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

MYSTERY OF THE GREAT PYRAMID

since history has proved the truth of them. And though it is the fashion in some quarters to deride the idea of any such foreknowledge as having been instrumental in raising the Great Pyramid, the fact should be emphasized—and appreciated by the reader—that the belief that it owes its origin to Divine inspiration and reveals a Divine revelation is not an idea of this twentieth century. On the contrary, “it is as old as the Pyramids themselves, and permeates the literary traditions of ancient Egypt and Babylon, as well as the traditions of early Christian Egypt and the Mediterranean . . . Nor is it any paradox to say that the belief in the Divine revelation expressed in the Great Pyramid preceded that particular form of structural expression. The Enoch elements in the various traditions (cited above) will be seen to account for this, and also for at least three pyramids having been built before the Great Pyramid ” (Davidson in article in Morning Post of 17th October, 1927, entitled ‘The Traditional ‘ Pillar of Enoch ’”’).?

That the attribution of the design of the Great Pyramid to a member of the Melchizedek order is a sound one is strengthened by the fact that Messiah, of whom it is an allegorical structure, is of this same order (Heb. v, 6), and also by the meaning of the name. “ It is noteworthy,” writes F. W. Chapman in The Great Pyramid of Gizeh, “ that historians infer the (Great) Pyramid was built under Assyrian direction—Melchisedec—which name is said to be Hebrew symbol for inner consciousness, implying that the conception and erection of the (Great) Pyramid was from a high order of intuition.”

Now the prerogative of this order was power to rule as priest-king “ with a rod of iron in the midst of His enemies 1 See Note H.

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