The Great Pyramid.

Otaki Mail, 22 August 1930, Page 4

The Great Pyramid.

Already we have considered the strange way in which the Great Pyramid was erected at Giseli. From Arabia had come that mysterious shepherd king, through whose unique personality the whole government of Egypt was changed, and who so directed the manners an morals that for awhile the Kgyptions became worshippers of the true God, and for 1700 years after its erection, all Egypt ion authorities proclaimed him to be the builder of the Great Pyramid while Clieops only provided site, materials and workmen for the great undertaking. Those who have earnestly studied the subject from all points feel convinced that the builder Philitis is identical with ilelcliisedcc, King of Salem, priest of the Most High God, and may believe Job and Meleiiisedec are the same person. Job wrote this. “Oh that my words were now written! —That they were graven witn an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!” And the words lie wanted to' engrave were these, “For I know that My Redeemer livoth. and that He shall stand in the latter day upon the earth; and though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God—Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and nut another. This was the thrilling truth Job wanted to write for postur- : ity to read, and this is the truth that is written in that mighty monument, erected in Egypt, at the very time that patriarch Job was alive on the earth. [ To all with eyes to see it the Great Pyramid- of Giseh bears most u»- | swerving testimony as.certainly as does iho Word of God. For fluOO years after its erection, it remained closed up and no mortal man knew what it contained. Outwardly it stood, shining golden with the sun flasrhing from its sides, exactly orientated and that is, Hast and West, -North and South, ft is -ISO feet high, and t fit feet broad and its base covers thirteen acres, it was originally cased with polished granite, which show Vital, the Original guilders possessc superior knowledge, as marble expand very slightly when exposed to heat and contracts but little with the cold consequently the outer casings of tin Pyramid, such as are left, are as trut as the; day, they were laid, but tin granite casing of : the . smaller Pyramid, are till twisted arid broken. Thus then this enormous Pyramid, from the 1 timi <SOO year

(>()!> years before .Moses wrote the | earliest :sc natures stood on the bonier--, jof Egypt, but the time had not yet | I'omc for the message it contained to ibe understood. Xo one opened it till i the time- of Caliph A 1 jlamotin, song i of Haroun A 1 Kaschid, about whom «•: [ as children read in the Arabian Nights ! and about 50 years before Alfred the <3(rcat was King of England. This Caliph believed the ; Pyramid was crowded full 'of..previous treasure! He sent his workers to find an openln-U There teas one. so 'fully concealed by the builders, wit ueb an accurately ittfing pivot-working' stone of the same polished whiteness .-a*-the others'.' that they could, not find it for it was 7.lft up in the sloping side of the :building. So they .forced an entrance on the North side. They made sore n would be in the centre of the north sj ,y. but the builders, f or aa important : a>tronom»cal reason, h:ul put it ‘ f 4i't Ito the east of the centre. So they had jto .-crape away the solid stone, and I after months of grievous toil, came a’- ! most t 0 revolution. A remarkable eirenmstaiiet- saved the situation. An excavation 30ft above ground, had been driven tn more than 100 ft, and still overvthnig remained solid.' and tbev «on!d <u.-e.y have given up. bur for ‘£ * i V? :n - ,° ~C the workmen -ea.d the sound of a tailing stone in :>omo open space beyond where thev ."' w - Tli|s incited tlsern to.die aE j bore until at last they broke thron-h -into an open passage star and thev lound themselves in the fork of f.vo ; passages, on ascending, arid the other descending into the depths below. The stone They heard fall had hang in the top of the entrance passage overhead. ? mie scaling the fact of an tween* ing l-a.-.-age as weil, but this thev found Uorwl up against them, with £ heaw stone portcullis thin fitted it tight from above. Al Humour, made his men dig and blast round P, but the whole passage war filled with great stones from top to bottom. When they.. Siiove*] one another cupped into place, hnt they fmallv cleared it all out—and what did thev find 7 We shall see later. (To be continued;, j