Show THE GREAT PYRAMID PART ONE i T THE HE PYRAMIDS OF EGYPT have in all ages excited the won jer der of mankind altho during the ta last at halt half century interest has centered about one in particular now recognized as the greatest and most work e ever ver produced by human hand band there ire more than a hundred pyramids scattered throughout egypt but hibst of them are of little importance and they are more or less in ruins some appearing now as little more mor ethan than moderate sized hillocks thirty eight ot of those which have better resisted the ravages of time are all situated on the western cyb ian slid and more desert side of the nile river along a lire line of nearly seventy miles south from the deta delta region or barge triangular branching mouth ot of tle the nile the nine situated at gizea almost opposite the present city of cairo are unique in their characteristics and in their history and are moreover still in good preservation er the northernmost and the largest as well ns as the oldest and best preserved of all al these pyramids Is kno known n as the great pyramid and is the one we shall study more c ir in a few brief articles to fol low this one crie I 1 most of the other great pyramids structures shuc tures in the world such as the til great tower of babeon and those in mexico have a rectangular base ris ing in terraced setbacks set backs surmounted by some sort ot of temple or shrin the pyramids howe however have hake a square base from which the structure rises nt at somewhat varying anglis angles of sl slope ope to the apex the gre great at pyramid follows ahr th plan and si sands on a low fla nat rocky hill chih rises some fet feet above I 1 the he sands of the surrounding surround ng dbert in a direct south west we styne T 4 ne from it and about feet apart are tile the two lagest pyramids which were v 7 j re clearly intended to s serve erve as se I 1 ul chres for the kings who built them and it has been hastily concluded by most people that the great pyramid was built for the same purpose it has also aso b been e en assumed that this gret grea t monument of stone was built by the egyptian kiru al air though it is stat stated edby by both Dlo Dio dorus loru s and herodotus ancient historians that continued on last THE GREAT PYRAMID continued from page 4 choops was not buried there secondly the scientific cosmic nl and prophetic knowledge symbolized by the general proportions of cf the legreat great pyramid and by the lengths band and dimensions of 0 its interior pass uses aes and chambers is so profound 1 tant they suggest a wisdom which ts Is more than human guinan not merely on I 1 account of the knowledge itself but on account of the remarkable way in which A this knowledge is expressed by athe the relations of a 1 few simple measurements ure ments to suppose therefore that this I 1 wonderful knowledge was bisp dl spayed I 1 ayed solely for the construction ot of a monumental tomb of t a dead king is I 1 absurd and tala clous re reasoning particularly ticul arly since this pyramid was the first one to be built and the others were in cre Ize imitation of it but without the knowledge ot of the secrets of its interior and principles of construction st being knova to the later builders I 1 next week we w will vill present some of i the interesting and remarkable fea aca ithe tures of the great pyramid and show why th they y place it in a class by iosef as a 1 l distinctive structure of prophetic na nature ture designed by the divine wis amo of a JI aster mind |