The great pyramid passages and chambers

sacrifice, are “ begotten again” to a new nature, receiving the “holy spirit of promise ”’ as an earnest of their future spiritual inheritance, the “spirit of adoption” whereby they now cry ‘“ Abba, Father ’’—Eph. 1: 13,14; Rom. 8:15; Gal. 4:6; Heb. 12: 9. These are the spirit-begotten, and are now in the “School of Christ” where they receive trials and testings necessary to develop them as “new creatures in Christ Jesus.” In this School, grace and peace are multiplied unto them through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus their Lord—2 Pet. 1:2. (3) The King’s Chamber represents the condition of the spirit-born, those who have completed their sacrifice in death, and have in the resurrection received spirit bodies of the Divine nature in keeping with their new minds —2Cor.5:1. Thus the King’s Chamber symbolizes heaven itself, the throne of the Lord—Plate XX.

179 Those Jews and Gentiles who are justified by faith, are at peace with God through the Lord Jesus Christ, the purpose being that they may be called to jointheirship with Christ. In the Great Pyramid they are represented as standing in the Grand Gallery, which by its position above the summit of the Well, symbolizes the condition of faith-justification. At this stage, as they have not yet been begotten of the spirit, they are still natural men. This is indicated in the Great Pyramid by the fact that the Grand Gallery is composed entirely of limestone.

180 Just as the First Ascending Passage leads up to the Grand Gallery, so this smybolizes the fact that the privilege of faith-justification was first offered to those who were under the Law Covenant; for, as the Apostle Paul says, the Law was their ‘schoolmaster to bring them unto Christ, that they might be justified by faith" Gal. 3: 24. For this purpose, that the Jews might be justified by faith, Christ came ‘to his own"; and to as many as received him as the Father's appointed way to life, ‘to them gave he the privilege to become the sons of God’’—John 1: 11,12. ‘Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one [under the law] that believeth "Rom. 10: 4. Because of their faith they were no longer compelled to remain under the bondage of the Law schoolmaster (Gal. 3 : 25, 26), even as those who pass from the low confined First Ascending Passage into the greater liberty of the Grand Gallery, are no longer obliged to walk bowed down, but can straighten their backs and raise their heads in full assurance of faith in the great height of the roof.

181 But those who received Christ by faith were few in number; the vast majority because of unbelief never realized that Christ had taken the Law out of the way, nailing it to his cross (Col. 2: 14); and of them it was written: ‘Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway '’"—Rom. 11:10. As they rejected the glorious liberty of Grace so well symbolized by the Grand Gallery, they were allowed to remain in their bowed condition under the Law symbolized by the First Ascending Passage. But, praise the Lord, this does not mean their everlasting undoing, for ‘God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all” (Rom. 11 : 32); and the ransom-sacrifice of Christ symbolized by the Well, over which they stumbled, opened the way by which, when God shall ‘take away their sins,’ they may ultimately progress to the Queen’s Chamber condition of human perfection.

182 As merely a “remnant” of the Jewish nation received Jesus as the Messiah, and the rest “judged themselves unworthy of everlasting life," God turned to the other nations, the Gentiles, to ‘take out of them a people for his name’’—Acts 13: 46;