The Lost Solar System of the Ancients Discovered Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ... equal height, and stand on the same hill, which is about 100 feet high. On this platform of rock stand the massive pyramids, --monuments of the skill of man and the antiquity of science, --temples of a remote epoch, where man adored the visible symbol of nature's universal law, and through that the invisible God of creation. Here the pyramid of Cheops indicates the circumference of the earth, and the diameter of the earth's orbit. Its towering summit may be supposed to reach the heavens, and the pyramid itself to represent the law of the time of a body gravitating from the earth to the sun. The solid hyperbolic temple--the Shoemadoo at Pegu--represents the law of velocity corresponding to this law of the time. These two symbols of the laws of gravitation that pervade the universe resemble the close alliance of Osiris and Isis, --husband and wife, brother and sister, --the two ancient deities said to comprehend all nature. On the statue of the goddess were inscribed these words: --"I am all that has been, that shall be, and none among mortals has raised my veil." The Brahmins say the gods are merely the reflecting mirrors of the divine powers, and finally of God himself. The pyramid may be supposed to reach the heavens. So it was by building pyramids that the giants of old were said, figuratively, to have scaled the heavens. L'Abbe de Binos (1777), in his letters addressed to Madame Elizabeth of France, mentions that the pyramids of Egypt are supposed by some to be the tombs of the ancient kings; that they are called by others the mountains of Pharaoh; that the poets have described them as rocks heaped one upon the other by the Titans, in order to scale Olympus. The Abbe' ascended the Great Pyramid, and found the top of it about...