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

In addition, the astronomical and other scientific conceptions found in the Book of Job, which, like those embodied in the Great Pyramid, indicate a knowledge far in advance of what passed for science generally in those early days, reveals further signs of identification. Four constellations are definitely mentioned (ix, 9 ; Xxxviii, 31-32), and corresponded in Job’s day to the two equinoctial and two solstitial constellations. The Pleiades is specifically defined by the Great Pyramid, while Sirius (or Mazzaroth) is especially the star of Egypt.t

In the Book of Job, also, we find a familiarity with working in stone, mining, metallurgy, building, and other sciences, proving an advanced and highly organized state of society, just as we know the race responsible for the Great Pyramid possessed far in advance of all other contemporary civilizations. On this point Dr. Seiss has the following interesting quotation from Baldwin’s Prehistoric Nations, the conclusions of which agree concerning the ancient Pheenicians with those arrived at by Professor Waddell, as being the great colonizing and civilizing race of antiquity, the forerunners of the modern Anglo-Saxon race.*

“It would be unreasonable to deny or doubt that in ages further back in the past than the beginning of any nation mentioned in our ancient histories, Arabia was the seat of a great and influential civilization . . . It is now

1 Sirius was known to the Egyptians as Sothis, and the “Grand Orient ’’—or position of that star when its rising forms the immediate herald of dawn on midsummer morning (that is, just so long before dawn as to be visible for a few moments on the horizon before disappearing in the increasing daylight—was the starting-point of their cycle of calendar reckoning.

2 Refer Witness of Great Pyramid (2nd ed.), pp. 75 and 95, for quotation from Waddell showing that, contrary to the usual idea of history books which represent the ancient Britons at the time of the Roman occupation of this island as ‘‘ painted savages ’’—an idea, it should be noted, which is not supported by any evidence whatever—they were, on the other hand, ages before the Christian era, a highly civilized and literate race, and a branch of the famous Pheenicians.