The Papyrus of Ani in the Theban Book of the Dead depicts an ankh surmounting a djed pillar. The ankh has hands holding a large reddish sphere. In 1970 Dr. Ray Brown, a naturopathic practitioner and lecturer from Mesa, Arizona, made an extraordinary discovery 135 feet down near the Bari/Berry Islands in the Bahamas, 20 miles from the edge of the undersea drop known as the ‘Tongue of the Ocean’. He saw a pyramid “shining like a mirror” [Brown], about 120 feet high, though only the top 90 feet was visible above the sand. It appeared as the Giza pyramids once looked: capstone [here dark blue], smooth-faced, and with blocks so tightly jointed a knife blade couldn’t slot between them. Around it lay the buildings of a ruined city which, according to pilots, stretches for about 5 miles. Pyramids, domes and arches have been sighted around the Grand Bahama Banks, near Haiti and San Domingo, while extensive ruins are said to lie off Cuba. [ref: Charles Berlitz, The Bermuda Triangle, London, 1974, pg. 132].

Swimming down a narrow passage, he entered a rectangular chamber with a pyramidal ceiling. Though Brown had no torch the light was clear enough to see by, even at that depth! And the walls were algae free. In the centre of the room was a stone plinth with a flat top with scrolled ends resembling the capital of an Ionic column. [A slab not unlike this one tops a late Roman altar found in the port of Ostia]. On the pyramid slab was “a crystal held by two metallic hands” [Brown], about 3½ inches in diameter. The bronze hands were charred. The reason for this burning seems to have been a metallic rod hanging down from ceiling. The end had a pointed multi-faceted red gem. Was it a laser? The sphere was 4 feet below the tip. Did the rod conduct energy from the crystal to the capstone or vice versa? This passage from Barbara Hand Clow’s Signet of Atlantis [pg 156] may give a clue [the bracketed sections are my notes]:

“They [the Nibiruan visitors] arrived and assumed that the harmonic creativity of the Atlanteans came from their [central] crystal. Then the Nibiruans placed their own thought forms in the crystal by means of laser beams, creating an interference pattern.”

[The University of Rochester is conducting experiments firing different coloured lasers at various frequencies into crystals: http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/may2001/nf200110530_264.htm]

Having failed to remove the rod, he discovered the gem was an easier prospect. According to Charles Berlitz the crystal was spherical with three pyramidal images within. They decrease in size. Could they represent the Giza pyramids and, if so, what is the connection?

A New York psychic, Elizabeth Bacon, said, during a reading, that Thoth buried his Hall of Records near the Sphinx and pyramids. Intriguingly, the Edfu Texts describe the Hall as being

“a pyramid shaped entrance hall surrounded by 12 cylindrical chambers [the Chambers of Creation], each containing material from a different branch of knowledge. There may be medical equipment, communications equipment, evidence of air travel. If you translate the Edfu Texts literally there is even mention of ‘power tools’”.

The original Christian settlement at Glastonbury, as described by Frederick Bligh Bond, Director of Excavations there in the 1910s and 1920s, sounds strikingly similar. Enclosing the round Chapel of St Mary [the pyramid] was a ring of 12 round huts [the Chambers]. From the Chapel paths radiated like wheel spokes to the huts. The settlement’s arrangement and dimensions, claimed Bligh Bond, were revealed via ‘automatic writing’ from the ‘spirits’ of Glastonbury’s monks. Once converted to feet, the dimensions, said John Michell, in The New View Over Atlantis [1983], had cosmological significance [i.e., were Sacred Geometry]. According to Michell, each group of huts represented

“the seasons of the moon and the months of the Great Year, each month consisting of 2160 years, the number corresponding to 2160 miles in the moon’s diameter”.

Zodiacal ‘ages’ have this duration [see Chapter Eleven]. The diameter of each hut was 21.60 ft, the Chapel 79.20 ft, corresponding to the “average diameter of the Earth” [Michell], about 7920 miles. It is thought the dimensions of the Great Pyramid represent those of Earth. Does this mean, then, that like the Glastonbury huts, the Chambers, symbolise the Moon in relation to Earth [the pyramidal “entrance hall”]?

According to Edgar Cayce, the famous American psychic [d.1945], the records were retrieved before the final destruction of Atlantis Robert Bauval, using astronomical calculations aligned the Giza pyramids to the appearance of Orion, the constellation of Osiris, Lord of Rostau [the ancient name for Giza] in c.10450BC! At this time, Orion was at its lowest point in the heavens. Cayce dated the end of the Atlantis from 10700 BC-10500 BC. From readings 378-14 and 378-16 it appears the capstone of the Great Pyramid was

“of metal; that was to be indestructible, being of copper, brass and gold with other alloys...prepared by those of the period.”

In the presence of King Araraaraat [was the mountain named after him or he after it?], Osiris, Isis, Horus, Thoth and others, records of the priests of Atlantis were sealed within the pyramid, the capstone being hammered on with great ceremony. Bauval suggested a Cult of Osiris may’ve laid out the Giza site c.10450, the pyramids being built by Pharaohs Khufu, Khafre and Menkaura, beginning c.2450, when Orion was at its highest point.

When the pyramid crystal was held, said Berlitz, a throbbing sensation was experienced, “whether by autosuggestion or some other quality inherent in the object” [Charles Berlitz, Atlantis: The Lost Continent Revealed, London, 1984, pg. 105]. A single eye was also witnessed gazing benignly out. Could this be the Eye of Ra depicted so frequently in Ancient Egyptian art?