Quite a dream
A few nights ago, I dreamt. I was visiting a temple. It was styled halfway between Middle-Eastern and European, somewhat similar to Byzantine architecture or the Hagia Sophia. It was completely white, as if of plain unpolished marble. Inside, it consisted primarly of just one large round room with a high hemispeherical dome. Across from the main entrance at the juncture of wall and dome there was a large rectangular stone which had four characters carved into it in a script I didn't recognize. It was very simple, composed of lines and dots, somewhat cuneiform. There proceeded from that stone a line of text in a similar script that spiralled around and up the inner surface of the temple, all the way to the top of the dome where there was another large stone, this one circular and perfectly smooth.
There was a priest or guide there talking about the history and purpose of the temple, and I think I came up on him mid-way in the lecture. He said that the temple had been destroyed in one of the early Crusades, and later rebuilt. A particular sect of Crusaders had set it as their mission to destroy this temple because of the incredible heresy they thought it represented. He went on to say that the 'heresy' primarily centerred on the four characters on the stone, as they represented the first name of God. He pronounced the four words (which I don't remember) and then said that it translated best into English as "One life, many souls". The Crusaders thought the four character Name was a direct affront to YHVH, and so sacked the first temple.
He went on to say that the spiralling text wrapped around the dome was intellectually something of a cross between a philosophical essay and a prayer, but it's intended use ran deeper than its words. The seeker of this faith uses the temple as a moving meditation, reading the text of the prayer, sometimes chanting it aloud, all while slowly spinning and raising one's attention to the ceiling and the empty stone. He said that in the course of the 'prayer' it describes the individual in contrast to God as "One soul, many lives," and that as a whole it is a description and invocation of one's relationship to God. As it draws to a close near the top of the temple it points to a merging, a synergy between God and individual that transcends the nature of both. This is what is represented by the smooth circular stone, because what is found in that union is indescribable and unnameable.