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LIST
OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 PYRAMIDS
OF NORTH AFRICA, MESOPOTAMIA AND THE On the Giza Plateau The Pyramids and Sphinx The
Great Pyramid of Cheops Squaring the Circle The
Symbolism of the Pyramid Form Orientation and Construction The King’s Chamber Iron found
in the Great Pyramid. Was Pharaoh
Cheops Responsible for the Great Pyramid? Egyptian Units of
Measure Sacred
Geometry in the Great Pyramid Was the Great
Pyramid Designed as a Tomb? The Stepped Pyramid of The Bent Pyramid of Dashur Architect, Imhotep Duality in the Design of the Bent Pyramid The Dimensional Design The Stepped Pyramid Pyramids of Pyramids (Ziggurats) of Sumeria
and Sumeria The The Stepped Pyramids of 2
PYRAMIDOLOGISTS AND PYRAMIDIOTS Pyramidiots John
Taylor Dr Charles Piazzi Smyth David Davidson Charles T. Russell David
Davidson Pyramidologists Rene A. Schwaller
de Lubicz Dr Robert M. Schoch Professor Sir Flinders Petrie Dr James Hurtak Ian Lawton and Chris Ogilvie-Herald 3
ESOTERIC
PYRAMIDOLOGISTS The Esoteric Alternative Viewpoint Helena P. Blavatsky Rites of Initiation in the Great Pyramid Dr Gottfried De Purucker Rt Rev. William Charles Leadbeater Leadbeater’s Research into Initiation in
the Egyptian Mysteries The Mysteries of The Lesser Mysteries The Lesser
Mysteries of The Inner Mysteries The Inner Mysteries of The Inner Mysteries of Serapis The Myth of Osiris The Meaning of the Osiris
Myth The
Mysteries of Osiris Death and Resurrection The Inner
Mysteries of Osiris The Higher Grades of the
Inner Mysteries The First Three Great
Initiations The Fourth Great Initiation Other
Significant Esotericists Edgar
Cayce Paul Brunton Manly P.
Hall 4
THE
PYRAMIDS OF Mausoleum Pyramids in The White Pyramid Pyramid of
the Emperor Qin Shi Hang The Golden Mean in Chinese Pyramids 5
ANCIENT
PYRAMIDS OF Luganshchina Visocica Montevicchia Pfortzheim/Baden-Wurttemberg Falicon 6
ANCIENT
PYRAMIDS IN THE The Pyramid
‘Mound Builders’ Spiro, Monks Mound, Chichen-Itza The
The Guatamala Pahacama Tucume 7
UNDERWATER
PYRAMIDS OF The 8 SCIENTIFIC PYRAMID RESEARCH Ongoing Research The Futurists of Pyramidology Edward Malkowski Christopher Dunn The Queen’s Chamber The Well Shaft The Grand Gallery Granite plugs and the Antechamber The King’s Chamber Professor Volodymyr Krasnoholovets Krasnoholovets’ Research
on Pyramids Field Tests on Pyramids Dr Alexander Golod Joseph Farrell Joseph Parr Dr Philip Callahan Dr Patrick Flanagan The Pharaoh’s Pump Foundation Robert Bauval Allan Alford John Anthony West Rene A. Schwaller de Lubicz Dr Peter Tompkins Dr Livio Catullo Stecchini Dr Surekha Bhat The Geometers Jeremy Potter Clive Ross 9 MODERN PYRAMID RESIDENCES Symbolism and The Pyramid Form and Healing Applying the Pyramid to Modern House Design Angles and Proportions of the Building Health Issues An Australian Pyramid House design The Healthy House Background to the Use of a
Pyramid in the Courtyard House Design Modern Pyramid Houses Boxtel, Hidden Valley, Old West, Saba, Charles Wilhite, sketch design Central Malibu, David, Keila, REFERENCES Extract from Chapter 1.
PYRAMIDS OF NORTH AFRICA, The Giza Plateau The
hot, dry desert wind increased my energy levels as such climates always have.
With heightening enthusiasm, I watched the dust-veiled, setting sun slide
behind the Great Pyramid. Within a very short time, night had blanketed the
Giza Plateau, wrapping the pyramids and the Sphinx in a dense darkness wholly
appropriate to the mysteries they concealed. The silent stillness, broken only by the
occasional grunts and groans of camels and a distant muezzin’s call to
prayer, allowed me to slip into a quiet contemplation of the magical
atmosphere (Figure 1.1). I smiled to myself, recalling a similar sunset at Urchisar in
Figure 1.1: The beauty of the pyramids of the Giza Plateau,
Figure 1.2: The commercial light-and-sound-show of the Giza Pyramids. (Courtesy: izzetzorlu.com) public-address system announced a muezzin’s call to
prayer, shattering the stillness. Back in The Pyramids and Sphinx. The
Great Pyramid of Cheops (Egyptian: Kheops) is the
largest of three major pyramids located on the The mysterious
Great Pyramid cannot be compared with any other structure in ancient Apart from the
pyramids of The
Great Pyramid of Cheops. Squaring the Circle. It is often assumed that the
Great Pyramid of Egypt, the archetype for pyramid investigations, is based on
the equilateral 60º triangle, but it is not. Over the years, many researchers
have tried to accurately calculate the angle of the sides of the pyramid,
arriving at results ranging between 40-60 degrees. The angle is actually
51°50'34", but this figure proved elusive because those who tried to
measure it were unaware that the Egyptian priests knew how to ‘square the
circle’. If the vertical height of the pyramid is used as the radius of a
circle, the circumference of that circle will be equal to the length of the
perimeter of the square base of the pyramid. A general way to express this is
the perimeter of the base is to the height as the circumference of a circle
is to its radius (2Pi or 2π). From this,
it can be calculated that the angle is 51º50'34". To understand the
significance of squaring the circle to the ancient Egyptians, it is necessary
to look into the esoteric meaning of the symbols involved. Obviously, the
Egyptians placed great significance on these symbols because they knew how to
use the far simpler geometry of the 60º pyramid, yet chose not to. (See
Appendix A.) The Symbolism of the Pyramid Form. According to
the famous 19th-century esotericist,
Helena P. Blavatsky, the pyramid represented a tree; at its apex, a link was
made between Heaven and Earth. The original Great Pyramid was thought
to be capped with gold over the limestone casing to symbolise the importance
of this mystic connection with heaven. In the ‘Mysteries of Most controversies associated
with the Great Pyramid are based on two important questions that have never
been satisfactorily answered. 1. How old is the Great Pyramid?
The answer seems to lie between 3000-2500 and 10500-7000 2. Why was it constructed? Was
it built as a tomb or monument to display knowledge and/or to conduct magicoreligious rituals? Most
Egyptologists hold that sophisticated pyramids such as those on the Giza plateau
were constructed at a time when Egyptian civilisation
had only just evolved out of its Neolithic Period (Neolithic Periods in
different civilisations have different dates
depending on the time when a culture settled and planted crops).
Archaeologists, mathematicians and historians only compound the mysteries
surrounding the Great Pyramid when they raise questions they cannot answer.
Nothing else made by human hands compares with the mysteries surrounding this
immense monument. The Great Pyramid is fascinating in its precision, method
of construction, size and placement of stones, as well in the function of its
interior spaces. Here some of
these mysteries are considered, and the opinions of certain experts who have hypothesised about them are presented. The academics and
professional students of ancient Egyptian monuments and associated studies
are referred to as ‘Egyptologists’. Orientation and
construction. The Great Pyramid is 146.59 m
(480.95 ft) high (Fix, 1978),
i.e., as high as
a 40-storey building on a base that could accommodate the cathedrals of
Figure
1.3: The Tree of the Sephiroth. The
branches reach down into the earth and thence ‘to the four cardinal points of
the universe of matter’ (Leadbeater 1926). (Redrawn from
Hall 1962)
Figure 1.4:
The Great Pyramid of well as those of indented sides (as discussed below).
If the estimated 2,300,000 blocks of pyramid limestone in the pyramid were
crushed into gravel, a road-bed 5 m (16 ft 5 in.) wide and 30 cm (12 in.)
thick would range a distance of 4830 km (3000 miles) across the continent of
Australia. This would be the same distance across the Because the corners of the
Great Pyramid are aligned almost perfectly to the four cardinal points of the
compass, the builders appear to have used a compass, or could this merely
have been a remarkable accident of orientation? Curiously, the magnetic compass, was not invented until thousands of years later
when open sea navigation began. As the alignment of the sides is accurate within
0.02 per cent, how did the ancient Egyptian designers know how to locate
magnetic north? Early 20th-century
pyramidologist, David Davidson (1937), demonstrated that the
exterior surface was very precisely indented with a slight indentation down
the middle of each exterior face (Figure 1.8 and Appendix E). Many years
later, an aerial photograph verified this fact by catching the outline of the
shadow cast across the extensive indentations of the sloping edges. These
precise indentations were not accidental. The concavity of each external side
makes the monument an 8-sided figure executed with
extraordinary precision. Flinders Petrie (1883,
2002) also
recorded the indentation at the centre of each face. The unknown designers
and builders of the Great Pyramid evidently knew more about the Earth than
present-day historians can explain.
Figure 1.5:
Some of the 2,300,000 limestone blocks in the Great pyramid, weighing
approximately 15 tonne each. (Courtesy: Martin Gray; sacredsites.com) Golden
Mean Spiral Pitch of curve for
this sector of spiral Figure 1.6:
A satellite image of the three main pyramids of the The design demonstrates a
practical method for ‘squaring the circle’, and the Pyramid actually defines
the relationship between the diameter and circumference of a circle
(mathematically the function is Pi, π). The
construction of the Pyramid began with its foundation partially on bedrock
and partially on an immense, stone-bed. (With earthquake shock, this type of
foundation can result in differential settlement, and could have caused the
cracking found in the inner chambers.) From this foundation, a solid core of
limestone blocks bedded in mortar was erected. This core was covered with
polished-limestone exterior facing stones. The principal inner chambers were
constructed with immense slabs of polished, orthoclase-rich, rose granite (Lawton & Ogilvie-Herald, 2001). Today,
many scholars prefer to ignore the advanced geometric design of the Great Pyramid and the
apparent unit of measure favoured by the unknown designers
and builders. Yet the facts have been etched in stone for thousands of years.
The smallest of the 2.3 million building blocks in the Great Pyramid weighs
about three tonnes (three tons). Virtually all
these limestone blocks were cut from nearby quarries and somehow transported
to their present location. Although conjectures abound, nobody knows how they
were quarried, who moved them, when they were transported, or even how they
were moved. The area of the base of the
Great Pyramid covers nine hectares (22 acres). The white, limestone
facing-stones, some of which are still in place at the base, can also be seen
on the apex of the adjoining Chephron Pyramid
(Figure 1.6). Each facing-stone weighs an estimated 15.24 tonnes
(15 tons) (Bannister Fletcher, 1949), and was quarried on the
opposite side of the The cement between the
facing-stones is extremely finely crushed and amazingly strong. Most of the
polished-limestone, facing-blocks were looted centuries ago, except for those
remaining at the base of Cheop‘s
Great
Pyramid and at
the apex of the Chephron pyramid. These stone
blocks fracture before the adhesion of the mortar joints between the
limestone blocks yields. Consequently, the blocks must have been removed in
pieces. Part of the mythology built up around the structure is that the
polished, pure white, limestone-facing would have reflected the sunlight, and
functioned as a massive sundial. This would have allowed Nile-delta residents
to observe the passing of the days, as well as the time of day in the
mornings and afternoons. Conventional historians (up to the end of
the 20th Century)
have written that Pharaoh Cheops built the Great Pyramid, and that slave labour was used. But it is now known that these ‘slaves’ were
Figure 1.7: The residual facing (or casing) blocks of limestone at
the apex of the Chephron Pyramid (and residual
courses at the base of the Great Pyramid) provide dimensions for the
thickness and effect on total height of the casing needed for calculating the
overall dimensions of the Great Pyramid.
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