The Source Field Investigations (19 page)

Inside the Great Pyramid there are three different chambers. The largest of these is known as the King’s Chamber, and is the only part of the pyramid that is made of red granite, which is extremely hard. In the 1990s, Bernard Pietsch analyzed the twenty different stones on the floor of the King’s Chamber and made startling discoveries. Strangely, although the stones are all either square or rectangular, hardly any of them are the same size—except when you have an identical pair side by side. These stones are arranged in a series of six different rows—and each row has a different width from any of the others. In
Anatomy of the King’s Chamber,
Pietsch presents staggeringly complex and compelling evidence that a variety of measurements from Mercury, Venus, Earth, the Moon, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn—including their orbital periods—are encoded in the stones’ dimensions.
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Within the King’s Chamber there is a loose stone coffin carved out of an extremely hard chocolate-brown granite, estimated to weigh three tons. The external volume of the sarcophagus is exactly twice the internal volume. Thanks to the patterns of circular drill marks found inside, engineer Christopher Dunn calculated that the coffin was carved out by tubular drills that could cut through granite five hundred times faster than any technology we now have available.
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[In chapter 13, I propose this is actually the result of a technology that can dramatically soften stone.] Skeptics believe this may have been done with diamond-tipped drill bits in Egypt, despite the impossibility of achieving the necessary speeds involved with any modern technology. Dunn points out that the strongest metal they had at the time was copper. The diamonds would have cut through the copper like butter before they ever even put a dent in the granite.
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The sarcophagus has grooves for a lid to be fitted in place, but no such lid has ever been found—as if it were never intended to be found. Many pyramid researchers, including Peter Lemesurier, interpret this open tomb as symbolizing a time when there will be no more death, i.e., the coming Golden Age. The coffin was empty—and there is no evidence it ever held a mummy. The granite sarcophagus also cannot fit through the Antechamber, meaning that it had to be built into the pyramid from the very beginning—totally in contrast with any known Egyptian burial practices.
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The internal chambers, passageways and airshafts of the Great Pyramid.

Although this was not discovered until much later, the north and south walls of both the King’s Chamber and the Queen’s Chamber also contained airshafts that went on an upward-sloping angle, all the way out to the surface of the pyramid. This supplied just enough oxygen to refresh the atmosphere inside each room. In the mid-1990s, Rudolf Gantenbrink sent a miniature robot some sixty-five meters up the shafts, and confirmed that in the King’s Chamber, the south shaft points at the star Al Nitak, or Zeta Orionis. The north shaft points at Alpha Draconis, which used to be the pole star in the third millennium B.C.. The northern Queen’s Chamber shaft is aimed at Beta Ursae Minoris, and the southern channel points to Sirius.
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All these alignments date back to about 2500 B.C. That was the most recent time in which they all lined up.
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According to ancient-civilizations researcher Joseph Jochmans, “As Bauval and Gilbert showed through computer calculations, the constellational alignments imprinted in the Air Passages for 2450 B.C.E. were also present earlier, in about 10,500 B.C.E., because of the Precession of the Equinoxes.”
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An Edgar Cayce reading from June 30, 1932, said that work on the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx began this very same year.
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In the thirteenth century, an Arab historian compared the pyramid to a gigantic female breast, noting the casing stones still looked perfect on the outside except for the original entrance carved by Caliph Al-Mamoun.
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Disaster struck in the year 1356,
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as the first of a series of earthquakes leveled significant areas of northern Egypt, collapsing entire city blocks to rubble. The pyramid was shaken so hard by these quakes that many of the casing stones broke off and tumbled into a giant mess. The people were desperate to rebuild—and used this fallen limestone from the pyramid as raw material to help build the new capital city El Kaherah, “The Victorious,” as well as to rebuild Cairo. Apparently, the stones that hadn’t already fallen off were then deliberately broken off, because the quality of the limestone was very pure and provided an excellent building material. According to the French Baron d’Anlgure, who visited this area of Egypt in 1396, “Certain masons demolished the course of great casing stones which covered [the pyramid,] and tumbled them into the valley.”
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Two bridges were built across the Nile specifically to help drag the stones across the river via camel trains, so as to build mosques and palaces in Cairo and El Kaherah.
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As the centuries rolled by, the legend of the once-great casing stones had faded into nothing more than a superstitious myth. However, Colonel Vyse conducted excavations in and around the pyramid beginning in 1836 that permanently eliminated the skeptics’ arguments. Vyse found that the pyramid was surrounded by debris of limestone chunks and sand that had piled up around the base by as much as fifty feet. He cleared a patch in the center of the north façade, hoping to reach the base and bedrock of the pyramid. There he found two of the original casing stones—forever ending the scholarly argument about whether the pyramid had ever been covered with a perfectly flat, polished white surface. The original blocks were still so finely carved that an exact measurement of the slope angle could be calculated.
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According to Vyse, they were perfect: “in a sloping plane as correct and true almost as modern work by optical instrument makers. The joints were scarcely perceptible, not wider than the thickness of silver paper.”
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Vyse published his detailed measurements and notes in 1840, and his assistant John Perring published his own book as well. This opened up a whole new phase of study known as “Pyramidology.”
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John Taylor, a gifted mathematician and amateur astronomer who worked as an editor of the
London Observer
in the nineteenth century, was already in his fifties when Vyse’s data came in from Egypt. Taylor then began a rigorous thirty-year investigation into all the measurements that had been reported in and around the pyramid, looking for hidden mathematical and geometric formulas. Taylor found that if he measured the perimeter of the base in inches, it came out to roughly 100 times 366—and if he divided the perimeter by 25 inches, he got 366 once again. What’s the big deal about 366? It is suspiciously close to the exact length of an earth year—365.2422 days.
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Taylor found that by slightly changing the length of a typical British inch, these figures could become exact reflections of the earth year. Was this merely a cheap mathematical cheat, or was there any worthwhile science behind it? That question was soon answered when a highly fortunate “coincidence” struck at almost the exact same time.

Sir John Herschel, one of Britain’s most highly regarded astronomers at the turn of the nineteenth century, had very recently tried to invent a new measuring unit to replace the existing British system. He wanted it to be based on the exact dimensions of the earth. Without knowing anything about Taylor’s research, Herschel used the most accurate dimensions of the earth available at the time to suggest that we should be using inches that were very slightly longer than normal—by a mere half the width of a human hair, or 1.00106 British inches. Herschel blasted the French for basing their metric system on the curvature of the earth, which can change, rather than using a line that went straight through the earth’s center, from pole to pole. A recent British Ordnance Survey had fixed that pole-to-pole distance within the earth as 7898.78 miles, or 500,500,000 British inches. It would become exactly 500 million inches if the British inch were made just a slight bit longer. Herschel argued that the existing British inch should be officially lengthened to obtain this truly scientific measuring unit.

Fifty of these inches would then be exactly one ten-millionth of the earth’s polar axis. Twenty-five of them would make a very useful cubit—which could replace the existing British yard and foot. Little did Herschel know that Taylor had already discovered these exact same units within the dimensions of the Great Pyramid.
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When Taylor found out about this, he was thrilled. He now had compelling evidence that the builders of the pyramid must have known the true spherical dimensions of the planet, and built their whole measurement system off it. That again implies that the ancient Egyptians possessed a significantly more advanced technology than we normally give them credit for.
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Lemesurier reported that in International Geophysical Year 1957, the earth’s diameter from pole to pole was measured with flawless satellite precision—much more accurately than in Herschel’s time. As a result, we now know that the pyramid inch is indeed one five-hundred-millionth of the earth’s diameter at the poles—and this connection is so exact that the numbers check out down to multiple decimal points of accuracy.
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This means the pyramid was indeed built to be a mathematically perfect reflection of the length of a year on earth around its perimeter. These precisely earthscaled measurements appear again and again in obvious ways—both inside and outside the pyramid.

However, an even greater mystery is found when we measure the diagonals of the Great Pyramid—namely, the distance from one corner, over the top and down to the other corner. This distance comes out to 25,826.4 pyramid inches
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—remarkably close to modern calculations of the true length of the precession of the equinoxes in years.

It definitely seems that the Great Pyramid’s designers wanted us to use the Egyptian inch. By making the pyramid’s diagonals add up to the precession of the equinoxes in Egyptian inches, we seem to have been given a message to pay attention to this great cycle. These same builders obviously knew the exact dimensions of the earth, and therefore may very well have traveled the world—seeding many different ancient myths in many different ancient cultures. As Santillana and Von Dechend revealed again and again in
Hamlet’s Mill,
the hidden message in each of these ancient myths told us to look at the precession—or what many ancient cultures also called the Great Year. The Primitive Mountain, Benben stone, Shiva lingam, omphalos, baetyl and Ka’aba stone, not to mention the redundant worldwide pinecone symbolism of the Mayan, Egyptians, Hindus, Buddhists, Greeks and Romans, also suggests there was once a worldwide awareness that the end of the Great Year would somehow involve the awakening of the pineal gland. The Great Pyramid now appears to be yet another way in which our ancestors attempted to permanently preserve this message for future generations. The Vatican seems to know about it, as they put an open Egyptian-style sarcophagus directly behind their gigantic pinecone statue—which was flanked with Bennu/phoenix birds.

The exterior diagonals of the Great Pyramid add up to 25,826.4 Pyramid Inches—a figure remarkably close to modern estimates of the precession of the equinoxes.

If the Great Pyramid does have a symbolic story to tell, another obvious part of the message would be that it was deliberately left unfinished on the outside. There is a flat, square area at the top where a pyramid-shaped capstone—another form of the baetyl stone—can be fitted. When we remember how well the Great Pyramid preserves the earth’s exact measurements, it is no surprise that Peter Lemesurier, the author of
Great Pyramid Decoded,
suggested the flattened top meant the earth itself, like the Great Pyramid, is somehow unfinished. It could be that the folks who built the pyramid intended to return at some point—perhaps the end of the Great Year—to finish the job they started. The return of the capstone also transforms the pyramid from a six-sided object—with a base, four sides and a top—to a five-sided object. According to Lemesurier, in Egyptian numerology, six means “imperfection” and five means “Divine Initiation.” Given that we see the exact length of an earth year in the perimeter, as well as the exact length of the precession in the diagonals, this suggests that the cycle of precession will ultimately remove the imperfections of humanity—by moving us through a Divine Initiation of some kind.