The Underground Labyrinth of Egypt
From
: The Secret in the Bible by tony Bushby
http://www.crawford2000.co.uk/lab-sphynx-pyramids-egypt-2012.htm
The
Fayum Oasis district, just a few kilometres outside the boundary of the
Memphis Nome, presents a site of unusual interest. It was in that lush,
fertile valley that Pharaohs calling
themselves the "masters of the royal
hunts" fished and hunted with the boomerang.1 Lake Moeris once bordered the
Fayum Oasis and on its shores was the famous Labyrinth, described by Herodotus
as "an endless wonder to me". The Labyrinth contained 1,500 rooms and an equal
number of underground chambers that the Greek historian was not permitted to
inspect. According to Labyrinth priests, "the passages were baffling and
intricate", designed to provide safety for the numerous scrolls they said were
hidden in subterranean apartments. That massive complex particularly impressed
Herodotus and he spoke in awe of the structure:
"There I saw twelve
palaces regularly disposed, which had communication with each other,
interspersed with terraces and arranged around twelve halls. It is hard to
believe they are the work of man. The walls are covered with carved figures,
and each court is exquisitely built of white marble and surrounded by a
colonnade. Near the corner where the labyrinth ends, there is a pyramid, two
hundred and forty feet in height, with great carved figures of animals on it
and an underground passage by which it can be entered. I was told very credibly
that underground chambers and passages connected this pyramid with the pyramids
at Memphis."
Many
ancient writers supported Herodotus' record of underground passages connecting
major pyramids, and their evidence casts doubt on the reliability of
traditionally presented Egyptian history. Crantor (300 BC) stated that there
were certain underground pillars in Egypt that contained a written stone record
of pre-history, and they lined accessways connecting the pyramids. In his
celebrated study, On the Mysteries, particularly those of the Egyptians,
Chaldeans and the Assyrians, Iamblichus, a fourth-century Syrian representative
of the Alexandrian School of mystical and philosophical studies, recorded this
information about an entranceway through the body of the Sphinx into the Great
Pyramid:2
"This entrance, obstructed in our day by sands and rubbish,
may still be traced between the forelegs of the crouched colossus. It was
formerly closed by a bronze gate whose secret spring could be operated only by
the Magi. It was guarded by public respect, and a sort of religious fear
maintained its inviolability better than armed protection would have done. In
the belly of the Sphinx were cut out galleries leading to the subterranean part
of the Great Pyramid. These galleries were so artfully crisscrossed along their
course to the Pyramid that, in setting forth into the passage without a guide
throughout this network, one ceasingly and inevitably returned to the starting
point."
It was recorded in ancient Sumerian cylinder seals that the
secret abode of the Anunnaki was "an underground place...entered through a
tunnel, its entrance hidden by sand and by what they call Huwana.. .his teeth
as the teeth of a dragon, his face the face of a lion". That remarkable old
text, unfortunately fragmented, added that "He [Huwana) is unable to move
forward, nor is he
able to move back", but they crept up on him from behind
and the way to "the secret abode of the Anunnaki" was no longer blocked. The
Sumerian record provided a probable description of the lion-headed Sphinx at
Giza, and if that great creature was built to guard or obliterate ancient
stairways and lower passages leading to subterranean areas below and around it,
then its symbolism was most appropriate.
Local 19th-century Arab lore
maintained that existing under the Sphinx are secret chambers holding treasures
or magical objects. That belief was bolstered by the writings of the
first-century Roman historian Pliny, who wrote that deep below the Sphinx is
concealed the "tomb of a ruler named Harmakhis that contains great treasure",
and, strangely enough, the Sphinx itself was once called "The Great Sphinx
Harmakhis who mounted guard since the time of the Followers of Horus". The
fourth-century Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus made additional disclosures
about the existence of subterranean vaults that appeared to lead to the
interior of the Great Pyramid
"Inscriptions which the ancients asserted
were engraved on the walls of certain underground galleries and passages were
constructed deep in the dark interior to preserve, ancient wisdom from being
lost in the flood."
... According to Masoudi in the 10th century,
mechanical statues with amazing capabilities guarded subterranean galleries
under the Great Pyramid. Written one thousand years ago, his description is
comparable to the computerised robots shown today in space movies. Masoudi said
that the automatons were programmed for intolerance, for they destroyed all
"except those who by their conduct were worthy of admission". Masoudi contended
that "written accounts of Wisdom and acquirements in the different arts and
sciences were hidden deep, that they might remain as records for the benefit of
those who could afterwards comprehend them". That is phenomenal information, as
it is possible that, since the times of Masoudi, "worthy" persons have seen
the mysterious underground chambers. Masoudi confessed, "I have seen things
that one does not describe for fear of making people doubt one's
intelligence.... According to Masoudi
In the same century, another
writer, Muterdi, gave an account of a bizarre incident in a narrow passage
under Giza, where a group of people were horrified to see one of their party
crushed to death by a stone door that, by itself, suddenly suddenly slid out
from the face of the passageway and closed the corridor in front of
them.
Herodotus said Egyptian priests recited to him their long-held
tradition of "the formation of underground apartments" by the original
developers of Memphis. The most ancient inscriptions therefore suggested that
there existed some sort of extensive chamber system below the surface of the
areas surrounding the Sphinx and pyramids.
Those old records were
confirmed when the presence of a large cavity was discovered in a seismic
survey conducted at the site in 1993. That detection was publicly acknowledged
in a documentary called The Mystery of the Sphinx, screened to an audience of
30 million people on NBC TV later that year. The existence of chambers under
the Sphinx is well known. Egyptian authorities confirmed another discovery in
1994; its unearthing was announced in a newspaper report that was carried under
the headline, "Mystery Tunnel in Sphinx":
Workers
repairing the ailing Sphinx have discovered an ancient passage leading deep into
the body of the mysterious monument. The Giza Antiquities chief, Mr. Zahi
Hawass, said there was no dispute the tunnel was very old. However, what is
puzzling is: who built the passage? Why? And where does it lead...?
Mr
Hawass said he had no plans to remove the stones blocking the entrance. The
secret tunnel burrows into the northern side of the Sphinx, about halfway
between the Sphinx's outstretched paws and its tail.
The popular
supposition that the Sphinx is the true portal of the Great Pyramid has
survived with surprising tenacity. That belief was substantiated by
l00-year-old plans prepared by Masonic and Rosicrucian initiates, showing the
Sphinx was the ornament surmounting a hall that communicated with all Pyramids
by radiating underground passages. Those plans were compiled from information
originally discovered by the supposed founder of the order of the Rosicrucians,
Christian Rosenkreuz, who allegedly penetrated a "secret chamber beneath the
ground" and there found a library of books full of secret
knowledge.
The
schematic drawings were produced from information possessed by mystery school
archivists before sand-clearing commenced in 1925, and revealed hidden doors
to long-forgotten reception halls, small temples and other enclosures.
The knowledge of the mystery schools was strengthened by a series of
remarkable discoveries in 1935 that provided proof of additional passageways
and chambers interlacing the area below the Pyramids. The Giza complex showed
major elements of being a purposely built, uniting structure with the Sphinx,
the Great Pyramid and the Temple of the Solar-men directly related to each
other, above and below the ground.
Chambers and passageways detected by
sophisticated seismograph and ground penetrating radar (GPR) equipment in the
last few years established the accuracy of the plans. Egypt is also
successfully using sophisticated satellites to identify sites buried beneath
the surface at Giza and other locations. The novel tracking system was launched
at the beginning of 1998 and the location of 27 unexcavated sites in five areas
was precisely determined. Nine of those sites are on Luxor's east bank and the
others are in Giza, Abu Rawash, Saqqara and Dashur. The printouts of the Giza
area show an almost incomprehensible mass of net-like tunnels and chambers
criss-crossing the area, intersecting and entwining each other like latticework
extending out across the entire plateau. With the space surveillance project,
Egyptologists are able to determine the location of a major site, its probable
entrance and the size of chambers before starting excavations. Particular
attention is being focused on three secret locations: an area in the desert a
few hundred metres west/southwest of the original location of the Black
Pyramid, around which is currently being built a massive system of concrete
walls seven metres high covering eight square kilometres; the ancient highway
that linked the Luxor temple with Karnak; and the "Way of Horus" across
northern Sinai.
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Among the mystics or members of
Egyptian mystery schools, tradition explained that the Great Pyramid was great
in many ways. Despite the fact that it was not entered until the year 820, the
secret schools of pre-Christian Egypt insisted that the interior layout was
well known to them. They constantly claimed that it was not a tomb nor a burial
chamber of any kind, except that it
did have one chamber for symbolic
burial as part of an initiation ritual.
According to mystical
traditions, the interior was entered gradually and in various stages via
underground passageways. Different chambers were said to have existed at the
end of each phase of progress, with the highest and ultimate initiatory stage
represented by the now-called King's Chamber.
Little by little, the
traditions of the mystery schools were verified by archaeological discoveries,
for it was ascertained in 1935 that there was a subterranean connection between
the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid and that a tunnel connected the Sphinx to the
ancient temple located on its southern side (today called the Temple of the
Sphinx).
As Emile Baraize's massive 11-year sand and seashell clearing
project neared completion in 1935, remarkable stories started to emerge about
discoveries made during the clearing project. A magazine article, written and
published in 1935 by Hamilton M. Wright, dealt with an extraordinary discovery
under the sands of Giza that is today denied. The article was accompanied by
original photographs provided by Dr. Selim Hassan, the leader of the scientific
investigative team from the University of Cairo who made the discovery. It
said:
The
Sphynx
"We
have discovered a subway used by the ancient Egyptians of 5,000 years ago. It
passes beneath the causeway leading between the second Pyramid and the Sphinx.
It provides a means of passing under the causeway from the Cheops Pyramid to
the Pyramid of Chephren [Khephren]. From this subway, we have unearthed a
series of shafts leading down more than 125 feet, with roomy courts and side
chambers."
Around the same time, the international news media released
further details of the find.
The underground connector complex was
originally built between the Great Pyramid and the Temple of the Solarmen, for
the Pyramid of Khephren was a later and superficial structure. The subway and
its apartments were excavated out of solid, living bedrock -a truly
extraordinary feat, considering it was built
thousands of years
ago.
There
is more to the story of underground chambers at Giza, for media reports
described the unearthing of a subterranean passageway between the Temple of the
Solarmen on the plateau and the Temple of the Sphinx in the valley. That
passageway had been unearthed a few years before the release and publication of
that particular newspaper article.
The discoveries led Dr. Selim Hassan
and others to believe and publicly state that, while the age of the Sphinx was
always enigmatic in the past, it may have been part of the great architectural
plan that was deliberately arranged and carried out in association with the
erection of the Great Pyramid.
Archaeologists made another major
discovery at that time. Around halfway between the Sphinx and Khephren's
Pyramid were discovered four enormous vertical shafts, each around eight feet
square, leading straight down through solid limestone. It is called "Campbell's
Tomb" on the Masonic and Rosicrucian plans, and "that shaft complex", said Dr
Selim Hassan, "ended in a spacious room, in the centre of which was another
shaft that descended to a roomy court flanked with seven side chambers". Some
of the chambers contained huge, sealed sarcophagi of basalt and granite, 18
feet high.
The discovery went further and found that in one of the seven
rooms there was yet a third vertical shaft, dropping down deeply to a much
lower chamber. At the time of its discovery, it was flooded with water that
partly covered a solitary white sarcophagus.
That chamber was named the
"Tomb of Osiris" and was shown being "opened for the first time" on a
fabricated television documentary in March 1999. While originally exploring in
this area in 1935, Dr. Selim Hassan said:
"We are hoping to find some
monuments of importance after clearing out this water. The total depth of these
series of shafts is more than 40 metres or more than 125 feet... In the course
of clearing the southern part of the subway, there was found a very fine head
of a statue which is very expressive in every detail of the
face."
According to a separate newspaper report of the time, the statue
was an excellent sculpted bust of Queen Nefertiti, described as "a beautiful
example of that rare type of art inaugurated in the Amenhotep regime". The
whereabouts of that statue today are unknown.
The report also described
other chambers and rooms beneath the sands, all interconnected by secret and
ornate passageways. Dr. Selim Hassan revealed that not only are there inner and
outer courts, but they also found a room they named the "Chapel of Offering"
that had been cut into a huge, rock outcrop
between Campbell's Tomb and the
Great Pyramid. In the centre of the chapel are three ornate vertical pillars
standing in a triangular shaped layout. Those pillars are highly significant
points in this study, for their existence is recorded in the Bible. The
conclusion drawn is that Ezra, the initiated Torah writer (c. 397 BC), knew the
subterranean layout of passages and chambers at
Giza before he wrote the
Torah. That underground design was probably the origin of the triangular shaped
layout around the central altar in a Masonic lodge. In Antiquities of the Jews,
Josephus, in the first century, wrote that Enoch of Old Testament fame
constructed an underground temple consisting of nine chambers. In a deep vault
inside one chamber with three
vertical columns, he placed a
triangular-shaped tablet of gold bearing upon it the absolute name of the Deity
(God). The description of Enoch's chambers was similar to the description of
the Chapel of Offering under the sand just east of the Great
Pyramid.
An anteroom much like a burial chamber, but "undoubtedly a room
of initiation and reception," was found higher up the plateau closer to the
Great Pyramid and at the upper end of a sloping passage, cut deep into rock on
the northwest side of the Chamber of Offering (between the Chamber of Offering
and the
Great Pyramid). In the centre of the chamber is a l2-foot long
sarcophagus of white Turah limestone and a collection of fine alabaster
vessels. The walls are beautifully sculpted with scenes, inscriptions and
emblems of particularly the lotus flower. The descriptions of alabaster vessels
and the emblematic lotus flower have remarkable parallels with what was found
in the temple-workshop on the summit of Mt Sinai/Horeb by Sir William Petrie in
1904.
Additional underground rooms, chambers, temples and hallways were
discovered, some with vertical circular stone support columns, and others with
wall carvings of delicate figures of goddesses clothed in beautiful apparel. Dr
Selim Hassan's report described other magnificently carved figures and many
beautifully coloured friezes. Photographs were taken and one author and
researcher who saw them, Rosicrucian H. Spencer Lewis recorded that he was
"deeply impressed" with the images. It is not known where the rare specimens of
art and relics are today, but some were rumoured to have been smuggled out of
Egypt by private collectors.
The foregoing particulars are but a few
contained in Dr Selim Hassan's extensive report that was published in 1944 by
the Government Press, Cairo, under the title Excavations at Giza (10 volumes).
However, that is just a mere fragment of the whole truth of what is under the
area of the Pyramids. In the last year of sand clearing, workers uncovered the
most amazing discovery that stunned the world and attracted international
media coverage.
Archaeologists in charge of the discovery were
"bewildered" at what they had unearthed, and stated that the city was the most
beautifully planned they had ever seen. It is replete with temples,
pastel-painted peasant dwellings, workshops, stables and other buildings
including a palace. Complete with hydraulic underground waterways, it has a
perfect drainage system along with other modem amenities. The intriguing
question that arises out of the discovery is: where is that city
today?
Its secret location was recently revealed to a select group of
people who were given permission to explore and film the city. It exists in a
huge natural cavern system below the Giza Plateau that extends out in an
easterly direction under Cairo. Its main entry is from inside the Sphinx, with
stairs cut into rock that lead down to the cavern below the bedrock of the
River Nile.
The expedition carried down generators and inflatable rafts
and travelled along an underground river that led to a lake one kilometre wide.
On the shores of the lake nestles the city, and permanent lighting is provided
by large crystalline balls set into the cavern walls and ceiling. A second
entry to the city is found in stairs leading up to the basement of the Coptic
Church in
old Cairo (Babylon). Drawing from narratives of people "living in
the Earth" given in the books of Genesis, lasher and Enoch, it is possible that
the city was originally called Gigal.
Film footage of the expedition was
shot and a documentary called Chambers of the Deep was made and subsequently
shown to private audiences. It was originally intended to release the footage
to the general public, but for some reason it was withheld.
A
multi-faceted spherical crystalline object the size of a baseball was brought
up from the city, and its supernatural nature was demonstrated at a recent
conference in Australia. Deep within the solid object are various hieroglyphs
that slowly turn over like pages of a book when mentally requested to do so by
whoever holds the object. That remarkable item revealed an unknown form
of
technology and was recently sent NASA in the USA for
analysis.
Historical documents recorded that, during the 20th century,
staggering discoveries not spoken of today were made at Giza and Mt Sinai, and
Egyptian rumours of the discovery of another underground city within a 28-rnile
radius of the Great Pyramid abound. In 1964, more than 30 enormous,
multilevelled subsurface cities were discovered in the old Turkish kingdom of
Cappadocia. One city alone contained hugE caverns, rooms and hallways that
archaeologists estimated supported as many as 2,000 households, providing
living facilities for 8,000 to 10,000 people. Their very existence constitutes
evidence that many such subterranean worlds lie waiting to be found below the
surface of the Earth.
Excavations at Giza have revealed underground
subways, temples, sarcophagi and one interconnected subterranean city, and
validation that underground passageways connected the Sphinx to the Pyramids is
another step towards proving that the whole complex is carefully and
specifically thought out.
Dr
Zawi Hawass
OFFICIAL
DENIALS
Because of Dr. Selim Hassan's excavations and modern space
surveillance techniques, the records and traditions of the ancient Egyptian
mystery schools that claim to preserve secret knowledge of the Giza Plateau all
rose to the highest degree of acceptability. However, one of the most puzzling
aspects of the discovery of underground facilities at Giza is the repeated
denial of their existence by Egyptian authorities and academic institutions. So
persistent are their refutations that the claims of mystery schools were
doubted by the public and suspected of being fabricated in order to mystify
visitors to Egypt. The scholastic attitude is typified by a Harvard University
public statement in 1972:
"No
one should pay any attention to the preposterous claims in regard to the
interior of the Great Pyramid or the presumed passageways and unexcavated
temples and halls beneath the sand in the Pyramid district made by those who
are associated with the so-called secret cults or mystery societies of Egypt
and the Orient. These things exist only in the minds of those who seek to
attract the seekers for mystery, and the more we deny the existence of these
things, the more the public is led to suspect that we are deliberately trying
to hide that which constitutes one of the great secrets of Egypt. It is better
for us to ignore all of these claims than merely deny them. All of our
excavations in the territory of the Pyramid have failed to reveal any
underground passageways or halls, temples, grottos, or anything of the kind
except the one temple adjoining the Sphinx."
It was well enough for
scholarly opinion to make such a statement on the subject, but in preceding
years, official claims were made stating that there was no temple adjoining the
Sphinx. The assertion that every inch of the territory around the Sphinx and
pyramids had been explored deeply and thoroughly was disproved when the temple
adjoining the Sphinx was discovered in the sand and eventually opened to the
public. On matters outside official policy, there appears to be a hidden level
of censorship in operation, one designed to protect both Eastern and Western
religions.
EVER-BURNING LAMPS
In spite of amazing
discoveries, the stark truth is that the early history of Egypt remains largely
unknown and therefore unmapped territory. It is not possible, then, to say
precisely how miles of underground passageways and chambers beneath the Giza
Plateau were lit, but one thing is for sure: unless the ancients could see in
the dark, the vast subterranean areas were somehow illuminated. The same
question is addressed of the interior of the Great Pyramid, and Egyptologists
have agreed that flaming torches were not used, for ceilings had not been
blackened with residual smoke.
From what is currently known about
subsurface passageways under the Pyramid Plateau, it is possible to determine
that there are at least three miles of passageways 10 to 12 storeys below
ground level. Both the Book of the Dead and the Pyramid Texts make striking
references to "The Light-makers"From what is currently known about subsurface
passageways under the Pyramid Plateau, it is possible to determine that there
are at least three
Iamblichus recorded a fascinating account that was
found on a very ancient Egyptian papyrus held in a mosque in Cairo. It was part
of a 100 BC story by an unknown author about a group of people who gained entry
to underground chambers around Giza for exploratory purposes. They described
their experience
"We came to a chamber. When we entered, it became
automatically illuminated by light from a tube being the height of one man's
hand [approx. 6 inches or 15.24 cm] and thin, standing vertically in the
corner. As we approached the tube, it shone brighter...the slaves were scared
and ran away in the direction from which we had come! When I touched it, it
went out. We made every effort to get the tube to glow again, but it would no
longer provide light. In some chambers the light tubes worked and in others
they did not. We broke open one of the tubes and it bled beads of silver-
coloured liquid that ran fastly around the floor until they disappeared between
the cracks [mercury?].As time went on, the light tubes gradually began to fail
and the priests removed them and stored them in an underground vault they
specially built southeast of the plateau. It was their belief that the light
tubes were created by their beloved Imhotep, who would some day return to make
them work once again."
It was common practice among early Egyptians to
seal lighted lamps in the sepulchres of their dead as offerings to their god or
for the deceased to find their way to the "other side". Among the tombs near
Memphis (and in the Brahmin temples of India), lights were found operating in
sealed chambers and vessels, but sudden exposure to air extinguished them or
caused their fuel to
evaporate."
Greeks and Romans later followed
the custom, and the tradition became generally established -not only that of
actual burning lamps, but miniature reproductions made in terracotta were
buried with the dead. Some lamps were enclosed in circular vessels for
protection, and instances are recorded where the original oil was found
perfectly preserved in them after more than 2,000 years.
There is ample
proof from eyewitnesses that lamps were burning when the sepulchres were
sealed, and it was declared by later bystanders that they were still burning
when the vaults were opened hundreds of years later.
The possibility of
preparing a fuel that would renew itself as rapidly as it was consumed was a
source of considerable controversy among mediaeval authors, and numerous
documents exist outlining their arguments. After due consideration of evidence
at hand, it seemed well within the range of possibility that ancient Egyptian
priest-chemists manufactured lamps that burned if not
indefinitely then at
least for considerable periods of time.
Numerous authorities have
written on the subject of ever-burning lamps, with W. Wynn Westcott estimating
that the number of writers who have given the subject consideration as more
than 150 and H. P. Blavatsky as 173. While conclusions reached by different
authors are at a variance, a majority admitted the existence of the phenomenal
lamps. Only a few maintained that the lamps would burn forever, but many were
willing to concede that they might remain alight for several centuries without
replenishment of fuel.
It was generally believed that the wicks of those
perpetual lamps were made of braided or woven asbestos, called by early
alchemists "salamander’ It was generally believed that the wicks of those
perpetual lamps were made of braided or woven asbestos, called by early
alchemists "salamanders wool". The fuel appeared to have been one of the
products of alchemical research, possibly produced in the temple on Mt Sinai.
Several formulae for making fuel for the lamps were preserved, and in H. P.
Blavatsky's profound work, Isis Unveiled, the author reprinted two complicated
formulae
Some believe the fabled perpetual lamps of temples to be
cunning mechanical contrivances, and some quite humorous explanations have been
extended.
In Egypt, rich underground deposits of asphalt and petroleum
exist, and some would have it that priests connected asbestos wicks by a secret
duct to an oil deposit, which in turn connected to one or more lamps. Others
thought that the belief that lamps burned indefinitely in tombs was the result
of the fact that in some cases fumes resembling smoke poured forth from the
entrances of newly opened vaults. Parties going in later, and discovering lamps
scattered about the floor, assumed that they were the source of the fumes.
There were some well-documented stories concerning the discovery of
ever-burning lamps not only in Egypt but also in other parts of the
world.
From The Secret in the Bible by tony Bushby
(http://www.joshuabooks.com/home.htm)
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