PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITION
The claim that the Great Pyramid enshrines a Divine Revelation has been fully vindicated on the bases laid down in the first edition of this work. This has been proved to demonstration in successive works, papers and articles1 by the present writer during the eleven years that have elapsed since the first edition appeared. Recent developments in interpretation, in our knowledge concerning the Great Pyramid’s design and construction, and in our experience of the current fulfilment of the Great Pyramid’s prophecy, are fully dealt with in The Great Pyramid’s Prophecy concerning the British Empire and America (Sept. 1932); The Date of the Crucifixion and the Era of New Birth (Revised 3rd Edition, May 1934); and The Hidden Truth in Myth and Ritual and in the Common Culture Pattern of Ancient Metrology (Sept. 1934). These later developments entirely confirm what the present work establishes as the intention of the Great Pyramid’s design and the purpose of its construction. It has therefore been considered inadvisable to depart from the plan adopted in the successive editions, namely, to leave the text and plates substantially as these stand in the first edition, except for the few minor corrections continual reference has shown to be necessary. In the present edition, however, the long Introduction and the prefaces to the preceding editions, together with certain reprinted papers which appeared between the prefaces and the Table of Contents, in the four preceding editions, are omitted. Certain annotations to Plates X, XVI, XVII, XVIII and XX are also omitted. The matters with which all of these dealt are either now too well known to require reiteration or are more fully dealt with in the works above mentioned.
The questions dealt with on pages 434 to 436 concerning the date of the Great Pyramid’s construction and early Egyptian chronology have been definitely settled by the analytical investigation undertaken in “Early Egypt, Babylonia and Central Asia” (1927), which completes and confirms the historical study of the present work. The correlated data of the latter work show that the First Egyptian Dynasty began in 3101 B.C., and that the Great Pyramid was built during the reign of Khufu, 2645 B.C. to 2622 B.C.
Here it must be emphasized that the geometrical representation of the Great Pyramid is expressed in Pyramid inches, the Pyramid inch being identical in value with Sir John Herschel’s “geometrical inch,” which is i.oon British inch. This Pyramid inch is also the basal unit of the geometrical system of the common culture pattern of ancient metrology. The continued blindness of Egyptological and other authorities in this relation is inexplicable. Authentic proof, however, of ancient Egyptian knowledge of the Pyramid inch and of the basis of the common culture pattern of metrology is given in the Egyptian King Lists, wherein fundamental measurements (expressed in the Great Pyramid in Pyramid inches) are stated as periods of years, thus proving that the ancient Egyptians knew of the symbolical association of these measurements with a chronological representation of outstanding significance (refer to Plate XVI of the present work). This is an absolute identity which no critical opponent has yet had the temerity to discuss.
When Sir Flinders Petrie’s fundamental measurements of the Great Pyramid are converted into Pyramid inches and are compared with the geometrical pattern and the structural theme of Displacement (hereafter referred to), the fundamental structural measurements correspond precisely with dynastic periods given in the King Lists. That this identity does not depend upon the metrological culture pattern (cf. The Hidden Truth in Myth and Ritual, Part 2), but is confirmatory of the independent identity established by the latter, is a demonstrable fact, the significance of which scholars must elucidate for themselves. When they have done so they will find that no confirmation from any ancient source could be more conclusive regarding the authenticity of the Pyramid inch and its function, or more enlightening concerning the purpose of the fabrication and falsification of the ancient Egyptian King Lists. They will find that the falsification ‘of the Lists was made to give the appearance of truth to the perversion of the earliest Messianic prophecies, which centred upon the structural allegory of the Great Pyramid, and that the motive behind that perversion was to “justify” the substitution of Osiris and other pagan deities of pre-Pyramid ages for the long-promised Saviour of the world.
The essential theme of the present work is the Great Pyramid’s structural allegory of the symbolical builders’ Error of Displacement, whereby the apex-stone or “head stone of the corner” was “rejected.” The displacement value in this structural allegory is 286.1 Pyramid inches and the principal application of this value is to the Pyramid’s exterior. The application resulted in a hollowing-in of the Pyramid’s core-escarpments, in the form shown diagrammatically on Plate XVIII, to receive a like hollowing-in of the casing. The air-photograph reproduced on page x confirms the existence of this feature of the core-escarpments, and the Egyptian Government Survey of the Great Pyramid, in 1925, confirms the previously established Displacement Value, thus conclusively disposing of the doubts expressed on these points by Egyptological authorities and of certain ill-informed criticism which has arisen from other quarters. Any technical authority, therefore, who wishes to study the later data in correlation with the data dealt with in the present work is referred to pages 50 to 57 of The Hidden Truth in Myth and Ritual. Reference will show that the structural allegory of the Great Pyramid was more truly monumentalized in the Great Pyramid than the writer knew during the preparation of the first edition of this work in 1923. The structural allegory is epitomized in diagrammatical form on page xi following.
1 A full list of these additional publications is given on pages xii and xiii.
Indeed, every fact which has come to light since the first edition was published has strengthened the conviction that the present work must stand substantially as it was in the first edition, so that it may remain as a record of the writer’s fundamental bases of interpretation. The work has stood the test of the most intensive period of rapid changes in world history, a period which has proved all authorities vulnerable, all man-made sociological systems wrong, and every cult in error. Such changes were foreshown in the present work, and the reason for such changes were explained, not because the writer foresaw them but because they were Divinely revealed by the Great Pyramid’s prophecy.
In the Introduction to the fourth edition (October 1927), by an independent writer, it was stated as follows:—
“ Criticism (devoted to isolated matters of detail within the province of the particular expert involved and without consideration of the authors’ conclusions as a whole) can neither overthrow nor establish the authors’ main- conclusions. If, as the authors maintain, a Divine Revelation has been given concerning the events which lead up to, and the actual period of, the final tribulation, and the coming of the Messianic Kingdom, it is manifestly impossible that man should have precise knowledge of these events. This would defeat the Divine Purpose. If, when the history of the critical years (before the date indicated for the end of the final period of Chaos and Oppression) is considered as a whole and in its relation to the fiducial dates given by the authors’ scale of chronology, it is seen that the Divine purpose is working in accordance with the indications contained in this book, then the conditions of the test will have been fulfilled, and the message of the Pyramid delivered.”
The Pyramid’s prophecy revealed that a period of Tribulation on the British world order should extend from May 29, 1928, to September 16, 1936, as a consequence of production exceeding the means of world power to control production and to organise the distribution of production (cf. pp. 398-400, and references to preceding paragraphs). The writer has since shown, by references to reliable authorities and statistics, that the “Battle of the Gold Standard “ began intensively from May 29, 1928; that French financial policy was re-oriented from that date; that Commodity Prices began to fall (on the London Market) from that date—falling 10 per cent, in a year, 20 per cent, in two years, and 34 per cent, in three years; and that the situation was immediately reflected by the New York rate of exchange for the pound sterling, which reached its highest value for 1928 on May 30, 1928, falling from that peak value and remaining below par until America was in turn overtaken by the world economic crisis.
By the second half of 1929 the rot which had undermined Commodity Markets had extended to the industrial part of the world structure, with the result that world trade rapidly shrunk, both in volume and value, until in 1934 and 1935 world trade has stood at a third of the value it registered in 1929. The rapid sequence of financial and economic changes brought disaster to the British Labour Government on August 23, 1931, and subsequently forced the pound sterling off the gold standard basis. The event, its causes, precise date, and consequences were foreshown from prophecy in two articles published in The Morning Post, July I7th and i8th, 1930, thirteen months before the event. The significance of the prophetic indications was reiterated in an article published in The National Message, July nth, 1931. In these two series of articles (July 1930 and July 1931) it was shown that the prophetic indications revealed that the power to exercise “the world-function of protective and punitive sea-power” should be temporarily withdrawn from the English-speaking peoples, as “God’s controlled forces of armament employed against the forces of destruction”; that new Power, on a higher spiritual basis, should thereafter be given them; that the new Power should quicken in its application onwards from December 5, 1935; and that between September 16, 1936, and August 20, 1953, the English-speaking peoples should be guided, as the nucleus of the Theocratic (or Theocentric) World-State, to receive Divine Protection ensuring racial isolation and true safe-guarding under the Law of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.****(I do not agree with Mr. Davidsons belief in British/American Israelism as the "nucleus" of the "Kingdom of Heaven". The "Kingdom of Heaven" will be made up of all peoples and ruled by Yashua. Until that time mankind's misguided attempts will only end in failure. Mr. Davidson tried to incorperate some of these beliefs into this present work. Unfortunately, the failure of some of these theories, to some peoples mind, undermined the credability of the rest of his work. I think you will find that this is not necessary the case. Wstruse)
Reference to the articles mentioned and to the other works and articles listed on pages xii and xiii—particularly to the articles in The Morning Post, October 1927, May 1928, and September and October 1929—will prove conclusively to the unbiassed reader that the Great Pyramid’s Divinely revealed prophecy has been fulfilled to date in details of time and circumstance. People forget that their outlook has changed considerably during the past ten years. But the Great Pyramid’s predictive outlook, presented eleven years ago, has not been changed. Clerics, scientists, journalists, publicists, and statesmen—and even some dictators—are now proclaiming, concerning current times and the immediate future, things which were revealed ten years ago by the Great Pyramid’s prophecy, but which were scorned and ridiculed and rejected at the time. In other words, none of the authorities, who are now proclaiming these things, would admit their possibility ten years ago. Now that they do proclaim them, they forget that they refused to believe their possibility when such things were foreshown from prophecy. Even now they refuse to believe that any kind of Revelation from the Almighty is possible other than is projected, as they suppose, through their own purblind and self-satisfied intellects.
In refusing thoroughly to investigate the evidence, and the logical conclusions and confirmations submitted, and by thereby impeding the general acceptance of the Great Pyramid’s Scientific Revelation—”THE WITNESS UNTO THE LORD OF HOSTS” (Isa. xix, 19, 20)—which testifies, inter alia, that Jesus Christ is the TRUTH and is before all things and that by Him were all things created, scholars have unwittingly obstructed the deliverance of the Greatest Message which could possibly be given to mankind in these troublous days and have thus displayed the mentality and conservatism of their predecessors of nineteen centuries ago.
I owe a debt of gratitude to my late colleague, Dr. H. Aldersmith— who died before our researches were completed and before the writing of the present work began—for his able guidance in elucidating and interpreting the symbolism of Biblical prophecy.
I must also express my profound gratitude to Mr. C. V. Stephens for his appreciation and generosity in making publication possible, and for his invaluable advice and suggestion concerning the organisation of the work.
Since I came into touch with Mr. Stephens, more than fourteen years ago, the vital essentials of the presentation, in this and all subsequent works and articles, have developed in a manner altogether surprising to me, and I must acknowledge that it is chiefly due to his initiative, advice, and decision that the work has been presented in a form that far exceeds anything my late colleague and myself had ever hoped for.
D. DAVIDSON. 1st March 1936.
