THE MENACING COMET.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3589, 12 January 1883, Page 4

THE MENACING COMET.

It will be seen (says Conihill Magazine) that the Astronomer Royal for Scotland regards the comet in question as a rather important body. It is not an every day comet whose approach is so important that failing to see it must be regarded as an "overtopping culmination of misfortune." Now this comet seems to be none other than that comet. The body, or collection of bodies (for so rather must a comet now be regarded), which was visible to the naked eye on September 18th close to thesun- —" a yard or so from thesun," writes one startled observer—is no other than tho comet of 1543, whose tail stretched half across the heavens, and which —like the comet of last month—was seen in full daylight ; nay, even close to thesun." Rightly to apprehend the significance of this portrait, as viewed by Professor Smyth, and many others, chiefly—unlike him— unscientific persons, we should inform our readers that in this year, according to the prophecies symbolically indicated in the Great Pyramid, the end of the dispensation which began 1882 years ago is in some way as yet unknown to be brought about. Some celestial body, " the Star in the East" of the Magi, appeared then ; for aught we know it may have been the same comet, and the Wise Men of the East saw in it evidence that a new dispensation was about to begin. It was fitting, then, that this year, which has now been for several years announced as the time of the end of that dispensation, a similar celestial appearance, or the same body, perhaps, should announce " the beginning of the end." We cannot reasonably doubt this, for careful measurement shows that the Grand Gallery in the Great Pyramid is 1882 inches long ; these inches being each the twenty-fifth part of the sacred cubit, which Pyramidalists assure us is the limit of length in the marvellous structure. Moreover, it is not altogether an accident or a mere coincidence which has brought the British army to the feet of the Great Pyramid at the very time —-perhaps at the very hour —when the great comet was passing its perihelion. On September 13th the British cavalry entered Cairo ; on September 18th the great comet could be seen with the naked eye (though it had passed the time of its greatest splendor, described by Professor Smyth as the "ecstatic display at perihelion passage"), and was then beginning to recede. What more natural than to suppose that as the vanguard of Sir Garnet Wolseley's army approached the base of the Pyramids, the great comet was in the perihelion glory, rushing through the richest portion of the sun's coronial steamers, molten by the solar heat, resisted by the densely aggregated meteorstreams, but so retarded that its return will be hastened, and that iv a few months it will come back to effect the final purpose of its existence .' If any doubt could be entertained on the subject, it should be removed by the consideration that the British nation has been proved to the satisfaction of nearly all true belivers in the Great Pyramid prophecies, to be no other than the lost tea tribes cf Israel.