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

NOTES

Note AA: THE CoFFER IN THE KING’s CHAMBER (page 104)

Concerning the apparent preparation of the coffer to receive a lid, Professor Smyth points out that the ledge is cut out precisely with such a breadth and depth, that a frame made to fit it flush with the original top of the sides would, when let down vertically and diagonally inside the coffer, just form the diagonal of the coffer’s interior ; while its height at that moment would measure the coffer’s depth.

Note BB: Tue EcyptiaAn Deity AMEN (page 106)

The name Amen signifies “‘ The Hidden One”, and his worship became the most extensive, and his followers the most powerful, of any of the Egyptian deities, with the exception of Ra—with whom Amen worship became amalgamated as Amen-Ra—and Osiris. The god Amen, therefore, implied to the ancient Egyptian that which could not be viewed by mortal eyes, invisible and inscrutable, and thus approached much more closely to our conception of the Deity than any other.

Referring to the Prayer-book of the Church of England, Marsham Adams writes: ‘‘ There is one word in particular which is employed, not on any special occasion, but in every service ; not once or twice, but after every petition ; not as a portion of the prayer, but as its summary and its seal. If a stranger stand outside the closed doors of a church while service is going on, there is one word, and probably but one, which he would hear distinctly repeated again and again. ‘Amen,’ *‘ Amen,’ ‘ Amen,’ that is the aspiration which, time after time, comes rolling forth with the full strength of choir and congregation. That is the word by which the apostle denotes the absolute nature of Deity as compared with created matter. ‘In Him all things are Amen.’ Amen is the single word which the seer of the Apocalypse heard the Four Living Creatures utter before the throne in response to the chorus of universal adoration. And that is the title under which

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