The Great Pyramid - a new (to me) theory on its use and purpose

by dropoffyourkeylee 5 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  With the JW connection to the Great Pyramid, I thought this audience might find this video interesting. I find it very reasonable in presenting a new (at least to me) theory that the Pyramid was designed as a place of pharoah-worship and the seemingly convoluted design of the passages, with granite blockes, etc, was mainly to prevent looting of the pharoah's tomb.

  Interestingly, there are several photos (32:36 and elsewhere) presented which were sourced from John and Morton Edgars' 1909 Pyramid Passages book, which authors were Bible Students from Scotland who wrote and lectured about the Pyramid and the early Bible Student beliefs on the Pyramid. I think they left the WT after Rutherford ditched the Pyramid beliefs, but maybe someone can fill in the blanks on that.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItAQSrlG9WQ&t=1s
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  peacefulpete

  It came up in a program the other day, so I did a little reading.

  Isaac Newton (and many before him) was deluded/obsessed with the Pyramids 150 years earlier. He too imagined the secrets to the apocalypse were hidden in the measurements. (Again, not defending Russell but putting it in context.) Roman writers understood them to be tombs but centuries later Christians in Europe came to believe they were 'granaries' of Joseph. By the 19th century however, Egyptology was an established science, and the real purpose of the pyramids was well published.

  Isaac Newton Thought the Great Pyramid Held the Key to the Apocalypse | Smithsonian (smithsonianmag.com)

  I should add that while the imaginary connections to the story in Genesis was not unique to Russell, his deceptive pretend measurements and fudging of dates was all him.
  
  
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  peacefulpete

  We are laughing at you.
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  dropoffyourkeylee

  This thread went off the rails almost immediately. In the OP I only intended to share a video containing some reasonable analysis of the passages and chambers of the pyramid. I've read a lot of bunk concerning the pyramids over the years, and it was refreshing to find something that actually made sense.
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  moomanchu

  dropoffyourkey

  I watched the video and I also thought it's one of the best explanations I ever heard.

  Thanks
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  peacefulpete

  Sorry to have contributed to that 'going off the rails'. The idea that the design enabled visitation for some years after is fascinating.