2o8 The Great Pyramid in Egypt. [April, 



left patriarchal rule and went off on their own inventions 

 of "theotechny," war, chronology by their supposed even 

 number of days in a year, and astronomy, not by the sure 

 method of meridian passages, but by the fallacious risings 

 and settings of stars. But this unexceptionable Pleiades and 

 pyramid method, long running in men's minds, though ill 

 understood, as among the ancient Romans,* is found even 

 yet in chronological life and activity among the entirely un- 

 changed representatives of extreme antiquity, such as 

 Australians, and other stationary races : in these days, in- 

 valuable representatives ; for they have never, since their 

 first supranatural dispersion, had the then imparted mental 

 heirlooms of their race interfered with by the substitutions 

 of other men's progressive development, and the artificial 

 wonders, — changing from age to age like the patterns of a 

 kaleidoscope, — of their school civilisation. 



5. The Interior of the Great Pyramid in its relation to the 

 Interior of the Earth. 



When studying the linear dimensions of the Great 

 Pyramid at p. 199, we found its one, all compelling feature 

 for whole size, viz., vertical height, alluding in even terms 

 of the Pyramid numbers io 3X3 to that much-meaning 

 symbol of external creation, the sun's mean distance from 

 the earth. 



But if we now commence an enquiry touching the next 

 chief feature of physical description after size, viz., weight, 

 our ideas are immediately turned towards our own earth, 

 and there to its interior ; which, if less extensive, is a vastly 

 more mysterious region than the exterior creation around it. 

 For the distant sun, in spite of his distance, we may both 

 see and optically measure, — but who can look through the 

 solid depths of the earth, right down to the ve^ centre, 

 and tell all the various products of which its mighty opaque 

 mass is composed, and on whose multifarious chemical 

 qualities the chief success of modern civilisation depends ? 



No man, of course, can do so, or knows, or need ever 

 expect to know, how much gold, silver, iron, and other im- 

 portant elementary substances there may be still stored away 

 within " the deep of the earth that lieth under." But 

 taking the question in another way, — scientific measure 



* " Candidus auratis aperit cum cornibus annum Taurus." — Virgil. A 

 passage on which many commentators have long since remarked, " that 

 it does not apply with astronomical truth to Virgil's own day, but to a period 

 two thousand years earlier:" though why Virgil should have gone back to 

 that previous time they had no idea. 



