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

THE HOUSE OF OSIRIS

There are, however, many to-day who foresee the time when reparation of the Great Pyramid will be undertaken, and their numbers are growing as more come to realize the true nature and purpose of this marvellous structure, the very stones of which seem to rebuke the idle charges of pride and folly, ostentation and tyranny, which have been heaped upon its architect by ignorance in the past. The erroneous idea that it is merely the tomb of a pagan monarch—or was intended as such—is dying, and must eventually be discarded altogether, since the evidence against it is too strong, though its demise is naturally a slow one thanks to the theory having been held for so long by past schools of Egyptologists.

It is interesting to note, too, that the idea of restoring the Great Pyramid to the perfection intended by its architect—an act worthy of the greatest religious monument ever raised—is not one only now being advanced, for it was suggested by at least one writer fifty-five years ago. Thus Charles Casey, author of Philitis, quotes in an appendix thereto in his fourth edition a letter from the Rev. F. R. A. Glover, M.A., addressed to Piazzi Smyth, and dated from Cairo, 12th November, 1874, in which the following passage occurs :—

After referring to its present dilapidated condition, not only externally, but inside its chambers and passages as well, he writes : “ Is not the (Great) Pyramid essentially and eminently the emblem, in its perfections, of the truth and equity of the Godhead? Will it, then, be permitted that the monument erected to exhibit and declare the attributes of God to the universe shall be left to dwindle, by wasting influence of the elements, into nonentity ? Is that monument which bears God’s mark on the earth .. . to be allowed to disappear? No... You and I may not live to see its restoration ; but what if we did? Yet it is

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