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The Real Pyramid Story, October 10, 2006
This review is from: Initiation in the Great Pyramid (Astara's library of mystical classics) (Paperback)
There are many books on the Egyptian pyramids, but if you really want to know how the Great Pyramid was used, read this book. Earlyne Chaney's first person account rings true.
This book won't give you many details on how the pyramids were built (read Edgar Cayce for that information), but after reading this book you'll know how the various passages and chambers were used by initiates around the time of 3000 B.C. Even then the Egyptians considered the Great Pyramid to be very ancient.
This book lets you know the source and type of energy used to construct Egypt's monuments as well as the steps each soul needs to take to reach perfection. In 3000 B.C. initiates physically faced the various challenges to the soul. Today we face the same challenges internally. The Egyptian initiations symbolically correlate with our own path to soul growth.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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I would prefer not to have to star rate this book because..., June 8, 2008
This review is from: Initiation in the Great Pyramid (Astara's library of mystical classics) (Paperback)
I would prefer to not have to rate this book because I would rather convey to you the sorts of information contained within. I personally have had several amazing experiences inside of the Great Pyramid and purchased this book looking for "technical" information. By "technical" I mean I was looking for an instruction manual as to how to better accord myself with the Great Pyramid. However, this book contains only a limited amount of this information.
Earlyne Chaney's book is a recounting of her past life memories. I do believe in past lives, however, I know that the information I have received about them is often incomplete, fuzzy, and largely is a transmission of disconnected images and feelings. So how do you fill in the gaps? Well you have to make inferences, and I think that is what Ms. Chaney has done in "Initiation in the Great Pyramid." I say that because, while there is good information contained within, the information is often not cohesive and feels like a hodge podge. The hodge podge is of some information that feels authentically Egyptian, while other pieces of information sound like the author's personal eastern-influenced (perhaps Buddhist or Hindu) beliefs, and still other pieces of information are straight from Masonic practice.
I am well aware of many modern Masons' belief that their practices stem from ancient Egyptian religious practice (see the Hiram Key, for example), however Ms. Chaney is NOT trying to document research that she has done. Rather this is a document of her own personal experience with the Pyramid. This is valuable, but I am not sure that the information is either verifiable or even useful for a modern person looking for their own Khufic initiation. It is clear that Ms. Chaney is (was) a sweetheart of a person, probably bereft of any guile. So the transmission here is sincere, if not always credible.
Lastly, several of Ms. Chaney's descriptions of experiences inside of the Great Pyramid match my own. This lends credibility to the story in my mind, but the remainder of her experience in the magnificent pyramid is not something that I can personally cop to, so I can't say to what degree I can trust the entirety of what she describes in this book. Nonetheless, I will be on the look out for these sorts of experiences when next to Egypt I go.
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