Our inheritance in the Great Pyramid : including all the most important discoveries up to the present time
Astronomer Royal for Scotland! This man was no light weight!
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I
love the internet! It has enabled me to read books whose very existence
I otherwise would have been oblivious of. This is one of them.
Smyth
was a renaissance intellect. He was the master of a startling number of
both scientific, literary and theological professions. He was an early
pioneer in the field of photography. Newton opined that we stand upon
the shoulders of giants. How true, but my 15th through 19th century
readings have convinced me that we are mental fleas observing the world
from a precarious perch on Newton's wig.
I
don't believe in evolution, not one whit, but I could be talked into
DEVOLUTION. The sheer genius of these past centuries has vanished. I
defy anyone to produce a so called "genius" today of the caliber of
previous centuries. Today's genius is one who knows more and more about
less and less. Perhaps kicking God out of education, government and
daily life has something to do with it. All of the previous geniuses
i've been privileged to study somewhat have been giants of faith. What
do we have today?
Yesterday's
geniuses had no computing engines; they had logarithm tables. They had
no data base engines; they had to make do with brains and memory. They
had no internet, no telephones, no means of rapid transit. Their
internet was the (self financed) pamphlet and/or newspaper. Their
telephone was the postal service. Their means of travel was a hybrid of
steam and sail averaging maybe 10 knots. How they produced the
staggering amount of research and writing they did is beyond
comprehension.
Smyth
has produced a BIG book, chock full of data and computation. I don't
even recommend reading it entire unless you're very interested in the
subject. I do recommend scanning the table of contents, the indices and
then reading particular areas of interest. Like most books, the
beginning and the end are the most interesting.
Smyth's
premise is that the Great Pyramid was built by shepherd kings by divine
inspiration and that the Egyptians had absolutely nothing to do with
the matter beyond providing grunt labor. In fact, wearing his astronomer
hat, Smyth destroys the SUPPOSED astronomical knowledge of the
Egyptians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Greeks and others, not to mention
the Muslims, to whom he assigns an unparalleled rank of ignorance and
depravity. They don't seem to have changed much in the past 150 years.
The
basic unit of measure is the Pyramid Cubit. It is comprised of 25
Pyramid Inches or 25.04 English inches. The English inch matches the
Pyramid Inch to within one part in 1000, and seems to have been passed
down since whenever there was an England.
The Pyramid Inch is based upon the length of the earth's axis of rotation.
Smyth
proceeds to derive every form of measurement from the Great Pyramid
King's Chamber dimensions ... volume, weight, temperature, monetary,
etc, etc, etc. In the process he demolishes the Metric System.
I
have had a visceral hatred for the metric system since the day it was
introduced to me. It's like the F-35, a ONE SIZE FITS ALL philosophy and
design. What does not fit is forced to fit. I seem to dimly remember
the meter being derived from the secant of an equatorial quadrant, but
it did not make any impression until Smyth exposited the matter in this
book. His rants on the faults of metrics are priceless and should be
read aloud at every academic and commercial conclave in America.
I
must emphasize that Smyth not only assembled and examined previous
studies, but also that he made the trek to Egypt and spent a long time
recording his own measurements. He was very conscious of observational
error and made every possible effort to identify and adjust for it
(which is more than can be said for today's crop of climatologists, so
called).
There
is much, much more ... so much so that I could write a commentary on
Smyth's book itself. Christ's ministry and the Dispensation of Grace are
found in the timelines of the inner chambers and passageways.
But,
I will conclude with the observation that I have to love a guy that
addressed the British Royal Scientific Society (of which he was a
distinguished member) to their face as "The Mutual Self-Admiration
Society".