The mystery of the Great pyramid : traditions concerning it and its connection with the Egyptian Book of the dead : with numerous illustrations

THE HOUSE OF OSIRIS

short of the circuit according to the design for that particular course. This means, therefore, that when the builders came to measure up the apex-stone on the ground—a miniature pyramid in itself—before raising it into position, they discovered that the platform area intended to receive it was too small. The apex-stone was consequently rejected, and the Great Pyramid completed with a flat surface forming the roof of the House of Osiris within.

We have stated in our Introduction that the Great Pyramid is an allegorical representation in structural form of the Messianic Prophecies, which the Egyptians perverted and applied to Osiris. Now Messiah is described as “ the chief corner-stone and headstone of the corner” (Psalm cxviii, 22-3), a twofold condition which can only be structurally symbolized in the apex-stone of a pyramid (refer Note K). Only in the headstone of such an edifice can all four sides meet in the one cornerstone, which thus “fitly frames together the whole building” (Ephes. ui, 19-21), and without which the latter is incomplete.

Prophecy likewise foretold the rejection of Messiah, the ““ Corner-stone ”’ (Isaiah liii, 3), a prophecy referred to by Christ Himself in Matt. xxi, 42, and by St. Peter in Acts iv, 11. Thus the mistake of the builders—an error actually extremely small when the huge scale of the edifice is taken into consideration—when erecting their allegorical structure, led them—unwittingly—to fulfil the allegory, both in its true and in its perverted aspect, by rejecting the corner-stone and thereby raising an incomplete structure.

To carry the allegory a step further to completion, so that the structure becomes a “ building fitly framed together ”, implies that this error will some day be rectified, and the Great Pyramid ultimately enlarged and completed by the placing in position of its apex-stone, the eventual