Secrets of the Great Pyramid

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Summary: Rounded View
Review: Great amount of knowledge and facts about the Great Pyramid. I think it is by far one of the best written on this subject and I find it presents a very all rounded view on this enigmatic subject. While presenting the more orthodox view of the pyramid being a tomb, it also gives other views of what was the purpose of erecting the Pyramid.

One short coming was it did not actually dwell into great detail as to how the Pyramid was constructed.

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Summary: Essential Research Material, for those Seeking Light
Review: I grew-up reading the Hard-Cover version of this book, which I have inherited from my Grandfather and treasure along-side my Masonic books. There is so much information within the covers of Tompkin's book that is helpful to all students of The Mysteries, that should be read and filed in the mind for later reference. This book is also the first source of information I ever came-across about Akhenaten, the "Rebel" ruler of Egypt. I know that the Hard-Cover edition had many, many illustrations. This book also contains Mathematical break-downs and Geometry involved with The Pyramids, including a well-illustrated explanation of "The Golden Section."

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Summary: Best book on Cheops pyramid ever written
Review: I have read over a dozen titles about the pyramids, and no one is more comprehensive, documented and approached seriously and rigorously. A must read for anybody interested in the most mysterious landmark of mankind.

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Summary: The capstone of pyramidology books
Review: If you were to only read one book on the Great Pyramid this is it. Accept no immitations. Secrets of the Great Pyramid is the apex of work done by scientists and historians until the time of publication. Do not consider telling anyone you are interested in pyramids unless you have digested this book!

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Summary: A masterwork of science
Review: Peter Thompkins, it seemed, set out to prove, in an Egyptological fashion the old truism that the truth is stranger- and more glorious- than fiction. He does so in a way unlike I have ever seen or read before. He makes it so clear that science, technology and the quest of man to understand his world and himself need not look the way it was taught to us in any schools we have attended- and in reality often isn't.

In simply documenting the history and evolution of "Pyramidology", the science of studying the qualities, possible meanings and actual purposes of the great Pyramids of Giza, Thompkins allows the unfolding of the unpredicatble- and uncontrollable- nature of both scientific discovery and cultural transformation to become fully visible to us in ways the mainstream establishment in any of the traditional fields could never allow. At one point in the survey you will see the study of the Pyramids devolve into cults; all documented evidence becomes at one time or another a metaphor for a specific culture or sub-culture's socio-political agenda or quasi-religious beliefs. At other times, a prophet of science like the English astronomer Lockyer- and his antecedents- will show up and flip the world as you know it on its head. Traditional Egyptology will at times look even more cultish than the Pyramid watchers, with the revealing of its willful ignorance of obvious scientific evidence that not just obliterates but reveals the hidden psychology behind many of their long cherished theories.

This seminal book, before you even get into the postscript section with Livio Stechini's theory of ancient mathematics, is a lesson in what it has been to be a citizen of Western culture as much as it is the most eye-opening and thorough study of both Pyramidology and the Pyramids I have ever read.

I have already read it twice, and can never seem to stop getting more and more out of it. SECRETS OF THE GREAT PYRAMID is a far-reaching, important book of history and science that reads like a novel and never stops making you say "wow".

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Summary: An esoteric understanding of the Great Pyramid
Review: Peter Tompkins book, The Secrets of the Great Pyramid should be everyone's first book to read when they reject the orthodox conclusions of the archeological community.

His manner of prose is so matter-of-fact that only the most irrational person could argue his main points. He is fair in dispelling the myths of the Egyptologists. He states their case and then explains, unpejoratively, why he disagrees.

The diagrams in the version I have are in brown-on-white coloring, not my favorite aspect of the book. I wish it included full colored plates, but then we can't have everything.

In the margins the author often diverges into fascinating side issues, many of wish are worthy of research on their own.

I highly recommend this book as a counterpoint to those who struggle to accept that the Great Pyramid was a tomb; especially since no dead bodies have been found in it.


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Summary: Fascinating Book - I am about to read it for the third time
Review: This book on the Great Pyramid by Peter Tompkins contains a
fabulous amount of little known information such as the Pyramids'
4 base lengths,it's precise orientation towards the 4 Cardinal
points and an enormous amount of information about early measur-
ing systems and more. This book should be the corner-stone for
anyone interested in not only the history of the Great Pyramid,
But also in scientific facts preseted so almost anyone can under-
stand them. In short, a MUST-HAVE for anyone interested in the
Great Pyramid!

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Summary: A Real Education
Review: This is easily one of the most fascinating and engagine books I've ever read. This book also started a voyage of discovery for me. Tompkins explores the validity of the assumptions of the best known Pyramid researches, as well as their often sad motives and methods. At the heart of the book is Tompkins revelations about what these researchers believed, and why.

Hints of how the pyramid was constructed and astronomically aligned are included, and fascinating parallels between the grand gallery and druidic observatories are also detailed. Allusions to Freemasonry and other spiritual veins are also quite fascinating, as are the mathematical secrets hidden in the Pyramid. Sacred Geometry is also discussed and is quite interesting.

I can't recommend this book too highly.

Rating:
Summary: A Real Education
Review: This is easily one of the most fascinating and engagine books I've ever read. This book also started a voyage of discovery for me. Tompkins explores the validity of the assumptions of the best known Pyramid researches, as well as their often sad motives and methods. At the heart of the book is Tompkins revelations about what these researchers believed, and why.

Hints of how the pyramid was constructed and astronomically aligned are included, and fascinating parallels between the grand gallery and druidic observatories are also detailed. Allusions to Freemasonry and other spiritual veins are also quite fascinating, as are the mathematical secrets hidden in the Pyramid. Sacred Geometry is also discussed and is quite interesting.

I can't recommend this book too highly.

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Summary: Rounded View
Review: Tompkins book is a good list of the works of those who have researched the pyramid themselves. To make use of the varied and stimulating ideas he reiterates, it's necessary to go to his sources. I'd advise starting with Smyth if you can put up with his religeous overtones. Overall a light read, but well done.