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E'directly under the Grand Gallery; and at our left isthe upper end of the Firat Ascending Passage, blockedat ita lower and by the granite plug. All thee meet at'#the wellD*.Looking caddy, we .we that the Grand Gallery ex-- tends up, up, up, ova 160 feet, at the same deep inclineu the Pint Ascending Passage. !t'he floor betweentwo low stone benches or extending theentire length of the Grand Gallery b forty-two inche.wide, bat at the top of the *'ramp$' it ia seven feet wide;yet the aide walls narrow by seven oerlappings, until- at the ceiling, twenty-eight feet up, it is again butforty-two inches wide. At the south end the Galleryends abruptly, though not perpendicularly. It haa seven'overlappings of three inches each, so that the ceiling ttwenty-ane inches shorter than the floor. Seven in theBible is a number which aignzes perfection or completeness;and it is the same in the Great Pyramid.We turn to look at the mouth of "the *ell", and findthat it somewhat resembles an explosion, h thoughcame power had ford it open. That reminds us of whatSt. Peter said on the day of Pentecost : c ~ o God m hathraised up,' having loosed the paina of death ; because itwns not possible that he shoyd ba holden of ity'-A&2 : 24.Christ '%rought life and immortality C light". (2Timothy 1 : 10) He opened up a way for aome to reachthe plane of immortal life, in heaven, and for others toreach the plane of everlasting life, as human being, onearth. The Grand Gallery rymbolizes the path of theChristian to immortality, heavenly glov and honor, towhich the path is narrow, steep, slippery and hard totravel, though high in joy and hope (Colossians 1: 5)Strange to say, the length of the Grand Gallery indicatesthe time between the first and second advents of. the Lord. .The drawing representing the King's Chamber willassist to a clearer understanding. At the upper end thoinclined floor ends abruptly at a "step" three feet high,tri a horizontal floor. This extends five feet to thesouth wail of the Grand Gallery. Here again i~ shownthe date of 1914 A. D. and, in addition, that of 1925,a p)ominent data in the BibleThe.King9a and Queen's ~?iarnbelaFfurther; for a large granite block L krmedirbl) iafront of him. The only way he can go furthm ia tostoop again, aa low aa before, under the granib bf&This signifies the entering fully into the rvrieb ofChrist: "Thosoever doth not bear hia croa~~, and com~after me, cannot be my disciple." (Luke 14: 87) brhe stoops to lift his cross, aad atepa under the @kblock, he immediately steps upon a @tC &or. (SWpage 216.) He then has a divine standing u d a@covering. ''If any man be in Chrbt ha k a new ozslture.,"a fact which is eymbolized here. Thir dn*chamber is mmetimea termed a nchoob whsrs th.Christian must prepare for his future reign with Christ.(Revelation 3: 21) In thin school he Stap d a th.remainder of hie earthly qwriencaOm mom low stoop, ~~ the death oi ~human n~ture, as "flesh and blood cannot inherit thekingdom of heaven" ; and he enters the King's Chamber.This beautiful chamber appropriately represents thsthrone room, the divine natye, immorblity. LCmhbyare given unto us exceeding pat and preci01upromises; that by [meana of] thew ye might be partakersof the divine naturan (2 Peter 1 : 4) It isthe grandest chambet in the Ppmid; and ia approximately seventeen feet north and south, thiq-fourfeet e& and west, and nineteen feet high. The floor,walls and ceiling are ail of polished granik Leadingfrom the north and muth walls are two mall &-channels, extending upward and outward to the outeravfaca They rupply an abundance of cod treah air.The= signify a place of residence, a dvelling phe, -a beautiful symbol of the place which Chri8t went toprepare for His Church, as He pmmiaed: Y g to prapare a place for you," and 'To him that ovacomethwill I grant to sit with me in my thra116~ (John 14:1-3; helation 3: 21) Thus in symbol do@ the GreatPyramid erpress the words of the apde Pad: ''Theprize of the high calling of God in Christ Jcsw"-Philippians 3 : 14.Returning to the lower end of the Grand Gallery, weenter the Horizontal Passage, leadinq wuth, didjunder the floor of the Grand Gallery, but on a 1 4plaue. This paasage ia forty-two inch wide and fortyeightinches high, and appears to be a continuation dthe Fimt Ascending Passage, except that the GrradGallery has been, so to speak, thrown in between, uit were a parenthetical work, as though God had throughthc Law offered the Jews an opportuniv which theyRObf the south, upper end of the Grand Gallerya small passageway forty-two inches wide andforty-four inches high leads through the wall to a smallchamber, known as the Antechnmber, which is a little could not fulbl, in the meantime carrying on anotherwider than, the passageway. 1t.k about ten feet long, work. Later, when the Jews come up through thatwelve iind-one-half feet high, and div~ded into two"well", God rill again take up His work with them, andapartments. A person must stoop low to enter thi~' thro~~gh them with all the remainder of mankindchamber. But as goon as he enters he has a covering A,&, the apostle Paul states in words what is symbolofgranite; for the ceiling is of granlte, syrnboluing ized here: "I would not, brethren, that ye ~hould bethat aa soon a8 one entera the service of God he has a ignorant of this mystery,. ...that blindnese in part iadivine covering. But seemingly he can pramd no happened to h a 4 until the fulnesr [the full n m