According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica DVD 2002: They were generally used as temples and played an important part in the belief of the afterlife. Pyramids are a major aspect of Freemason teaching and many pagan religions. These three dates were important in early Watchtower prophetic doctrine.
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Smyth found the first of these measures (a) to be 1874 Pyramid inches, the second (b), 1881 Pyramid inches, and the third (c), 1910 Pyramid inches Thus reduced, they would give the dates (a) October, 1874, (b) October, 1881 and (c) October, 1910 A.D." Studies In the Scriptures Series III - Thy Kingdom Come p.363 Smyth, we are enabled to reach what to us are by far the most interesting features of the testimony of this "Witness" yet delivered." Studies In the Scriptures Series III - Thy Kingdom Come p.338 "Here, thanks to the very accurate measurements of all the passages, furnished by Prof. Russell attributed his knowledge on pyramids to Smyth. In 1877, Joseph Seiss published a book on the pyramid entitled Miracle in Stone. George Storrs went on to run a series of articles on the Pyramid and its prophetic significance in the Herald of Life and the Coming Kingdom. In June 1876, he published an article in the Bible Examiner, a journal owned by George Storrs in Brooklyn. Piazzi Smyth, an astronomer, accepted this idea. Other pyramidologists believe it was Melchizedek. In 1859, John Taylor published The Great Pyramid: Why Was It Built? And Who Built It? He put forward the idea that the architect and supervisor of the Great Pyramid was not an Egyptian but Noah. Russell's belief in the sign of the pyramid most likely came from the Second Adventists. Russell had great interest in the pyramid of Gizeh (or Giza) and its relationship with Bible prophecy, and Rutherford continued to use the pyramid of Gizeh as part of prophecy until the 1930's. The name was also incorporated in the title of various religious periodicals." Jehovah's Witnesses - Proclaimers of God's Kingdom p.48 George Storrs published a book in the 1850’s called The Watch Tower: Or, Man in Death and the Hope for a Future Life. "The expression ‘Watch Tower’ is not unique to Russell’s writings or to Jehovah’s Witnesses.
The Proclaimers book admits in a footnote The term Watchtower and Watch Tower Society, which identify the organisation behind Jehovah's Witnesses and their magazine, are a namesake from the Adventist Movement. Inclusion of pagan symbols in its worship until the 1930's raises the question as to why God directed, or even allowed, symbols of this kind to identify his people, even well after the claimed cleansing of his spiritual temple in 1919. Watchtower claims it was chosen as God's sole representative for being the only clean organisation in 1919. The evidence is not conclusive that Russell adopted these beliefs from Freemasons, and it is probable that he took these beliefs and symbols from Second Adventists. The terms Watch Tower, Golden Age, Jehovah, New World Order, the symbols of the all-seeing-eye, winged sun disk, two columns, pyramids and Russell's strong Zionist stance are part of Freemasonry.Ī great deal of discussion has centred on whether Russell, the founder of the Watch Tower Society, had connections with Freemasons, due to the many Masonic symbols introduced under his leadership. A number of the symbols and teachings discussed by Brown as having origins with the Knights Templar, Freemasons and Illuminati, and tracing back to the Egyptians, have been used by Mormons, Christian Science and Russell's Watch Tower Bible Students. If you enjoyed The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown and are interested in the development of modern religion you will be intrigued by this section. Many of the beliefs and symbols included in Watchtower publications during the leadership of Russell are what Jehovah's Witnesses now claim to be of pagan and even occult background.
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