THE GREAT PYRAMID

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21389, 17 July 1931, Page 2

THE GREAT PYRAMID

ITS SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE LECTURE BY MR D. D. INCE. Based on the researches of Mr D. Davidson, an eminent English civil engineer, who had stated that his study of the Great Pyramid had led him out of the bottomless pit of agnosticism into a full and complete belief of the Bible, an interesting and instructive lantern lecture on “The Great Pyramid" was delivered by Mr D. D. Ince in the concert chamber of the Town Hall last night. The address, which was given under uie auspices of the British-Israel Federation of New Zealand, was listened to by a large and keenly interested audience, which was presented with an astonishing mass of information—geometrical, mathematical, astronomical, and geographicalregarding the Great Pyramid. Mr F. W. Mitchell occupied the chair. . Mr Ince said that the Great Pyramid was one of a group of nine such structures. known as the “ Nine Pyramids of Gizeh.” The Great Pyramid was the northernmost one of the group, and it was by far the largest building on earth, for its base covered 13 acres, and it had a circuit of nearly two-thirds of a mile. It was originally encased in white limestone beautifully smoothed and accurately fitted, and, with its great height of 480 feet, it became as a great light to all the land of Egypt. The huge edifice contained 90,000,000 cubic feet of masonry, and the area of each slope was about five acres and a-half. When one took into consideration the fact that there was enough stone in it to build a wall four feet high, a foot thick, and over 4000 miles in length, and the mathematical accuracy and fineness of its construction, one could hardly conceive the wonder ot it all. Truly, the Great Pyramid had been described as “ the most perfect and gigantic specimen of masonry m tne W °His main point, the speaker continued, was that the Great Pyramid stood out from the others as a gigantic and mysterious structure, which carried with R the belief of such scientific investigators as David Davidson that it had nothin* in common with other pyramids in which stone coffins had been found. It was thought by many people to have been built bv a Pharaoh named Cheops, who belonged "/the Fourth Dynasty a. a future tomb for himself. Both D odonis and Herodotus, however, agreed t hat Cheops was never buried m >it, while Manetho, the Egyptian priest-histoiian. heW that the Pyramid was built by Supnis, tne theory being that SupU. non.. ether than Shem, the son of Noah. Colonel Gamier, in Ins book on the Great Pyra mid, suggested that it was the Shepherd , Kings who built the structure under the supervision of God Himself about the year in the form of a sarcophagus had ever Been found in the Great Pyramid, and so investigators had dismissed as fallacious the theory that it had been built by Cheops as a burial place for himself. On the contrary, many of them, sceptical at first, had come to the belief that it was an altar to God, erected under Divine inspiration, as referred to in the of Isaiah, in which had been placed standards of capacity and length to serve for all time. Moreover, there had never been discovered in the pyramid any hieroglyphic inscriptions indicating paganistic o r idolatrous worship, another indication that it was erected as a monumental altar to the one and true God. . The lecturer said that, so far, the mterterpretation of the pyramid’s dated symbolism in the light of actual events had been shown to be identical in dated sequence with biblical prophecy. In illustration of this he showed a number of lantern slides of scenes of the exterior and diagrams of the interior of the pyramid, and made special reference to the ascending and descending shafts, and the three interior chambers (the pit, the Queen’s chamber, and the King’s chamber). In describing these diagrams he adduced from the directional geometrical measurements a relationship to world events, past, present, and future. During the intermission Mr H. P. Desmoulins rendered a solo, “ Land of Hope and Glory,” and a hearty vote of thanks was accorded Mr Ince at the conclusion of his lecture.