. . . . agricultural calendar
for sowing and reaping. Stonehenge is so constructed that it is an
expression of relationship of ancient Egyptian square and linear
systems of measures: the diameter of the circle falling within the
outer ring of stones being 1,163 British inches, which is the
measurement of the Egyptian quarter "aroura." The Egyptians used the
“aroura" to measure the seasons of the year.
The details concerning the
Great Pyramid, its dimensions and units, its Passages and Chambers,
as well as the theory of the purpose of its construction, are all
clearly defined by the ancient Egyptian texts, and confirmed by the
metrological data and Pyramid survey of Sir William Flinders Petrie.
An important branch of ancient
Egyptian science, originating in the period 3500 to 2500 B.C.,
treats of the mathematical data of the astronomical ephemerides of
the period. It is proved to demonstration that these data comprise
formulae giving the astronomical constants and variables of
processional and orbital movements and elements for every year
within a period of 67½ centuries, extending from 4699 B.C. to A.D.
4205. The later Egyptian texts, dealing with these data
independently, fix the years defined in relation to the years of
known history. This fixing confirms the period as extending from
4699 B.C. to 4205 A.D. The striking feature of the identity effected
is that the ancient Egyptian astronomical values and formulae for
modern times agree precisely with the accepted values of formulae
for modern times.
The ancient Egyptian data give
a clear enunciation of the Law of Gravitation. This law and all
astronomical changes and variations are expressed in terms of a
single Law of Relativity, which is represented as the dominating Law
of Creative Science. This law is expressed in geometrical terms. The
Egyptian texts define these terms as embodied in the form of a
Standard Pyramid of Scientific Reference. They give the proportions
and numerical values of the Standard Pyramid dimensions, and
specially define its metrological unit. This Standard Pyramid of the
texts is identical in every respect with the Greater Pyramid of
Gizeh, and the systems of geometry of the latter are seen to
represent the gravitational astronomy and astronomical chronology of
the ancient Egyptian ephemerides. The identity confirms the
traditions descended from the ancient Egyptians concerning the Great
Pyramid and the purpose of its construction.
Passing from the astronomical,
geometrical and mathematical aspects of this structure, we will take
. . . .
. . . . a general view of the
other pyramids still standing, principally those known as the Second
and Third Pyramids. The Great, Second and Third Pyramids are the
only ones usually recognised, the remainder being so small as
scarcely to be worth attention. The granite used inside all the
Pyramids is of a Syenitic variety, being brought from the first
Cataracts at Syene, some 600 miles to the South. How this hard
material was cut is a mystery, unless, in defiance of all the bronze
age antiquaries, it is allowed that the use of iron and steel was
then known. The discovery, by Colonel Howard Vyse, of a large mass
of worked iron deep in the primitive masonry of the Great Pyramid
almost seems to justify such a conclusion. The casing-stones
themselves are especially worthy of consideration in this
connection. These polished stones were wrought with such excellent
skill as to be almost equal to modern optical makers work. They do
not vary from a straight line and accurate square more than the
hundredth part of an inch in a total length of 75 inches. The
interstice between one stone and another was so thin as to allow for
only a thin sheet of silver paper between them. Even this was filled
and closed up by a cement, so that the stones, thus joined, gave to
each triangular surface the appearance of a single polished slab, 5
acres in extent, sloping upwards to the sky. The accuracy of the two
angles of these casing-stones is even more remarkable, one angle
being cut to 3-10ths and the other to 7-10ths of a second. Note that
this fractional exactitude had to be determined upon by the
architect before a single casing-stone was chiselled, and had to be
adhered to precisely by the skilled masons throughout the entire
chiselling of the innumerable multitude of them. Surely Jeremiah was
correct in assuming this whole structure to be the creative work of
the Grand Geometrician of the Universe!
(Jer. xxxii,
i8-20.)
The layers or tiers of stone
composing the bulk of the whole of the Great Pyramid are of varying
thicknesses. They are mostly thinner higher up. The 35th course, or
layer, is of very remarkable thickness, and can be picked out by the
practised eye a long way off. It is estimated that it took 40,000
extra tons of lifting to make this 35th course. It is interesting to
reason why this was done. Examination has shown that the top of this
particular layer to the vertical centre line of the whole building,
divided by ten, is equal to the exact length in inches that the base
line is in cubits. Furthermore, when the horizontal measurement of
this 35th course is divided by its height from the ground a very
interesting number of special significance is arrived at—namely,
3.14159, which is the number where-with to square the circle,
indispensable to higher branches of calculation, but a number that
has been received as final by the modern world only in recent times.
Various mathematicians were still hard at work in the eighties of
last century trying to get a little nearer the mark than that
decimal point if possible. Now all such effort has ceased, and this
number is accepted which the builders of the Pyramid had perfect
knowledge of over 4,000 years ago.
The cutting of the stone
forming the layers is also remarkable from the point of view of
their predetermined dimensions, on the accuracy of which the whole
structure was minutely involved. No haphazard angle could be allowed
here. The ultimate height of this Pyramid being decided upon
beforehand, the angle stones had to be cut to such an exactitude
that when the top stone was reached the height of the uppermost
portion of it was at a predetermined and exact distance from the
ground. The intricate calculation involved in doing this was most
accurately worked out. That predetermined height was of the
fractional exactness of 232.520 cubits, of 232½ cubits plus one
half-an-inch in addition. The reason for this laboured precision may
be found in the fact that if the height of the Pyramid is divided
into twice the base, the result brought out again is that remarkable
number 3.14159. The base line itself was fixed to be of the length
of 365.242 cubits, the exact number of days in the solar year, even
including the extra day every fourth year and allowing for the
periodical dropping of a leap year at intervals. The builders,
therefore, had an exact knowledge of the length of the solar year—an
exactitude which we moderns did not attain until thousands of years
had run their course. The grand angle-stones to be seen over the
entrance passage's mouth are likewise of great mathematical
interest, inasmuch as their angle is also a memorial of the
circle-squaring angle of the . . . .
Fig 3 —ANGLES OF CASING-STONES
OF GREAT PYRAMID,
As affected by its external slope
and horizontal masonry courses.
. . . . whole form of the Great Pyramid, being,
on either side of the vertical axis, 51deg. 51min. 14.3sec.
PART II
Before leaving the outside of
this great structure to delve into its hidden internal mysteries it
is worthy of note that the removal of the outer smoothly bevelled
casing-stones, even though with violence and for plunder, over 1000
years ago, was a necessary preliminary to enable the scientific
import of every part of the building and its secrets to be revealed
in these latter days.
Despite the general and
preconceived opinion already referred to, the Great Pyramid
contained nothing but measurements, the significance and solutions
of which, it is now maintained, can only be discerned through the
Volume of the Sacred Law. In short, the language of the Pyramid is
the language of mathematics, speaking in terms of numbers,
measurements and magnitude, and by mathematical reference it reveals
events, past, present and future. It is, in fact, a monumental
representation of the mathematical and astronomical Science of a
former civilization, and its geometrical framework defines, with the
accuracy of modern astronomy, nine different astronomical values,
while its internal geometrical system gives a complete exposition of
Gravitational Astronomy. Thus it is concluded that this first
Pyramid was built by members of an earlier civilization who
possessed knowledge and faculties that have since been lost to the
human race; that it was built with the definite purpose of
transmitting a message to a later civilization which could
understand and appreciate that message; and that the various
geometrical and astronomical features of the exterior were designed
to direct attention to the interior where the message lay hid.
Fig. 4 shows the vertical
section of the building looking West in the plane of its passage.
The outer lines show the
ancient finished surfaces and the courses of constructive masonry,
the 50th of which is on the level of the floor of the King's
Chamber. The builders used the measure of the Sacred Cubit, and
since it is on this basis of measurement that the conclusions
arrived at have been reached, it is essential to understand the
connection between this cubit and the measurement known as the
“Pyramid Inch." While the Bible does not give the precise number of
inches comprised in the Sacred Cubit, the Great Pyramid does, though
this fact has only been discovered during the last hundred years.
The “Pyramid Inch” is derived from the earth’s Polar diameter, which
measures exactly 500 million primitive inches. The Sacred Cubit is a
unit of this system – namely, 25 primitive inches. This particular
standard of measurement never occurs in Egyptian measurements except
during periods when Egypt is under Semitic . . . .
Fig 4 —SECTION OF THE GREAT
PYRAMID FROM NORTH TO SOUTH
I. Subterranean Chamber II.
Queen’s Chamber III. King’s Chamber
. . . . control or influence.
The primitive Pyramid Inch is the original of the British Inch, the
Hebrew unit of ten acres in ancient Cornwall having, for the side of
the ten-acre square, a furlong of 8,000 inches. From the Great
Pyramid itself, it is thus established that the Sacred Cubit was 25
inches. The British Inch differs from the Pyramid Inch by not more
than one-half hair-breadth, and is therefore identical in origin
with that of the inch of the Great Pyramid, and of the Hebrew Sacred
Cubit. All Pyramid time measurements are calculated on the basis of
one inch to a year, except as shown later, and it is on this basis,
and this alone, that a solution to its measurements can be arrived
at. These measurements have been found to check each other with a
precision and accuracy which cannot be gainsaid; they have also been
proved correct by the fulfilment of past history.
The entrance to the Great
Pyramid was through a long, inclined descending passage commencing
on the Northern side, 44 inches wide by 42 inches high. The angle of
descent is peculiar and symbolic, being 26deg. 18min. 10sec. Joined
with the lengths of the King's Chamber this typifies with extreme
exactness the number of days and fractions of a day in a
year—namely, 365.242, a result necessary for correct chronology but
one not known for 3,000 years after this monument of stone was
completed.
About the year A.D. 825 the
Great Pyramid was first entered after being sealed up with its outer
casing-stones, that entrance being made with the object of plunder
by Maschid al Mamoun, Pasha of Egypt. The entrance passage then
being hidden, Mamoun's workmen forced their way in at a point near
the centre of the North side. The original builders had, however,
placed the entrance 24 feet to the eastward, for an astronomical
reason which affects the whole theory of Pyramid prophecy with its
interpretation of past, present and future events.
At a point where the correct
entrance passage meets the first ascending passage leading to the
Grand Gallery and the King's Chamber, the forced entrance hole
eventually connected with it, and in this manner the locations of
all the internal passages and chambers were revealed. No treasure,
however, was found by these adventurers, who left disillusioned and
empty-handed.
The significance of the
position of the correct entrance-passage being placed 24 feet to the
eastward is seen when it is noted that in the year 2140 B.C. there
was a conjunction of the stars Alpha Draconi and Eta Tauri—a
conjunction with the Pole Star that only occurs, roughly speaking,
once in over 25,000 years. Thus the star Draconis shone down this
passage precisely at midnight of the Autumnal Equinox, 2140 B.C. The
Pleiades were also shining opposite in the same line or meridian.
Some 4,000 years later, in A.D. 1881, the star Draconis again shone
down this passage, but the Pleiades were then by no means in the
same meridian, and would not be so for some 21,000 odd years of
movement. It is only natural to enquire for what purpose the
builders made the passage-way in the exact position needed to cause
such a unique result to come to pass; also, how they obtained a
knowledge of a sidereal event that only occurs once in over 25,000
years? Again, for what purpose were such multitudes of stones so
precisely adjusted as to make them fit in with the movements of the
stars of heaven? That the adjustment was purposely effected is
evident, and it can only be assumed that the intention was to
indicate to future generations the particular epoch in which this
imperishable monument was built.
The internal passages and
chambers shown in Fig. VI are considered to contain the key to the
prophetic import of the Great Pyramid. This is briefly summarized as
follows:—
The rate of measurement is
based on the scale of one Pyramid Inch to a Solar Year. Measuring
the Descending Passage from the outside entrance to the junction of
the Ascending Passage gives the Exodus date, 1486 B.C. The Ascending
Passage itself measures 1542 inches, which, in years, is the
duration of the Mosaic Dispensation up to the Birth of Christ. This
brings one to the commencement of the Grand Gallery, and since it is
from this point that one ascends towards the King's Chamber,
descends to the Entrance Passage, proceeds along . . . .
Fig 5 —THE ENTRANCE PASSAGE
. . . . the horizontal passage
leading to the Queen's Chamber, and also descends by the shaft to
the "well" or "pit" leading to the Subterranean Chamber, it is
naturally this point which is fixed upon for furnishing the zero
starting point for all calculations, backwards or forwards. There
are those who think that the Great Pyramid changed its rate of
measurement from an inch to a year to an inch to a month after
passing the Great Step at the top of the Grand Gallery—a step, be it
noted, exactly equivalent to the British yard of 36 inches. Carrying
on this rule of measurement in place of the former, they see this
present age ending rapidly. Others, working on the inch to a year
basis, see the end deferred some further 200 odd years. What of this
apparent contradiction? Nothing. Each sees a fulfilment, and history
will probably show that each is right in the main. The inch to a
month measurement is certainly having a fulfilment now. The
probability is that the inch to a year measure is also having a
fulfilment, but, owing to the so much slower movement of time by
this measure, it is not possible to check the matter so closely and
quickly.
It is interesting here to note
that, according to the inch to a year measurement, the late war
should have lasted 51½ years; actually it was 51½ months right down
to the time that the Armistice was signed at the eleventh hour of
the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It is not considered strange
by those students of Pyramidology who regard this monument as a
Bible in Stone that the rate of measurement should alter after the
Great Step has been passed, when it is remembered that in Matthew
xxiv, 22, it is stated: “for the elect's sake those days shall be
shortened."
The Pyramid's indication of the
length of the Mosaic Dispensation as 1542 years establishes the
builder's marvellous skill in placing on record beforehand the
length of that eminently important period, by arranging the
innumerable and gigantic stones in such a manner as to indicate that
period of time by the number of inches of the floor line of the
first Ascending Passage. The Descending Passage is considered
symbolic of the downward trend of humanity. The Ascending
Passage—Israel under the Law—the leading of mankind up to the
Christian Dispensation, symbolized in the Grand Gallery. The
Horizontal Passage may symbolize the setting aside of the Jewish
nation during a part of the Christian Dispensation. The Queen's
Chamber, at the end of the Horizontal Passage, is a cul-de-sac,
possibly representing the history of the Jewish race—namely, that in
their journeyings they reach this point but can proceed no further ;
also, that they can only reach the
Fig 6 —THE PROPHETIC IMPORT
Millennium, represented by the
King's Chamber, by retracing their steps along the Horizontal
Passage back to Christ, and, in accepting Christianity, ascend to
the King's Chamber. The King's Chamber, or Millennium, would thus
represent the complete reign of Christ upon earth, a reign
acknowledged and accepted by all nations, including the Jewish. It
would seem clear that the time is not yet!
Summed up in more concrete
form, the alpha and omega of these symbols may be stated thus—
The first entrance passage,
going downwards, typifies the need for man to cultivate a humble and
receptive spirit through which he traverses the Ascending Passage or
“Hall of Initiation," where, receptive to the Truth, he is finally
brought to understand the divine plan for world redemption. This
latter does not come to pass, however, until he has traversed the
last two low passages leading to the King's Chamber.
The two low passages referred
to may chronicle the desperate struggles of the British people
(actually the English-speaking races of the world, including
America) with the enemies of Christianity, though culminating
triumphantly with emergence into victory and light. This
interpretation would seem well-nigh irrefutable when it is realized
that the first of these low passages coincides exactly in length of
inches with the precise number of months the Great War lasted, and,
still more so, when it is seen that the commencement of this low
passage fits in perfectly with the 4th-5th August, 1914, and its
termination with equal precision, to the date of the signing of the
Armistice on the 11th November, 1918. The beginning of the next low
passage coincides with the date of 29th May, 1928, but lasts longer
than the former, closing on the 15th-16th September, 1936. Students
of Pyramidology the world over have no hesitation in accepting these
two latter dates as the commencement and termination respectively of
a further upheaval of world importance. What this may be, can, of
course, only be surmised. Close observers of European politics will
have noted the recent troubles in Egypt. Allied, as Egyptian
problems usually are, with Turkish military aims, it may not be far
wrong to assume that these prophecies depict a confederation of
European and near Eastern peoples, under the domination of a
dictatorship exercised upon or through a still future phase of the
Russian peoples. The epoch of this Russian question, as related to
the Jewish question, is contemporaneous with the establishment of
the Bolshevist regime in Russia. One may therefore expect that the
forces in the field in the last phase of Armageddon will be this
anti-Christian, and therefore anti-British, Confederacy—possibly
also including chemical warfare by Germany—but it is a phase which,
according to the prophet Ezekiel, and according also to the witness
of the Great Pyramid, ends all machinations of evil, and ushers in
that grand millennium reign of peace which for . . . .
Fig 7 —THE LOW PASSAGES
(Not to Scale).
. . . . twenty long centuries has constituted
the hope of the human race.
It is a sign of the times that in all countries
there are people seeking, by devious ways, a solution of the riddle
of life, and yearning for a clearer revelation of the divine plan
and purpose. Many are earnestly studying the utterances of the
ancient Hebrew prophets. Few have grasped that the facts of
Pyramidology may constitute the great key to prophetical
interpretation. From the moment that it was realized that the Great
Pyramid represented something more than an untenanted tomb, and the
measurements made by explorers revealed the fact that they had
definite and very exact cosmical relations, the quest for light on
this monument of ancient learning has been keenly pursued.
In being privileged to put this paper before
you I can but hope that the facts given and conclusions drawn will
have awakened interest in a tremendously inspiring subject. I am
sure that you will find that the Great Pyramid will well repay
study, whether taken from the archaeological, geometrical or
religious standpoint.
The
Great Pyramid
By F.
Howard Buchanan
Extracted by SRA76 from: British
Masonic Miscellany, Vol 4
compiled by George M .Martin P.M.,
S.C.
Published by David Winter and Son
Shore Terrace, Dundee (Scotland)
(Pages 58-78)