The great pyramid passages and chambers

PREFACE

S the purpose and scope of this work, and the circumstances. which led to its | preparation and publication, are commented upon elsewhere, we do not

require to further allude to them here.

In the present volume, which deals mostly with the symbolical features of the Great Pyramid’s teachings, the measurements stated are, generally, only approxi' mate; these will be detailed more accurately in the second volume, which will enter into the Great Pyramid’s corroborations of the time features of the Plan of the Ages.

As later investigators, we are indebted to past writers on the pyramids for much valuable data, especially to the three great pioneers, Col. Howard Vyse and Professors C. Piazzi Smyth and Flinders Petrie, all of whom we frequently quote, and from whose works a number of our line-drawings of the Great Pyramid are copied with modifications, bringing them more into accordance with present day knowledge. In this connection, we gratefully acknowledge the services of Mr. J. A. Hannah, C.E., of Glasgow, who prepared many of these finely executed diagrams. The illustrations of Jerusalem, etc., in our letters from the Holy Land, are small reproductions of the beautiful drawings in Picturesque Palestine, edited by Colonel Wilson. The photo-engravings are the work of Messrs. André & Sleigh, London.

We desire to express our warm appreciation of the many acts of kindness accorded us by numerous friends,—among whom we wish specially to mention our dear old friend, the late Mr. Wm. Ford of Bristol—which have greatly encouraged us in our work,

Lastly, our prayer is that our labours may be blessed by the Lord, without whom no work shall prosper. May this book be used to stimulate its readers to still greater activity and zeal in His harvest-field.

September, 1910.