probably is the real axis and lies 27 north of the heavenly
equator, while the inclination of the earth's axis to the orbit of
the sun is 23 . But you have forgotten the third Pyramid, that of
Menkheres, the base of which is 107 great ells broad. This number
107 we find again three or five times in the universe; there are 107
smaller suns between the earth and the sun; 107 is the distance
of the planet Venus, and also of Jupiter from the sun."

Reuben started. "What? Where did you get all that? Here you let me
stand, and make a fool of me! Where have you learnt that?"

"From our oldest and wisest, who have preserved the memories of
their home at Ur in Chaldaea. You despise Assur, you men of Egypt,
for you believe the Nile is the centre of the earth. But there are
many centres in the infinite. Behind Assur, on the Tigris and
Euphrates, there lies another land with another river. It is called
the Land of the Seven Rivers, because its river debouches into seven
mouths as the Nile does."

"The Nile has seven arms, as you say, like the seven-branched
candlestick!

"That betokens the Light of the world, which shall shine from every
land where a river divides itself in order to flow into the sea. The
rivers, you see, are the blood-vessels of the earth, and as these
carry blue and red blood alternately, so our land has its Blue Nile
and its Red Nile. The Blue Nile is poisonous like dark blood, and
the Red is fertilising, life-giving, like red blood. So everything
created has its counterpart above in heaven and below on earth, for
all is one, and the Lord of all is One--One and the Same."