There was nothing on the plain but the splendid “Memento for Generations,” built by the men of Atlantis, whose descendants were gathered into the hungry maw of the sea.
This massive pile is twice the length of the Pyramid of Cheops, but not nearly so high. A long circular stairway led to its top, which measured an acre in its area, and supported a teocalli—the last temple of the Brotherhood of the White Star which was built in America.
Nothing could be more sublime and beautiful than the view from the top of this pyramid. Toward the west stretches the bold barrier of porphyritic rock which nature has reared around the valley of Mexico, with huge Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl standing like two colossal sentinels guarding the entrance to this incomparable region.
The word pyramid means a place of fire, while Palai, or Pele, of the Hawaiians, is the spirit of the volcano center, or precipice of fire, as a pyramid was often called. The Arabic word Alcyone means the center, or cone, the spiritual apex around which the sun and all the sidereal galaxy are circling.
The two mountains represented the masculine potency and the feminine passivity of all which is generated in nature giving all things their proportion. Acting on this principle, the ancient sculptors down to and including Phidias, fixed the respective heights of man and woman as twenty and nineteen palms of one-third of a foot each, up to the organs of casualty and comparison, at the roots of the hair on the forehead.
Comparison with casualty on each side is the psychometric eye—the Cyclopean third eye, scouted by the would-be wise. Comparison is feminine; casualty is masculine.
The union of these forms the true vision of the soul, which, developed to its fullest capacity, gives that mysterious faculty of psychic perception, comparison and deduction beyond the intellectual comprehension of ordinary man, and marks the adept.
It was this transcendent power which the Pyramid of Cholula, built to the east of these two volcanoes, symbolized.
Farther in the same direction, towers Orizaba, correlated to the macrocosm, of which the Pyramid of Cholula was the microcosm.
Orizaba equals the height of Popocatepetl, signifying that the adept manifesting energy on the subjective plane is equal in function to the cosmic mind.