Millennial dawn (1891) (14784575922)

Identifier: millennialdawn03inruss
Title: Millennial dawn
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Russell, C. T. (Charles Taze), 1852-1916
Subjects: Jehovah's Witnesses
Publisher: Allegheny, Pa., Tower Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System



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lory of their Lord are thus marked in the Great Pyramidas well as in the Scriptures. They are (i) Consecration orbegetting of the spirit through the Word of truth, symbolizedby the low passage into the Ante-Chamber; (2) Quick-ening to a6live service and sacrifice through san6lificationof the spirit and belief of the truth, symbolized by thelow passage under the Granite Leaf; (3) Birth of thespirit into the perfe6l likeness of our Lord by a share inthe First Resurre6lion, symbolized by the low passage-wayinto the Kings Chamber. The Natural and Spiritual Natures Shown. By reference to the Frontispiece, it will be noticed thatan imaginary line drawn through the vertical axis of theGreat Pyramid would leave the Queens Chamber and itsHorizontal Passage, the Entrance Passage, the FirstAscending Passage and the Grand Gallery all on thenorth side of that line or axis, and only the Ante-Cham-ber and the Kings Chamber on the south side of it.By this arrangement the designer of the Great Pyramid
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VERTICAL si.CT\o\{/Zodki^vgfWestJor KINGS CHAMBER;also of ANTE-CHAMBER,SOUTH END OF GRAND G A L L E R Y, AN D V YS ES HOULOWSOrCONSTRUCTION.ABOVE KINOS C H A M B ER . OR 0 S S E D LINES I N D fCAT £ -O* AN ITE. ScctZe^ of JBritCsfvJrtch&s 100 so 600 _J_ TOO _J__. The Great Pyramid. 355 (Jehovah) points out to us the distinction of natures, asnoted in Vol. I., Chap. X. The Queens Chamber, representing the perfe6lionofhumanity after the Millennial age shall have restored all theobedient and worthy ones to the moral likeness of the Creator,teaches, by the fa6t that its back or farthest wall is on a linewith the Pyramids axis, that, thus restored to Gods imageand likeness, though still human, mankind will be close tothe divine nature; as close as one nature could be to an-other nature of which it is a likeness. And all the upwardpassages leading in the direction of that axis teach that thedesires and efforts of Gods people are all to be toward humanperfection, while those of the call