, but don’t let it discourage or delay your progress.
Everyone has the right to have a Sanctuary, regardless of their religious affiliation (or non-affiliation). If you don’t have a room, do your best with what you have. Set apart and establish a sacred space that is elegant, meaningful, and beautiful. You do not need permission to use the priesthood that you were born with. Connect with your Heavenly Parents and your higher Self. Create sacred moments, and reflect the peace and love of God into the world.
24 Thus in the Song of God shall you always find me, and in another also; for in the Sanctuary of your home shall I come and there abide, if it so be that the Sanctuary be made most holy. For the holiest place in all the world is the Sanctuary of the home, and this do you alone create.
25 For in your hand is found a power: to create on earth a bit of Heaven where God might be revealed, a place within your very home where the holy and sacred meet, to bind on earth the things of God through the living of your life.
26 Build therefore a Sanctuary in your home, to be for you and all your house a Holy of Holies, having in itself both the altar and mercy seat, and let this prove the sacred place where you and God confer through the moving of the Spirit.
27 For all that is holy and come from God is first made manifest in the Sanctuary of the home, and from there shall the Spirit of God move into the life of the family, which Spirit is carried into the Tabernacle of God’s Peace to bless the community in which you live.
28 Let then the Sanctuary of your home be that very fount from which all good things do flow forth into the world; flowing from the life you live to touch and empower both the Tabernacle and Temple together, creating within the garden places, the hush of sacred things filled with joy and hope and peace.
