Whether that stone slab, huge in size and weight, is movable or not has not been determined, and whether there is a passageway behind it has not yet been conclusively determined. The great stone slab, firmly fixed against the breast of the Sphinx in front of the two paws, revealed and uncovered symbolical writings and warnings that can be interpreted in various ways, but certainly have significance to candidates of the mysteries and to the expectant observer. Still scientists, historians, and officials scoff at the idea that it had anything to do with initiation ceremonies. As one looks down into the uncovered chambers of this temple adjoining the Pyramid, one wonders what other use there could have been for a subterranean temple, or any kind of temple, in this peculiar position along the ceremonial court of the Sphinx. The recently excavated temple adjoining the Sphinx was not believed to be in existence either, and now it is looked upon as the preparation chamber for the initiates before they entered the court in front of the Sphinx. Such stories, of course, rejected and scoffed but still they persist.

Then the candidates with the official torch-bearer and guardian would enter the passageway chanting, and as the last note of the chant sounded … the great stone door would silently move to a closed position and the world shut out behind again while the pilgrimage of initiates moved on, toward the Pyramid, beneath the sands of the desert, hidden from all the world, and in a soundless passage that was significant of the early period of the universe when the world was without sound. Old stories told how this great stone with its symbolical writings, warnings, and laws for the initiate, would move mysteriously upon invisible hinges and open to the commands of candidates standing in the court, or in front of it, upon the oral recitation of the proper word. Thus the sunlight has touched upon the ancient pavement by the removal of the sands, and the light of truth has confirmed one of the old traditions.Īnother of the traditions was that a great movable stone or slab in front of the breast of the Sphinx, between its paws, blocked the entrance way to a secret passage that ran beneath the Sphinx and beneath the sands to the center of the Great Pyramid, and that this long passageway was the secret ceremonial passageway from the outer court in front of the Sphinx to the rising passageways and chambers in the Pyramid itself. However, in recent years the sand around and especially in front of the Sphinx has been removed revealing a very beautiful pavement of a courtyard between the paws and in front of the breast of the Sphinx, and in the center of this court, a symbolical altar that had no use in any of the priesthood religions of Egypt but was known to have its place in the temples of mystery for initiation ceremonies. For centuries there was a whispered story that there was a ceremonial court or courtyard in front of the Sphinx, buried beneath the sands, in which court initiation ceremonies were held prior to the entrance into the Pyramid.įor centuries geologists ridiculed this whispered story and likewise some historians along with many of the natives and officials of Egypt.

But in the past few centuries a number of these traditions have been lifted out of the category of mere mystical fiction into fact by the excavations that have taken place. As with every other temple of mystery, there are stories, reports, and traditions which scientists deny and many so-called authorities ridicule. In any study of the Pyramid, the environs (landscape architecture) of the Pyramid is taken into consideration, including the Sphinx, the courtyard in front of the Sphinx, and the temple that adjoined the Sphinx and which has recently been excavated.Īccording to the traditions and to some of the mystical manuscripts with limited release in recent years, the Great Pyramid is but the central point or feature of a magnificent symbolical plot or section of Egypt that contains a mystery in each square yard of its surface. In addition to the secret passages, chambers, halls, and other features of the main or central part of the Pyramid which were for centuries unknown and still constitute a mysterious study, there have been traditions for many years about the other passageways in the Pyramid or beneath it which have not yet been fully revealed, and the passageways that lead to the Pyramid from nearby points. Imperator, Supreme Grand Lodge of A.M.O.R.C. From “The Symbolic Prophecy of the Great Pyramid” First Edition 1936

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