Path through the Pyramid

Part 4

Passage to the Queen's Chamber

After climbing out of the Well-Shaft and squeezing a way through the small passage, the explorer now finds himself, much to his relief, standing tall at last in the high open space of the Second Ascending Passage.

To the left is the entrance to the low-roofed First Ascending Passage; to the right is an opening into another low passageway.  This is the start of the Queen's Chamber Passage, which leads the visitor horizontally southward for 109 feet (33m) until a step, twenty-one inches deep, sets him down onto a lower level.  The passage then continues for another 18 feet (5.5m) to the chamber at the end of the passageway.

Queen's Chamber

The room at the end, known as the Queen's Chamber, has a pitched ceiling that rises twenty feet (6m) above the floor.  The floor appears to have been left unfinished by the builders.¹

Apart from the corbelled hollow in the east wall, referred to as the Niche, the new chamber is bare of feature.²

Chamber features

What can Genesis tell us?  From north to south the chamber measures 206 pyramid inches: and for set times in gematria.

The hollowing of the Niche marks the most easterly feature of the upper passage system, and presents the most curious aspect of the chamber with its 25-Pin eccentricity from the chamber's centre-line: Let there be.  Measuring 184 Pyramid inches high, the height of the Niche yields from the east. (Factors of the number are shown with texts in footnote).³

A diagonal line measured across the chamber floor is 306 Pyramid inches containing standard number 153, first seen in the great subterranean chamber.  A second-occurrence text is given for the second floor diagonal.

The coming of the Light.   East and west walls

Chamber passage   (with standard-number primes 97 and 197)

Two standard numbers come to view in the wider context of the chamber and passage.

the 97 signifier

Between the north edge of the Niche and the north side of the chamber (IJ) is a measurement of 97 Pyramid inches.  No first-occurrence gematria for 97 exists in the first four chapters of Genesis where gematria can only be extracted as a multiple of the standard.  Nevertheless, it is clearly important to this setting since 97 can be seen twice more in the Queen's Chamber Passage.  A line produced along the chamber floor-level meets the First Ascending Passage at point A, giving 97 as a factor of two longer dimensions,  AI and AJ.   Significant names

signifier 197

The 197 signifier rises from the chamber's centre-line, point K.  Encompassing the field (as does AJ),  it finishes by the entrance to the well shaft at point F (FK).⁴

The last of the chamber gematria hints at resurrection as it rises from the centre of the chamber and finishes at point B (BK).

Crossing of the Ways

The return means turning our faces to the north and back-tracking along the Queen's Chamber Passage.

Triangle texts

The lower floor before the step lies on the same level as the Queen's Chamber floor, the mouth of the Well Shaft, and the base of a triangle formed by its junction with the First Ascending Passage.

Meeting of ascending passageways

At the junction of the passages is a pyramid feature to excite wonder and admiration.  The corbelled walls of the Second Ascending Passage rise above the roof of the First Ascending Passage by an awe-inspiring 286.1 Pyramid inches, signalling fruitfulness.

We are standing at the north end of a majestic hallway called the Grand Gallery.

First Ascending Passage

with standard number 297

From the crossroads, looking down the length of the First Ascending Passage floor-line, the first appearance of standard number 297.

Second Ascending Passage
 

Turning to face south, we begin the ascent of the Grand Gallery.  The path advances under a roof-line carrying the 153 signifier, and continues on up the sloping floor to the Great Step with its riser situated on the central East-West axis of the Pyramid.

Projected through the Great Step, the floor-line between the north and south walls of the Grand Gallery measures 1881 Pyramid inches and marks the culmination of the ascending passage system. ⁵  Beyond the Great Step lies the entrance to the uppermost chamber.

Continuation in Part 5:  The Upper Chamber and Passage

Footnotes

 
1
Petrie describes the floor in the Queen's Chamber.

But all round the chamber, and the lower part of the passage leading to it, is a footing of fine stone, at the rough floor level; this projects 1 to 4 inches from the base of the walls, apparently as if intended as a support for flooring blocks, which have never been introduced.  It is to this footing or ledge that we must refer as the starting point; though what floor was ever intended to have been inserted (like the floor of the King's Chamber, which is inserted between its walls) we cannot now say.

W. M. Flinders Petrie,
The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh.
Chap.7, Inside of Great Pyramid

 
2
The chamber may once have contained a coffer.  A visit by the Arabic writer Edrisi in 1163 CE recorded the empty granite coffer in the King's Chamber being similar to a coffer in the Queen's Chamber.

 
3
From the east, the Great Life
Factors noted by Jack Edwards for 184 are  92 x 2,  46 x 4,  23 x 8  with the following gematria:

• first-occurrence of 184, from the east (2:8 f),
• first-occurrence of 92, the great (1:16 f),
• first occurrence for 23, life (1:20 g),
• first occurrence for 8, in-him (or in-it) (2:3 i).

(Eight is the smallest word-sum in Genesis chapters 1-4; there is no occurrence for 46.)

 
4
First occurrence for 1576  (equivalent to eight times standard number 197):
      seeding seed to his kind and tree making fruit (Gen.1:12 e-j). Isaiah's witness. Table 2

 
5
Note on dimension 1881 Diagram 1. Dimension 1881