THE PYRAMID CRANKS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 142, 17 June 1899, Page 7 (Supplement)

THE PYRAMID CRANKS.

According to them, the builders of the Great Pyramid were supernaturally In- : strueted, probably by Melchlzedek, King of Salem, says Dr. John Flske, in the March 'Atlantic' Thus they were enabled to place it in latitude 30deg. N.; to make its four sides face the cardinal points; to adopt the sacred cubit, or one-twenty-mlllionth part of the earth's polar axis, as their unit of length; 'and to make the side of the square base equal to just so many of these sacred cubits as there are days and parts of a day In a year. They were further by supernatural help enabled to square the circle, and symbolised their victory over this problem by making the pyramid's height bear to the perimeter of the base the ratio which the radius of a circle bears to the circumference.' In like manner, by Immediate divine revelation, the builders of tho pyramid wore instructed as to the exact shape and density of the earth, the sun's distance, the precession of the equinoxes, etc., so that their figures on all theae subjects were more accurate than any that modern science has obtained, and these figures THEY BUILT INTO THE PYRAMID. They also built Into It the divinely ievcaled and everlasting standards of 'length, area, capacity, weight, density, heat, time, and money,' and finally they wrought into its structure the precise date at which the millennium is to begin. All this valuable information, handed down directly from heaven, was thus securely bottled up in the Great Pyramid for six thousand years or so, awaiting the auspicious day when Mr Piazzi Smyth should come and draw the cork. Why so much knowledge should have been bestowed upon the architect of King Cheops —only to be concealed from posterity—is a pertinent question; and one may also ask why, when it had so long lain hidden and useless, was it worth while to bring a Piazzi Smyth into the world to reveal It, since plodding human reason had after all discovered every bit of it, except the date of the millennium? Why, moreover, did the revelation thus elaborately buried in or about B.C. .000 come just abreast of the scientific knowledge of A.D. ISC4. and there stop Bhort? Is it creditable that old Melchlzedek knew nothing ahout the telephone or the Hontgen rays, or the cholera bacillus? Our pyramldists should bo more enterprising, and elicit from their venerable fetish some useful hints as to wireless telegraphy, or the ventilation Qi Pujhnan cars, or the purification cf Pennsylvania politics. Perhaps the last-named problem might vie in difficulty with squaring the circle!