Zion

Meaning

Zion appears in the Isaiah cornerstone citation that opens the material part and returns in the theological justification of a visible likeness of Christ. The name provides a scriptural location for the foundation stone; it is not an instruction to seek the alchemical matter at a modern geographical site. The aligned English uses the conventional “Zion” for printed Sion. The two quotations have different concluding formulations in the supplied text: possession and freedom from shame in the opening, belief and not fleeing in the later discussion. Their shared cornerstone image should not erase those actual wording differences.