The great pyramid passages and chambers

CHAPTER IV.

THE GREAT PYRAMID IN TYPE AND ANTITYPE.

HE faithful followers of Christ, for whose selection God has set apart the

Gospel Dispensation, are likened to “living stones” and are urged by the

Apostle to come unto Christ, the ‘‘ Chief corner-stone,”’ and be shaped, pol-

ished, and built in line with him—1 Pet. 2: 1-8. ‘: Thus saith the Lord God, Behold I

lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation ’’—Isa. 28: 16.

72 To believers, the ‘‘ Head corner-stone,’ Jesus Christ, is precious, because they recognize his peculiar fitness for the exalted and central position assigned to him. Studying the plan of the Great Master Architect they see only one place in the Pyramid for this “ Stone,”’ namely, at the apex, a position of pre-eminence which no other stone in the building could possibly occupy—Col. 1: 16-19. They see also, that without this ‘Head corner-stone,’ the whole plan of God would be incomplete. It may on first thought appear strange that the prophet Isaiah and the Apostle Peter should state that the “‘ Head-stone” is also the ‘‘ Foundation-stone”’ in the Great Antitypical Pyramid ; but when we consider that its foundation is ‘laid in heaven,” and that the attraction which draws us to Christ is upward, or heavenward, not downward or earthward as in an earthly building, the apparent contradiction vanishes.

73 +A little reflection will also render manifest that the topmost stone of such an edifice as the pyramid must itself be a pyramid, and therefore complete in itself; but the rest of the structure, apart from this top-stone, however polished and adapted to each other the individual stones may be, would be incomplete, imperfect. Place the top-stone in position, however, and at once the whole structure leaves nothing to be desired. The four sloping sides would then meet in a point at the top-stone, which would, therefore, be the “ chief corner-stone,” the ‘‘ head-stone of the corner ’’—Eph. 2: 20) Psa, 118): 22°

74 As with Solomon’s Temple, so with the Great Pyramid of Gizeh, the stones were cut and prepared at the quarries before they were brought and placed in position. This fact is carefully explained by Professor Flinders Petrie in his admirable work, The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh. Treating on the method of work employed in building the Great Pyramid, he writes :— From several indications it seems that the masons planned the casing, and some at least of the core masonry also, course by course on the ground. For on all the casing, and on the core on which the casing fitted, there