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'PYRAMID
OF SECRETS'
CONTENTS
PREFACE
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CHAPTER
1: THE PYRAMID DECODED
Ancient Egyptian religion was not a Sun cult, but a ‘cult
of creation’, and the true pyramid was not a solar symbol,
but a symbol of the creation of the Universe. It was imperative,
therefore, that the king be buried beneath the pyramid, at ground
level or below, not amidst the pyramidal superstructure. Egyptologists
assume that the Great Pyramid was an exception to this rule,
but Alford’s new approach casts serious doubt on their
assumption. Rather, it is suggested that the Great Pyramid, in
its upper parts,
was something other than a tomb.
CHAPTER
2: A TOUR OF THE PYRAMID
A detailed guide to the Great Pyramid, written in a style that
avoids any theoretical bias (such as the tomb hypothesis) so
that the reader might appraise the design for himself, without
being
influenced unduly by the assumptions of others. By means of
photographs, diagrams, measurements, and a commentary that
is, for the most
part, completely neutral, the author allows the Pyramid to
speak for itself via its own unique language of architecture.
CHAPTER
3: NOTHING BUT A TOMB?
The orthodox burial scenario is outlined in detail, and then
subjected to numerous criticisms. Alford exposes the weaknesses
of the orthodox
theory as regards the King’s Chamber airshafts, the
Antechamber, the Grand Gallery, the Well Shaft (vis-a-vis
the plugging of the
Ascending Passage), the prism stone, the Queen’s Chamber,
the Queen’s Chamber shafts, and the evidence for secret
chambers above these shafts.
CHAPTER
4: THE BODY TO EARTH
Alford argues that the king was buried beneath the Pyramid,
in a small cave-like room, where his body may remain hidden
to this
day. Thus he paves the way for a re-evaluation of the Pyramid’s
upper parts.
CHAPTER
5: THE IRON OF CREATION
If the king was buried beneath the Pyramid, then what was
the purpose of the sarcophagus in the King’s Chamber?
Alford suggests that this sealed box contained iron meteorites,
representing the
seed of the creator-god, and supports his theory with
a detailed essay on meteorite worship in ancient Egypt.
In keeping with this
idea, he suggests that the airshafts in the King’s
Chamber had a symbolic significance vis-a-vis the blasting
of the meteoritic
iron into the sky for the creation of the stars, the
Sun, and the Moon.
CHAPTER
6: CAPSULE OF ETERNITY
With the king being buried at ground level beneath the
Pyramid, Alford argues that the entire upper system
of passages and
chambers was sealed off at the time of construction
by means of plugs, ‘lefts’,
and camouflaging stones. But why build the Pyramid
thus? Only one answer suggests itself: the Pyramid, in its
upper parts, was built
as a sealed repository and time capsule in order to
safeguard the material treasures and spiritual knowledge of
the builders for
the benefit of a future civilisation. In support of
this idea, Alford emphasises the importance of cataclysm in
Egyptian religion,
and suggests that the builders may have lived in fear
of ‘the
end of the world’. Egyptian legends of Sneferu
and Khufu (the pyramid building kings) lend support
to the cataclysm/time
capsule hypothesis, as do later Hermetic and Arab traditions.
CHAPTER
7: ECHOES OF CREATION
In this chapter, Alford returns to the mystery of
the King’s
Chamber, and suggests that it was designed to harness
Earth resonance and generate low frequency sound.
Why would the builders have wanted
to do this? Only one answer suggests itself: the
sound was to be transmitted through the airshafts
toward the sky, thus to re-enact
the creation of the Universe (sound was an important
element in the creation myth). The Antechamber, meanwhile,
was designed as
an initiation room, where a single experiencer, standing
before the granite leaf, could be induced to a state
of altered consciousness
and receive a vision of the mystery of creation.
CHAPTER
8: THE PYRAMID PLUNDERED
Earthquake damage to the King’s Chamber suggests that the
sound system ceased to function a long time ago.
Alford believes that the guardians of the Pyramid were prompted
by this earthquake
to dig tunnels into the upper chambers for inspection
purposes. The first of these tunnels (in the Well Shaft) then exposed
the
monument to plundering by thieves. In this chapter,
he offers detailed suggestions as to the booty that was removed
from the Pyramid,
and reconstructs what happened when al-Mamun entered
the monument in the 9th century AD.
CHAPTER
9: THE SACRED BOOK
Alford turns his attention to the Queen’s Chamber shafts
and the evidence for secret chambers beyond their
plugged ends. He argues that the design of the two shafts – sealed
at both ends – fits perfectly with his sealed repository
theory. As for the contents of the secret chambers, he makes a
detailed
argument in favour of sacred books, the contents
of which will vindicate his theory of the symbolism and purpose
of the Pyramid.
At the end of the chapter, Alford discusses the
practical problems and moral difficulties of retrieving the contents
of the secret
chambers.
CHAPTER
10: SECRET CHAMBERS
Alford argues that the Pyramid contains several
intact secret passage and chamber systems in
addition to
the mooted rooms
beyond the
plugged ends of the Queen’s Chamber shafts.
In this chapter, he sets out a number of predictions
by which his sealed repository
theory may be tested. He also discusses a number
of possibilities for the location of the king’s
tomb at ground level beneath the Pyramid – a
tomb which he believes may have remained intact
to this day.
CHAPTER
11: NEW HORIZONS
The final chapter compares Alford’s theory to the orthodox
theory, chamber by chamber and feature by
feature. It also lists the critical predictions by which the efficacy
of the new theory
may be tested. Finally, the author identifies
a number of anomalies that may be indicative of something more
to go for – perhaps
a message that has been encoded mathematically
into the monument – and
drops a hint as to what this something might
be.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
NOTES (31
pages)
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