gypt's oldest
historians. It has been counted as one of the seven wonders of the
world.

It did not embody the ideas of the Egyptians in science, astronomy,
meteorology, or religion. As their historians allow, it was built by
foreigners which they hated.

Nothing idolatrous was carved on it, within or without. It was a witness
pure and clean. The Egyptians proclaimed and believed the earth to be
square--this building proclaimed the earth round. The builders bevelled
the face of the rock in a ratio of eight inches to the mile--the very
quantity that science to-day admits to be the curviture of the earth--and
accepts in surveying. It was their knowledge of this fact that kept the
building sound, without the cracking of a joint, through centuries,
though so high. The Egyptians did not use the sacred amma, or cubit,
which is about twenty-five of our inches. They used a profane cubit, as
Sir Isaac Newton shows.

This sacred cubit was a well and easily established proportion of the
earth's diameter--the very standard now used by the English Government in
surveying.

The stones of the Pyramid were twelve feet long, eight feet broad, and
five deep, making twenty-five total. The building itself was a
five-faced figure. The Egyptians hated five. No wonder that Moses
harnessed the Israelites in fives as they left Egypt, or that he should
divide his book into five parts.

No wonder that the Queen's Chamber should be on the twenty-fifth course
of masonry, and the King's Chamber on the fiftieth course, which is the
year of jubilee, or deliverance--which year, as indicated in the Pyramid,
is the year 1935.

The Egyptians calculated from the moon in their chronology. But this
building takes its calculations from the sun circle. The Egyptian year
was 354 days, with an intercalary month of thirty-three days added every
three years.

The year embodied in the Pyramid was 365 days, five hours, forty-eight
minutes, forty-seven and seven-tenths seconds. If a person took a rod of
a cubit length, and measured one of the base sides of the Pyramid, he
would find this twenty-five inch measure to be contained as often as
there are days in the year, with the same fraction in inches as the
hours, minutes, and seconds.

Is it impious to ask how these builders knew the solar year so
completely? They knew the sun's circle of 448 years, which completes a
circle of time without any excess or deficiency. This they ran into
weigh