Larry Pahl is a retired political science and history teacher with a longtime interest in Egypt and especially the Great Pyramid of Giza.
He discovered the distance from his home in Fairfield Glade to the ancient and iconic structure is a number that is mathematically linked to the universal symbol of pi, a key component of the pyramid’s geometric precision.
Now retired, Pahl has ample time to delve into the mysteries of the Great Pyramid and educate others on it and other historic sites in Egypt through a twice yearly tour.
Pahl is presenting a free 45-minute program, The Mysteries of Egypt, plus Q & A, Saturday, March 14, at 3 p.m., at the Fairfield Glade Library.
Among the highlights will be his findings on the origin of the Great Pyramid and how the Egyptians, without the benefit of modern physics and science, were able to build such an amazing structure that experts have concluded is an exact 1/43,200th scale model of the earth. This has led to speculation it was built by people from Atlantis or extraterrestrials.
Pahl, on the other hand, ascribes to a higher power.
Growing up in Chicago, Pahl taught political science in college and world history in high school until he retired in 2018. Teaching world history led to an interest in Egypt and amassing a collection of books on that country and the Great Pyramid he said is one of the most extensive in the world.
Pahl visited Egypt in 2014 and toured the inside of the Great Pyramid.
“I got to see the inside of a monument I had studied for so long,” said Pahl, who moved to Fairfield Glade five years ago. “It was dizzying and beyond the knowledge base of the Egyptians.”
Out if his touring of the Great Pyramid and through the guidance of Zahi Hawass, archaeologist and former minister of state for Antiquities Affairs, Pahl formed the American Institute for Pyramid Research and started giving tours in 2015.
He’s done 20 tours that include a two-hour private visit to the Great Pyramid, a Nile River cruise, and viewings of the temples and pyramids.
The tours last seven to 10 days and average 12-15 people. The cost is $3,000. Pahl relies on a variety of sources for his business: Instagram, YouTube, webpage, word of mouth and his annual presentation in Fairfield Glade.
Back to the Great Pyramid and its origins. In the Old Testament in Isaiah 19:19, the passage reads: “In that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the heart of Egypt, and a monument to the LORD at the border. Continuing in Isaiah 19:20: “It will be a sign and witness to the Lord Almighty in the land of Egypt.”
Now there is mention in the Old Testament of a man being the architect of the Great Pyramid, but he is of God and not Atlantis or another planet.
In Job 38:4-6 in the Old Testament, God tells Job he laid the foundations of the Great Pyramid, but where was he when God laid the foundation of the earth?
“You, Job, determined the measures on the Pyramid in Egypt, but who determined the measures of the earth and stretched the line upon it? You, Job, fastened down in sockets the foundations of the pyramid, but whereupon are the foundations of the earth fastened? You, Job, were not able to lay the Pyramid’s capstone, for your work was not absolutely perfect, but I laid the cornerstone of the earth.”
Back on the earthly plane, Pahl continues to marvel at a work that did not achieve God’s perfection but with its geometrical precision and positioning remains a fitting “monument” to Him. He said there’s solid evidence the Egyptians built the pyramid but likely had help with the design.
“I believe that the repository of advanced knowledge embedded in the Great Pyramid points toward the ancient legends that Enoch, seventh from Adam in the Bible listing of patriarchs, was a brilliant polymath who communed with God and is credited with designing the pillar of Enoch, a monument that was meant to be a repository of ancient science and knowledge,” Pahl said.
Pahl further stated that the Egyptian priests told Herodotus, the father of history, a shepherd who had flocks in the area of the Great Pyramid built it in the time of Khufu, the pharaoh credited with building the largest pyramid in the world.
“Job was a shepherd,” Pahl said. “When God speaks to him out of the whirlwind recorded in Job 38 he seems to address him as the builder of the pyramid.”
If there’s anyone who seemingly has a calling to uncover the secrets of the Great Pyramid, it’s Pahl. Not only is the distance of 6,285 miles between his home and the pyramid exactly 2pi multiplied by 1,000, but Pahl also discovered four letters on the entranceway wall of the latter, with one bearing a name close to that of his mother’s family.
“I’m destined to do this kind of work,” he said. “I love to pursue the mysteries of the Great Pyramid. Some people, when they retire to Fairfield Glade, have an identity crisis because they no longer have their career. I hit the ground running and became a full-time Egyptian researcher.”