Let’s move on to the discovery of the timeline inside this pyramid and its eventual correlation to the Egyptian Book of the Dead.
For many years much attention has been and continues to be given to the Mayan prophecy of 2012—how the Mayan Long Count Calendar ended a 13-Baktun cycle on the Winter Solstice, December 21-23, 2012 and how Mayan astronomical observations identified a rare alignment of our sun in the exact center of the Milky Way Galaxy when viewed from Earth in our present time—a celestial event that occurs only every 25,826.54 years. But little attention has been given to the ancient Egyptian prophecy found in the Great Pyramid in Giza, Egypt. Like the Mayan prophecy, the Great Pyramid prophecy also points to these present times. Surprisingly, in the 1800s and early 1900s much of this timeline inside the Great Pyramid was well known and much was written about it. Some of the most important scientists and researchers of that time had detailed knowledge of this timeline and how it correlated with content in the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Eventually, points along the timeline were associated with world events, taking it to the level of a prophecy about humankind’s journey through material incarnations.
How was this timeline and its prophecy discovered? There were two ways. The first factor dealt with the design of the interior of the Great Pyramid which was unlike anything ever found around the globe in antiquity and would be nearly impossible to recreate today. Therefore, the minds that studied the pyramid’s unusual features and amazing craftsmanship knew it had to be more than simply a tomb.
Researcher W. Marsham Adams wrote: “That its various features are meaningless, or the mere result of caprice, is a suggestion to which the forethought and lavishness of the calculation displayed in every detail unmistakably gives the lie. Nor again can we maintain that they are necessary for the purposes of an ordinary tomb. For, they are not to be found in other pyramids which were used for that purpose.” (1, p. 34)
Adams’ last statement that they were not ordinary tombs is correct, because none of the major pyramids in Egypt contained a mummy— none. The Great Pyramid and perhaps all of the major Egyptian pyramids, as well as their intricate passageways and chambers were more likely used for active services and ceremonies. Given their apparent association with death, the pyramids may well have been used for death-like initiations or for preparing select individuals for dying and death and subsequent activity after death.
W. Marsham Adams knew this because in his publication, The Book of the Master, quoting from a letter by Sir Gaston Maspero, Adams identifies “the prevalence of a tradition among the priests of Memphis” that “the Secret House [Great Pyramid] was the scene where the neophyte was initiated into the mysteries.” (1, p. 179)
Archaeologists concede that no mummy was ever found in any of the major pyramids in Egypt and the sarcophagus in the Great Pyramid never had a lid.
The second factor that contributed to finding the timeline inside the Great Pyramid was the discovery of a measurement associated with the construction of this pyramid. In 1646, John Greaves, professor of astronomy at Oxford, published his Pyramidographia in which he first theorized that the Great Pyramid at Giza was constructed by a geometric cubit, which he called the “Memphis cubit.” In 1737, the antiquarian Thomas Birch published research papers based on Greaves’ hypothetical cubit. Even Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) used Greaves’ measurements of the Great Pyramid and published them in a paper entitled “A Dissertation upon the Sacred Cubit.” In this paper Newton correlated the “Memphis cubit” to the cubit in the Bible. This measurement and its association with the Bible fired up religiously oriented researchers, particularly Christian researchers, who found many correlates between Egyptian theology and Judeo-Christian concepts and stories (i.e., such as an immaculate conception of the Messiah, Isis conceiving Horus without copulation, and then Horus overcoming Satan, who was Set in Egyptian lore). These researchers began investigating with a more religious view. They were also aided by the translation of the Rosetta Stone (1822), making the Egyptian Book of the Dead of readable. It wasn’t long before the measurement and the esoteric elements of the Egyptian Book of the Dead were united. Sir Gaston Maspero (1846-1919), the famous French Egyptologist, professor of archaeology, and developer of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, explained, “The [Great] pyramid and The Egyptian Book of the Dead reproduce the same original, the one in words, the other in stone.” (12, p. 88)
This theory, along with other ideas, became known as Pyramidology. Two essential elements of pyramidology were: (1) that the ancient Egyptian theology and cosmology, both highly moral and spiritual, asserted that human beings were “godlings” formed by the Creator of the entire universe and were destined to return to that condition; and (2) that the amazing construction of the Great Pyramid was done intentionally to preserve a hidden prophecy about these godlings, their journey through evolution, and their ultimate destiny among the stars of the heavens. Judeo-Christian theology—of which most of these early researchers were adherents—considered humans to have been originally created in the image of God (Genesis 1:26-27), and Christians believed that Jesus Christ affirmed human godliness in his statement in the Gospel of John 10:34: “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’” The law he is referring to is found in Psalm 82:6: “You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you . . . .” Additionally, Egypt had a major role in the Bible stories that most of these researchers accepted as truth. There was even a verse in the Bible that pyramidologists believed was referring to the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt. (More on this later.)
The Judeo-Christian influence came early on via the Coptic Christians, who were the descendants of the ancient Egyptians. Islam did not arrive in Egypt until six hundred years after Christ. Researcher and author David Davidson believed that from the Egyptian Book of the Dead the Coptic Christians drew the mystical and allegorical elements that were introduced into early Christian Gnosticism. Christian Gnosticism contains pyramidal figures and astronomical concepts. David Davidson attributes the survival of the ancient Egyptian calendar, the names of the months, the dialect, and the assistance in elucidating the translation of ancient hieroglyphic texts to the Coptic knowledge of ancient Egypt. Davidson quotes Dr. Alois (Aloys) Sprenger (1813-1896, a prominent scholar of Oriental studies), who is quoted in Howard Vyse’s Appendix to Operations Carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837, Volume II, “the traditions of the ancient Egyptians were preserved by their descendants, the Copts, who were held in great esteem by the Arabs [initially, not so much lately] . . . It may be remarked that the Arabian authors have given the same accounts of the Pyramids [sic], with little or no variation, for above a thousand years; and that they appear to have repeated the traditions of the ancient Egyptians, mixed up with fabulous stories and incidents, certainly not of Mahometan [Mohammedan] invention.” (40, p. 387) One of these Arabian accounts is by Masoudi, whose manuscript is in the archives of Oxford University, and goes like this: “He [Pharaoh Surid, believed by the Coptics and Arabs to have built the two major pyramids on the Giza Plateau] also order the priests to deposit within them [the pyramids] written accounts of their [Egyptian] wisdom and acquirements in the different arts and sciences . . . with the writings of the priests containing all manner of wisdom, the names and properties of medical plants, and the sciences of arithmetic and geometry, that they might remain as records for the benefit of those who could afterwards comprehend them . . . In the Eastern Pyramid