The Watchtower Society and John and Morton Edgar - A2Z.org

the rate of a pyramid inch to a year along the Descending Passage, step by step, until we get to the floor of theFirst Ascending Passage, and then up along this passage still at the rate of a pyramid inch to a year until we getto the top of the well, the plane of human perfection, we shall find that this point indicates the year 2874, A. D.,the date when mankind will be restored to that plane from which Adam fell.October, 1830, B. C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1829 1/4Spring 2874, A.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2873 1/44702 ½ yearsLength of lower portion of Descending Passage . . . . . . . . . . 3139 British inches.Length of First Ascending Passage . . . . . . . 1545Distance to edge of upper end of Well . . . . . 23 1/44707 1/4Deduct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3/44702 1/2 pyramid inches.Having considered the general symbolism of the passages, we shall now consider them more particularly, andfirst we shall begin with,The Descending PassageJust imagine that this is an excursion party and that we are all now in Egypt at the foot of the great pyramid, andthat I am leading you up through these passages. If your imagination can carry you in this way, then you will beable to better realize the points to be made. We climb up to the entrance, and we go in single file down thispassage; it is a very small passage, it is scarcely four feet from the floor to the roof, but the length of it is 124yards. At the first a little light streams in at the entrance just as it was at the beginning of "this present evilworld," but as we proceed the gloom deepens until it becomes pitch dark. We are obliged to stoop very low aswe proceed laboriously down this passage, and very soon our heads and backs are aching. Does not this aptlyrepresent the course of this present evil world, groaning under the yoke of sin and death, and going downtowards destruction? Darkness covers the earth and gross darkness the people; they know not at what theystumble. When, we realize this, dear friends, our hearts go out in sympathy to the groaning creation. We look atthe hopelessness of their efforts to rule themselves and to bring about eternal blessings and life, and so we askourselves the question, when will be the end of these things?I want to emphasize very strongly that we must not go to the pyramid for first hand instruction in matters inregard to the plan of salvation. We must go to the Bible for that first hand instruction, and then having found outwhat the Bible teaches, we look to the pyramid to see whether or not it will confirm the Bible. Now when westudy the time prophecies and chronological parallels we know that this "present evil world" will be destroyedby the fall of 1915; that October, 1914, will be the end of the lease of power to the Gentiles and that thefollowing year, 1915, will see the destruction of all the present evil institutions. The question, then, we are toask ourselves is, Does the lower end of the Descending Passage at the edge of this Pit represent the fall of theyear 1915? It does, dear friends. How do we find this out? We find it out very simply in this way: All werequire to do is to find out the date of any point along the length of this passage; the point for instance, wherethe floor of the Descending Passage is intersected by the floor of the First Ascending Passage projecteddownwards. Once we get the date of that point, then all we have to do is to find the measurement of the passage