Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1882-11-03
Pyramid Prophecies.

Tradition and history agree in assigning
the building of the Great Pyramid Cike that
of the other pyramids of Ghizeh) to q mon
arch or dynasty, not moved by any special
ly unselfish purpose, but on the contrary,
ready to sacrifice large sums of money raised
by cruel taxations, and the lives of many
thousands of laborers cruelty impressed for
the work. The memory of the despots who
built the pyramids was held in hate and alb
horrence by the Egyptians, for what seemed
to later times most adequate and sufficient
reasons. Men could not, however, but ad-
mire the wonderful masses of masonry thus
raised at the border of the Egyptian desert,
so massive as to resemble the works of ma
ture, SO stable that they remain after thou
sands of years scarce touched beneath their
surface layers, by the storms of heaven, or
by the movements of the earth, or by the
destructive work of man. Even now it may
be questioned whether any amounS of labor
which all the rulers of our day could i'm
p ess for the work would suffice to destroy
these monuments of Egyptian tyranny with
out the aid of gunpowder, dynamite, or 9TH
or methods of scientific destruction. 1t was
never held, however, even by the most igno-
rant Bedouin, that the pyramids contained
hidden knowledge of any sort, still less that
they concealed prophetic limitations. Yet
when Mr.. j. Taylor, taking the best meas
ures of the Great Pyramid known in his
time, found, or seemed to find, in that edi
fee, the solution of the (to many mystical
problem of the squaring of the circle, birth
was given to the doctrine, shortly to develop
into marvellous proportions, that the builders
of the Great Pyramid concealed within its
once goodly casing profound mathematical
and astronomical knowledge-nay, such
knowledge as without divine aid they could
never have acquired. One by one all the
| triumphs of science since the time of Calico
| have been found to be anticipated and re-
vealed in the structure of the Great Pyra-
mid The science of the next century lies
equally in this mysterious structure. CON
cealed now, but to be revealed there when
we'll, when it has been otherwise discovered.
I speak with some knowledge of the subject,
| midalists acquired theirs, when 1 say that
| there is not discovery effected during the
| last Thousand years, or which can by any pos
| sibility be effected during the next thousand
] years, which may not be shown by their
| methods to be embodied in the structure of
| the Great Pyramid-or of any other pyra-
mid, or in st. Peters at Rome, or st. PauIs
in London. ANY number you please may be
| found with a little patience in any one of
| these buildings, and every scientific relation
| may be indicated by number. Then,
among numbers SO found, many will be re.
| peated in different ways, and SO the appa
| rent evidence from coincidence will seeming
| ly be strengthened. though in reality weak
ened, because every such double Or treble co
Incidence shows that pure condolences can
always be recognized among any numbers
| taken either at random or from any set how
ever determined. Thus, among the various
distances, dimensions, periods, &C., within
| the solar system, or rather among the num
bers representing these, there are multitudes
of condolences purely accidental, though
only the astronomer. perhaps, may be able &c
distinguish those which are accidental from
| those which are real