Secrets of the Great Pyramid.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1921, Page 3

Secrets of the Great Pyramid.

' AN INTERESTING LECTURE. PALMERSTON, NORTH, May 21. I A lecture was delivered to the Philo sophical Society at Palmerston North oi Friday evening by Mr M H. Oram M.A., L.L.8., on “The Secrets of thi Great Pyramid.” The lecturer brief!; sketched the points that caused th< Great Pyramid to stand apart fron every other monument of a similar na ture. He showed how with great diffi culty the measures of the base and tin height had been obtained, yielding or examination, correct to five places ol decimals the fundamental mathematiea relationship of the diameter to the cir- ! cumference of a cipher, j Following the theory of John Tayloi and the elaborations thereof of Professor Ufazzi Smyth, late Astronomer Royal of Scotland the lecturer showed that a standard measure equal tc one millionth part of the earth’s axis of rotation of which standard measure one-fiftieth (fives and multiples of five being of peculiar significance in the building of the pyramid), represented a unit inch which was practically equivalent to the modem English inch and became more so as known errors were allowed for. The lecturer graphically described the discovery of the ascending passages and chambers of the. pyramid, and the theoretical mathematical construction of the, same and showed that from the coffer contained in the King’s chamber could be deduced a complete system of weights and measures, comparable with but infinitely superior to, our own, and passing in each case from the smallest to the largest denomination thus avoiding the confusion that has crept into our modern system. * Summarising the theories advanced the following results were obtained : (1) The secrets of the pyramids had remained sealptl for many generations, and when revealed showed not one vestige of the idolatory of the Egyptians. (2) The relation of the measures .gave with remarkable accuracy one of the fundamental propositions in mathematics. (3) Relations were found indicating the .shape and size of the earth.. (4) A standard and unit of linear measure was obtained commensurable with the feature of tli6 earth applicable to all nations alike—the earth’s axis of rotation. (5) The standard of linear measure gave a complete system of capacity and weight measures referable to the earth in its appropriate qualities for that purpose. Concluding, the lecturer said the theories advanced all indicated that the monument was built under Divine inspiration by a portion of the chosen race in the time of, but preceding Abraham, and that the pyramid itself was intend ed to be a Divine inspiration to all nations of a universal system of metrology and other mathematical and astronomical truths.