The great pyramid passages and chambers

PLATE CXXI. “Pyramid Cubit” of 5 times 5 Pyramid Inches; both of which measures he proves to be abundantly evident everywhere throughout the Pyramid—Par. 19.

491 As for ourselves, we believe that everything in this peculiar little chamber has a symbolical significance, and that the Granite Leaf is a most important feature. You will remember how beautifully, in the 3rd Volume of Scripture Studies, C. T. Russell points out a number of these symbolisms, which the photographs we have taken are intended partially to illustrate—See Chapter VII, Section (£).

492 One other photograph was taken in the Ante - Chamber Plate CXXI. Thisshows on the right side a portion of the west wall with its broad shallow grooves and its broken pilasters, and on the left the low passage, only three and a half feet in height and eight feet fourinchesin length, leading to the King’s Chamber. The narrow rebates on each side of the doorway are clearly apparent, as also the four vertical and parallel grooves, measuring 334 inches in width by

The south wall of the Ante-Chamber; showing the four deep 234 inches in depth, Srooves which divide the wall into five equal spaces; - .

° also the low passage which leads idee peaching eon thescet

2 ing of the Ante-Chamber

to the King’s Chamber. down to the fractured

doortop. The five spaces marked off by these four vertical grooves and the two side walls, stand out distinctly, and are of equal width, namely, six inches. The white line across the floor at the further end of the low passage, is the dividing line between the granite floor of the entrance passage, and the granite floor of the King’s Chamber beyond. The prominence of this line is due to the fact that the floor of the King’s

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