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The schematic drawings were produced from information pos- sessed by mystery school archivists before sand-clearing com- menced in 1925, and revealed hidden doors to long-forgotten reception halls, small temples and other enclosures. (Those plans are included in "The Master Plan" section at the end of the book.) 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 seismo- graph and ground penetrating radar (GPR) equipment in the last few years established the accuracy of the plans. Egypt is also suc- cessfully using sophisticated satellites to identify sites buried beneath the surface at Giza and other locations. The novel track- ing system was launched at the begin- [ — ning of 1998 and the location of 27 unexcavated sites in five areas was pre- cisely determined. Nine of those sites 4 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 | j 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 / a Pyramid, around which is currently being built a massive system of con- crete 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. The boomerang ar Drawn by Faucher-Gt the tomb of the dw Beni-| (Champollion, Monume 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 origi- nal photographs provided by Dr Selim Hassan, the leader of the scientific investigative team from the University of Cairo who made the discovery. It said: 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 ED, | and side chambers. “Peasy iene ~The boomerang and the fighting bow. Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a painting in the tomb of the dwarf Khnumhotpd at Beni-Hasan. (Champollion, Monuments de l'Egypte, p. 1, ccc) Around the same time, the interna- tional news media released further details of the find. The underground connector complex was originally built between the Great Pyramid and the Temple of the Solar- men, for the Pyramid of Khephren was a later and superficial structure. The subway and its apartments were exca- vated out of solid, living bedrock—a truly extraordinary feat, considering it was built thousands of years ago. There is more to the story of under- ground chambers at Giza, for media reports described the unearthing of a subterranean passageway between the Temple of the Solar-men 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 particu- lar 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 car- ried 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 spa- cious room, in the centre of which was another shaft that descend- ed 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. \d the fighting bow. idin, from a painting in rarf Khnumhotpti at asan. nts de l'Egypte, p. 1, CCC) HEADLINE NEWS 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 gradu- ally 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 veri- fied by archaeological discoveries, for it was ascertained in 1935 that there was a subterranean connection between the Sphinx and APRIL — MAY 2004 NEXUS = 47 www.nexusmagazine.com