The great pyramid passages and chambers
140 There isa very great difference between the Kingdom promised to the followers of Christ, and the kingdom prepared from the foundation of the world for the obedient of the rest of mankind (1 Cor. 15:50; Matt. 25: 34) ; for just as ‘‘ the heavens are higher than the earth” (Isa. 55: 9), so the King’s Chamber, which symbolizes the heavenly inheritance and is situated upon the 50th course of the Pyramid masonry, is high above the level of the Queen’s Chamber which is situated on the 25th course, and symbolizes the earthly inheritance.
141 There is still another method by which the builders of the Great Pyramid, under Divine direction, symbolized the essential difference between immortality and mortality. C. T. Russell draws attention to this in the third volume of Scripture Studies (pp. 370, 373), and better could not be done than to quote what is there said: ‘‘ As the King’s Chamber by its ventilating tubes indicates that it symbolizes a permanent residence, an everlasting condition, so the Queen’s Chamber symbolizes the fact that the condition of human perfection, when reached, may be made an everlasting state ; for it also has similar ventilating tubes or air passages provided. In one case we may say it symbolizes a permanent condition, and in the other that it may be made a permanent or everlasting condition, because this is the fact as indicated both by the Scriptures and by the testimony of the stone Witness. The Scriptures say of those who attain the condition represented by the King’s Chamber, that they partake of the Divine nature, and are immortal, or proof against death—that they cannot die thereafter. And they show that those others who reach the full restitution, though they will not possess that quality termed immortality, which is essentially an element of the Divine nature only, will be supplied with life everlasting under provisions already arranged by the great Architect of the plan of salvation. If they abide in harmony with God and in obedience to his will, they will live for ever.
142 “The Great Pyramid declares these same truths ; for while the King’s Chamber had open ventilators [Plate XV], the ventilators in the Queen’s Chamber were originally peculiarly covered. The air-tubes were complete from the outside of the Great Pyramid to within half an inch [this should read five inches] of the surface of the inner walls of the Queen’s Chamber, the stones on either side of the Queen's Chamber, except the said half-inch [five inches] in thickness, having been chiselled out, showing design on the part of the Great Pyramid’s Architect, just as every other feature shows it. Mr. Waynman Dixon made this discovery while examining the walls of the Queen's Chamber. He noticed that the wall at a certain spot sounded hollow, and, breaking through the surface, he found one ventilating tube; and then by the same process he found its mate in the opposite wall [Plate XIX]. Thus the Pyramid, in harmony with the Scriptures, declares that ample provision has been made, whereby the perfect human condition, represented by the Queen's Chamber, may be an everlasting condition to each one who conforms to its regulations and laws.” :
143 Thus does the Queen’s Chamber with its ventilating air-channels now open to the winds of heaven, suggest the thought of the “breath of life” being breathed into man’s nostrils, and man becoming a “living soul’’—Gen. 2: 7, ‘Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain that they may live. . . . and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army” —Ezek. 37: 9, 10.
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