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

TOMB OR OBSERVATORY ?

inventions to glorify the Commander of the Faithful, and to appease that worthy’s vanity after the shock it had received at finding—nothing ! Even followers of the tombic theory have to admit there is no historical record of any body having been found either in the King’s Chamber or any other chamber.

The idea that the subterranean chamber was intended for burial purposes is discounted by the chaotic state in which the floor has been left, its height varying from about 4 feet to 12 feet, while the roof and walls are finished off smooth, thus reversing all the rules of building and excavating, and at the same time plainly indicating that, to leave it in this condition, the workmen must have worked in the most constrained and awkward positions, even to having to lie on their backs. It is evident, therefore, that the state of this pit is due to deliberate design. It is, in fact, a chamber upside down, and, from a constructional viewpoint is, like the whole of the descending passage, an elaborate and carefully planned blind.

The real significance of this pit is a symbolic one, its condition of “ upside-down-ness ”’ denoting chaos and, resulting therefrom, hell and death. With singular significance has this feature been (unwittingly) copied in all other pyramids, to whose subterranean chambers the kings of idolatrous and pagan Egypt have been consigned. Hence the words of Ezekiel: “ They are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit... This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord God ” (xxxi, 14-18).

When Tombic theorists are confronted with this chaotic pit they will assert it was deliberately abandoned before being completed, owing to the unexpected long life of

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