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Henry John Edwards

A short profile

28.10.1910 - 13.3.1999

H.J. Edwards was born in 1910 at Erith, Kent.  He was christened Henry John, though known as Jack to his family and friends.  His early boyhood years were spent in Cornwall where his father, Frederick Edwards, was employed as senior engineer at the Hayle power station supplying power to the Cornish tin mines during the Great War.  When subsequently appointed manager of the power station at Dartford, the family moved back to Kent where Jack and his elder brother attended the Dartford Grammar School.

After leaving school Jack qualified as an electrical engineer and was first employed by Siemens Brothers.  Shortly before the outbreak of war he moved his employment to Standard Telephones & Cables in Woolwich, which was producing field telephone equipment for use in the Second World War.  He worked for the company until his retirement from middle management at the age of sixty-four, acquiring a lifelong experience on the application of quality control in industry.

Jack met his wife Jessie while she was nursing his father after an operation.  They married in 1939 and had five children.

Beginning of search

On his retirement Jack started his search for gematria after reading a book by Dr E Bullinger about meanings attached to numbers found in the Bible.  After calculating longhand all the word-sums in the first Genesis chapters and adding many consecutive word-sums together, he believed he had seen indications for several thematic numbers.  His search took him to other parts of the Old Testament to seek clarification.  Bringing the statistical skills used at work to the task of assessing his findings, the results led to recognition of certain numbers and their multiples as standard numbers representing different names for God.  His observations appear in his book Gematria: a long lost key to the Bible and to the Creation Stories.

More came from an unexpected source after reading a newly published book on the Great Pyramid and noting the correlation between some structural measurements and the numbers identified as standard numbers.  A reference list of all the sums contained in Genesis 1-4 enabled first-occurrence gematria to be matched to the internal architecture and measurements of the Great Pyramid with intriguing results.  The Stone was written as a sequel to his first book to introduce his findings.

Jack lived on his own after Jessie died in 1988 and continued his study of the Great Pyramid.  Looking for origins created a pressing need to account for the connection between Hebrew writings and the Great Pyramid of Egypt.  He questioned whether the source might be ascribed to Moses (prophet and lawgiver to the Israelites, and traditionally author of the first books of the Bible).  His ideas and findings appear in his book The Great Pyramid. The Moses Connection.  Following an unsuccessful search for a publisher he was diagnosed with a life-threatening condition and died in hospital on 13th March 1999 aged 88 years.  A quiet, unassuming man, my father became convinced the Old Testament and Great Pyramid together held messages for all about the Creator and wished to see his findings subjected to rigorous scrutiny.  By making this presentation on the Internet, his family hopes to bring them to public attention and examination.

If you wish to know more about his ideas, a download copy of his books can be obtained from the link below.