Skinner\'s Key to the Hebrew-Egyptian Mystery

KEY TO THE

Hebrew-Egyptian Mystery IN

THE SOURCE OF MEASURES

ORIGINATING

THE BRITISH INCH AND THE ANCIENT CUBIT

BY WHICH WAS BUILT THE GREAT PYRAMID OF EGYPT AND TIlE TE~IPLE

OF SOLO~ION; AND THROUGlt THE POSSESSION AND

USE OF WHICH, MAN, ASSU;\n;./G TO REALIZE THE CRE· ATIVE LAW OF THE DEITY, SET IT FORTH IN A MYSTERY, AMONG THE HEBREWS CALLED KABBALA

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BY

RALSTON SKINNER

PHILADELPHIA:

DA YID .\IcKA Y co.\rPA~ Y WASHI:>iGTON SQUARE

.. OPEN THOU MINE EYES, THAT I MAY BEHOLD WONDROUS THINGS OUT OF THY LAW! "MY SON, IF THINE HEART BE WISE, MY HEART SHALL REJOICE, EVEN MINE: "YEA, MY REINS SHALL REJOICE, WHEN THY LIPS SPEAK

RIGHT

THI~GS."

"BEHOLD! THE DAY OF THE LORD COMETH, AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS IN THAT DAY, "THAT THE LIGHT

SHALL NOT BE CLEAR, SHALL BE

ONE

NOR

DARK, BUT

IT

DAY,

"AND THE LORD SHALL BE KING OVER ALL THE EA:~TH: IN THAT DAY THERE SHALL BE

ONE JEHOVAH, AND HIS NAME SHALL BE

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Introduction. Contents an essay or study Tather than, strictly speaking, a work. whole a series of

developmen~s

The

based upon the use of geometrical ele-

ments, giving expression in numerical values, founded on integral values of the circle, rediscovered by the late John A. Parker, and by Peter Metius in the 16th century.

Brief statement of these developments; the greatest

being that the system from whence their derivation was anciently considered to be one resting in nature, or God, as the basis, or law, of the exertion, practically, of creative design: as such to be found as underlaying the Biblical structure.

This introduction contains the Hebrew alphabet,

with the values and powers of the letters, and some of their supposed symbols, with some remarks on the hieroglyphic use of the letters.

(The

proof of the uses of these values by the ancients is all that is claimed as being of use connected with the quadrature idea, so that the usualoffensiveness connected with any stated idea of quadrating the circle is not in· volved.)

f!.2.uadrature of the Circle by John A. Parker. It would be amply sufficient for the purposes of this work to give the

numerical results (notating geometrical conditions) of Mr. Parker's quadrature; but it is thought that the uses shown to have been anciently made will naturally lead to a desire to examine into the very means whereby these numerical data are obtainable.

To satisfy such a desire the leading

outlines of Mr. Parker's work on the quadratu1'e, and of his problem of

three revolvillg bodies, with his uses of his results, are given, even pretty His extremely interesting work is to be had in the

fully, by permission.

city of New York, of John Wiley & Son. I. Kabbab a species of symbolic writing.

e

Relation of diameter to

circumference of a circle a supreme one as connected with the god-names

Elohim and 'Jehovah. Two expressions of circumference to diameter, in (iii)

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

IV

integrals, used in the Bible; that of Mr. Parker, the perfect one, and One relation be-

that of Peter Metius (16th century), the imperfect one.

tween the two expressions to be found in * 82 (b.). (*z. Notice of the quadratare by Peter Metius, about A. D. 1585,) Outline of IZ propositions from Mr. Parker's .Jrk back to ascertain the value oi the line a' a G, which is the length of the floor line of the ascending passage.

From the above data, as ascertained, its value proves

to be 123.68300698+ feet. I'iazzi Smythe makes it 123.683 feet: difference, one may say, nothing.

20.612 X 6 = 123.672, show-

16

SUPPLE~[r.NT

TO SOURCE OF MEASURES.

lI1g, in inches for feet, this value as modified on the typical form.

Or, also, 123.683°0698+ feet are 72.°°+ cubits. (15.) Reverting now to the queen's chamber, d t aT equals 12 . 206.- Inches, or 17. ~66+_ feet, or 10 cubits.

c' aT equals

3.14159426+ feet, or 37.69913112+ inches. Then d 1 c' must equal 168.42086888+ inches. or 14'°35°724°+ feet. (1.) The part d' c" thus found, governs the Ileight of the walls

of the room, as d t d 2 above (vertically) the point a6 , or the line

a6

aT;

making this height, with the length d 1 c" a perfect square.

This height, therefore, is 168'42086888 + inches.

d'

0

to the floor is given by Piazzi Smythe as '4 inches.

Sum, 182.42036888+ inches.

Piazzi Smythe measured this full line as 182.4 inches:

difference, .02 of an inch. (~.)

The value of the sol:1r day, in tl/irds,

IS

5184000'" The \'alue of one sidereal day is

Take

the~e

5 16 984 6/11 values as represented by 18 5.-4 feet,

and or. in illc!les, 62.208 inches,

anJ 02.°38152 inches.

The line

11/

n, or the height of the gable, is thought to rep-

resent either one or both of these values; if the latter, then by a

MEASURES OF INTERIOR OF GRF.AT PYRAMm.

bias on the roof line of this gable.

Piazzi Smythe gIves this

distance as 62. inches.

But, by correcting his computed measure of the floor line as 205.8 his value would have been 62.2 inches. There results therefore, for greatest height, 62.208 inches.

to 206. 12,

" " Sum, or, Piazzi Smythe makes the full height,

244.628 inches.

Difference,

.028 inches.

NOTE.

244.4 28

"

244·4

"

(a.) Considering the location of the queen's chamber, in its east

alld ?vest length, with reference to the vertical axial line of the pyramid.

In

Source of Measures, page 126, it is stated that the center longitudinal line of the floor of the descending passage-way is set off to the eastward of the vertical axial line of the pyramid 24.42190 !'eet, or,

293.06280 inches.

Take now the length of the line a 4 as, or, 251.7141235+ feet, as ittckes, Add a sidereal day as taken, Sum, Deduct from above, Difference, Which gh'es the chamber.

y.

251.7141235+ inches. 62.038152 313.752275 inches. 293.06280 20.689+7 inches.

width of the passage-way to the queen's

Its full width would be

41.37894 inches.

Making use of a solar day, instead of a sidereal day, and this result would become The meall of these "alues is

41.61864 41.4987

Piazzi Smythe's measure of the width of this particular passage-way, immediately at the door of the queen's chamber, is Difference,

"

"

18

SUPPLE:\IENT TO SOURCE OF MEASURES.

(b.) Take the values found abo\'e of the distances from the ecnter line

of the pyramid to the cast wall of the queen's chamber, mad'e up (I,) bj' the mile value in inches with the value of a sidereal day i'n inches, dz.,

313.752275 inches. 156 .8 761 37 And this shows that the value of the floor line of the grand gallery, or the line a 6 as, which has been seen to be Divide by z, and we have

156.87449 feet, has its origin here in this queen's chamber, as worked in a scale of inches for feet.

The difference is .0016 inch.

\Ve must not lose sight of the fact, that all the lines are on a bias, or, gh'e extremes on a mea" of measures, to accommodate to a variety of

correlating mea,ures. (c.) From c.:on,iderations of widths of passage-ways not shown on this

diagram [bllt 't'e Source of Measures, page 127 (a.), (l.)l. the extreme

,p .6666+ inches.

width of the passage-ways, on the mean, is taken at The mean, founded on the data given in note (3.), is

f1.f60849

taken at The least extreme then, if used at all, would be

fl.~6S503

(Although all these measures are founded on data fully in accord with the spirit of this inquiry. they lack for that kind of support, given in all the other lines; in other words, they lack for interpretation.) A very striking datum of width of pas~age-ways, as to what their greatest extrcme is, is had in Piazzi Smythe's measure of the width of the granite portcullis block in the mouth of the ascending passage-way. gh'cs its measure of breadth at Dilrerenee bet wcen this and the extreme taken,

He

fl.6 inches. .03

(d.) Xow, taking the passage way to the queen's chamber, by means of

biased lines, to indicate a permissible limit between 41.6666+ and 'P.46+ inches, as to outside limits, the following data are derivable as 10 the east and west lengths of this room, as they have relation to the vertical plane parallel to these walls cutting through the axial line. (I.) Take the distance of center of passage· way from the center of the

293.0628°+ inches.

pyramid as abovc, Add

Y,

. 4-1.66666 mdth of passage, - - 2 - Sum,

Deduct zo.6n X z= (a.) Difference,

=

20.83333+ 313.89613 41. Z2 4

inches,

MEASURES OF INTERIOR OF GREAT PYRAMID.

Take length of

qu~en's 'Chamber

at

22('.21001

inches.

184.')8601

inches.

Deduct 20.012 X 2 = (b.) Difference,

27 2.0 721 3 184.