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as been linked with the so-called Emerald Tablets, a The actual tomb of Menes, the great but mysterious series of artefacts said to contain all the knowledge in —_ founder of remote Egypt, is also supposed to be within he world and which was referred to in ancient Egypt as the Sphinx."’ The Book of Thoth. Then, in 1938, Cayce went to the same library-style The Swiss psychologist C. G. Jung identified one of the —_ Hall of Records to gain a sitter's past-life reading and, Emerald Tablets with a table made of green stone, — while there, was "given a book that was very large (tall which he encountered in a series of dreams and visions and wide), beautifully bound but quite thin"*—perhaps beginning at the end of 1912 and climaxing in his the very Book of Thoth, of which the ancient Egyptians writing Seven Sermons to the Dead in 1916. One of the — spoke? Emerald Tablets is linked with memory—as in the Hall In Beneath the Pyramids, Collins states: of Records about which Edgar Cayce spoke? "Clearly, these accounts, which are rarely published, For his new book, Collins also demonstrate that Cayce's investigated "the Sleeping sleep hypnosis enabled him to enter what he believed was some kind of astral hall of Prophet"—Cayce—and his case or the Hall of Records. He argues ...Dr Selim Hassan hat Cayce, in his visions, concluded that a physical records... sometimes confused physical with . "Thus it is possible that immaterial—other-dimensional— representation of the Duat, Cayce's vision of an Egyptian Halls of Records. At the same the Egyptian Underworld Hall of Records...was thought ime, he has uncovered the fact 9 ? of initially as a physical hat Cayce did not make claims existed underneath the counterpart to the astral hall about a physical Hall of Records Giza Plateau. of records accessed during on the Giza Plateau in a void. sleep states.”’ In 1913, the American Sunday edition of the Times of India As Above, So Below carried a feature on the excavations of American For millennia before the Great Pyramid was archaeologist George A. Reisner (1867-1942), who was constructed, caves were seen as veritable wombs of at the time working in the vicinity of the Sphinx. Mother Earth, in which religious ceremonies occurred The article, which had previously appeared in the and intricate rock paintings were created. Indeed, when British magazine The Sphere, speculated on the alleged —_ looking at the interior of pyramids, with their narrow discovery by Reisner of "hidden temples within the — entrances and long narrow corridors giving way to small natural rock of which the Sphinx is formed". It went on — chambers, are we not confronted with man-made, highly to say: "Not only is the head of the Sphinx occupied by artistic representations of cave systems? two small chambers, one superimposed above the The very name of the area in ancient times provides other, but the actual body of the Sphinx is also occupied —_ links with a subterranean realm: Rostau, meaning by a larger pillar-lined temple with passages leading off "mouth of the passages" and "entrance to the winding in several directions. passages". It should therefore not come as a surprise that Dr Selim Hassan concluded that a physical representation of the Duat, the Egyptian Underworld, existed underneath the Giza Plateau. The Duat was the ancient Egyptian equivalent of the Greek Hades or the Christian Purgatory, a realm through which the soul of the deceased had to pass before it could join God. Hassan argued that it was specifically a description of the fourth and fifth hours of the nigh that would have been portrayed a Giza, if only because they relate to the kingdom of Sokar in Rostau. Collins concludes that the Tomb o The bright star Deneb setting down into the apex of the Second Pyramid as viewed the Birds which he found, and which from the summit of Gebel Gibli during the Pyramid Age. Note the stream of stars ig known to have been a bird forming the Milky Way trailing up into the sky from around the base of the same pyramid. (Picture copyright: Andrew Collins/Rodney Hale, 2009). cemetery, likely honoured a bird deity such as the falcon god Horus concluded that a physical representation of the Duat, the Egyptian Underworld, existed underneath the The bright star Deneb setting down into the apex of the Second Pyramid as viewed from the summit of Gebel Gibli during the Pyramid Age. Note the stream of stars forming the Milky Way trailing up into the sky from around the base of the same pyramid. (Picture copyright: Andrew Collins/Rodney Hale, 2009). 50 * NEXUS ...Dr Selim Hassan Giza Plateau. DECEMBER 2009 - JANUARY 2010 www.nexusmagazine.com