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"There was a statue in
armor [a robot] which destroyed the source of light when the
chamber was opened." 7
That is strangely similar to
the accounts of Arab historians who claimed that automatons
guarded galleries under the Great Pyramid.
by Tony Bushby
from Chapter 8 of "The
Secret in The Bible"
published in
NEXUS MAGAZINE APRIL-MAY 2004
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"The Giza-plateau
and old Cairo are crisscrossed with subterranean
passageways, shafts, natural caverns, lakes and chambers
that contain surprising artifacts, but Egyptian
authorities are not ready to reveal these to the public"
About the Author:
Tony Bushby, an Australian, became a highly
successful businessman and entrepreneur very early in
his life. He established a magazine publishing business
and spent 20 years researching, writing and publishing
his own magazines, primarily for the Australian and New
Zealand markets.
With strong
spiritual beliefs and an interest in metaphysical
subjects, Tony has developed long relationships with
many associations and societies throughout the world. He
has been given access to rare biblical manuscripts in
the archives of numerous private libraries and museums.
His book,
The Bible Fraud,
involved him in 12 years of full-time painstaking
research at great personal expense. His extensive
travels have taken him to Egypt, the Middle East,
England, Wales, Scotland, France, Germany, Belgium,
Italy, Australia, New Zealand and the USA. |
To comprehend fully the secret information in the Bible, it is
important to understand the extent of the subterranean tunnel system
and associated chamber facilities existing below the surface of the
Pyramid Plateau, for it was there that major elements of Mystery
School teachings developed.
What happened under
the sands thousands of years ago is not reflected in today's history
books, and discoveries made in the last eight decades or so verify
that point.
The Fayum Oasis
district, just a few kilometers outside the boundary of the Memphis
Nome, presents a site of unusual interest. It was in that lush,
fertile valley that Pharaohs calling themselves the "masters of the
royal hunts" fished and hunted with the boomerang (1),
Lake Moeris once bordered the Fayum Oasis and on its shores was the
famous Labyrinth, described by Herodotus as "an endless wonder to
me".
The Labyrinth
contained 1500 rooms and an equal number of underground chambers
that the Greek historian was not permitted to inspect, according to
Labyrinth priests, "the passages were baffling and intricate",
designed to provide safety for the numerous scrolls they said were
hidden in subterranean apartments.
That massive complex
particularly impressed Herodotus and he spoke in awe of the
structure:
There I saw twelve
palaces regularly disposed, which had communication with each
other, interspersed with terraces and arranged around twelve
halls. It is hard to believe they are the work of man.
The walls are
covered with carved figures, and each court is exquisitely built
of white marble and surrounded by a colonnade. Near the corner
where the labyrinth ends, there is a pyramid, two hundred and
forty feet in height, with great carved figures of animals on it
and an underground passage by which it can be entered.
I was told very
credibly that underground chambers and passages connected this
pyramid with the pyramids at Memphis.
Underground
passages connecting pyramids
The pyramids at Memphis were
the pyramids at Giza, for Giza was originally called Memphis (see
reference, "Giza formerly Memphis" on Nordan's map from Travels in
Egypt and Nubia, 1757, on page 152 of previous chapter).
Many ancient writers supported
Herodotus' record of underground passages connecting major pyramids,
and their evidence casts doubt on the reliability of traditionally
presented Egyptian history. Crantor (300 BC) stated that
there were certain underground pillars in Egypt that contained a
written stone record of pre-history , and they lined access ways
connecting the pyramids.
In his celebrated study, On
the Mysteries, particularly those of the Egyptians, Chaldeans
and the Assyrians, Iamblichus, a fourth-century Syrian
representative of the Alexandrian School of mystical and
philosophical studies, recorded this information about an
entranceway through the body of the Sphinx into the Great Pyramid
(2):
This entrance, obstructed
in our day by sands and rubbish, may still be traced between the
forelegs of the crouched colossus, It was formerly closed by a
bronze gate whose secret spring could be operated only by the
Magi. It was guarded by public respect, and a sort of religious
fear maintained its inviolability better than armed protection
would have done.
In the belly of the Sphinx
were cut out galleries leading to the subterranean part of the
Great Pyramid. These galleries were so art-fully crisscrossed
along their course to the Pyramid that, in setting forth into
the passage without a guide throughout this network, one
ceasingly and inevitably returned to the starting point.
It was recorded in ancient
Sumerian cylinder seals that the secret abode of
the Anunnaki was,
"an underground place...
entered through a tunnel, its entrance hidden by sand and by
what they call Huwana... his teeth as the teeth of a
dragon, his face the face of a lion".
That remarkable old text,
unfortunately fragmented, added that,
"He [Huwana] is unable to
move forward, nor is he able to move back", but they crept up on
him from behind and the way to "the secret abode of the Anunnaki"
was no longer blocked.
The Sumerian record provided a
probable description of the lion-headed Sphinx at Giza, and if that
great creature was built to guard or obliterate ancient stairways
and lower passages leading to subterranean areas below and around
it, then its symbolism was most appropriate.
Local 19th-century Arab lore maintained that existing under the
Sphinx are secret chambers holding treasures or magical objects.
That belief was bolstered by
the writings of the first-century Roman historian Pliny, who
wrote that deep below the Sphinx is concealed the,
"tomb of a ruler named
Harmakhis that contains great treasure", and, strangely enough,
the Sphinx itself was once called "The Great Sphinx Harmakhis
who mounted guard since the time of the Followers of Horus".
The fourth-century Roman
historian Ammianus Marcellinus made additional disclosures
about the existence of subterranean vaults that appeared to lead to
the interior of the Great pyramid (3):
Inscriptions which the
ancients asserted were engraved on the walls of certain
underground galleries and passages were constructed deep in the
dark interior to preserve ancient wisdom from being lost in the
flood.
A manuscript compiled by an
Arab writer named Altelemsani is preserved in the British
Museum, and it records the existence of a long, square, underground
passage between the Great Pyramid and the River Nile with a "strange
thing" blocking the Nile entrance.
He related the following
episode:
In the days of Ahmed Ben
Touloun, a party entered the Great pyramid through the
tunnel and found in a side-chamber a goblet of glass of rare
color and texture. As they were leaving, they missed one of the
party and, upon returning to seek him, he came out to them naked
and laughing said,
"Do not follow or seek
for me", and then rushed back into the pyramid.
His friends perceived that
he was enchanted.
Upon learning about strange
happenings under the Pyramid, Ahmed Ben Touloun expressed a
desire to see the goblet of glass. During the examination, it
was filled with water and weighed, then emptied and re-weighed.
The historian wrote that it was "found to be of the same weight
when empty as when full of water".
If the chronicle is accurate,
that lack of additional weight provided indirect evidence of the
existence of an extraordinary science at Giza.
According to Masoudi in the
10th century, mechanical statues with amazing capabilities guarded
subterranean galleries under the Great Pyramid. Written one thousand
years ago, his description is comparable to the computerized robots
shown today in space movies. Masoudi said that the automatons were
programmed for intolerance, for they destroyed all "except those who
by their conduct were worthy of admission".
Masoudi contended that,
"written accounts of Wisdom
and acquirements in the different arts and sciences were hidden
deep, that they might remain as records for the benefit of those
who could afterwards comprehend them ".
That is phenomenal information,
as it is possible that, since the times of Masoudi, "worthy" persons
have seen the mysterious underground chambers.
Masoudi confessed,
"I have seen things that
one does not describe for fear of making people doubt one's
intelligence... but still I have seen them".
In the same century, another
writer, Muterdi, gave an account of a bizarre incident in a
narrow passage under Giza, where a group of people were horrified to
see one of their party crushed to death by a stone door that, by
itself, suddenly slid out from the face of the passageway and closed
the corridor in front of them.
Old
records confirmed
Herodotus said Egyptian priests recited to him their
long-held tradition of "the formation of underground apartments" by
the original developers of Memphis. The most ancient inscriptions
therefore suggested that there existed some sort of extensive
chamber system below the surface of the areas surrounding the Sphinx
and pyramids. Those old records were confirmed when the presence of
a large cavity was discovered in a seismic survey conducted at the
site in 1993.
That detection was publicly
acknowledged in a documentary called The Mystery of the Sphinx,
screened to an audience of 30 million people on NBC TV later that
year.
The existence of chambers under
the Sphinx is well known.
Egyptian authorities confirmed
another discovery in 1994; its unearthing was announced in a
newspaper report that was carried under the headline, "Mystery
Tunnel in Sphinx":
Workers repairing the
ailing Sphinx have discovered an ancient passage leading deep
into the body of the mysterious monument. The Giza Antiquities
chief, Mr Zahi Hawass, said there was no dispute the tunnel was
very old.
However, what is puzzling
is: who built the passage? Why? And where does it lead...?
Mr Hawass said he had no
plans to remove the stones blocking the entrance. The secret
tunnel burrows into the northern side of the Sphinx, about
halfway between the Sphinx's outstretched paws and its tail.(4)
The popular supposition that
the Sphinx is the true portal of the Great Pyramid has survived with
surprising tenacity. That belief was substantiated by 100-year-old
plans prepared by Masonic and Rosicrucian initiates, showing the
Sphinx was the ornament surmounting a hall that communicated with
all Pyramids by radiating underground passages.
Those plans were compiled from
information originally discovered by the supposed founder of the
Order of the Rosicrucians,
Christian Rosenkreuz, who allegedly
penetrated a "secret chamber beneath the ground" and there found a
library of books full of secret knowledge.
The schematic drawings were produced from information possessed by
mystery school archivists before sand-clearing commenced in 1925,
and revealed hidden doors to long - forgotten reception halls, small
temples and other enclosures. (Those plans are included in "The
Master Plan" section at the end of the book.)
The knowledge of the mystery
schools was strengthened by a series of remarkable discoveries in
1935 that provided proof of additional passageways and chambers
interlacing the area below the Pyramids.
The Giza complex showed major
elements of being a purposely built, uniting structure with the
Sphinx, the Great Pyramid and the Temple of the Solar-men directly
related to each other, above and below the ground.
Chambers detected by ground penetrating radar
Chambers and passageways detected by sophisticated seismograph and
ground penetrating radar (GPR) equipment in the last
few years established the accuracy of the plans. Egypt is also
successfully using sophisticated satellites to identify sites buried
beneath the surface at Giza and other locations. The novel tracking
system was launched at the beginning of 1998 and the location of 27
unexcavated sites in five areas was precisely determined.
Nine of those sites are on
Luxor's east bank and the others are in Giza, Abu Rawash, Saqqara
and Dashur.
The printouts of the Giza area
show an almost incomprehensible mass of net-like tunnels and
chambers crisscrossing the area, intersecting and entwining each
other like latticework extending out across the entire plateau.
With the space surveillance
project, Egyptologists are able to determine the location of a major
site, its probable entrance and the size of chambers before starting
excavations.
Particular attention is being
focused on three secret locations:
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an area in the
desert a few hundred meters west/southwest of the original
location of the Black Pyramid, around which is currently
being built a massive system of concrete walls seven meters
high covering eight square kilometers
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the ancient
highway that linked the Luxor temple with Karnak
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the "Way of
Horus" across northern Sinai
Headlines News
Among the mystics or members of Egyptian mystery schools, tradition
explained that the Great Pyramid was great in many ways. Despite the
fact that it was not entered until the year 820, the secret schools
of pre-Christian Egypt insisted that the interior layout was well
known to them.
They constantly claimed that it
was not a tomb nor a burial chamber of any kind, except that it did
have one chamber for symbolic burial as part of an initiation
ritual. According to mystical traditions, the interior was entered
gradually and in various stages via underground passageways .
Different chambers were said to have existed at the end of each
phase of progress, with the highest and ultimate initiatory stage
represented by the now-called King's Chamber .
Little by little, the
traditions of the mystery schools were verified by archaeological
discoveries, for it was ascertained in 1935 that there was a
subterranean connection between the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid and
that a tunnel connected the Sphinx to the ancient temple located on
its southern side (today called the Temple of the Sphinx).
As Emile Baraize's
massive 11-year sand and seashell clearing project neared completion
in 1935, remarkable stories started to emerge about discoveries made
during the clearing project.
A magazine article, written and
published in 1935 by Hamilton M. Wright, dealt with an
extraordinary discovery under the sands of Giza that is today
denied. The article was accompanied by original photographs provided
by Dr Selim Hassan, the leader of the scientific
investigative team from the University of Cairo who made the
discovery.
It said:
We have discovered a subway
used by the ancient Egyptians of 5000 years ago. It passes
beneath the causeway leading between the second Pyramid and the
Sphinx. It provides a means of passing under the causeway from
the Cheops Pyramid to the Pyramid of Chephren [Khephren] . From
this subway, we have unearthed a series of shafts leading down
more than 125 feet, with roomy courts and side chambers.
Around the same time, the
international news media released further details of the find.
The underground connector complex was originally built between the
Great pyramid and the Temple of the Solarmen, for the Pyramid of
Khephren was a later and superficial structure. The subway and its
apartments were excavated out of solid, living bedrock-a truly
extraordinary feat, considering it was built thousands of years ago.
There is more to the story of
under-ground chambers at Giza, for media reports described the
unearthing of a subterranean passageway between the Temple of the
Solar-men on the plateau and the Temple of the Sphinx in the valley.
That passageway had been unearthed a few years before the release
and publication of that particular newspaper article.
The discoveries led Dr Selim Hassan and others to believe and
publicly state that, while the age of the Sphinx was always
enigmatic in the past, it may have been part of the great
architectural plan that was deliberately arranged and carried out in
association with the erection of the Great Pyramid.
Archaeologists made another major discovery at that time. Around
halfway between the Sphinx and Khephren's Pyramid were discovered
four enormous vertical shafts, each around eight feet square,
leading straight down through solid limestone.
It is called "Campbell's Tomb"
on the Masonic and Rosicrucian plans, and,
"that shaft complex", said
Dr Selim Hassan, "ended in a spacious room, in the centre of
which was another shaft that descended to a roomy court flanked
with seven side chambers ".
Some of the chambers contained
huge, sealed sarcophagi of basalt and granite, 18 feet high.
The discovery went further and found that in one of the seven rooms
there was yet a third vertical shaft, dropping down deeply to a much
lower chamber. At the time of its discovery , it was flooded with
water that partly covered a solitary white sarcophagus. That chamber
was named the "Tomb
of Osiris" and was shown being "opened for the first
time" on a fabricated television documentary in March 1999.
While originally exploring in
this area in 1935, Dr Selim Hassan said:
We are hoping to find some
monuments of importance after clearing out this water. The total
depth of these series of shafts is more than 40 metres or more
than 125 feet... In the course of clearing the southern part of
the subway, there was found a very fine head of a statue which
is very expressive in every detail of the face .
According to a separate
newspaper report of the time, the statue was an excellent sculpted
bust of Queen Nefertiti, described as "a beautiful example of that
rare type of art inaugurated in the Amenhotep regime". The
whereabouts of that statue today are unknown.
The report also described other chambers and rooms beneath the
sands, all interconnected by secret and ornate passageways. Dr
Selim Hassan revealed that not only are there inner and outer
courts, but they also found a room they named the "Chapel of
Offering" that had been cut into a huge, rock outcrop between
Campbell's Tomb and the Great Pyramid. In the centre of the chapel
are three ornate vertical pillars standing in a triangular shaped
layout.
Those pillars are highly
significant points in this study, for their existence is recorded in
the Bible. The conclusion drawn is that Ezra, the initiated Torah
writer (c. 397 BC), knew the subterranean layout of passages and
chambers at Giza before he wrote the Torah.
That underground design was probably the origin of the triangular
shaped layout around the central altar in a Masonic lodge. In
Antiquities of the Jews, Josephus, in the first century, wrote that
Enoch of Old Testament fame constructed an underground temple
consisting of nine chambers. In a deep vault inside one chamber with
three vertical columns, he placed a triangular-shaped tablet of gold
bearing upon it the absolute name of the Deity (God).
The description of Enoch's
chambers was similar to the description of the Chapel of Offering
under the sand just east of the Great Pyramid. An anteroom much like
a burial chamber, but "undoubtedly a room of initiation and
reception "(5) was found higher up the plateau closer to
the Great Pyramid and at the upper end of a sloping passage, cut
deep into rock on the northwest side of the Chamber of Offering
(between the Chamber of Offering and the Great Pyramid). In the
centre of the chamber is a 12-foot long sarcophagus of white Turah
limestone and a collection of fine alabaster vessels.
The walls are beautifully
sculpted with scenes, inscriptions and emblems of particularly the
lotus flower. The descriptions of alabaster vessels and the
emblematic lotus flower have remarkable parallels with what was
found in the temple-workshop on the summit of Mt Sinai/Horeb by Sir
William Petrie in 1904.
Additional underground rooms, chambers, temples and hallways were
discovered, some with vertical circular stone support columns, and
others with wall carvings of delicate figures of goddesses clothed
in beautiful apparel. Dr Selim Hassan's report described other
magnificently carved figures and many beautifully colored friezes.
Photographs were taken and one author and researcher who saw them,
Rosicrucian H. Spencer Lewis recorded that he was "deeply
impressed" with the images.
It is not known where the rare specimens of art and relics are
today, but some were rumored to have been smuggled out of Egypt by
private collectors.
The foregoing particulars are but a few contained in Dr Selim
Hassan's extensive report that was published in 1944 by the
Government Press, Cairo, under the title Excavations at Giza (10
volumes). However, that is just a mere fragment of the whole truth
of what is under the area of the Pyramids.
In the last year of sand
clearing, workers uncovered the most amazing discovery that stunned
the world and attracted international media coverage.
"The
City" deep in huge natural cavern
Archaeologists in charge of the discovery were "bewildered" at what
they had unearthed, and stated that the city was the most
beautifully planned they had ever seen. It is replete with temples,
pastel-painted peasant dwellings, workshops, stables and other
buildings including a palace. Complete with hydraulic underground
waterways, it has a perfect drainage system along with other modern
amenities.
The intriguing question that
arises out of the discovery is: where is that city today?
Its secret location was recently revealed to a select group of
people who were given permission to explore and film the city. It
exists in a huge natural cavern system below the Giza Plateau that
extends out in an easterly direction under Cairo. Its main entry is
from inside the Sphinx, with stairs cut into rock that lead down to
the cavern below the bedrock of the River Nile.
The expedition carried down
generators and inflatable rafts and travelled along an underground
river that led to a lake one kilometer wide. On the shores of the
lake nestles the city, and permanent lighting is provided by large
crystalline balls set into the cavern walls and ceiling. A second
entry to the city is found in stairs leading up to the basement of
the Coptic Church in old Cairo (Babylon). Drawing from narratives of
people "living in the Earth" given in the books of Genesis, Jasher
and
Enoch, it is possible that the city
was originally called Gigal.
Film footage of the expedition was shot and a documentary called
Chamber of the Deep was made and subsequently shown to private
audiences. It was originally intended to release the footage to the
general public, but for some reason it was withheld.
A multi-faceted spherical
crystalline object the size of a baseball was brought up from the
city, and its supernatural nature was demonstrated at a recent
conference in Australia. Deep within the solid object are various
hieroglyphs that slowly turn over like pages of a book when mentally
requested to do so by whoever holds the object.
That remarkable item revealed
an unknown form of technology and was recently sent to NASA
in the USA for analysis.
Historical documents recorded that, during the 20th century,
staggering discoveries not spoken of today were made at Giza and Mt
Sinai, and Egyptian rumors of the discovery of another underground
city within a 28-mile radius of the Great Pyramid abound. In 1964,
more than 30 enormous, multilevelled subsurface cities were
discovered in the old Turkish kingdom of Cappadocia.
One city alone contained huge
caverns, rooms and hallways that archaeologists estimated supported
as many as 2,000 households, providing living facilities for 8,000
to 10,000 people. Their very existence constitutes evidence that
many such subterranean worlds lie waiting to be found below the
surface of the Earth.
Excavations at Giza have
revealed underground subways, temples, sarcophagi and one
interconnected subterranean city, and validation that underground
passageways connected the Sphinx to the Pyramids is another step
towards proving that the whole complex is carefully and specifically
thought out.
Official Denials
Because of Dr Selim Hassan's
excavations and modern space surveillance techniques, the records
and traditions of the ancient Egyptian mystery schools that claim to
preserve secret knowledge of the Giza Plateau all rose to the
highest degree of acceptability.
However, one of the most puzzling aspects of the discovery of
underground facilities at Giza is the repeated denial of their
existence by Egyptian authorities and academic institutions. So
persistent are their refutations that the claims of mystery schools
were doubted by the public and suspected of being fabricated in
order to mystify visitors to Egypt. The scholastic attitude is
typified by a Harvard University public statement in 1972:
No one should pay any attention to the preposterous claims in regard
to the interior of the Great Pyramid or the presumed passageways and
unexcavated temples and halls beneath the sand in the Pyramid
district made by those who are as located with the so-called, secret
cults or mystery societies of Egypt and the Orient.
These things exist only in the
minds of those who seek to attract the seekers for mystery, and the
more we deny the existence of these things, the more the public is
led to suspect that we are deliberately trying to hide that which
constitutes one of the great secrets of Egypt. It is better for us
to ignore all of these claims than merely deny them.
All of our excavations in the
territory of the Pyramid have failed to reveal any underground
passageways or halls, temples, grottos , or anything of the kind
except the one temple adjoining the Sphinx.
It was well enough for scholarly opinion to make such a statement on
the subject, but in preceding years, official claims were made
stating that there was no temple adjoining the Sphinx. The assertion
that every inch of the territory around the Sphinx and pyramids had
been explored deeply and thoroughly was disproved when the temple
adjoining the Sphinx was discovered in the sand and eventually
opened to the public.
On matters outside official
policy, there appears to be a hidden level of censorship in
operation, one designed to protect both Eastern and Western
religions.
Ever-Burning Lamps
In spite of amazing
discoveries, the stark truth is that the early history of Egypt
remains largely unknown and therefore unmapped territory. It is not
possible, then, to say precisely how miles of underground
passageways and chambers beneath the Giza Plateau were lit, but one
thing is for sure: unless the ancients could see in the dark, the
vast subterranean areas were somehow illuminated.
The same question is addressed
of the interior of the Great Pyramid, and Egyptologists have agreed
that flaming torches were not used, for ceilings had not been
blackened with residual smoke.
From what is currently known about subsurface passageways under the
Pyramid Plateau, it is possible to determine that there are at least
three miles of passageways 10 to 12 storeys below ground level. Both
the Book of the Dead and the Pyramid Texts make striking references
to "The Light-makers", and that extraordinary description may have
referred to a body of people responsible for lighting the
subterranean areas of their complexes.
Iamblichus recorded a
fascinating account that was found on a very ancient Egyptian
papyrus held in a mosque in Cairo. It was part of a 100 BC story by
an unknown author about a group of people who gained entry to
underground chambers around Giza for exploratory purposes.
They described their
experience:
We came to a chamber. When
we entered, it became automatically illuminated by light from a
tube being the height of one man's hand [approx. 6 inches or
15.24 cm] and thin, standing vertically in the corner. As we
approached the tube, it shone brighter... the slaves were scared
and ran away in the direction from which we had come!
When I touched it, it went
out. We made every effort to get the tube to glow again, but it
would no longer provide light. In some chambers the light tubes
worked and in others they did not. We broke open one of the
tubes and it bled beads of silver-colored liquid that ran fastly
around the floor until they disappeared between the cracks
(mercury?).
As time went on, the light
tubes gradually began to fail and the priests removed them and
stored them in an underground vault they specially built
southeast of the plateau.
It was their belief that the
light tubes were created by their beloved Imhotep, who would some
day return to make them work once again.
It was common practice among early Egyptians to seal lighted lamps
in the sepulchres of their dead as offerings to their god or for the
deceased to find their way to the "other side". Among the tombs near
Memphis (and in the Brahmin temples of India), lights were found
operating in sealed chambers and vessels, but sudden exposure to air
extinguished them or caused their fuel to evaporate.(6)
Greeks and Romans later followed the custom, and the tradition
became generally established-not only that of actual burning lamps,
but miniature reproductions made in terracotta were buried with the
dead. Some lamps were enclosed in circular vessels for protection,
and instances are recorded where the original oil was found
perfectly preserved in them after more than 2,000 years.
There is ample proof from
eyewitnesses that lamps were burning when the sepulchres were
sealed, and it was declared by later bystanders that they were still
burning when the vaults were opened hundreds of years later.
The possibility of preparing a fuel that would renew itself as
rapidly as it was consumed was a source of considerable controversy
among mediaeval authors, and numerous documents exist outlining
their arguments. After due consideration of evidence at hand, it
seemed well within the range of possibility that ancient Egyptian
priest-chemists manufactured lamps that burned if not indefinitely
then at least for considerable periods of time.
Numerous authorities have written on the subject of ever-burning
lamps, with W. Wynn Westcott estimating that the number of
writers who have given the subject consideration as more than 150
and H. P. Blavatsky as 173. While conclusions reached by
different authors are at a variance, a majority admitted the
existence of the phenomenal lamps.
Only a few maintained that the
lamps would burn forever, but many were willing to concede that they
might remain alight for several centuries without replenishment of
fuel.
It was generally believed that the wicks of those perpetual lamps
were made of braided or woven asbestos, called by early alchemists
"salamander's wool". The fuel appeared to have been one of the
products of alchemical research, possibly produced in the temple on
Mt Sinai.
Several formulae for making
fuel for the lamps were preserved, and in H. P. Blavatsky's profound
work, Isis Unveiled, the author reprinted two complicated
formulae from earlier authors of a fuel that,
"when made and lighted,
will burn with a perpetual flame and you may set this lamp in
any place where you please".
Some believe the fabled
perpetual lamps of temples to be cunning mechanical contrivances,
and some quite humorous explanations have been extended.
In Egypt, rich underground deposits of asphalt and petroleum exist,
and some would have it that priests connected asbestos wicks by a
secret duct to an oil deposit, which in turn connected to one or
more lamps. Others thought that the belief that lamps burned
indefinitely in tombs was the result of the fact that in some cases
fumes resembling smoke poured forth from the entrances of newly
opened vaults.
Parties going in later, and
discovering lamps scattered about the floor , assumed that they were
the source of the fumes. There were some well-documented stories
concerning the discovery of ever-burning lamps not only in Egypt but
also in other parts of the world.
De Montfaucon de Villars gave this fascinating account of the
opening of the vault of Rosicrucian
Christian Rosenkreuz.
When the Brethren entered the
tomb of their illustrious founder 120 years after his death, they
found a perpetual-lamp brightly shining in a suspended manner from
the ceiling.
"There was a statue in
armor [a robot] which destroyed the source of light when the
chamber was opened." 7
That is strangely similar to
the accounts of Arab historians who claimed that automatons
guarded galleries under the Great Pyramid.
A 17th-century account recorded another story about a robot. In
central England, a curious tomb was found containing an automaton
that moved when an intruder stepped upon certain stones in the floor
of the vault. At that time, the Rosicrucian controversy was at its
height, so it was decided that the tomb was that of a Rosicrucian
initiate. A countryman discovered the tomb, entered and found the
interior brilliantly lit by a lamp hanging from the ceiling.
As he walked toward the light,
his weight depressed the floor stones and, at once, a seated figure
in heavy armor began to move. Mechanically it rose to its feet and
struck the lamp with an iron baton, destroying it and thus
effectively preventing the discovery of the secret substance that
maintained the flame.
How long the lamp had burned
was unknown, but the report said that it had been for a considerable
number of years.
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Comment: in the book
THE CAVE OF THE ANCIENTS
- the tibetan
Lobsang Rampa talks
about these kind of lamps.
Short extract:
"
...One sequence of pictures showed a group of
thoughtful men planning what they termed a "Time
Capsule" (what we called "The Cave of the
Ancients"), wherein they could store for later
generations working models of their machines and a
complete, pictorial record of their culture and lack
of it. Immense machines excavated the living rock.
Hordes of men installed the models and the machines.
We saw the cold light spheres hoisted in place,
inert radio-active substances giving off light for
millions of years. Inert in that it could not harm
humans, active in that the light would continue
almost until the end of Time itself.
We found that we could understand the language, then
the explanation was shown, that we were obtaining
the "speech" telepathically. Chambers such as this,
or "Time Capsules", were concealed beneath the sands
of Egypt, beneath a pyramid in South America, and at
a certain spot in Siberia. Each place was marked by
the symbol of the times; the Sphinx. We saw the
great statues of the Sphinx, which did not originate
in Egypt, and we received an explanation of its
form. Man and animals talked and worked together in
those far-off days.
The
cat was the most perfect animal for power and
intelligence. Man himself is an animal, so the
Ancients made a figure of a large cat body to
indicate power and endurance, and upon the body they
put the breasts and head of a woman. The head was to
indicate human intelligence and reason, while the
breasts indicated that Man and Animal could draw
spiritual and mental nourishment each from the
other. That Symbol was then as common as is Statues
of Buddha, or the Star of David, or the Crucifix at
the present day.
We saw oceans with great floating cities, which
moved...."
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The
world hears of the discovery of a "secret" Egyptian city (1935)
Endnotes
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Professor
Gaston Maspero, The Dawn of Civilization, 1901, p. 517
-
Histoire de la
Magie; based in part upon the authority of lamblichus, from
On the Mysteries, particularly those of the Egyptians,
Chaldeans and the Assyrians
-
Ammiani
Marcellini Rerum Gestaruum Libri, Leipzig, 1875
-
The Sydney
Morning Herald, II October 1994
-
Dr Selim
Hassan
-
Fame and
Confession of Rosie-Cross, trans. Thomas Vaughan, 1625
-
Montfaucon de
Villars, The Diverting History of the Count of de Gabalis,
1714
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