Pyramid Principles
During the Second World War, my Grandad Victor Fellows, a young man from Glastonbury, was captured in Egypt by the Nazis. During the subsequent march to the concentration camp, at the whim of his guards, he was forced to hike up and down a pyramid, in the blazing hot sun and with no shoes on – whoever said the Germans didn’t have a sense of humour? The irony is, and I’m sure it was lost on my Grandad at the time, is that it is now illegal to climb pyramids. With a possible three years imprisonment for anyone who attempts it, much of their awesome grandeur is now unavailable to the following generations.
Of all of Egypt’s pyramids surely the Great Pyramid og Giza is the grandest. For thousands of years it was the tallest man-made structure on Earth standing at nearly 150 meters tall. A base of around 230 square meters gives a volume of 2.6 million cubic meters and an estimated weight of over 6 million tonnes.
However its magnificence doesn’t just lie in its vast size but also its impeccable accuracy. It is aligned to true North to within just one twentieth of a single degree. Furthermore, the builders of the great pyramid, incorporated the dimensions of the Earth within its construction. If you take the height of the pyramid and multiply it by 43200 you get the polar radius of the Earth. And if you measure the base perimeter and times it by 43200, you get the equatorial circumference of the Earth. Somehow, these ancient people, not only worked out the exact size of the planet we live on but managed to encode its dimensions into an enormous structure, made out of over 2.5 million stone blocks, to a precise ratio of 1:43200. And 43200 was not a random choice either. Without going too far in to the mathematics, this number shows that the ancient Egyptians were aware of the tilt of the Earth’s axis and the precession of the equinoxes. In short they demonstratively had detailed knowledge about our planet and its place within the wider universe.
But the Egyptians were not the only ancient people who were fond of pyramids. From Mayans of Mexico to the ancient peoples of Southern Asia, pyramids have been built at holy sights all over the World. Archaeologists would be quick to point out that the pyramidal form is the easiest way to build a large structure, however perhaps there is something else going on here as well.
In ancient Daoist cosmology the Earth was symbolized as a square. This square represents the four directions that make up the 3 dimensional world of form. The heavens were represented by a circle – cyclical and infinite. Mankind was represented as a triangle between the circle and the square. These three shapes often appear within the sacred geometry of Feng Shui. This triangle nature of man can best seen when one enters into the classic lotus meditation posture.
When we sit cross legged on the floor with a solid base and an upright spine, our Qi begins to condense at our base, which is close to the ground. The upstretched head then pulls this Qi upwards and our auric field becomes pyramidal in shape. After time this energetic field will govern the general flow of Qi within the body and will enable a more uplifting and powerful connection to the outside world. There is a very good reason that virtually every school of meditation uses some variant of the lotus posture, as the energetic nature of the pyramid structure encourages the raising of Qi and literally ‘enlightens’ the body’s energy system.
Perhaps the ancient pyramid builders were well aware of this energetic phenomenon and sought to utilise it when they designed their structures. In the same way that the Christians would build their churches on pre-existing places of power, perhaps the pyramids were built to accentuate the energy of the land, to allow it to interact with the energy and the consciousness of the people.
I’m hoping that one day, I’ll get to follow in my Grandads footsteps and visit Egypt and its great pyramids to find out. Though with any luck I won’t have a Nazi’s gun to my back and I‘ll be able to experience the energy in its full magnificent glory.
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