Pyramid and Prophecy

Abstract

IN the notice in NATURE of October 25 of the work entitled “The Great Pyramid: its Divine Message,” by the late Dr. H. Aldersmith and myself, the reviewer, by a careful selection of remotely secondary features of the book, convinces himself he has proved the work to be of the “assertionist class.” He represents that I have obtained the length of the Pyramid base from the positions of the sockets, which is not the case. He also represents that I have obtained the Pyramid base side by adding ten inches to the longest existing socket base side, which is also not the case. Sir Flinders Petrie's survey has shown that the core masonry surfaces are hollowed in up the centre, and that the base casing stones still exist in the centre of each base side. With the casing surfaces hollowed in to the same extent as the core masonry surfaces are hollowed in to receive them, we obtain the Pyramid base circuit of the same dimension as the ancient Egyptian literature shows it to have been, namely, 36,524 units, the unit being of the value 1.0011 British inches.