se--closer in
approximation than Walli's Indivisibles, or Newton's Fluxions, or
Liebnitz's Calculus. The door of entrance was some forty-nine feet from
its base, and 300 inches East of the centre, so as at once to express the
tilt of the earth's axis from the plane of its orbit, and by its height
from the ground express the Precession of the Equinoxes. What a witness
outwardly, when complete, of polished marble, covering some thirteen and
a half acres, within and without clean and free from idolatrous marks.
But God foretold the place and purpose of this huge pile through the
prophet Isaiah (xix. 19, 20): "In that day shall there be an altar to the
Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border
thereof to the Lord. And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto
the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt." Here we see the _altar and
pillar_ are _one_ and the same, and a scientific fact is expressed when
the prophet says it shall be in the midst and on the border. The
position of the Pyramid is such, being at the sector point of Upper and
Lower Egypt, thus being on the border of both, yet in the midst. The
sector point of the arm is where the wrist joins the hand. The spreading
hand represents Lower, and the arm Upper Egypt. (See on frontispiece the
sector plate.)
May we ask what the pillar and witness--the Pyramid--has to say on the
Jewish question, for it has not left this fact unnoticed? At the
junction of the first ascending passage with the Grand Gallery, on the
left-hand side, or East, there is a horizontal passage-way leading to
what is called the Queen's Chamber. This chamber is on the twenty-fifth
course of masonry. Now, it is allowed, the Grand Gallery expresses the
time of Christ's advent and fulness of time--enlarged liberty. The
ascending passage being only four feet high, men were cramped in passing
up, but on reaching the Grand Gallery they were free, for it is
twenty-eight feet high.
The passage to the Queen's Chamber is only four feet, and is it not
strange that it is altogether Jewish? This low horizontal passage
terminates in a grand Sabbatic room, which symbolises the Jewish
Sabbath-week, feasts, and time periods.
From this passage we learn that the Jews rejected Christ, and went off by
themselves, refusing the liberty of Christ. So as truly as the coming of
Christ had been forecast in this Pyramid, so had His rejection by the
Jews.
The very mortar in this cham
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