The great pyramid passages and chambers

CHAPTER V.

THE PASSAGE AND CHAMBER SYSTEM

OF THE GREAT PYRAMID.

N the third volume of his Scripture Studies, page 330, C. T. Russell writes: “ But while the outward testimony of this great structure is thus complete and in accord with God’s written revelation, its inner construction is even more

wonderful. While its outward form illustrates the completed results of God's Plan of Redemption, the inner construction marks and illustrates every prominent feature of that plan as it has developed from age to age, down to its glorious and complete consummation.” It is the purpose of the present work to demonstrate the truth of this statement.

89 In order to an intelligent and appreciative understanding of the symbolism of the Great Pyramid Passage and Chamber system, it will be necessary for the reader first to acquaint himself with its architecture. The names here given to the various passages and chambers are those commonly accepted by Pyramid students. They are mentioned in the order in which they appeared to us during our visit to the Great Pyramid in the months of June and July of the year 1909, and will be easily followed and understood by the reader if reference be made to Plate IX.

90 There is only one Entrance into the interior. High up on the north side of the building, and twenty-four feet to the east of the middle line, a small doorway leads into the Entrance or Descending Passage, which, like all the other passages in the Pyramid, runs directly from north to south. So low is its roof (scarcely four feet), that we required to stoop considerably, and the difficulty of progression was increased by the slipperiness and steep downward inclination of the passage. For the first seventy-eight feet, the centre of the floor is hewn and worn into a series of irregular shallow and deep trenches. These to some extent increased the difficulty of progression. The only advantage they possessed was that, in certain places, we found them sufficiently deep to enable us to stand upright.

91 A few feet further down, we noticed a rectangular, dark granite block which occupies a depression in the roof. This is the lower butt-end of a series of three large granite stones, named collectively the Granite Plug, because they completely block the lower end of the First Ascending Passage. At this place the floor of the Descending Passage is composed of such hard limestone, that the traffic and vandalism of centuries have made very little impression on it. The surface is so smooth that to walk on it is impossible, unless one is wearing rubber shoes, or has bare or stockinged feet, and even

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