If you are familiar with the many speculations assembled by Peter Thompkins, he shows a theory about the internal features of the Great Pyramid being built in toto before the rest of the structure. Also, the theory in Secrets of the Great Pyramid that suggests that while the Pyramid was partially buildt, the grand gallery would have made a precise celestial theodolite to mark the passing of stars to the south. It would have provided for very accurate data in a few years of balanced observations, even if the precision was not substantial. No question in my mind that with a few hundred years of observation, the whole cycle of the Zodiac could be calculated with a very narrow margin of error. It’s plumb bob simple. This is demonstrable.
The other idea in Thompkins that stinks of truth to me is the theodolite for surveyors that the whole complex is, allowing yearly remarking of the planting fields of the delta with equity of taxation and planting rights established anew every spring. And again, plumb bob simple. Neanderthals coudda did it, or any middlin’ intellegent monkey. This is demonstrable.
Lerner hasn’t demonstrated anything yet that impresses me. I’ve seen no description published as yet of the methods of measurement on which his drawings are based, types of instruments, accuracies calculated or methods of adjustment of error. His three wire drawings are neat, but their accuracy has not been demonstrated because of data that either is not in hand or not being released, perhaps because the closures were piddlin’ and no one ‘on the team’ wants it known how sloppy the foundation of their perty drawings are. I will tell you this of a certainty, if they used GPS readings to establish control on such a small site, the results would pale in comparison to the actual measures of Cole or even Petrie with standard high precision instuments of their day and chain tapes and, yes, plumb bobs.
I believe the key to all this is geometry. Simple as a compass and straight edge. Monkey simple. Plumb bob simple. Pre-calculus, pre-mathematics, pre-algeba, pre-Euclidian geometry from which all arose long after the building of the complex.
The geometry alone accounts for a command of ratios, rigour of replication to scale, proportions in base units, relations of area and volume, aesthetics, harmony.
This is firmly demonstrated by Brunes, and his method is plumb bob simple. When you add to this idea the nature of Hermetics, and the protection of knowledge from the profane, it is easy to see how tables could be developed for use by the yearly surveyors of the fields without their knowledge of the underlying geometry. Practical needs of the society could be met with only the higher ups of the priesthood knowing the foundation principles, even though those principles capable of simple demonstration with simple tools.
I hand a design drawing to a machinist. It calls for a cylinder to me made 1.7145 units in diameter and 5.1435 units in length. He can apply his skill to produce the part and never realize the 3:1 ratio which he has accurately constructed. The numbers given do not convey the founding principles of the design to the ones who actual make the artifact. The key to the whole design might be held within the heads of a few masters privy to the higher foundation principles which were plumb bob simple and so demonstrably true to have been sacred. And thousands of highly skilled journeyman builders wouldn’t have any more clue than we do.
Something might well be learned by following Garry’s idea on the stones, the ratio of lenght/width/height of each one. The actual measures of a few hundred might demonstrate common denominators inherent and shared by every stone, regardless great variance of mass, volumes, or surface areas of any two particular stones, and all of them as mini subdivision of the whole. As the microcosm, so the macrocosm. Pure and simple hermetics. Simple as a plumb bob.
The simpler an idea, the closer to truth. If your theory be convoluted and difficult of description, it is either wrong or something very simple is missing which, if found, would remove the convolutions and reduce the description to a demonstrable example.
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