Concerning Roots
Charles Taze Russell
Millerite - Seventh Day Adventist - His own religion
Freemason
Watch Tower, Golden Age, Jehovah, New World Order, the symbols of the all-seeing-eye, winged sun disk, two columns, pyramids, wreath - all Freemasonry
1919 Bible Student Convention Report shows that it was Russels wish to have the masonic pyramid monument built at his gave site.
"AT THE GRAVE
On Monday, a party of about 150 was conducted by Brother Bohnet to
the grave of Brother Russell. Upon a hillside, sloping towards the
south, we joined hands around the grave and sang: 'Blest be the tie that
binds our hearts in Christian love; the fellowship of kindred minds is
like to that above.'
Our last lingering look upon the scene recalled the peaceful manner
of our Pastor's 'passing beyond the veil.' Brother Rutherford's words
came to mind: 'I am glad this prison experience was reserved for us,
rather than for our dear Brother Russell.'
We visited the marble works and there watched the workmen slowly
but surely chisel out the monument to be erected as a memorial to the
Society. The Watchtower Society burial lots in Rosemont United
Cemeteries, five miles due north of Pittsburgh City, contain ample grave
space for all the members of the Bethel family, and the pilgrims and
their wives - in all more than 275 adult graves. In the exact center of
the Bethel lot will be erected diagonally the Pyramid Shape Monument as
designed by Brother Bohnet, and accepted by Brother Russell as the most
fitting emblem for an enduring monument on the Society's burial space.
The size of this structure is nine feet across the base, and its apex
stone is exactly seven feet above the ground surface level."
Souvenir Report of the Bible Students Convention, Pittsburgh, PA. 1919 Jan 2-5 p.7
Removed by Watchtower in 2021
Removed by Watchtower in 2021
Pyramidology - the bases for 1914 - using a pagan symbol for divination. Numerology within is divination.
Thy Kingdom Come p.342 1891 Edition
"We find it to be 3416 inches, symbolizing 3416 years from the above date, B. C. 1542. This calculation shows A.D. 1874
as marking the beginning of the period of trouble; for 1542 years B.C.
plus 1874 years A.D. equals 3416 years. Thus the Pyramid witnesses that
the close of 1874 was the chronological beginning of the time of
trouble such as was not since there was a nation-no, nor ever shall be
afterward."
Watchtower belief in pyramidology continued under the leadership of Rutherford as late as 1925.
"In the passages of the Great Pyramid of Gizeh the agreement of one or two measurements with the present-truth chronology might seem accidental, but the correspondency of dozens of measurements proves that the same God designed both pyramid and plan." Watchtower 1922 Jun 15 p.187
"In the great Pyramid of Egypt, standing as a silent and inanimate witness of the Lord, is a messenger; and its testimony speaks with great eloquence concerning the divine plan." Watchtower 1925 May 15 p.148
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