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Pyramid to represent the Great Company--the Bride's virgin companions, who willfollow her? (Psa. 45:14.) We understandyour interpretation to teach that the Queen'sChamber symbolically represents those whowill attain perfection on the human plane,and that the King's Chamber symbolicallyrepresents those who will attain to thedivine nature. Is the Great Company notshown in the Pyramid, or have you merely neglected tocall attention to the feature which symbolizes it?Answer.--God, during this Gospel Age of nearly nineteencenturies, has been calling the Church to glory, honorand immortality. During the next Age, under Messiah'sKingdom, He will open up a way of Restitution and returnto earthly perfection for all the willing and obedientof mankind. God did not call any to be of the Great CompanyClass. Those who will ultimately be of that class,"saved as by fire," will get a reward to which they werenever called, or invited. There is but one call during thisAge; as we read, "Ye are called in one hope of yourcalling." (Eph. 4:4.) That call was to self-sacrifice--towalk in the footsteps of Jesus. Only by making thatcovenant of sacrifice were any of us accepted or begottenof the Holy Spirit or privileged to call ourselves the electof God.In view of these things it would seem quite appropriatethat the Great Pyramid does not show a place for theGreat Company, as though they had been invited to sucha place.The ante-chamber, as we have already pointed out,marks the experiences of the Church in the School ofChrist, which are necessary before any could pass, by thepower of the First Resurrection, into the Divine perfectionsymbolized by the King's Chamber. We may, therefore,assume that the Great Company class all come intothis Ante-chamber, or School, but that only the "faithfulunto death" pass beyond it under the granite leaf into theKing's Chamber.----------SIGNIFICANCE OF PLANES L AND K ON CHARTQuestion.--In describing the Chart you say, Vol. I,page 211, "These, when born from the dead in the resurrection,will have the divine nature and form." Pleaseharmonize this statement with another found on page 235,which reads thus: "We know not how long it will beR5060 : page 219after their change, or perfecting, as spirit beings (planeL), before they as a full and complete company will beglorified (plane K) with the Lord, united with Him inpower and great glory."