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Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Initiation of the Pyramid (36)
The word pyramid is popularly supposed to be derived from πῦρ, fire, thus signifying that it is the symbolic representation of the One Divine Flame, the life of every creature. John Taylor believes the word pyramid to mean a "measure of wheat, " while C. Piazzi Smyth favors the Coptic meaning, "a division into ten." The initiates of
The Elements (53d)
Timaeus: Now all triangles derive their origin from two triangles, each having one angle right and the others acute ; and the one of these triangles...