A fitting tribute to historic figure
The tomb of the First
Lord Blythswood is one of Renfrewshire’s most remarkable monuments.
Pyramidal in shape, the stony sepulchre graces old Inchinnan Parish Church graveyard just three miles from Paisley town centre.
Since time immemorial, pyramids have fulfilled an important role in sacred geometry which illustrates world and human history.
Lord Blythswood, who was born in 1837 and died in 1908, served with the Scots Guards during the Crimean War and became the regiment’s Lieutenant-Colonel.
Baptised Archibald Campbell, he was elevated to the peerage in 1892.
A highly-acclaimed amateur scientist, he installed a laboratory in his home at Blythswood House between Paisley and Renfrew.
He experimented with X-rays and was among the first men to transmit light through solid objects.
He owned rare books, paintings, military weapons, furniture, porcelain and ornaments.
An enthusiastic arboriculturist, he was a member of Inchinnan Parish Church.
In 1904, he funded construction of the country kirk in whose wooded graveyard he is buried.
As Grand Master Mason of Scotland, Lord Blythswood was passionately fond of Egypt, home of the pyramids, and where Freemasonry originated thousands of years ago in burial customs of the Pharaohs.
Modern pyramidologists believe that, as well as being royal tombs, pyramids allegorise the history of Christianity, including Christ’s Second Coming.
An inch in the Great Pyramid of Cheops is said to represent one month, starting at a geometrical point in the Great Gallery believed to represent Christ’s birth on October 6, 4BC.
Smooth stones symbolise peaceful periods in Church history while rough rocks represent strifeful epochs like the Reformation.
American pyramidologist Worth Smith claimed the starting point on the Low Passage tunnel marks August 4, 1914, the date of Britain’s entry into the First World War – while its end point indicates November 9, 1918, when German Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated.
Charles Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer Royal for Scotland, believed the Divine Geometrician designed the Great Pyramid and that its dimensions reveal the Earth’s circumference and distance from the sun.
In his pyramidal tomb in a Renfrewshire churchyard, the Grand Master Mason awaits – like his Pharaonic predecessors – the trumpet call that will summon him to those immortal mansions from where all goodness flows and where the Divine Architect reigns eternally.