ABSTRACT
Sir Gaston Maspero, as noted in Introduction, not only endorsed the thesis of Marsham Adams concerning the correspondence between the Great Pyramid’s allegory and that contained in the Egyptian Book of the Dead, but confirmed it by citing a tradition amongst the priests of Memphis that the Great Pyramid, as the “Secret House” of Osiris, was the scene where the neophyte was initiated into the Mysteries of Egypt. No race conferred so much importance and dignity upon the cult of the dead as the Egyptian. It is no exaggeration to say that the life of the Egyptian of the cultured class was one prolonged preparation for death. It is probable, however, that he was, through force of custom and environment, unaware of the circumstance. The “Light” of the Ritual, however, was not the light of day, which the soul was quitting, but that of the unseen world renewed for ever in the splendour of Osiris.
