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Pyramid Handbook

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But ancient Egyptian dynastic history was started by Mena (Menes), ca. 3050 BCE, just 4 centuries before Zoser.

Ancient Egyptian history is much older than the dynastic history, based on the following facts:

  1. Temples throughout Egypt make reference to being originally built much earlier than its dynastic history.
  2. The 40,000 items found underneath the 3rd Dynasty pyramid of Zoser are indicative of much earlier knowledge and civilization.
  3. The Funerary (Pyramid) Texts in Unas' Tomb in Saqqara contain repeated references to a prior inauguration of the New Year (when the civil calendar year of 365 days and the Sothic calendar year coincide every 1460 of such years). Astronomical calculations show that the referenced prior New Year occurred in 4240 BCE. We don't know if this was the first time that Egyptians calculated the time of the New Year, or if other prior New Years occurred in previous Sothic periods. If 4240 BCE was the first recorded New Year, the observation and calculation of the differences between the solar and sothic cycles must have started at a very remote age.
  4. The Greek and Roman writers of antiquity, basing their accounts on information received either first or second-hand from Egyptian sources, claimed a far greater antiquity for the Egyptian civilization than that currently established by academicians. These Egyptian sources called for antiquity ranging from 24,000 and 36,000 years during which Egypt was civilized.
  5. Herodotus reported that he was informed by Egyptian priests that the sun had twice set where it now rose, and twice risen where it now set. Egyptologist Schwaller de Lubicz explained the statement to mean that it may be a reference to the progressional cycles of the equinox. The progression results in the rising against a different sign of the Zodiac approximately every two thousand years. This would mean that the Egyptians counted their history back for at least a cycle and a half, some 36,000 years. This is in a general agreement with other accounts and evidential findings.
  6. The remote age of the Sphinx of Giza, and the Ausarion (Oserion) at Abtu (Abydos), ...etc.


So why do history books state that ancient Egyptian civilization started with Mena (ca. 3050 BCE), if it is so much older?

The Greco-Egyptian historian Manetho (3rd century BCE), under the early Ptolemies, wrote the only substantive history of Egypt to come down to us. He gathered his information from Egyptian records. A few pre-dynastic inscribed tablets and papyri have been found, but all were incomplete because of their remote age. Manetho acknowledged greater antiquity of the Egyptian history. However, because of the overwhelming task, he chose Mena(Menes) as a starting point, about 3,000 years earlier.


Pyramid Power (pgs 55, 56)

You talked earlier about the significance of nine, as the number of pyramids. The question is, what is the purpose of these pyramids?

There is no direct evidence that we know of, at this time, to answer this question. However, once we grasp the main function of the ancient Egyptian stone buildings, we can easily see their connection to the supernatural forces of the universe. Ancient Egyptian monuments, such as the pyramids and other temples, were deliberately constructed at specific sites with specific orientations.


But are there differences between the stone pyramids and the temples?

Yes, the pyramids were closed and sealed structures. They were not open for daily activities/rituals, which was the case in the Egyptian temples. As you will see later (pages 93 & 94), each pyramid was a part of a complex that contained some temples. So, all the rituals were carried out in these temples, and not in the pyramids. The stone pyramids were aligned with the cardinal points, which indicates the significance of earth, in their function. The temples in other regions of Egypt were each positioned according to astronomical alignments, i.e. the earth in rela tionship to other heavenly bodies.


So, if the sealed stone pyramids were not used for rituals, what could be their function?

The pyramids were harmonically proportioned to act/function in the same fashion as greenhouses, i.e. to attract and retain certain energies. In the case of the pyramid, it should be called the bluehouse effect.


Remind me, what is the greenhouse effect?

It is the retention of heat from sunlight at the earth's surface, caused by atmospheric carbon dioxide that admits shortwave radiation but absorbs the longwave radiation emitted by the earth.


So, the bluehouse effect would work along the same principle?

In the case of the bluehouse effect, the building retains the orgone energy.


What is orgone energy?

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The King's Room (page 139)

This room is simple yet powerful. Is there any significance to the design layout of this room?

Actually there is. The most obvious significance is that its configuration/proportion emphasizes the importance of volume in Egypt's architecture.

The floor plan of the room is a double square (2 x 1 rectangle), 20 x 10 Egyptian cubits (34'-4" x 17'-2", 10.5 x 5.2m).

The double square, divided by a single diagonal CA, forms two right triangles, each having a base of 1 and a height of 2. The diagonal CA is equal to the square root of 5 (2.236), i.e. 22.36 cubits in actual length.

The height of the room is designed to be one half the length of the floor diagonal CA, i.e. Ö5/2, which is 11.18 cubits (19'-2" or 5.8m) in actual length.

This choice of CD, as the height of the room, will make the diagonal DB (in the triangle DCB) equal to 15 cubits. The result is that the three sides of the triangle ABD are in relation to 3:4:5.

The harmonic proportion of this room shows the intimate relationship between 1 : 2 : 3 : 4 : 5, and demonstrates the relationship in the divine harmonic proportion (sacred geometry) between process and structure. It also shows that the right-angle triangle principle (so-called Pythagoras) was practiced in the Egyptian design regularly, 2,000 years before Pythagoras walked this earth.



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