The Great Pyramid

The great pyramids of Egypt were built following a second migration to Egypt some 80 to 100 thousand years ago [9]. Blavatsky quotes an ancient Commentary which says that the great pyramids were built at the beginning of a precessional cycle, 'when Dhruva (the then Pole-star) was at his lowest culmination, and the Krittika (Pleiades) looked over his head (were on the same meridian but above) to watch the work of the giants', and she identifies the polestar in question as Polaris (SD 1:435). Dick interpreted this obscure statement to mean that the first pyramids were built when Polaris, the polestar at the time the Commentary was written, was furthest from the actual pole at the time the Pyramid was built, and was on the same meridian both with the latter and Alcyone (the chief star of the Pleiades), the latter being higher than the pole [10]. He calculated that the last time such an event occurred was 86,960 years ago,* during the Age of Cancer (the Crab) -- a constellation that is displayed very prominently in the two Dendera zodiacs, in which it appears a total of three times. This is in agreement with Blavatsky's statement that 'the Egyptians have on their Zodiacs irrefutable proofs of records having embraced more than three-and-a-half sidereal years [precessional cycles] -- or about 87,000 years' (SD 2:332).

*In theosophical terms, this date marked the beginning of the present (Caucasian) family race. Since a family race can be divided into seven national races, each of them lasting for one precessional cycle (25,920 years), the present European nations comprise the fourth national race, which began about 9200 years ago and has another 16,000 years to live, before a series of cataclysms cause the submergence of many parts of Europe and usher in the next cycle of civilization. (SD 2:331, 1:439n; G. de Purucker, Studies in Occult Philosophy, TUP, 1945, pp. 35-9; Fountain-Source of Occultism, TUP, 1974, pp. 163-4.)