The
Quest Begins
The
sound of that word makes most of us recoil in horror with visions of schooldays
tormented by our lack of a grasp of the subject, yet most of us take our
greatest pleasure in its purest form - music. Each note on the piano is
a mathematical progression from the previous one, each beat of the rhythm
is a subdivision of time. I began my career as a mathematician at the
tender age of twelve when I became a drummer. For the next thirty years
I was a professional number juggler, math was a LOT of fun! Music took
me around the world and taught me about my universal language;
how I could talk directly to someone's soul without the encumbrance
of words; how I could make someone dance with joy, then weep in sadness.
Mathematics is a powerful language, it is what makes us tick.
My
love affair with pure numbers began by accident. Illness forced my retirement
from professional music in 1989 and fate forced me into another concept
of music - geometry. Suddenly I found myself working with another band
who all loved that same form of music. They are known to us as the Ancient
Egyptians and lived seven thousand years ago. I must point out that this
does not happen in real time. It is only when I let my mind wander to
their concert hall that I am allowed to join in. I am only a guest soloist
in the symphony entitled ‘The Pyramids of Giza’.
I
am not a stranger to the Giza Symphony. I travelled to Egypt many times
as a musician, though I will admit to my ignorance about the part the
pyramids would play in my future. I felt the usual ‘awe’ that everyone
who sees the Great Pyramid feels; the concept that one man from history
should erect this monstrous building as a tomb was beyond me . My one
thought on leaving the pyramids the first time was not how they built
them but why they bothered. I suppose that was the beginning of my quest
for the truth about the past.
With
the help of my friends I hope to take you on a journey that will end with
a truth that has been sought for millennia - the solution to the Riddle
of the Pyramids, the Entrance to the Underworld, the Kingdom of Sokar,
the Splendid Place of the Beginning of Time. We have acquired great insight
into the knowledge held by the pyramid builders since the Rosetta Stone
was decoded, but I want to lead you into a higher level of understanding
of that ancient culture. Of a time in history when the mastery of mathematics
was the closest Man could come to his God; a time before science split
away from spirituality; when the Philosopher was King and he prayed at
the altar of knowledge.
Truth
appears in the strangest of forms, the original insight not always being
recognised as being of value. Truth sometimes seems so obvious that it
is doubted because of its simplicity. I am going to try to show you a
process of discovery of an ancient message left behind by the pyramid
builders. It will teach us the fundamentals of all they understood about
the Earth, its movement, its dimensions and how they measured it with
precision. The same system was encapsulated in their art and music. Numerical
harmony was the supporting framework of their architecture and religion
from the beginning, and the pyramids at Giza were their calendar, observatory,
computer and above all, decoy.
So
now you ask what do I mean by that last statement - decoy. Think of it
like this. If the builder had a message to leave, would he make it so
obvious that it would be found right away? Probably not. If it was meant
to endure for thousands of years then there had to be a common language
that could travel well.
When
the Voyager spacecraft was sent into space the human race sent along a
message that would be understood by any intelligent alien mind that should
encounter it, which was encoded mathematically; the only common language
in the Universe. The pyramid builders were no different. They encoded
the message in numbers and then they built it in stone - so big that it
could never be erased. And the message ends:- Here is another place .
That
is where I began; with the answer. It took me ten minutes to find it,
but sadly, it has taken me ten years to find the question to the answer.
Hopefully we can show you the truth about Giza in a little less time than
that, but first you need to learn how to walk like an Egyptian.
The
Giza Pyramids stand alone in their magnificence, dominating the Cairo
skyline with a sense of permanence. Every attempt to destroy them has
met with failure and although the actions of the treasure seekers have
scarred them badly, the lesson that was learned is obvious. It takes almost
as much skill to destroy them as it did to build them and that feat is
still far beyond our technical capabilities. The builders had a vision
of the future that was based in their history. It had to be that way for
a simple reason. The system of knowledge with which they built the pyramids
was the culmination of thousands of years of observation by a race of
people with a singular mission - to build The Calendar. Clear away any
preconceptions you have that the Giza pyramids were tombs; I'm afraid
that is only Victorian fancy and romanticism. There has never been any
evidence to support that theory - only speculation. The truth is that
there has never been a body found in any pyramid of the Old Kingdom. So,
if the pyramids of Giza are not tombs, then what purpose did they/do they
serve?
The
first idea that springs to mind is Temple - a place of initiation into
the priesthood, which seems logical when we examine their religion and
all the gods they worshipped. But it must never be forgotten the great
age of Egypt. Our time is closer to Cleopatra than she was to the Pyramid
builders. That is a long time for the original message to travel and surely
it picked up a lot of excess baggage on the way. That's the nature of
religion. Religion, as a control system for society, does not encourage
original thought in the individual. A more modern analogy is the system
of control adapted by the Caesars and Christian persecution of heretics
in 16th century Europe. Consequently, it is not difficult to
imagine the changes forced upon the original Egyptian philosophy over
the thousands of years of adaptation it had to endure. The many incursions
by foreigners into Egypt changed the course of its history many times,
just as in Britain where the Druids succumbed to the Roman Empire and
superstition and ignorance overwhelmed the Truth of God, the structure
of Nature. This, however, was the one original premise that survived unaltered
in Egypt throughout its long history.
Every
generation, every dynasty, talked longingly about the Gods of the First
Time - a mythical time when all men lived in Maat, an ancient Egyptian
concept meaning Truth, Justice and World Order. These people were said
to have a structured society and lived in harmony with the Universe and
its energy. They established the principles by which Egypt was given life.
They founded their nation on the Mound of Creation as it emerged from
the primeval abyss or waters. This image has survived in many forms. It
is the story of the Flood. The search for Noah's Ark has occupied the
minds of many sane people for a long time. Something inside them wants
it to be true, for whatever reason. Egyptology has its equivalent to Ararat;
it is known as the Land of Sokar, the Splendid Place of the Beginning
of Time. However, Egyptology has one great advantage over the Judaeo/Christian
search for they have a description and location for the Land of Sokar.
It is at Rostau, in the fifth division of the Duat, watched over by the
Sphinx, the Guardian of the Underworld.
At
this point most minds focus on the Great Pyramid as the obvious and most
logical location for this mythical place. The consequence of that deduction
has been the systematic destruction and defacement of the pyramids at
Giza over the centuries. Not one of those early seekers took the time
to get inside the mind of the person who planned this monument to a civilisation.
They sought treasure, not
truth and understanding of the wisdom of the Architect. And there is the
answer for I believe that the Architect came from a long line of Architects,
and that he built the monument to them with all the knowledge his forefathers
had given him. Great knowledge of his planet, of his role upon it and, primarily,
of his responsibility to the future.
I
believe that the fundamental belief of Egypt was rebirth, the resurrecting
of the Spirit, the Archetype. To walk the Earth over and again in the
search for perfection. That is pretty much what every major religion on
the planet preaches in one form or another. But that belief endured in
Egypt long before modern history began and logic dictates that they had
to have a good reason.
As
we will demonstrate later, the belief system of Dynastic Egypt was founded
much earlier than written history records. This has to be the case for
one simple reason - they had calculated the precession of the equinoxes
with precision, notably a 25,960-year cycle determined by the Earth's
wobble on its axis. The result of this is that the rising point of a star
at the equinox will move along the horizon by one degree every 72 years,
one average individual's lifetime. Ask yourself this:- How many lifetimes
does it take to notice the movement and become aware of it? How many lifetimes
does it take to notice that the movement repeats? (Answer 360.) How many
times does it take to work out a 26,000-year cycle before you encode that
number in stone at Giza? Right now we don't have that answer, but be patient;
this is only the beginning.
It
comes down to one of two conclusions. If the Giza pyramids are a message
then they were either left for a race with the technology and resource
to decipher them, or alternatively, they were left as a message to themselves.
To confuse the issue even more we could say that both answers are the
same. ‘We’ are those Ancients following the same genetic code, producing
the same archetypes over and over again, responding to the same cosmic
influences now as they did then. An understanding of astrology is far
more practical than a mere belief in it, particularly when it revolves
around applied mathematics. A culture that can calculate the precession
should have no problem applying that same knowledge to analysing the recurrence
of archetypes in their midst and recognising that the configuration of
the planets coincided with the reappearance of particular talents in their
children. If recognised in a child, that particular talent would be nurtured
and brought to fruition by a wise parent. If not, alas, the archetype
may never appear. But we must recognise the timescale of what we are examining
here.
These
people carried on a surveying operation that took thousands of years before
completion. Can you imagine the discipline involved in achieving that?
Yet all it takes to understand it is their belief in returning, to a time when the symbol they left behind would trigger the genetic memory of the archetype
and stimulate his ‘spiritual’ rebirth once more. It may sound simple,
as the truth often is. I believe that reincarnation was not about the
individual, merely the thought processes that individuals are subjected
to if they find themselves on the path to enlightenment, the acquisition
of knowledge of what is good and evil, positive and negative; two sides
of the same coin.
Before
continuing, a brief word about Ancient Egyptian magic. This is not what
we understand in the modern context of illusion, although that undoubtedly
played a part. Its reality was more along the lines of modern empowerment
techniques, whereby the individual can reinforce his or her personality
by disciplined and focused thought to overcome self doubt and grow into
a wiser, more adaptable person. In this way, the Ancient Egyptians were
empowered by magic, for by its use, fate and unwelcome events could be
firmly taken by the hand and the ordinary person, without resort to any
other person of god, could take control, real or imagined, and do something
to help his/her condition. We all recognise this ability to grow within
ourselves and recreate our own image as maturity and self discipline take
hold and yet are we not merely responding to our individual genetic programme?
We are bar-coded at conception with a blueprint for life. All individuals
have the basic programme for life but the hidden beauty is buried in the
DNA where it waits for as long as it takes for the signal that activates
its archetype programme.
So,
the way I see it, magic in Ancient Egypt was about activating the Archetype,
at will, by a series of disciplines which today we would call the Arts
and Sciences. Music and dance, sculpture and painting, astronomy and mathematics,
meditation and visualisation are all designed to bring the initiate into
the light of Maat; world order. Plato's elusive Republic was probably
an echo of this near perfect society hidden in the depths of a time before
Man turned towards the quest for material wealth at the cost of losing
his spiritual wealth - and all this before the Giza pyramids were built.
It is important to establish the concept of a race with a mission in the
future, if only to clarify what we are seeking in the present time. These
‘missionaries’ could not travel to the depths of the jungle to preach
their doctrine; we have to go to them for enlightenment. Remember this?
‘The Mountain will not come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the Mountain’.
Do you think that just about sums up the Giza pyramids? We have to look
at them for ourselves in order to find our own message, and not expect
them to give up their secrets on demand. It is about soul searching, the
Quest for the Grail, a key from the past to open our future.
So,
now you have an outline of these people we can call the ‘Mathemagicians’,
and during the course of this book we can examine their philosophy in
a completely different light. We will
demonstrate by logic and research that there is a place at Giza
that has avoided discovery until now, it was never hidden, it remained
in full view throughout Egypt's long history. The Mound of the First Time
has overlooked the Sphinx for an eternity, with only its doorway hidden,
although not necessarily for all of the time. We believe that there are
certain individuals throughout history who have been shown its secrets,
and that each time this happened Egyptian history took a slightly different
path. The pyramids of Giza are decoys; they are mathematical pointers
to the real place, yet so precise are they that nature itself confirms
the true location of the Gateway to the Underworld, a gateway we will
reveal to you for the first time in seven thousand years.
At the Vernal Equinox sunset, as you stand at a point 800 cubits south of the N.E. corner of the Sphinx Temple, the shadow of a pyramid approaches you and marks the exact spot, just as the shadow in the indented face of the Great Pyramid disappears from view. That shadow in the face only appears at the equinox, that point on the ground is only indicated on that same day.
Only from that precise location can a perfect ninety degree angle be seen at the top of the Great Pyramid, only from there can you hold up a Mason's Square to the profile of the Great Pyramid and only from there will a plumb line held so it passes through the apex of the Great Pyramid also pass through the apex of the obelisk that once marked the corner of "Campbell’s Tomb ", the centre of the "Eye of Horus".
On the 21st of March 1998 I stood at that place and watched it happen once again. Believe me, all will become clear after we have been for a walk down "the many paths of Rostau".
Hold on to your seat, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.
Copyright 2001 ã David Alan Ritchie
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