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THE SECRET OF THE PYRAMID 65
tify its source. For me it seems only a question of time, considering
the crowds of archaeologists and other scientists from all
around the world exploring the pyramids.
The interest is immense just because these secrets seem to be
so well guarded. The more valuable the treasure is,
the better
hidden it should be. Some believe these treasures will be a fortune
in gold and diamonds, but it seems much more probable
that what will be found some day will be hieroglyphs inscribed
on gold plates containing the whole history of man, including the
true secrets of our terrestrial or astral past. And if that is so, the
scientific and historical value of the records will far surpass that
of the metal they are written on even if the plates were made out
of platinum.
In the museum of Father Crespi in Cuenca, Ecuador, visitors
can see a heavy, solid
gold plate covered with hieroglyphs not
yet deciphered and this plate could contain some secrets. It
seems that similar plates are still hidden in caves aroimd Cuenca,
but it is difficult to obtain reliable information about these treasures
and may be better not to talk much about them before one
has seen these.
Legends tell us that when the Spaniards invaded their land,
the Aztecs hid all their precious artifacts in caves and, as the
story goes, the most valuable treasure consisted of fifty-two massive
gold tablets engraved with all the history and all the sciences
of the Aztec culture. It would be surprising if the Egyptians,
whose land was invaded so many times by Assyrians,
Greeks, Romans, and Arabs, would not have done a good job
hiding their most precious belongings. Herodotus, the father of
history himself, claimed that the Egyptian priests of Sais, in
Lower Egypt, told him of a secret chamber under the River Nile
that would flood automatically if intruders tried to gain access to
it.
In 1837 a British civil engineer, John Perring, dug down deep
inside the Great Pyramid into hard rock to find the hidden chamber,
but his digging was not deep enough and he found nothing.
If a hidden room exists, it could have very interesting contents.
Among other items, it could conceivably hide the resting place of
the very first pharaoh of celestial origin and also, no doubt, a
freeze generator and an electromagnetic radiation source of