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When Gudea kept being baffled by the architectural in- structions for the temple he was to build, he was shown a "command-vision that emerges!’ in which he could dream- see the temple taking shape from the initial groundstone to its completion stage by stage—a feat more than 4,000 years ago which can now be attained by computer simulations. Ezekiel was not only miraculously transported (twice) from Mesopotamia to the Land of Israel. The second time he was shown, in what nowadays we would call a "Virtual Reality" technology, scene by scene, details of something that did not yet exist—the future Temple; the House of Yahweh that was to be built according to the architectural details revealed to Ezekiel in this Twilight Zone vision. How was it done? Ezekiel called the vision, at the very beginning, a Tavnit— the term that was used earlier in the Bible in connection with the Residence and the Temple. But if they might have been only scale models, the one envisioned by Ezekiel had to be a full-sized "con- struction model," for the Divine Measurer was taking actual mea- surements with a rod that was six cubits long, measuring a length of sixty cubits here, a height of twenty-five cubits there. Was what Ezekiel was being shown based on a "Virtual Reality" or holographic technology? Was he shown “computer” simulations, or seeing an actual temple somewhere else through holography? Visitors to science museums are often fascinated by the holographic displays in which two beams project images that when combined seem to enable one to see an actual, three- dimensional image floating in the air. Techniques developed at the end of 1993 (Physical Review Letters, December 1993) can make long-distance holograms appear with the aid of only one laser beam focused on a crystal. Were these kinds of tech- niques, undoubtedly far more advanced, used to enable Ezekiel to see. visit, and even enter the "constructed model" that was actually somewhere else—perhaps all the way in South America? ANCIENT HOLOGRAMS, VIRTUAL REALITY?