The Davidson-Aldersmith list of correlates between passageways and chambers in the Great Pyramid and terms and verses in the Egyptian Book of the Dead are as follows:
| GREAT PYRAMID The Great Pyramid | EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD “The Light” (Ta Khut) |
| The Descending Passageway | “The Descent” |
| The Ascending Passageway and the Grand Gallery | “Double Hall of Truth” |
| Entrance to Ascending Passageway | “Door of the Ascent” |
| Ascending Passageway | “Hall of Truth in Darkness” |
| Grand Gallery | “Hall of Truth in Light” |
| Antechamber to King’s Chamber | “Chamber of the Triple Veil” |
| King’s Chamber | “Chamber of Resurrection” |
| “Chamber of the Grand Orient” | |
| “Chamber of the Open Tomb” | |
| Passageway to the Queen’s Chamber | “Access to Chamber of Regeneration” |
| Queen’s Chamber | “Chamber of Regeneration” |
| “Chamber of Rebirth” | |
| “Chamber of the Moon” | |
| Subterranean Chamber | “Chamber of Chaos” |
| “Chamber of Upside-Downness” | |
| “Chamber of Central Fire” | |
| Well Shaft | “Well of Life” |
| Construction Chambers | “Secret Places of the Hidden God” |
This chart looks quite clear, but if one were to read the Egyptian Book of the Dead in an effort to find these correlates, one would quickly become perplexed. For example, the “Double Hall of Truth” cannot be found in the Egyptian Book of the Dead. One would first have to know that the goddess Ma’at (also Maat) is the goddess of truth, and thus realize that the “Hall of Double Ma’at” is Davidson’s Double Hall of Truth. Another example is Davidson’s “Chamber of Upside-Downness.” It cannot be found in the ancient text. However, the Egyptian Book of the Dead does teach how not to walk upside-down in the underworld, which Davidson then correlates to the subterranean chamber. However, in examining Davidson’s research more closely, it turns out that he got many of his correlates directly from W. Marsham Adams’ book, The House of the Hidden Places, and Adams was not always getting his information directly from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. For example, Adams’ information about the Queen’s Chamber and its correlation with the Second Birth comes from an inscription on the vase of Osur-Ur, which Adams got from Archibald Henry Sayce’s (1846-1933) four volumes titled Records of the Past (published in 1888 and 1890). (See the Gospel of John 3:3-8 which explains that the First Birth is the birth of the physical being and that the Second Birth is the birth of the spiritual being.) Of course this does not mean that the information is not valuable and helpful to our study, but it is clearly not coming from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, although it is inspired by content in the Egyptian Book of the Dead. In this instance we learn from the inscription on the vase that Osiris is the “Second Birth, the Mystery of the Soul, Maker of the gods.” We also learn that Osiris’ sister Isis is the queen of the Queen’s Chamber. It is she who brings the magic of rebirth, as quoted in the Egyptian Book of the Dead: “The Osiris [person’s name here], whose word is truth, says: ‘The blood of Isis, the spells of Isis, the magical powers of Isis, shall make this great one strong, and shall be an amulet of protection [for him against] that would do to him the things which he abominates.’” Utterance 156 (7, p. 43)
In Chapter 5 we will go through the Egyptian Book of the Dead, correlating it with passageways and chambers inside the Great Pyramid. But first we need to familiarize ourselves with the Egyptian view of the “passage” of the deceased or initiate. It is a passage from physically incarnate human being to heavenly Star-god among all the Star-gods.
Before we can fully understand Egyptian perspectives on the transition from physicality to spirituality, we need to realize that we are speaking about the ancient Egyptians, not the modern Arab Egyptians who have a much different view of life, one based on Islamic and Arabian traditions. Although they have ruled Egypt for nearly 1,400 years, they do not hold any of the ancient Egyptian’s views.
Mohammed lived from April 26, 570 to June 8, 632, and Muslim Arabs invaded Egypt in 642 AD, long after the ancient Egyptians had been conquered many times and assimilated into many cultures. If we overlook the brief and limited rule by Hyksos raiders, merchants, and migrants from across the Red Sea (1620-1530 BC) who controlled only the Eastern Nile Delta region and ruled a population consisting largely of Syrian-Palestinian migrants and soldiers and if we accept that the Nubian invasion in 1075 BC simply merged two cultures (Nubian and Egyptian) who were practically indistinguishable from one another by virtue of Egypt’s rule of Nubia (Kush) for nearly five hundred years (1550-1080 BC), then ancient Egypt really did not lose its unique cultural views until the Persians began invading in 525 BC. The Persian invasions basically ended ancient Egyptian sovereignty. The Persian invasions were followed by the Greek invasion in 332 BC, then the Roman invasion in 30 BC, and then, when the Roman Empire was divided, sovereignty over Egypt shifted to the Byzantine Empire in 395 AD, and finally the Muslim-Arab invasion in 642 AD, which began the Fatimid Dynasty, an Islamic dynasty. And their descendants continue to govern Egypt today as the Islamic Arab Republic of Egypt.
Let’s not include the people who built the Nabta Playa “stonehenge,” which would extend the beginning of this culture back closer to 9560 BC, because they were not well known by the Egyptians who subsequently wrote about them. With all of this in mind, we are looking at the views of a people who lived along the Nile River from roughly 4000 BC (predynastic) to 525 BC (the Persian invasion). These are the ancient Egyptians in the context of this information.
Ancient Egyptian Perspectives
In the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the existence of the deceased or initiate began long before its incarnation into this world. But the passage of the entity from this world to the next is from its human incarnation, through the transition of physical death, on through many transcending experiences and tests, until it reaches its ultimate potential: a fully conscious and eternal Star-god in the infinite heavens, living among the other light beings of creation. In the Egyptian Book of the Dead the deceased or initiate asserts that he or she was originally conceived in the primordial “sea” of infinity by the self-created god-of-all-gods Atum (also written Tem). The following creation myth is found in the pyramid text of the Egyptian Book of the Dead on the walls of Pepi I’s pyramid:
The story begins with a creative essence appearing out of the infinite, dark nothingness—willing itself into being. This essence evolved into a