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By
DR. H. SPENCER LEWIS, Ph. D.
Author of
"Mansions of the Sotil," “Rosicrucian Principies
fo r the H om e and Business," “A T housand T ears
o f Y esterdays,” "T he M ystical L ife o f Jesús," etc.
ROSICRUCIAN LIBRARY
VOLUME X IV
SU PR EM E G R A N D LO D G E OF A M O R C
Printing and Publishing Department
San José, California
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F irst E dition DEDICATED
C o pyright, 1936
By A M O R C to the M emory o f
D r . Ja m e s H e n r y B r e a s te d
P R I N T E D A N D B O U N D I N U . S . A . BY
RO SIC R U C IA N P R E S S , L TD .
SA N J O S E , C A L IFO R N IA
T H E R O SIC R U C IA N L IB R A R Y
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guished Dr. Selim Hassan is director of excava- the Jirst to conceive and postúlate a monotheistic
tion. The Great Pyramid, unlike its neighbors. religión. His religious views influenced the religious
was not a tomb. (Photo by Hamilton W right.) literature of the captive Jews and put an indelihle
stamp upon the Christian doctrines centuries later.
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PR EFA CE
A V IS IT T O T H E LA N D O F M Y S T E R Y
the only establíshed reports or stories of the Pyra- during the period from the fourth to the twelfth
mid were those which traced the origin of the dynasty.
Pyramid to various kings of unknown periods and Prior to the building of the Great Pyramid,
unknown identification, or to deified personages when small pyramids were built as tombs, a square
of great antiquity. T o get at the truth of the chamber or an oblong chamber was sunk in the
origin and purpose of the Pyramid was, therefore, dry sand of Egypt generally at a place where the
a most difíicult matter. Because some of the other inundations of the Nile would not reach the site,
pyramids, smaller in sise and unlike the Great and here the sunken chamber was lined with stone,
Pyramid in outer finish and interior arrangement, painted or decorated with symbols appropriate to
had been built as tombs for kings or monuments the political position of the deceased and descrip-
to their burial, it was logically bclieved by the tive of the historical events of the time. It was
uneducated Egyptians that the Great Pyramid was then covered over with a roof to protect it, and
just another tomb for a king that was greater upon the site was built a pyramid slightly larger
than any of his predecessors. This idea of the in its base than the underground tomb. This sort
Pyramid being a tomb was so firmly fixed in the of burial place was an advancement over the
minds of the Egyptian populace at the time of former type in which case the underground tomb
the earliest investigations that it would have been was covered either with stone or with piles of
almost like a sacrilege to have dared to say to brushwood interwoven with stone or reeds of
any of the natives or even their rulers and leaders grass plastered with thick mud and then covered
that the Great Pyramid was something other than with sand. The passing of years, however, proved
a mere monument to personal vanity. that such tombs would not afford the eternal
W e note today from a study of architecture protection that was hoped for.
alone that such structures as pyramids began Following the period when pyramid building
in the middle period of Egyptian history, or was popular, it was discovered that the enormous
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THE SYMBOLIC PROPHECY O F THE GREAT PYRAMID
cost involved in building pyramids might be saved zon carry the sands at certain periods of the year
by building stone roofs over the sunken chambers, in huge clouds across the vacuumed space of the
or with small temple or chapel chambers above Nile and allow the sands to settle on the eastern
them affording protection to the chamber beneath. banks. In seven days' time the sand deposit on the
Many of this type were built, but the shifting of automobile was over an eighth of an inch in
the sands soon covered them up or the sandstorms thickness. Such storms continuing month after
of many ages cut deeply into the structures that month, year after year, and century after century,
rose above the sand and destroyed them, and it is deposited mountains of sand in various places along
only in recent years that many of these under- the Nile until the sand was above the tops of
ground tombs have been discovered. the highest structures and temples. The temples
It may be interesting at this point to describe of Luxor and Karnak themselves were at one time
to the reader something of the nature of these beneath the sands, and even in the years 1900
sand storms, and how and why so many of the to 1920 there were portions of Luxor upon which
magnificent structures of Egypt gradually disap- native mud houses had been built without any
peared from sight, and in more recent years had suspicion that beneath such primitive homes there
On the writer’s first visit to Egypt, he dis of Luxor, over eighty feet in height, were at one
covered that the primitive make of automobile, time entirely beneath the surface of the sands
which was put in an open space at Luxor, Egypt, that had accumulated, and all of this had to be
directly across the Nile River from the Valley of removed basketful by basketful to unearth and
the Kings where the tombs of ancient Thebes are uncover the magnificent temples beneath.
located, soon became covered with a layer of sand. It must be kept in mind also that the civiliza-
The sandstorms from the Sahara Desert blowing tion or population of Egypt centered itself on a
eastward across the Nile toward the eastern hori- long narrow strip of land, from Alexandria to
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the mountain regions in the south, along either northern end of the Nile River where it has its
side of the Nile River. This was because agri- outlet into the Mediterranean Sea is the famous
culture had to be confined to the banks of the Delta, a triangular-shaped piece of swamp'land
Nile. A t certain periods of each year the waters interspersed with natural and man-made canals
rose in abundance and overflowed its low banks and rivulets, constituting one of the most fertile
and inundated the land to a certain narrow dis sections of Egypt, and this was in great antiquity
tance on either side. Here, then, were built all the site of many of the earliest habitations. Heli-
of the habitations and native villages, and here opolis, the great mystical city with its three tow-
all of the agriculture of the country was confined. ering obelisks, was just north of Cairo (now about
All temples and edifices such as homes or schools thirty minutes’ ride by trolley or automobile.) Only
were built further away from the Nile, generally one of the obelisks now remains to mark the site of
toward the west so as not to usurp any of the the ancient city adjoining, which is the largest
valuable, fertile soil near the river which was hotel and modern tourist playground in the world.
needed for agricultural purposes. Along most por- Many of the most beautiful of the columns and
tions of the Nile the eastern bank rises abruptly architectural features of ancient temples have been
to a great height principally because of the sand cut and whipped by the blowing sands, which in
storms which carried sands across the river and most cases have thinned the columns to mere
deposited them on the eastern side. Today the skeleton form, or carved the great stones into
Nile River at Luxor and at many other points, small pieces. It is for this reason that the sides
is many feet below the surface of the roadway of the Great Pyramid, those facing the most
that was built along the bank, and above this general sandstorms, have been lashed so greatly
roadway towers the columns of temples seventy in the past century that the outer casing, a smooth
to eighty-five feet high. Yet these, too, were at and magnificent finish, has been cut away leaving
one time deeply buried beneath the sand. A t the to view the crude under-blocks of stone.
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Some of the earlier and later pyramids built the plaza and filling it. There are sections of
in Egypt as tombs or historical monuments by ruined walls in evidence to show that the Great
various kings, queens, or potentates, were not Pyramid was surrounded at one time by such a
finished smoothly on the outside but were left in plaza. W hen one views the Great Pyramid from
the form of steps. These are called the stepped an airplane flying high above, the broken sections
pyramids. None of the pyramids built as monu of this ancient wall around the plaza reveal them-
ments were family monuments but belonged, like selves through the shadows of the sun in a straight
all other Egyptian tombs, to one person, or were Une giving a very excellent ¿dea o f the large size
constructed to the memory of one person. It was of the square plaza around the Pyramid.
believed that by building a monument in the form Among the mystics or members of the mystery
of a pyramid the sandstorms would not have the schools of Egypt the traditions always explain
same destroying action upon the slanting surface that the Great Pyramid was great in more ways
that they would have upon a building formed in than one. Despite the fact that no entrance was
the shape of a cube or an oblong. This would ever forced into the Great Pyramid, ñor the in-
indícate that at the time of the building of the side of it ever seen in more modern times until
first pyramids as tombs the earlier structures or the year 820 A . D., the secret schools of Egypt
tombs in Egypt had been built so many centuries insisted that the interior of it was well-known
before that the sandstorms had already demon- to them and that it was not a tomb of any great
strated their power to destroy them. In many king, ñor a burial chamber of any kind, except
cases a courtyard or sunken plaza was constructed that it did have one chamber for symbolical burial
around the pyramid with a depression of ten to as a part of an ancient initiation ritual. According
twenty feet below the surface of the surrounding to these mystical traditions, at which many of the
district and with a wall around the plaza of suffi- ancient investigators and historians scoffed with
cient height to keep the sand from blowing into ridicule, there were underground passageways by
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which the interior of the Pyramid could be entered Pyramid. It becomes apparent as one studies and
gradually and in various stages of initiation with analyzes the carefully worded denial of these
different mystical chambers at the end of each chambers and passageways as found in the writings
stage of initiatory progress, and that the highest of early investigators and historians, and as re-
and ultímate stage of initiation was represented by peated even today by many of the Egyptians, that
the King’s Chamber, which by the way was given there was some sort of ancient curse placed upon
an entirely different ñame in the ancient ritual. those who would reveal to the profane or the
Little by little some of these traditional statements uninitiated the existence of these chambers and
were verified as, for instance, when it was dis- passageways, or the fact that the Great Pyramid
covered that there was some connection between was a temple of mystical initiation and ceremony.
the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid, and that It is amusing to find that even today visitors
there was a connection between the Sphinx and who secure the proper passes after the proper
an ancient underground temple located near the indentiflcation and esteem of worthiness, and are
Sphinx. Then was discovered a secret court or allowed to enter the Pyramid and visit some of its
open temple before the paws and breast of the passageways, even the so'called King’s Chamber,
Sphinx. But since most all of these were still are warned as they leave the Pyramid to say
buried beneath deep sands the facts could not be nothing of their entrance into the Pyramid, and
proved or readily demonstrated. are significantly told, “You see, there is no en-
Throughout all of the ages there has been a tranceway to the Pyramid, and there is nothing
determined effort on the part of the knowing ones within it!” Thus the farce— or traditional injunc-
in Egypt to deny to the general public that there tion— is maintained to a certain degree, and one
were any chambers or passageways within the will meet tourists in Europe returning from Egypt
Great Pyramid, or that there was any proper and who will seriously, and with considerable nervous-
architecturally designed entranceway to the Great ness, explain that they know there is no passage-
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way to the Pyramid, and nothing to be seen bits cut off and carried away by the souvenir
within it. It does not dawn upon these persons hunters whom one meets everywhere, and who
that only one who has seen within the Pyramid are so easily satisfied by the commercial artisans
could possibly affirm with positiveness that there who continually manufacture and sell pieces of
were no passageways within it. That the passage* the original cross of crucifixión, the tomb of Jesús,
ways and chambers have been desecrated in the and the alabaster jars of King Tut.
past is self'evident to one who spends time within Perhaps we should not attempt to visit the
the Pyramid with searchlights and cameras and interior of the Pyramid on the day of our first
records carefully every inch of the walls of both inspection of it, for we may become easily tired
passageways and rooms. One is reminded of the by giving suíEcient time to the outside. Before
ancient proverb, “Fools’ ñames like fools1 faces are leaving its environment, however, to return home
always seen in public places,” for there is hardly by camel and then by automobile or trolley car,
a square inch of the magnificent walls of the great we will note that the huge stones composing the
King’s Chamber that is not injured and mutilated walls of the Pyramid are higher than our own
by the carved ñames, initials, and dates, of persons height and that to climb them one must be quite
who have visited there, and the same is true of gymnastic. However, little Egyptian urchins chal'
many of the passageways. Fortunately, many of lenge us and tell us that for bal{sheesh — which
the very beautiful and symbolical pieces of equipa means coin in anyone’s money— they will climb
ment that once stood in these chambers and the steep outside of the Pyramid and reach its
passageways have been removed to secret museums towering top in seven minutes. Knowing from long
and hiding places where only the initiated may see experience just which crevices to use in getting
them. Undoubtedly, if tourists could have had a foothold and fingerhold, we find these youngsters
their way the Great Pyramid today would be scaling the side of the Pyramid rapidly. Upon
scattered throughout the civilised world in little their return they oífer for a dollar of American
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money to take us to the top that we might have huge platform of the Pyramid with chairs and all
the great distinction and honor of being one Amer' of the equipment for serving tea, and that we are
ican who has scaled the Pyramid. Being flattered but a few of the many who daily reach the top
at this possible distinction we begin to climb. By and are looked upon with the same casual interest
the time we have reached the center of the side as the passer'by who drops into one of the little
of the Pyramid we feel that we have gone higher coffee shops for a cup of black coffee. W e welcome
than we have ever been in any structure in the the opportunity to rest and view the country which
world, and this encourages us to go on to the top, because of the clear atmosphere referred to pre'
which we see is partially flattened by the absence viously may be seen for many, many miles, and
of the original apex stone. Our guide tells us that finally make our descent with a degree of rapidity
when, and if, we reach the top, we may sit there which compares favorably with the rapidity with
and rest for a while, and have a magnificent view which we lost all of our esteem and pride in
of Egypt, while we ponder over our uníque attaining the top.
achievement or the rare distinction that will be Nevertheless, as we wend our way toward the
ours. Continuing our climb from the hanging hotel in the heart of the busy city which looks
position in which we rested for a moment, we much like Paris, or other great metropolitan cities
eventually reach the top and are surprised to of Europe, we realice that there is still so much
find a richly robed Arab awaitíng us, and reach- mystery about the Pyramid that it will be worthy
ing over to give us a final help with an extended of all the time and thought we give to it.
hand. Just as we are about to indulge in a m o
ment’s admiration of our personal endurance and
prowess, and think of the distinctions we have V V V
brought to our race by this unusual achievement,
we discover that there is a table placed upon this
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C h a p t e r III
IT S G EO G R A PH IC A L SIG N IFIC A N C E
T H E A M A Z IN G C O N S T R U C T IO N
own bodies, and seemingly twice as long as they space they occupy, the necessary ropes to be at'
are high, the weight of these stones would seem tached, and the manipulation of the work causes
to be beyond human manipulation. W e can recall a situation in which no real results can be obtained.
all of the fanciful stories we have heard of a W e might just as well imagine the building of a
great contractor with thousands upon thousands great wall that was to be composed of a hundred
of Egyptian slaves pulling on enormous ropes and thousand bricks in one section, and to save time
cables to drag these monumental stones from some' and build the wall quickly, we would secure one
where into position at the Pyramid. And we can hundred thousand men, each to place his one
recall how these slaves suffered under the lashing brick in the proper position at the same moment,
of the whip and at the hands of the contractor and thus completing the section of the wall in one or
builder, and how they toiled for years in building two minutes. Even in our modern methods of
the Pyramid. But every contractor and every constructing our homes or office buildings, there
individual who has ever dealt with human labor is a point in the employment of men where an
under any condition, and especially while it was increase in the number of workers becomes an
working under the lashing of a whip, knows that interference and slows up the progress rather
that may be attached to ropes or cables, and to In our present century modern contractors and
the concentrated and efficient power that may be engineers have found it difficult to lift to the top
derived from such individuáis. There is a point of great arches the key stones to complete the
in the scheme of things where a large number of arch, when such key stones represented in weight
individuáis struggling in this manner becomes an and size but a córner of one of the great stones
interference, and where efficiency is lessened by of the Pyramid. Y et today we have enormous
the increase of the number. N ot only is their mechanical derricks and motive power which the
ability limited in the exertion of power, but the Egyptians did not have.
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A casual inquiry reveáis to us that the nearest planned so carefully, the stones and other materials
point where the enormous stones could have been so carefully and critically prepared, the construc-
quarried was many, many miles away from the tion work carried out with such precisión , and
present site of the Pyramid. They could not have the interior decorating done with such devotion
floated them upon rafts down the Nile River, for and under such expert guidance as was necessary
no raft could have supported the weight of the to make every mark and every line and every bit
stones. W e recall the problem that faced marine of color have its scientiñc significance, and the
engineers in 1879 when one of the obelisks from entire structure completed in the lifetime of any
Heliopolis was to be removed from Egypt to one pharaoh. This in itself argües against the
New York. No ship could be found that would contention that a pharaoh during the height of
carry it safely, and the ürst attempt to float it his regime ordered the Pyramid to be built as his
upon a huge raft pulled by a powerful steamship tomb so that it might be completed before his
proved a failure. To have dragged these enormous death and be ready for his burial. It was quite
stones over the sands of Egypt from quarries customary for the pharaohs to make sure that the
hundreds of miles distant at Thebes seems like final resting place of their mummies would be
an engineering impossibility to our modern mind. adequate in splendor and in the protection it
Yet the stones were brought from somewhere and would afford against robbers, thieves, and the
lifted to place. W e know from an examination curious. In order that their minds might rest
of the interior, as well as the exterior of the Pyra- easily in this important regard, they saw to it that
mid, that thousands of skilled mechanics, artists, proper tombs beneath or above the ground were
and artisans were employed in the planning, con- constructed and completed as soon as possible so
struction, and completion of it— not all at one that there would be no possibility of transition
time, but over the course of a long period of time. coming upon them before a place of guaranteed
It is doubtful that the Pyramid could have been protection and glory was completed. N ot one
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of them would have allowed the plan of a tomb
which would have required many years to design,
many more years to prepare for in the cutting C h a p te r V
of stones and the making of elabórate mechanical
SYM BO LIC M EA S U R E M E N T S
arrangements, and a score or more years for
decorating and completing, for they would have
known that the completion would have passed IN C E the Great Pyramid was to be a
way beyond their lifetime and there would have monument of wisdom and prophecy and
been the possibility of a future pharaoh occupying contain in some permanent form the out'
the place instead. standing incidents of the past, present,
Because of the mystery of its construction, and and future history of the world, the problem of
especially because of the significance and pn> putting that information into such language, signs,
phecies that are associated with each measure' hieroglyphs, or symbols that all future races of
ment, each passageway, each chamber, and each men could decipher and interpret must have been
little incident of its design and completion, we one of the most serious of all of the considerations
shall look into this matter more thoroughly. surrounding the construction of the Pyramid.
W e are reminded of the problems which con'
fronted these ancients when they decided to leave
a key for future generatíons to decipher their
hieroglyphic language. The Egyptians rightly con-
V V V
cluded that the time would come in the distant
future when the carved writings and hieroglyphs,
as well as all the symbols and signs of their
language and of their knowledge, might remain,
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but a knowledge of the meaning of these strange race of people that ante-date any of the known
marks might be lost, and, therefore, future gen' races that occupied the United States preceding
erations might look upon the mysterious carvings the American Indians. Because of the similarity
and engravings on stone and metal and understand of these writings to those in other places in and
nothing of the great wisdom hidden there. around the Pacific Ocean, it is naturally assumed
The methods used by man throughout civiliza' that they were made by the descendants of the
tion to convey his thoughts, including the spoken Lemurians; but if so, it was a special form of
languages and the written languages, have changed writing not commonly used by the Lemurians
from century to century until today explorers and probably chosen to be a classically written
often come face to face with unknown, forgotten, language of some kind that might be interpreted
and lost languages, and are unable to decipher in the future.
much that would be of great valué. There are In the case of the Rosetta Stone, the desire
carvings and writings upon the stones of the was to prevent the hieroglyphic language of the
mountainsides in Oregon on the west coast of the Egyptians from becoming permanently lost and
United States, in the Klammath section, which thus making it impossible for future generations
by their very nature indícate that they were care- of mankind to interpret all of the sacred writings
fully placed there with some great intent and to be found in the temples and upon the walls
motive making for permanency and the revela- and obelisks and other permanent structures of
tion of great wisdom at some distant time. As to that country. In fact, the hieroglyphic language
when these writings were carved in the stone of the Egyptians was a dead and unknown lan-
and what the carefully executed hieroglyphs mean, guage until the Rosetta Stone was discovered
no authority has yet ventured to State, and re- with a carefully planned key. On this stone cer
search has led to no clue. Undoubtedly these tain historícal passages were written in several
writings were carved in pre-historic times by a languages, including the Egyptian hieroglyphs and
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the Grecian. By comparing the one language with nally permanent and universally recognised. Cer'
the other in interpreting the same passage, the key tainly this was a momentous problem. But in solv'
to all of the fundamental principies of the Egyptian ing the problem these ancient Egyptians adopted
hieroglyphic language was revealed and the dis' a method which science today would adopt in
covery of the Rosetta Stone was one of the similar circumstances. There are certain principies
most scientific events of past history and contri" in the universe that are universal and will be
buted very greatly to our present understanding eternal and these are related to the geometrical,
of the Egyptian language, Egyptian writings, and mathematical, and physical facts of the earth and
Egyptian knowledge. the universe itself. Therefore, geometry and mathe'
But the builders of the Pyramid anticipated that matics and the principies of cosmology were cony
the Rosetta Stone might never be found, or any bined to use as the fundamentáis of a language.
similar key, and that even those languages then In the first place, the selection of the site for
existing outside of the Egyptian, such as the the Pyramid had to be given the utmost con'
Greek language, might pass into oblivion, and sideration since by its very location future gener'
therefore some other method for indicating the ations would be able to determine one important
events of the future history of the world would fact: that the Egyptians who planned it were ac'
have to be adopted to assure a definite and cor' quainted with two fundamental sources of knowl'
rect interpretation. In other words, the prophetic edge; namely, the exact amount of land on the
knowledge and wisdom, as well as the historical surface of the earth and its geographical distri'
facts of Egypt and of ancient civilization, would bution and, secondly, the relationship of that point
have to be indicated in certain ways that were on the earth’s surface to the principal stars of the
not dependent upon any one language or any one heavens and certain cosmological or astronomical
system of registering thoughts. It would have to landmarks, so to speak. If future generations dis"
be based upon some method that would be eter' covered these two great facts, they would be
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tempted to determine how much further the pyramids and temples built in ancient times had
Egyptians had gone in the building of the Pyramid been oriented to definí te astronomical alignments.
to utilice their knowledge of geometry and astron- Sir Norman Lockyer was but one of the scientific
omy to make the Pyramid symbolic. In inter- investigators who pointed out to the world at
preting such symbolism from both a mathematical large the significance of the relationship between
and scientiñc point of view, they would not fail the orientation or precise location of these pyra
to discover the mysterious knowledge that was mids and temples to astronomical facts, particu-
concealed in the dimensions and structural details larly to the outstanding astronomical facts of the
of the Pyramid. This in turn would tempt inves- times in which the structures were built. But it
tigators to be cautious in examining every minute was discovered that of all the great mystery and
detail of the structure and in relating it to cycles symbolic structures found any place in the world
and mathematical scales covering past history and there were but two whose dimensions or structural
through this discover the prophecies regarding the features when reduced to measurements by a defi-
future history of man. It was a magnificent and nite standard were found to represent certain
daring idea. It called for the careful and precise elements of the functions of the solar circle.
application of all of the great knowledge possessed These two mysterious structures are the Great
by the Egyptians, and for the careful reading of Pyramid in Egypt and the Stonehenge Circle in
the future by whatever mystical means they had England. Sir Flinders Petrie discovered, for in-
used in their mystery schools for ages, and classi- stance, after much research, that a circle drawn
fying this prophetic knowledge in a systematic within the interior of the great stone circle at
manner so that it might be properly recorded in Stonehenge has a diameter of 1163 British inches
symbolism and measurements. and is 3653 inches in circumference. These figures
It was soon discovered by those who investí- approximate the dimensions of the Solar Circle
gated the Pyramid in later centuries that other on a reduced scale of 10 inches per day and
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KEY TO THE C H A R T
T H E P R O PH EC Y O F E V E N T S
#
C h a p te r V il
T H E S E C R E T P A S S A G E W A Y S OF
T H E P Y R A M ID
PR.G-S&NT
PLATE FIVE
(See explanation in the Appendix.)
would enter the passageway chanting and as the In recent years the great stone slab, firmly fixed
last note of the chant was sounded the great stone against the breast of the Sphinx in front of the two
door would silently move to a closed position and paws, has been revealed and uncovered and upon
the world was shut out again while the pilgrimage it are symbolical writings and warnings that may
of initiates moved onward toward the Pyramid be interpreted in various ways, but certainly have
beneath the sands of the desert, hidden from all significance to candidates of the mysteries and to
the world and in a soundless passage that was the expectant initiate. W hether that stone slab,
significant of the early period of the universe when huge in sise and weight, is movable or not has
the world was without sound. not been determined, and whether there is a
Such stories, of course, have been rejected and passageway behind it has not yet been conclu-
scoffed at but still they persist. sively determined.
The recently excavated temple adjoining the Speaking of the impossibility of a huge stone
Sphinx was not believed to be in existence either, of this size and weight moving of its own accord
and now it is looked upon as the preparation upon invisible hinges, let us not forget that there
chamber for the initiates before they entered the was one other court of mystery at one time where
court in front of the Sphinx. As one looks down such things did occur. Heavy gates guarded the
into the uncovered chambers of this temple ad- entranceway to this court and they could not be
joining the Pyramid, one wonders what other use opened until a sacred ceremony was held around
there could have been for a subterranean temple the altar before them. Here, with fire buming
or any kind of temple in this peculiar position upon the altar, and with the chanting of voices,
alongside of the ceremonial court of the Sphinx. at the crucial moment of the spiritual ritual, the
Still scientists, historians, and officials scoff at the huge gates automatically opened and the devotees
idea that it had anything to do with initiation were permitted to enter. W ithin the walls they
ceremonies. found a temple there in the courtyard and foun-
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tains that would play with streams of water vations are made around the Pyramid and these
through the effect of music and chanting. Science passageways are actually revealed to the public
investigated these mysteries and found that one and to the light of day so that they may be
máster mechanician of the time, known as Heron photographed and entered under special permis-
of Alexandria, utilized some of the great knowl- sion, their existence must remain as part of the
edge of the laws of physics known to the Egyptian traditions, for this is the law of the mystery
mystery schools and constructed many marvelous schools of Egypt and still in forcé. That which is
pieces of mechanism that operated through laws not revealed to the public remains a traditional
and principies rediscovered only in modern times secret and the public is invited to accept the tra-
by eminent scientists. ditions or reject them as it may see fit. The stronger
If the great gates which Heron invented would the denial on the part of the various persons of
move in some mysterious manner through natural authority in regard to the existence of some of
laws, there is no reason for us to doubt the possi- these secret passageways and temples, the stronger
bility of a huge stone gate moving in the same is one’s faith in the possibility of their existence,
manner before the Sphinx in Egypt. for such also seems to be the law of human nature
There are still many stories told and many secret when dealing with things of this strange land.
or prívate explanations, accompanied with dia-
grams and architectural designs, given regarding
the passageways connecting the Sphinx with the
Pyramid, and these give color to many strange
incidents referred to in the secret writings of the V V V
ST R A N G E FA C T S
the year 2140 B. C. and that in that year at mid' was originally built, its four sides pointed accu-
night of the autumnal equínox the pole star, which rately to the north, south, east, and west, but
at that time was Alpha Draconis, or the Dragón because of the gradual movement of the earth’s
Star, shone down the Pyramid''s Descending Pas- surface, this orientation of the Pyramid is not
sage while at the same time Alcyone was Crossing absolute at the present time but varies about five
the meridian of the Pyramid to the south. Such degrees of an are. This would give us additional
positions astronomically in relation to the Pyramid scientific proof that the crust of the earth is
have passed. Other scientists state that since there One could spend days, weeks, and months
is no way of knowing at the time of the building studying the Pyramid inside and out from a con'
of the Pyramid whether the calendar was reckoned structional point of view, as well as from a mys'
as we now reckon it, the date of its construction tical point of view, and each day would bring
may have been 2144 B. C. instead of 2140 B. C. forth surprising revelations. Large volumes could
A n interesting structural fact about the Pyramid be written about the peculiarities of the Pyramid
is that its four sides are not perfectly fíat but from either point of view and therefore a list of
are slightly concaved, as though hollowed out in its outstanding, unique features would be too long
the centers, to a slight degree that is measurable. to include in a volume of this sise.
T H E M Y S T E R Y IN IT IA T IO N S
schools or secret societies that were attempting to hood. W hen wars were proclaimed it was often
free man from the bondage of superstitious beliefs the ruler, the king, the pharaoh, or prince, who
and practices. Very few individuáis dared to op' selected from his immediate domains those heretics
pose or criticize the priesthood, and fewer, indeed, or those persons who refused to become adherents
were brave enough in their opposition or criticism to the priesthood practices as the first to go forth
to ally themselves either openly or secretly with to the front lines of battle and in this way thou-
the mystery schools or those groups of individuáis sands of them were slaughtered and brought to an
who were seeking to overthrow the tyrannical untimely end, as though by sacrifice, because of
dominion of the priesthood. Being under the dom' their disbelief in the priesthood teachings. The
ínance of the priesthood not only meant being faithful, so'called, were always given positions of
held in constant ignorance and in constant influ' safety in times of war and shown every preference
ence of superstitious beliefs and practices, but it in every other way. It is easy to understand how
meant yielding constantly to heavy taxation, to a the accumulating wealth of the pagan priests, with
continuous payment of worldly, material things their royal support from the king or ruler and the
to the powerful, rich group of individuáis consti' protection of all the highest laws of the land,
tuting the representad ves of the priesthood. In enabled them to build magnificent temples and to
many cases the rulers of the countries, the princes squander wealth, taken from the poor people, in
under these rulers, and the local governing repre' elabórate costumes and elabórate settings for their
sentatives, were a part of the priesthood and the mythological and superstitious religious services.
poor man’s status financially and socially as well And in order to impress the ignorant followers
as his health and happiness were in jeopardy if he they had to provide so-called miracles from time
did not openly associate himself with the priest' to time. This tempted them to indulge in so-called
hood and the pagan religious services and give black magic and in trickery and in every form of
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deception that would be highly impressive and necessary for them to do two things when taking
would hold in abeyance the proper analytical rea^ a candidate into their membership and attempting
soning on the part of the followers. Every strange to prepare him to be a good and faithful follower
or uncommon occurrence in human affairs was in' of the higher and more truthful principies. They
stantly seized upon by the priesthood as an ex' did not daré to let the candidate think that a
ampie of either the pleasure of the pagan gods or school of truth could not reveal the richness of
their wrath and displeasure. Every illness that thought and the grandeur of ceremony and that
befell the heretics, the doubters, was claimed to be only schools of error and untruth were in posses'
a punishment because of their lack of faithfulness, sion of the great secrets and powers of the world.
and no proper medical attention and no proper Therefore, they had to seek in all of the sciences
assistance was allowed to these unfaithful ones in and all of the fundamental laws of nature for
the times of their greatest suffering. Unusual those elements which if brought into play and
storms, cyclones, earthquakes, floods, and other demonstration in a ceremony would impress the
incidents of nature were pointed out as either candidate and the followers more deeply, more
beneficent gifts from the mythological gods to the profoundly, and more lastingly than anything they
faithful or as chastisements visited by the gods had ever witnessed in the pagan temples.
upon the unfaithful. It was fortúnate, indeed, for the struggles that
And because of the grandeur of the pagan were carried on for many centuries by the mystery
temples, the richness of their robes and temple schools proved that truth in itself is always more
ornaments, the wealth that could be used for such impressive, more beautiful in its expression, and
purposes, the ceremonies within the pagan temples more mystifying in its demonstrations than un'
were most impressive and most beautiful in every truth. W ere this not so, it is more than likely that
worldly sense. This became a challenge to the throughout the world today the pagan priesthood
secret schools and mystery schools because it was would still be in existence and man’s advance'
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ment toward the truths of life would have been labors and ambitions, their rewards and their ulti'
very slow indeed. mate aims. And as the initiation ceremonies were
But without the great wealth which the pagan modified from year to year and period to period
priesthood possessed and without the support and throughout the centuries preceding the Christian
protection of the governments and their rulers, era they became more significant in the dramatiza"
the mystery schools of truth and ancient wisdom tion of the lives of those few people in every
were forced to have their meeting places and their community and in every country who became the
temples of ceremony and instruction in hidden leaders of free thought, of independent thinking,
places, and in underground grottos where there of honest devotion, sincere worshíp, and advanc'
was an extreme lack of beauty and richness in the ing civiliziation.
setting. They were handicapped by the activities W e can see, therefore, how it may have come
of spies and by the constant threat of death and about that Amenhotep IV , the great ruler of
imprisonment if they were discovered in their ac' Egypt in the 12th century preceding the Christian
tivities of opposing the church and giving unto era, had received from his forebears, who were
mankind the truths that would make him free. also rulers of Egypt, certain knowledge and truths
Considering, therefore, the places in which these regarding life that had established in his conscious'
mystery schools met and the conditions under ness a realiz,ation of the great facts which would
which they had to operate, and the lack of funds make man a living image of God. His immediate
and lack of sponsorship and guardianship, we must forebears had become interested in the teachings
marvel at the progress they made and the mag' of the mystery schools and had secretly indulged
nificent manner in which they protected their in them, fearlessly risking the revolt of the priest'
teachings and preserved them for posterity. But hood against them. In Egypt and in many lands
in their rituals and ceremonies we find the history the priesthood had become so powerful in wealth
of their sufferings, we find the picture o f their and in political influence through the large per'
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centage of followers that kings and queens feared tion to the priesthood teachings eventually cost
them and had to do the bidding of the priests. him his life, but in the few years which he might
It was Amenhotep’s immediate forebears who ven- have numbered upon the fingers of his hands, he
tured to break the power of the priesthood and had not only revolutionized the art, literature, sci'
although this venture was for a long time kept enees, and the religión of Egypt and destroyed
secret and only the foremost workers in the mys" most of its pagan monuments, but sent a flash
tery schools knew that they had on their side of the great light of truth throughout the world
the approval of the pharaohs and queens, never- to be carried in torches into the darkest recesses
theless it was not sufficient protection for them of semi'dvilized lands to be preserved to this very
to openly carry on their great work. day as the true religious concept of our spiritual
It was Amenhotep IV as a young man who existence.
dared to proclaím in open manner his allegiance But this one fundamental principie of a mono-
to the mystery schools and his undying opposition theistic religión— of an only God— was not the
to the priesthood. To him had come the privilege solé contribution to civilization that carne out of
of announcing to the people of his country a new the mystery schools of the Orient. Marvelous
religión based upon the revelations that had been scientific knowledge, marvelous knowledge of the
given to the followers of the mystery schools. He arts and literature, marvelous principies that still
it was who proclaimed for the first time in the form the foundation of our advancing culture
history of civilization an official religión of a public carne out of these schools of ancient wisdom and in
nature based upon the truth that there was not their rituals, which they preserved for our use
a multiplicity of gods and goddesses as the priests today, we have the dramatization of this important
had taught, but only one “Everliving God'1’ resid" history of man’s growth and development.
ing in the heavens or Cosmic above and who was It was for the purpose of initiating individuáis
the Father of all mankind. This astonishing opposi- into the great mystery school of Egypt that the
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Pyramid of Gizeh and its adjoining subterranean until such time as they were duly and truly quali'
halls and passageways were built. W e can under' fied to cross the threshold under the guidance of a
stand with what pride and joy the great leaders guardian and enter a sealed and closed place where
of the mystery schools conceived of building the with proper ceremony and ritual they would be
greatest of all their mystery temples above the impressed with the significance of their initiation,
ground and in the open space of sunlight and the importance of their obligation, and the duties
freedom. A fter centuries of labor in hidden places which they were to perform.
beneath the sand, after centuries of existence as Thus it was that although the Pyramid as a
fugitives hiding in secrecy, they were happy in magnificent temple of initiation and ceremony rose
the fact that although the priesthood still existed to a sublime height in the land where all other
and the pagan forms of worship still continued, the structures were much less impressive, still what
great light of understanding and of truth had given went on within the Pyramid was carefully con'
them the opportunity to come out into the open cealed and the idea that it might be a tomb was
and to build a magnificent temple more beautiful tolerated in the minds of the public while the secret
than anything the priesthood ever built and not entranceways were cleverly concealed and never
built with the accumulated wealth that was ill- revealed except to one who had proven worthy
begotten, but built with Service lovingly donated after sufficient test and trial. It is for this reason
and built with the loving assistance of enL'ghtened that the Pyramid, the Sphinx, and the adjoining
followers. structures were united by underground passage'
Still it was necessary to examine carefully such ways with entrances at various places unsuspected
candidates as were recommended for initiation into and not revealed to the public for many, many
the mystery schools and to put them through a centuries. And we can understand also why in
long period of test and trial, of keeping them un' this same magnificent structure towering to the
acquainted with what was taught and revealed heights that would indícate its lofty ideáis and
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ambition to be a part of the spiritual world above
the earth, there were recorded in its lines and
measurements, in its form and enclosed spaces, C h a p te r X
as well as in hieroglyphs and unusual markings on
W H E N C E C A M E TH IS K N O W LED G E?
its inner walls, the secret keys to the knowledge
possessed by the ancient mystery schools, the his
tory of its activities, and the predictions of the E A R E constantly reminded of the tre'
future races of man. Thus the Great Pyramid be' mendous progress man has made within
carne in one embodiment a house of sacred cere' the past two centuries. In camparison
monies, a school of great wisdom, an archive of pre' with his life in the middle ages, the
served knowledge, and a monument of prophecy. facilities and advantages he has today do mark
Today the Great Pyramid is one of the seven the present era as advanced. In fact, until the
wonders of the world as it was centuries ago. beginning of the nineteenth century, our mode
It is doubtful if man shall ever build at any time of transportation on land, in so far as motive
in the future a structure of any kind that will be power was concerned, was the same as in the days
more magnificent in its symbolism, more revealing of the ancient Romans, Greeks, and even the
in its wisdom, and more influential in its effects Egyptians. The horse did not cease to be our
upon posterity than the one strange structure fastest and most dependable means of transpor'
standing so silently, so strangely, in the midst of a tation until the cióse of the eighteenth century.
country that may at some time in the future In the early part of the same century, communi'
arouse the sleeping power that still remains in the catión was carried on by individual and govenv
intelligent, peace loving, spiritual Egyptian and ment in the same manner as had been done during
make that land once more the cultural center the Román Empire. Communications were expe'
of the world. dited by a mounted courier or transferred from one
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horse'drawn stage to another until they reached today. The rmnds of men embraced which were
their destination. to them virgin truths. Groups of minds clung
That in two hundred years such stupendous tenaciously to the revelations, each group believing
transformation could take place in transportation, that the natural laws which they analyzed were
communication, industry, architecture, and Science the solé key to the universe’s mysteries. Few
seems to distinguish the period as an outstanding could see far enough ahead to point where the
one in history. Actually in our written history parallel lines of scientific research would converge.
no previous time is marked by such a multitude Centuries of systematic and sincere study and
of achievements, yet these accomplishments are probing resulted in an accumulation of work"
not the result of suddenly'inspired visions. The able data.
minds of men within the last two centuries were The knowledge of each field of phenomena
not spontaneously imbued with a wisdom which spread into every other. Physics joined forces
made these things possible. These wonders of with chemistry; biology with anatomy; physiology
today are the slow development of causes which with psychology. The interrelating of facts quick"
began centuries ago. The causes, though less sen" ened invention. Each science borrowed from the
sational, were really more remarkable and attest other; the missing principie in one realm of nature
more to the greatness of man than the results was supplied by another. The pattern suddenly
which they brought about. The causes began about took form within the past two centuries. Its de'
250 B. C., we shall say, at the time of the great sign was dazzling in its orderliness and its use"
school of philosophy and learning at Alexandria, fulness very apparent. Never before in the mem'
Egypt. There for the first time, so far as we know, ory of man had anything been seen like it. Those
began a systematic classification of all physical who have been fortúnate enough to live in this
phenomena known to man. These classifications period of the last two hundred years have made
corresponded in a general way to our sciences of the mistake of comparing the results as they know
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them with the beginnings. To them it seemed that buildings were ugly and representad ve of little
man had achieved more in the recent two cen^ that could be considered skill or workmanship.
turies than in a previous twenty'two centuries. Eventually the Egyptians built a second story
They failed to realice that development, though upon a triangular low first story of the mudbrick.
more impressive than its causes, is a lesser achieve' This second story did not quite cover the same
ment. Causes have an inherent momentum which area, so it made the structure have a terraced
they carry on down to their eventual end, and appearance. Finally, many such structures were
results consequently must follow; but an original built, but the number of stories gradually in"
cause is a distinct departure from one grade, classi' creased, and they were set back slightly as they
fication, state, or condition to another. A cause rose in height until they had the general appear--
is the complete transformation of one nature into anee of pyramids, except that their sloping sides
the nucleus of another. Thus, the step forward were stepped.
man made from inarticulation to speech was far N ot long after 3000 B. C. the Egyptians wit'
greater than from the first utterance of gutteral nessed the building of the first masonry pyramid.
words to flowery oratory. Therefore, though our The master builder and architect was known as
present civilization is compelled to link its attain' Imhotep, the W ise, and miniature bronze stat'
ments with the contributing causes of the past, uettes of hirn have been found. He erected this
there is a period in history when man did in one great monument for King Zoser. The copper tools
step advanee from barbarism to a civilization em' employed before this time were incapable of carv'
bracing arts and sciences, and the interval between ing and sawing limestone out of which this stepped
is apparently devoid of the causes which brought pyramid was built. There suddenly carne into
the great wisdom about. existence, from where no one knows, tools which
Preceding 3100 B. C. all structures in Egypt made this masonry a realized fact. The tools were
were built of one-story sun'baked mudbrick. The not developed by usage, for there were no masonry
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work or stone buildings which would have re' the earliest stone masonry and the beginning of
quired such tools. Immediately following this the Great Pyramid of Gizeh. More than highly
masonry pyramid, others were erected, and in efiicient tools were required to build that stupeiv
2930 B. C. the first pyramid which, when com- dous monumental structure. Great knowledge was
pleted, did not have a terraced appearance was also necessary. Chemistry of a sort must have been
built. It rose to a height of 214 feet and had its known, for the cement used between the huge
terraces filled in with masonry so that its sloping blocks was applied in layers as thin as a sheet
sides were smooth. This smoothness was accomp' of newspapcr, and yet, it had adhesive properties
lished by the excellent fitting of small stones far exceeding any cement in use today.
comparable to the best masonry we are capable The fact that the Great Pyramid was erected
of today. in the center of the land surface of the earth at
Approximately twenty years later, or 2910 that time, proves a knowledge of world geography
B. C., the first pyramid wTas built that was in- by its builders at a time when we think man knew
tended as a pyramid. Its height, dimensions, and of no land west of Gibraltar and east of what is
general appearance were conceived before its erec' now Iraq. Further, the Great Pyramid was in
tion, and it was not built in successive steps, but perfect proportion. Its apex was above the exact
its blocks were laid according to a mathematical center of its base, proving its builders were master
exactitude, and each layer of stones receded just mathematicians. A n aperture in its apex was used
enough to conform to the proper slope of a per' for astronomical observations, and this aperture
fect pyramid. pointed directly at that time to Polaris, revealing
Ten years later, or about 2900 B. C., the great that those who designed it had a knowledge of
pyramid of King Khufu, or Cheops, as the Greeks astronomy and the abílity to make astronomical
named him, was begun. Approximately one cen' delineations. One must not overlook the fact that
tury and half was all the tíme that elapsed between its builders also were well'acquainted with that
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phase of physics known as leverage. Every en- ancient Egyptians themselves. Never in any other
gineer will readily concede that the huge blocks period in the history of man has he discovered
could have only been put in place by a mechanical the laws of certain realms of nature, organized
means employing the laws of leverage. Still fur' them into definite sciences and applied them so
ther, the exquisitely fine designs and delicate shades successfully within such a short period of time.
of color put upon the walls of some of the passage' W as there a sudden influx of Divine Wisdom?
ways and chambers required some unusual artifi' W ere men given an insight by Cosmic decree into
cial means of illumination. The many angles of the nature's secrets for a brief time? W as there im'
passageways removes the theory of reflected sun' planted in Egypt during this period a race of
light by mirrors , and if torches, which were supermen who carne into being with a fully de'
prevalent in that period, were used, the designs veloped knowledge of the sciences which were used
would have become smoke blackened. in building the Great Pyramid? These suppositions
Admiration for this great work of the ancients are too highly fantastic to be accepted today,
is equalled only by amazement at their wisdom and and yet, some answer must be given to the ques'
the mystery of whence carne this knowledge. How tion: From whence sprang this knowledge? for
was it possible in only one hundred and fifty spring into existence it seemed to, because no evi'
years for man not to improve on Science, to de' dence of its accomplishments preceded it. Though
velop or advance it, but to discover the very laws we may scoff at the idea that the Egyptians at
of which the sciences consisted, create them in the time were suddenly evolved and their con'
other words, and then for the first time employ sciousness infused with a rare wisdom, we must
them in such a highly efficient manner? A little give credence to that theory which declares their
over a century and half previous these sciences civilization was enriched by the coming into their
were not known to man even in their most ele' midst of members of a strange race of people who
mentary form, according to records left by the had great wisdom acquired from a civilization
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preceding the Egyptian one by centuries. This were entombed with him after his death in a rock'
theory is founded upon the strange tales the Egyp' hewn tomb in a precipitous cliff on his estáte
tians told and which have endured with the dust overlooking the muddy Nile which ran through
of the ages in their tombs. his lands. There, sealed against time and the ele'
The writings of the Pyramid Age of Egypt— ments, they kept intact their age'old stories.
that period when most of the pyramids were built, In one of these Feudal Age tombs was found a
and which lasted from about 3000 B. C . to 2500 scroll written in the demotic writing of the period,
B. C.— are very few. All that remains are frag' recounting the tale of a shipwrecked sailor who
ments of stone tablets. The age immediately fol' centuries previous had been cast upon the shores
lowing is known to historians and to Egyptologists of a strange land of an exceedingly wise people—
as the Feudal Age, the period of the wealthy and a land which later sank into the depths of the sea
pompous nobles who owned vast, flourishing es- and from wliich some of its people were said to
tates, worked by thousands of slaves. W riting have escaped to Egypt. This land, it was related,
had gradually developed and papyrus substituted existed beyond the Red Sea at the gate to an
stone for ordinary writing purposes. Many of unknown ocean, or what would correspond to
the nobles had great libraries consisting of shelves the Indian Ocean. A page of this scroll reads,
of these long papyrus rolls, which were comparable “Those who were on board perished, and not
to our books of today. These rolls dealt with cur- one of them escaped. Then I was cast upon an
rent topics, accounts of the nobles’ travels, and the island by a wave of the great sea. I passed three
accomplishments and exploits of his father and days alone with only my heart as my companion,
immediate family; and they also recorded tales of sleeping in the midst of a shelter of trees till day'
Egyptian history, which even then were considered líght enveloped me; then I crept out for aught to
ancient. Some of the nobles1 favorite papyrus fill my mouth. I found figs and grapes there, and
rolls— those he had enjoyed reading the most— all fine vegetables, etc. . . .” He continued, saying
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he was brought before the great king of this strange W e may discredit the tales of sunken continents
land who resided in the interior and at the mag' and vanished races, but we cannot remove so easily
nificent court of the king witnessed great feats evidences of the similarity of disintegrating struc'
of magic and phenomenal power. He was kept tures in ruined cities separated by thousands of
by the king three months, and then returned to miles of sea. Also, it is more than coincidence
Egypt with great treasures. that several of the Aztec pyramids of México
This legend could be attributed to an ancient are of the terraced type, resembling the first
Sindbad the Sailor yarn, if it were not for some Egyptian pyramids, and that the s is e of the stones
very significant facts. First, the time that this used is also the same, as well as other distinguish'
land or island was said to have vanished, corre' ing characteristics. Archaeologists admit that in
sponds to that period of the one hundred and their opinion the Aztec temples and pyramids ante'
fifty years when the Egyptians miraculously ac' date the Egyptian ones.
quired a knowledge which made them capable of W h y is there such a resemblance between Aztec,
building the Great Pyramid. Secondly, recent Mayan, and Egyptian architecture? Many of these
oceanographic expeditions, financed by the Indian ruins are found in Yucatan, México, which is not
govemment, have disclosed a vast table land or much more than an isthmus. W h y did these people
plateau submerged in the Indian Ocean. On all settle there when north of them was a much more
sides of this submerged plateau are great foredeeps expansive territory. East of Yucatan lies the big
as though it had no relation to the regular floor basin of the Gulf of México. W as the submerged
of the ocean. This and other reasons indícate it land once above water and part of the mainland
was once above the surface. The easternmost end of México? W as it thickly populated and did it
extends nearly to Sumatra and the Malay Straits, contain magnificent temples and pyramids like
in the jungles of which have been found vestiges the remnants found in Yucatan? If so, when the
of once great temples and forgotten civilizations. great catastrophe of its sinking occurred, un'
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doubtedly some of its inhabitants fled to the maiiv astonishment and mystery upon the Great Pyra'
land east of them, to Northeast Africa. Between mid as we do today, indicating that they lacked
Yucatan and Northeast Africa lies not only the the wisdom which was required to build the
Gulf of México but the vast Atlantic Ocean. Great Pyramid or it would not have so mys'
However, the western shore of the legendary con' tified them. If it had been built solely for the
tinent of Atlantis is said to have nearly embraced vain personal interests of King Cheops, as some
North America, and that its eastern coast included think, it would have borne every indication of
what is now the Azores Islands. So inhabitants this fact as do the lesser pyramids which were
on the eastern shore of the ill'fated continent built by other kings and pharaohs as tombs or
would not have had far to journey to Africa. personal monuments. The Great Pyramid is free
It is logical to assume that the survivors would from the hieroglyphs found in the smaller pyra'
have perpetuated the wisdom they possessed, would mids, and its chambers and passageways are evi'
have clung tenaciously to it and would have dence that it was used as a place of assembly
avoided slipping back into the barbarism they and for oral instruction. It is quite probable
must have found in Egypt. W hether they passed also that King Cheops considered himself for'
it from one generation to another of their own túnate to have in his midst those capable of
kind, or taught it to a certain few of the Egyptians executing such a work, and in consideration of
is another enigma. It is possible that they found its erection and dedication to himself, was will'
their kind becoming extinct about 2900 B. C . and ing to grant its builders the privilege to use it
built the Great Pyramid as a lasting monument for purposes of their own and to erect it ac'
to the great knowledge they inherited from their cording to their inherited wisdom and secret
forebears. ideáis. Its builders must have realized that fu'
W h at makes this quite probable is that later ture mankind would find in the Great Pyramid
generations of the Egyptians looked with as much a far greater tribute to a lost knowledge than to
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the personality of a king reigning at the time of it was possible in the yesterdays of centuries past,
its construction. and geologists and oceanographers declare that our
It is interesting to note that though many tribes present ocean basins are the result of such migra'
and peoples have fantastic legends relating to their tion of continents.
origin, and still others have none to explain the Professor George W . Munro of Purdue Uni'
reason for their present habitat, the Mayans and versity recently wrote, “If the continental masses
Astees both have traditional tales which imply moved over the Pacific area riding down the blocks
that they migrated from a distant place. The of ocean bottom, it might reasonably be expected
Mayans in their traditions claim that they carne that as the continental motion ceased, the down*
from a land far north and west, pointing toward going blocks would be caught and jammed in
the Northwest or the North Pacific. The Astee places, forming deep holes in the oceanbed. The
traditions carry them back to an origin from an foredeeps of the Pacific constitute precisely such
island cave in Aztlan, which has been sought in a system as might be expected. The central position
Northern México and beyond— the word Aztlan of the Mid'Atlantic swell indicates approximately
meaning “A ztec’s Place ” equal masses of land in each of the traveling con'
The sinking and migration of continents is tinents, or an earlier stoppage of the American
sound scientific fact. Modern Science has and is side. The general absence of foredeeps off the
detecting and measuring the sinking and move' American shore indicates the former, while the
ment of continents today. In addition to the slow Gulf of México and the Easter Divide points to
sinking and movement at the rate of a few inches a collision stoppage of the American fragment.
or feet a year of the larger bodies, hardly a year Anyone who accepts as reasonable the hypothesis
passes without some body of land, even though it of rapid continent migration here presented will
may be but a small tropical volcanic island, being recognize that the frail isthmus structure con'
sucked beneath the sea. If this is possible today, necting the two Americas could never have with'
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stood the hazards of so turbulent a voy age. Clearly,
the notch formed by the Gulf of México and the
Caribbean Sea was made after the Crossing. The
most plausible view of such a happening is that
the central part of the American continent en" The two diagrammatic drawings shown in
countered an ocean bottom which did not yíeld Chapter V II depict the relationship of the Great
and that the inertia of the end was sufficient to Pyramid to the two other nearby pyramids and
break its back.” the Sphinx, and indícate how these structures
W e must remember that three times definitely are connected with subterranean passageways lead"
in the history of the Science of archaeology has ing not only to the pyramids and Sphinx, but to
the age of civilization been advanced, which proves long"forgotten reception halls, small temples, and
if nothing else that the present conclusión as to its other enclosures.
age may exist, for no other reason than lack of These unusual drawings were made from secret
new knowledge to change it; in other words, our manuscripts possessed by archivists of the mystery
present idea of the time that civilization originated schools of Egypt and the Orient and are part of
is conclusive only in the sense that we have not secret manuscripts telling of the ancient forms of
found new facts to supplant those we now have.
initiations held in the Sphinx and the Great Pyra'
Daily we may expect the announcement of posi"
mid. The existence of these subterranean halls,
tive proof that the prehistoric civílizations of Le"
such as the one beneath the Sphinx and indicated
muría and Atlantis existed, and the further declar"
in the second diagram, and the passageways and
ation that it was the wisdom of their surviving
inhabitants which gave the Egyptians not only other features, has been denied repeatedly by
the Great Pyramid but their first experience in Egyptian and other authorities and even by em'
the mastery of nature’s laws.* inent archaeologists and investigators from various
temples, grottos, or anything of the kind except sands and today the pavement of that courtyard
the one temple adjoining the Sphinx.” and the altar in its center and the huge slab stone
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at the rear are open to the sunlight and visión “W e have discovered a subway used by the
of all who stand around the Sphinx. ancient Egyptians of 5,000 years ago. It passes
It is either untrue that in the past centuries beneath the causeway leading between the second
every square foot of the territory around the Pyramid and the Sphinx. It provides a means of
Sphinx and Pyramid had been thoroughly explored passing, under the causeway, from the cemetery of
with constant excavations, or such explorations Cheops, who built the first or Great Pyramid of
have revealed certain things to the investigators Gizeh, to the cemetery of Chephren, who built
who have quickly and deliberately covered up their the second Pyramid. From this subway we have
excavations and concealed what they have found. unearthed a series of shafts leading down more than
Since the main portion of this book dealing 125 feet, with roomy courts and side chambers.'”
with the Pyramid was dictated there has come Then the article goes on to describe the unearth'
into the hands of the author a magazine edited in ing of the causeway between the temple of the
Egypt and more or less privately published in second pyramid, on the plateau, and the temple
London dealing with Egypt and its explorations, of the Sphinx, immediately adjoíning the Sphinx,
and we find in this January, 1935, copy of the pub' which was unearthed a few years ago. But it
lication an article by Hamilton M . W right dealing states that the discovery of the new subway or
with the recent discoveries at the Pyramid, accom' passageway underneath the public causeway on
panied with original photographs by the author, top of the sands has occurred within the past
made with the permission of Dr. Selim Hassan. three months.
Dr. Hassan, a native of Egypt and one of those Dr. Hassan explains that the causeway was
scientific investigators who does not take the word constructed at the same time that the second Pyra'
of others as law, has been conducting extensive ex' mid, or the Pyramid of Chephren was built. He
cavations for the University of Cairo. In this re' says that evidence he has unearthed leads him to
cent publication he is quoted as saying: believe it was constructed before the building of
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the Sphinx. Chephren, or Khepren, or Kha'f'ra, of the Rosicrucian activities in various countries,
who was the third king of the 4th dynasty, carne and it was in the same year that many tombs of
The new excavations now lead Dr. Hassan and scientific discoveries leading to revelations per'
others to believe that while the age of the Sphinx taining to the mystery schools. The present cycle
has always been an enigma in the past, it may have of the Rosicrucian Order in North America dates
been a part of the great architectural plan that its authority from the year 1909, due to special
was deliberately arranged and carried out in the high council meetings of intemational Rosicru'
early erection of the Great Pyramid. dan mystics that were held in various cities in
and the Sphinx hitherto unknown was also dis' that this subterranean pathway is, as a matter of
covered at the same time. fact, a gigantic stone causeway, 22 meters wide
It should be noted by all students of mysticism and about 450 meters long. It connects the
and especially of Rosicrucian philosophy and teach' second pyramid to the Sphinx and to the temple
ing that the year 1909 was the year when more of the Sphinx adjoining. Large numbers of men
revelations of a mystical nature and more incidents are still at work on the sandy slope between the
of the reawakening of the mystical spirit through' second pyramid and the ancient Sphinx. M r. Der'
out the world as fostered and protected by the wish, who is in charge of part of the excavations
secret mystery schools occurred than at any other under the guidance of Dr. Hassan, states:
year in recent centuries. It was in the year 1909 “The causeway between the second pyramid is
that many persons journeyed from various parts constructed of enormous blocks of localizad stone
of the world to Europe and the Orient to secure and has three divisions of separate pathways. The
permission for the reestablishment or reawakening middle pathway lies between two walls constructed
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of fine Turah limestone. These walls were roofed these series of shafts is more than 40 meters or
over as is proved by the remains of stones found more than 125 feet. . . . In the course of clearing
here and there on the causeway. The reason that the Southern part of the subway there was found
the subway was constructed was that the two a very fine head of a statue which is very expres-
walls above mentioned prevented passageway from sive in every detail of the face.”
the cemetery of Cheops to that of Chephren. . . . W e have seen a photograph of this statue and
The newly excavated subway was cut through it appears to be in that same excellent form of
hard sand rock and is about eight feet ¿n height. sculptoring revealed ¿n the famous bust of Nefer*
Tw o or three people can easily walk abreast in it. titi, and is undoubtedly a sample of that rare type
In the center of the subway was the deep shaft of art inaugurated in the Amenhotep regime.
of which Dr. Hassan has spoken. . . . This newly A description of the chambers and rooms be'
excavated shaft is an enormous four'sided hole neath the sands connected by these secret pas'
about eight feet each way leading straight down sageways reveáis that there were inner courts
through the limestone like a mine shaft. This and outer courts and a Chapel of Offering cut
shaft ends in a spacious room, in the center of into one of the huge rocks with three pillars in
which is another shaft which descends to and its center. The three pillars representing a triangle
ends in a roomy court flanked with seven side are highly significant points in the study and anal'
chambers, some of which contain huge sarcophagi ysis of the purpose of these underground chambers.
of basalt and granite. In one of these seven rooms Another chamber, much like a burial chamber
there was also cut down a third shaft ending in but undoubtedly a room of initiation and recep'
a side chamber, which is now flooded with water, tion, was found at the end of a sloping passage,
but apparently contains a sarcophagus. W e are cut deep into the rock in the west side of the
hoping to find some monuments of importance Chapel of Offering. In the center of this chamber
after clearing out this water. The total depth of was another large sarcophagus of white Turah
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limestone, and there were examples of excellent which claimed to preserve the ancient knowledge
alabaster vessels found in the chamber. of Egypt and other lands, rise to another degree
The walls are beautifully painted and sculp of acceptability. Despite all that has been said by
tured with scenes and inscriptions and the Lotus former explorers and excavators, the truth appears
flower is an important emblem in the pictures. to be that every foot of the territory around the
Other chambers were discovered with pillars in the Pyramid and the Sphinx has not been explored
center and in some of these were carved figures previously because Dr. Hassan and his associates
of a young woman in a beautiful gown, plainly have just recently taken out of these underground
indicating a ceremonial robe. temples, halls, and passageways rare specimens of
There are many magnificently carved figures in art, rare relies of various kinds, a few of which
these various underground rooms and chapéis, we hope to have in the Rosicrucian museum in the
temples, and hallways, also many beautifully col' very near future. If these things, passageways, and
ored freiz^s. In examíníng the photographs of underground halls and temples, had been dis'
some of these we are deeply impressed with the covered in the past and then secretly covered up
improved form of the art, showing the distinctive again to prevent us from learning the truth, the
characteristics of the period that followed Amen' explorers would not have hesitated to bring to
hotep’s mystical reawakening of Egypt. light the rare relies that remained in them, for
The foregoing facts are but a few of the many these things represent the most precious gifts that
contained in Dr. Hassan’s latest report. They Egypt has to oífer to the museums of the world
verify in part at least the things indicated on the and which every scientist and explorer is justified
two diagrams shown in this book and undoubtedly in bringing to light.
the passing of time will verify other parts of these Those skeptics and doubters who look upon
diagrams. So once again the strange drawings, all books dealing with the Pyramid from the mys'
manuscrípts, and writings of the mystery schools tical point of view and who believe that the Rosi'
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crucians and others do not possess any knowledge
not possessed by the eminent excavators and ex'
Exjplanatory
plorers of the past, may realice now that not half
the truth has been told about the Great Pyramid
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