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Ptah the Mason's and The Pyramids

1st degree tracing board

It shows the pleiades pointing to the star of Ra. Then down from this is Jacobs' ladder. It also shows the pillars (struts) that Ptah made.



Building the Pyramids
An Overall Plan Spanning Four Generations:

There must have been some incredible incentive, some driving impulse or insight that instigated
such massive undertakings that strained the whole population of Egypt. The undertaking enlisted the
cooperation and support of the whole populace.
inconsistent with forced labor on such a scale.
There are specific relationships between the
pyramids, their geometry, and their history, to clearly suggest this.



Squaring the Circle

The circle suggests a time-like dynamic principle whereas a straight line of fixed length suggests
a static extension in space. Hence the tools of the sacred geometry were the ruler and compass.
And one way to reconcile the two is to draw the square whose perimeter is the same as the
perimeter of a circle. It is called squaring the circle.
There was an interesting book published by John Michell, City of Revelation, 1972. In it he
explores many correspondences between esoteric subjects, from St. John’s revelation of the New
Jerusalem, to the ground plan of Glastonbury Abbey, to Stonehenge, to the Great Pyramid, to
gematria, to ancient systems of measure, and so on. Without going into the sense or reliability of all
of them, a few salient features stand out as undeniable, and that deserve review.
A central theme of Michell’s book is that there was a sacred geometry that was passed down
through works in stone as a secret tradition of masonry. It may be connected to the establishment of
the Masonic Lodge but the connection is lost in the mists of history somewhere in the Middle Ages
along with the sacred geometry associated with it. Nevertheless the emblem of the Masonic Lodge
is the ruler and compass.
There is a common feature of the creative process that does not make rational sense. If we
draw a circle on a piece of paper the diameter of the circle can not be measured completely
accurately in the same units used to measure the circumference, and vice versa, and yet the circle is
clearly there on the page. For this reason the ratio between diameter and circumference, known as
Pi, is called an irrational number. It has no completely discrete value. It goes on for ever and ever
with no discernible pattern to the endless sequence of numbers. The diameter and circumference
are said to be incommensurable. It is like the indeterminacy principle of quantum mechanics where
the static position and dynamic momentum of a moving particle can never be known accurately
together.
The Great Pyramid is thus a monumental example of squaring the circle, since its height is
related to the perimeter of its base by the ratio 2 Pi. In this sense it is a monument that reconciles
subjective spiritual dynamics to objective spatial regularities.
Squaring the circle is often dismissed by academics as simply impossible since Pi is an
irrational number, but they miss the point. The point is that the linear regularities of space are
reconciled with the cyclic dynamics of the heavens through living processes. And the heavens are
dominated by circular motions. The universe is a throbbing living reality. That was the theme of the
sacred geometry.

As Michell points out, if we draw a scale diagram of the earth and moon so that they are
touching, and enclose each in a square, a surprising relationship becomes obvious. It is illustrated in
the diagram. The triangle with apex at the center of the moon and base across the diameter of the earth has
the same proportions as the Great Pyramid of Khufu. The circle scribed through the center of the
moon concentric with the earth has a circumference equal to the square that contains the earth to an
accuracy of 0.0588%. The earth radius of 6,378 km and moon radius of 1,738 km are taken from
standard reference tables. They could be out by that much given the irregularities of the earth and
moon surfaces. So the dimensions of Earth and Moon themselves represent squaring the circle.
Also the triangle that joins the square of the moon to the square of the earth has sides in the ratio of
3, 4, and 5. This same ratio corresponds to the slope of Khafra’s pyramid
Michell also points out that the two concentric circles are in the
same proportion as the blues tone and sarsen circles of Stonehenge.
It is a remarkable coincidence that the actual dimensions of Earth and Moon correspond to
squaring the circle.