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preserved amongst the Jews, of an ancient tradition,
that the most religious of the long-lived ancient fathers,
hefore the deluge, who were the most direct descendants
of Seth, had employed much of their time in putting
together successive astronomical observations; the re-
membrance of the first of which, had been preserved, by
the posterity of Shem__Pursuantly with such tradition,
Josephus even goes so far as to intimate, that Almighty
God bestowed on those ancestors of mankind, a longer
term of years, on account of their commendable exertions
and good use they made of their time in astronomical
and geometrical discoveries; which required a longer
period of time than that allotted since, for the life of
man.*See Antiq. Judeorum lib. 1st. Chap. 3rd. sect. 9th.
The inference I draw from the above remarkable
passage is, that the perfect geometrical figure, which I
shall prove the Pyramid to be; it's commensurability of
parts with the whole; the scientific approach of the side
of it's base to a meridional degree of the circumference
of the earth; and the useful solutions of problems de-
ducible from it ; bespeak it the production of those
immediate descendants of Seth, and the faithful that
adhered to them, distinguished in Holy Writ, by the ap-
pellation of the sons of God, as the rest were called the
children of men.
And since the above recorded traditions retained by
a society of people, who have so faithfully and diligently
preserved and handed down, the sacred writings of the
old Testament, are certainly both important and worthy
of attention; there can be nothing either extravagant or
unreasonable
* This quotation I have .taken as I found it in Mr. King's
«wnaxnenta antiqua. Vol 1. page 142.
preserved amongst the Jews, of an ancient tradition,
that the most religious of the long-lived ancient fathers,
hefore the deluge, who were the most direct descendants
of Seth, had employed much of their time in putting
together successive astronomical observations; the re-
membrance of the first of which, had been preserved, by
the posterity of Shem__Pursuantly with such tradition,
Josephus even goes so far as to intimate, that Almighty
God bestowed on those ancestors of mankind, a longer
term of years, on account of their commendable exertions
and good use they made of their time in astronomical
and geometrical discoveries; which required a longer
period of time than that allotted since, for the life of
man.*See Antiq. Judeorum lib. 1st. Chap. 3rd. sect. 9th.
The inference I draw from the above remarkable
passage is, that the perfect geometrical figure, which I
shall prove the Pyramid to be; it's commensurability of
parts with the whole; the scientific approach of the side
of it's base to a meridional degree of the circumference
of the earth; and the useful solutions of problems de-
ducible from it ; bespeak it the production of those
immediate descendants of Seth, and the faithful that
adhered to them, distinguished in Holy Writ, by the ap-
pellation of the sons of God, as the rest were called the
children of men.
And since the above recorded traditions retained by
a society of people, who have so faithfully and diligently
preserved and handed down, the sacred writings of the
old Testament, are certainly both important and worthy
of attention; there can be nothing either extravagant or
unreasonable
* This quotation I have .taken as I found it in Mr. King's
«wnaxnenta antiqua. Vol 1. page 142.