More than 4,500 years ago, massive stone structures were built on the plateau close to the Nile. They were all pyramid shaped. Or a polyhedron whose base is a polygon and whose sides are triangles having a common vortex.

The mystery surrounding their symbolism, design and purpose have kept generations guessing. It has excited more speculation and fantasy than has any other solid geometrical shape. The most famous of them is the Great Pyramid of Khufu. The four sides of this Pyramid are accurately oriented to the cardinal points of the compass. The mummified body of the pharaoh was entombed within the structure. This was intended to protect the pharaoh and allow his ascension to afterlife. Archaeologists where puzzled to discover the state of the mummies and dead animals that were found in the Pyramids of Egypt. They were dehydrated - not decomposed. Despite the high humidity in the chambers.

The shape of the pyramid may have represented the sun's rays, which the dead king would use as a stairway to the celestial realm. Or it could have been a representation of the primordial mound from which the world was created. Perhaps it is this encoded and seemingly unending storehouse of wisdom, that retains through the centuries for the Great Pyramid, a pivotal position in man's search for the hows and whys of his existence.

These Pyramids (pyramid means 'fire at the centre') were built as a focus of energy and are known as the principle geometric form for matter and consciousness. The shape is said to be effective in increasing our energy levels, our ability to visualise and helps to attain a higher plateau of evolution. It helps in healing as it is an accumulator and modifier of harmonic energy. The shape acts as an antenna or resonator of energy. Energy is radiated and absorbed by the object kept under it. Pyramids generate ions - which are used to balance the effect of the elements on the body. Ions reproduce and repair body cells thereby checking physical decay.