Deep in the heart of China, or so legend goes, is a fabulous 1000-foot high pure white pyramid. Not only is the pyramid white, but it is also capped with a huge jewel.
The first western records of this mysterious pyramid came from an american trader, Fred Meyer Schroeder, who wrote of the pyramid during an excursion with his Buddhist monk companion. He wrote in his diary:
“It was even more uncanny than if we had found it in the wilderness,” he wrote. “But those [ pyra-mids) were to some extent exposed to the eyes of the world—but still totally unknown in the western world.”
Schroeder described the pyramid as:
“Each side of the pyramid was of a different color: the northern side was black, the eastern blue, the southern red and the western side had a tint of white. The flat top of the pyramid was covered with yellow soil (clay).”
The eastern side is planted by coniferous trees having a tint of blue and green colors. The southern side was also damaged by local inhabitants and revealed the yellowish color of the clay, or for Schroeder, red. The western side of the pyramid is white because it is covered by massive stone blocks, in grey and white colors. It is this side, together with the light yellow of the top, which created the story of “the White Pyramid”.
When he asked his companion about it, the monk-guide told him that they were written about in the ancient scriptures, but that the pyramid was ancient even in the days that they were written in.
It was not until the spring of 1945, in the final days of World War II that the prymadis were mentioned again. At that time Japan was fighting to stay on the mainland and the US Army and its allies were on the offensive.
One day, U.S. Air Force Pilot James Gaussman was returning to Assam, in India, after having flown the ‘Burma Hump’-ferried supplies to Chungking, China, from India. Engine trouble forced him to drop to a low altitude over China. What he saw astounded him.
“I banked to avoid a mountain and we came out over a level valley. Directly below was a gigantic white pyramid. It looked like something out of a fairy tale. It was encased in shimmering white. This could have been metal, or some sort of stone. It was pure white on all sides. The remarkable thing was the capstone, a huge piece of jewel-like material that could have been crystal. There was no way we could have landed, although we wanted to. We were struck by the immensity of the thing.” Continue reading »
