Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-16


SGUGHt.
French Revolution thought they had found a
perfect unit In the meter, or 1921 feet, which
was supposed to be the ten-millionth part Of
the quarter of the earth's meridian but some
years later 1t was discovered to be two-tenths
of millimster too short.
THE unit of measurement Of the Great Pyra-
mid was the sacred cubit, or approxi-
mately 2479 English inches.
Imagine how astonished Able Moreux and
some of his predecessors were to remark that
this unit was exactly one ten-millionth part OF
the polar radius or the distance from the Poles
to the center of the earth! This polar radius
is dimension that never changes and so q
unit based on it Is as perfect as can be found.
But how had the Egyptian priests, who prob
ably never travelled, discovered the length of
the polar radius? Mystery. Modern scientists
only knew it few years ago.
ITO call all science to his aid, to devote GEN.
turtles of hard and converging efforts, to i'm
prove ceaselessly our methods of observation,
to perfect our technique, to carry on with per-
severance the work of our predecessors, to push
to an incredible point the precision of our cal
culations and then arrive at a discovery at
ception that torment she thought of a
scientific MANI" exclaims Able Moreux
"And, incredible as it SEEMS the result IS
right there under our eyes, so brutal and
tangible that it must be accepted by every one
who does not purposely close his eyes to it,"
Taking up the alleged secrets of the Great
Pyramid that refer to the calendar. Able
Moreux added the inches representing the
lengths of the two diagonals of the base
there were 25 sacred inches in sacred cubit-
and had 25, 800.
This is significant figure for every Is 800
years the axis of the earth points in the same
direction in the sky and soon afterward slips
of on tangent
The ancient peoples apparently did not know
the exact length of year, but Able Moreux
multiplied the length of the ante-chamber,
leading into the chamber of the King, by 3.1416
and had 365.242 Even the Greeks and the
Romans did not possess this knowledge but the
Egyptian priests seem to have known it.
1t was only in 1900 AID, that q circuit of
10 observatories scattered all over the world
made concerted effort to calculate the dis
lance and finally agreed on approximately
92,777, 400 miles
But in multiplying the height of the Great
Pyramid by 100000, which is one of the
key numbers of this monument, the result is
practically the same!
Therefore" Able Moreux points out, dur
ing many centuries while civilized nations were
spending fabulous sums and scientific men
were risking their lives to solve this most i'm
portant astronomical problem the solution was
Symbolized and monumentalized in the Great
Pyramid since thousands of years.
But the Egyptian astronomers do not seem
to have stopped there. If we multiply the sacred
Egyptian inch by 100000, we obtain the
length of the swing made by the earth on its
orbit in "a hours, and this with a more precise
approximation than we can secure with the
yard or the meter.
Furthermore. the passage into the pyramid
was placed that it formed a sort of telescope
through which one could follow the polar star
OF that epoch at any hour of the day.
I'm the face of these astonishing facts how
can any one say that the Egyptians were ig-
norant of astronomy"
Moses B. Cotsworth, director of the Interna-
tional FIXED Calendar Year League suggests
another which the Egyptian priests made
of the Great Pyramid, namely. as a giant sum
dial By which they could measure the seasons
of the year. Mr.. Cotsworth thinks that the
space the north side of this pyramid was
used as dial or shadow floor. In order to carry
out his tests satisfactorily. 1t will be necessary
to repair this alleged shadow floor and to erect
a model Of the original apex on top Of the pyra-
mid. Permission to do this has been asked OF
the Egyptian government.
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