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THE EDITOR.
The Astronomy of the Great Pyramid.
"Science now computes the distance to the sun to be all the way from 90,000,000 to 95,000,000 miles from the earth. According to the architect of the Great Pyramid, the mean distance to the sun is exactly 91,840,000 miles. He seems to have had about the same trend of mind as modern science, different in being positive as to exact figures, which is far better, if only true. I suppose we could get down to exact science if we would only allow God to arrange our text-books."
The Great Pyramid of Egypt is a revelation of truth concerning the universe; it is truth expressed in geometry. But the Great Pyramid does not teach that the sun is 91,840,000 miles from the earth; the astronomer-royal of Scotland thought that it did, from the basis of certain assumptions he made regarding the import and purpose of the great structure.
Fallacy is the inversion and perversion of truth. The absolute of fallacy is the exact opposite from the absolute of truth. The Copernican system of astronomy is the climax of speculation as to the form and function of the universe; its premise is the earth — or rather, the conception that the surface upon which we live is convex. From the basis of the supposition, calculations are made as to the distance to the sun — and about 92,000,000 miles is the result. From the basis of the demonstrated concavity, it is conclusively known in the Koreshan System that the astronomer puts the sun about 100,000 times too far away. The sun is only about 920 miles from the concave surface of the earth.
The Great Pyramid represents the form and function of the earth, which is the environ of the universe. The geometry of the Pyramid is the measurement of the earth — for geometry means earth-measurement. The distances recorded in the Pyramid are all referable to distances within the earth, within the universe it encloses. Prof. Piazzi Smyth had no warrant for supposing that the sun exists outside of the earth; neither had he any warrant for concluding that the distance to the sun is just a billion times the height of the Pyramid.
The relation of 10 and 9 is apparent in the Pyramid, by the fact that it slopes 10 feet for every 9 feet of vertical space. Prof. Smyth raised 10 to its ninth power, and multiplied the product by the height of the Pyramid, and concluded that the ultimate result was the mean distance to the sun! What was there about the Pyramid to indicate that it was the mean distance? What to indicate that the distance to the sun by the Pyramid was a billion times its own height?
The modern astronomer turns the earth inside out, and it indicates that the sun is 92,000,000 miles away. Its true relations and geometrical functions show the sun to be less than 1,000 miles from the earth's surface. Turn the Pyramid inside out, and it just as inevitably inverts the order of its testimony and makes it speak in the terms of fallacy.
Primarily, the Pyramid reveals the truths of life, the laws of involution and evolution, and the principles of incubation. It teaches the laws of cellular life, because all incubation is of and from the egg or cell. The Pyramid incubes the sphere and squares the circle. These principles are principles of universal life. The universe is cellular. The sphere written in the Pyramid in the terms of its own geometry, is the sphere of the universe, not merely the sphere of a planet, a mere speck in space. The earth, the Bible, and the Pyramid, as well as the anatomy of man, must all agree as to the form and function of the womb of Nature, the cell of development.
All the polar nuclei of the universal cell are within the cell. No one has any right to turn the Pyramid inside out and invert the order of its testimony as to the science of the cosmos; nor any right to suppose that the Pyramid is a mere pointer to distant worlds and universes. The great miracle in stone is a masterful representation of the mysteries of life. Its Architect, were he to confront the modern scientists, would be as emphatic in his renunciation of their claims, as the earth itself when it speaks in the terms of its own concave curvature. The Almighty has come to the world through
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The Flaming Sword · Vol. 19, No. 26 · 5 Dec 1905 · PDF p. 12