Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... I The Great Pyramid The Great Pyramid, sometimes called "Cheops," " Shoofo or Suphis," is situated at the centre of all land surface on the earth. It is on the western or desert side of the nile river in 300 north latitude and near the present city of Cairo, Lower Egypt. 'The Great Pyramid was known as chief of the " seven wonders of the world" in the days of the Greeks, and it has, in all ages, puzzled its most capable and earnest investigators; but since its remarkable symbolism has become somewhat understood, it has taken first place as the most remarkable and significant monument on earth to-day. Although there are many pyramids scattered throughout Egypt -- and, in fact, the world over, having merely the general pyramid shape, there are none that compare in vastness of dimensions, in superior workmanship, in scientific values and symbolizations with that mighty pillar that has come down to us from beyond the classic ages, and which has been justly called "a key to the universe," a veritable "gospel in stone." The lesser pyramids in Egypt, built thousands of years later, during the time of the historic Egyptians, and used chiefly for sepulchral purposes, exhibit no evidence whatever of the superior intellectuality so abundantly displayed in the Great Pyramid. They are, without exception, inferior and meaningless copies of the great one, which is of unknown antiquity, its origin being lost in the night of time. Unlike the Great Pyramid, they possess no upper interior chambers or passages, and are generally covered with marks, hieroglyphics etc., and are totally devoid of all scientific proportions. Prof. Piazzi Smyth writes of the Great Pyramid, "Amongst the Jeezeh pyramids, there is one that transcends in importance all the rest; one...