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In calculating areas of circles and sides of squares, it becomes necessary to 

 square and extract roots. So in simplifying our illustration, we will ' use 

 that remarkably flexible and almost magical number 9, ^which is easily squared to 

 81, and the square root of which is so readily perceived to be 3. And we will 

 consider our diagram {a) as representing a square with 81 inches to the side. 

 Now, as the circle is the largest possible within this square, the diameter of this 

 circle equals a side of this square. To find the area of a square, we square a 

 side. To find the area of a circle, we multiply the square of radius by WW (P)- 

 The area of a circle of 81 inches to the diameter obtained by 3.14159+ (pi) is 

 5152.9929975+ ; but as obtained by P, is exactly 5153, without the slightest frac- 

 tion. Now the area of this square is 6,561 inches, and four times the area of this 

 circle is 5153X4=20,612 inches. Then, as 6,561 is to 20,612, so is the diameter 

 of a circle to its circumference. 



Skinner shows that Moses and Solomon and the architect of the Great Pyra- 

 mid, used these very measures which we have obtained in this simple manner, in 

 the construction of those sacred edifices. The__Parker formula 6561 : 20612 maybe 

 expressed in a modified form without changing the proportion, by dividing both 

 by 1,000, which gives us 6.561 : 20.612, and then we have, in the second term, 

 the exact number of inches to the cubit measure, used in the construction of 

 those sacred buildings. According to Smith's Bible Dictionary, the holy place of 

 the tabernacle was 20 cubits long, and 10 cubits broad: 



20X20.612=412.240 inches. 

 10X20.612^206. 120 inches. 



The king's chamber is : 



In length, 412.132 inches. 

 In breadth, 206.061 inches. 



These measurements of the holy place of the tabernacle correspond, to with- 

 in about one-tenth of an inch, with the measurements of the length and breadth 

 of the so-called king's chamber in the Great Pyramid. This is nearer than any 

 two measures of this chamber have ever agreed. 



We would ask any who regard it as heterodox to connect science in any 

 way with revelation, to notice the first verse of the first chapter in the Bible, and 

 read the name there, in Hebrew, of that Being, who, "in the beginning created 

 the heavens and the earth," and then tell us, is it likely that that name of His 

 was conferred upon Him by any of His creatures ? If so, by whom, and what 

 did it signify ? We must remember that the Hebrews had no figures for numbers, 

 and so they used letters in alphabetical order instead. Letters, therefore, often 

 had a double signification. Was it accidental that the numbers signified by the 

 letsers of that name as seen in our diagram ^, are 3.1415-1-, the symbol of the 

 quadrature of the circle ? If so, is not such an accident more wonderful than 

 the reahty ? The circle is not completed with the last figure 5, and plus is the 

 only single symbol that can complete either the circle or the symbol, if express- 

 ed there decimally. God's law is the transcript of His nature. And here we 



