Path through the Pyramid
Part 2
2500 years ago, the Great Pyramid would have looked very
different from the ruinous façade we see today. Our journey starts, therefore, not
from the usual entrance forced by Al Mamoun in 813 CE, but from the north face
of a pristine pyramid.
The Hidden Door
Giza plateau, 500 BCE
Finally we arrive at the mountain, for a long time just a distant view on our journey south. The scale of construction takes our breath away as we look on row upon row of gleaming masonry without obvious means of ingress.
Rumour tells of a concealed entrance to be found on the north side. Hoping for
guidance, we unroll the first book of Moses. A clue to a hidden hollow or opening
is spotted in the second verse with the Hebrew word vavohu, meaning and
voidness
. The addition of its letter values yields the sum of 19, the first occurrence
of the number in Genesis.1
We will start our search at the nineteenth course of masonry.
Looking for the nineteenth, eighteen masonry courses are counted from ground level
with Genesis providing the one
for the first occurrence of 18.
(Gen.2:11 b) The count for the number of courses above amounts to 184
with from the east
as the first occurrence of the number
(Gen.2:8 f).2
The One from the East
At first the search proves unsuccessful. No entry point is found on the nineteenth course
after ladders are placed against the centre of the Pyramid's north side. Hopes dashed
we turn to Genesis again where the Hebrew command Be fruitful
(Gen 1:22 e) calls the seeker to a productive outcome. The sum of the
phrase, the first occurrence of the number, is 286.
Encouraged we look eastwards to the coming of the One, measuring off 286 Pyramid inches in an easterly direction from the centre. A firm push against the casing-block on the nineteenth course causes it to swing inwards to reveal a descending passage behind the Pyramid facing.
The entrance found at last, a burning question remains: who is the One commanded to the door? to be fruitful?
Fruitfulness, a continuing theme
Introducing search number 143
We came to the Pyramid armed with a list of specific search numbers. As a factor of the 286
displacement figure, 143 is the first to be found with to divide between
as its first occurrence (1:14 g-h).
143 is not only associated with Division and Fruitfulness, it will be a major standard number. This is because the whole passage system is built in the same north-south vertical plane as the passage behind the newly discovered door—which is another way of saying that the centre-line of the entire passage system is constructed east of the Pyramid centre by 286 Pyramid inches, or 2 x 143.
The Tree with fruit
Stooping over the entrance under a low roof, we take a last look at the eighteen masonry courses below: 668.48 Pyramid inches of vertical height above the ground, approximately 56 feet, or 17m.
The new dimension poses a dilemma, falling midway as it does between 668 and 669.
The first
Genesis occurrence of 668 concerns the Tree of the Knowledge of Good
and Evil: and to be desired the tree for understanding
(3:6 k-m).
First occurrence of rounded-up 669 is another command to be fruitful, but
removed from its context takes on the strangeness of a self-command, God be
fruitful and multiply and fill.
3
It is time to begin our journey into the interior, following the path of the One from the East. Will you venture? The way looks dark, the descent steep, and unknown hazards may lie in our path. Lighted torches are called for those of us determined to go on.
Continuation in Part 3: Entry and Descent
Footnotes
1
and voidness
(Gen.1:2 d)
Value of the Hebrew letters is 19, a sum first occurring in Genesis 1:2 at position
d: that is to say, the 4th Hebrew word, counting from the right, in verse
2 of chapter 1.
(See link below to Genesis 1-4)
2
In real time the dilapidated state of the top platform makes the
number of courses uncertain. The great top stone that should crown
the Pyramid is missing and may not have been fitted.
In the nineteenth century Sir Flinders Petrie found
remnants (no longer remaining) of courses 202 and 203 on the north-eastern
part of the top platform. As the earliest recorded count this would
give 184 as the minimum number of courses laid above the nineteenth.
3
In the context of the verse, gematria f-i is but a small part
of Genesis 1:28.
And will bless them God, and will say to them God, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens and over every beast which is creeping upon the earth.