Collected from Fritz Springmeier's "Be Wise As Serpents" on
C T Russell and Jehovah's Witnesses - Part 1 of 2
(Fritz Springmeier has not endorsed this site and its views, which may not reflect his views on various matters.)
Since Fritz published "The Watchtower and the Masons," He has done further research on the subjects and found much more incriminating evidence against both. Essential vital information for X-JWs, Critics of Russell and JWs, as well as Bible Students, and of course, those who still belong to those organizations. So I have collected them here together so that everyone can get updated. My findings show that most JWs and X-JWs know little to nothing of this new material. They really should check it out in detail. So lets go on with it, right?
This is all taken from Springmeier's "Be Wise As Serpents," which is on my site on the Past and Present Heresies page. I try to boil it down to just Russell and JW material, since there is a lot on other religions and secret societies as well. So you can check out the book. It would be well worth reading in its entirety, since it has much to reveal about prophecy and what goes on in secret, that most do not know. I refer only to chapters when locating material quoted.
In 1990, I came out with "The Watchtower & the Masons." That book connected the Jehovah's Witnesses' Watchtower Society with the Masons. Some of the chapters for Be Wise As Serpents were originally written for The Watchtower & the Masons, but were not used. It was obvious as I wrote The Watchtower & the Masons that I could not go into depth in the book, and that the book would have to be followed up with an in depth work. For that reason its cover called it a "Preliminary Investigation."
In 1990, I began looking for a publisher of Be Wise As Serpents because such a work deserved to be published properly by a well-known publisher. The months past by on the calendar, and the time clock continued ticking away on the New World Order's agenda as I looked for a publisher. Because no person can have a total monopoly on the facts of a subject, I welcomed the help of others. I looked out for anyone who would team up with me, or appreciate my research. They would even be welcome by me to publish my research themselves under their own name. I didn't find any takers. At this point it looks like I'm left to share this message that the Lord has given me by myself without the help of a co-author or publisher.
By the summertime of 1991 a publisher had been found. But the Lord laid it on my heart in December, 1991 that I would have to self-publish.
There is still research to be done. For instance, an ex-member of the Satanic Illuminati hierarchy revealed that the Russell family is one of the top 13 Satanic families that have generation after generation passed down their Satanic power. It would be nice to have the time to finish the genealogy work I began on Charles T. Russell's family to see how they fit in with the other Russells.
So why publish an unfinished book? This information is very timely. 1992 is a major year for the Satanists to kick off a series of crises to bring the world under the Satan's rule. I can not presume upon the future that there will be an opportunity to put out books like this. Marshall law under an emergency decree could come any time during the next few years.
Author's Intro
The book is based on evidence and testimony. In addition to the evidences obtained from primary documents and books, this work is based on dozens of interviews with informed people. This includes Jehovah's Witnesses, ex-JWs, Mormons, ex-Mormons, New Agers, ex-New Agers, Catholics, Jews, Masons, ex-Masons etc., etc.. The strongest evidences are the personal testimonies given to me by those people that have been intimately involved with the conspirators. Unfortunately, because of the viciousness of those seeking our enslavement with their grandiose schemes, my sources remain anonymous. This is understandable; such is the exigencies of a spiritual war against powerful conspiracies.
Persona Vitae
The number of people that have been involved in one way or the other in this book's events is like the sands of the sea. The following is a partial list of major actors for the New World Order you will encounter in this book . . .
Frederick Franz- Evidence
reports his Masonic membership. Major doctrinal leader of the WT Society after
Russell and Rutherford.
Russell family- Members
of this family have prominent Masons, Fabian Socialists, One-Worlders,
Illuminati
and religious leaders. (See appendix)
B. How would you deal with the significant differences between the
Jehovah's Witnesses,
Mormons and Catholic Church, if you were the sole ruler of the world?
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In August 1979, this Author (Fritz) passed some intelligence information to the CIA via a Jehovah's Witness.1
1. The reason I passed information to the CIA was that while I was in Libya, (working with my father who was with the U.N.), I learned about the large missile silos the Russians had installed and were manning. I had never had anything to do with the CIA but as a concerned citizen for the welfare of the freeworld, I felt an obligation to pass on this information concerning the outflanking of Nato with Russian missiles. Today, I would not pass that information on, because afterwards I learned that CIA agents such as Edwin Wilson were carrying out assassinations for Libya's Qaddafi. CIA agent Wilson hired Anti-Castro Cubans and Green Berets to carry out assassinations and other assignments for Qaddafi.
The CIA agents Frank Terpil and Wilson supplied Qaddafi with all kinds of forbidden military hardware like heat-seeking ground-to-air missiles, sabotage and psyc warfare training programs, sophisticated assassination gear and bombs disguised as household trinkets using plastic explosives to slip past airport metal detectors. Wilson supplied planes, men, and weapons for Qaddafi's military invasions of Chad and the Sudan, and supplied training for his airforce which uses Pakistani pilots.
(For information on CIA agent Wilson and Libya, and other crimes read Kwitny, Jonathan. The Crimes Of Patriots A True Tale of Dope, Dirty Money, and the CIA NY: W.W. Norton & Co., 1987, pp. 101-104, 291,312-13.) Even after information of these things leaked out, the U.S. government continued to pretend not to notice. Ironically, meanwhile, Reagan was picturing Qaddafi as a bloodthirsty terrorist supported by the Communists, while behind the scenes Qaddafi's invasions and assassinations were made possible by the CIA. While I was in Libya, Americans at home were being led to believe the Libyans were bloodthirsty for American blood, while Americans in Libya were running the oil fields.
The reason I mention this anecdote was
[a] to show how
the public is manipulated by "news" and their leaders,
[b] to show the
reader how this Author has been around and writes from an informed
position,
[c] to begin destroying the illusion that Jehovah's Witnesses
have nothing to do with the CIA or the New World Order. Chapters 5-17
of the first section show how the Watchtower Society of the JWs is
part of the New World Order.
Seventy-seven months later, the President announced this information publicly when it was politically advantageous. The release of this information was purely manipulation of the public, and a distortion of historical perceptions. It was a lesson on how intelligence information serves those in power. The public is manipulated by those in power through the use of information.
Listen to a professed Gnostic, "Humanity reaches
forward to a spiritual consummation when the whole Earth will be peopled with a
Race of men fully conscious of their god-like nature and powers; and sin,
sickness, and death will have been banished for the remaining period of the
Earth's cosmic cycle."5 It almost sounds like something out of
the Watchtower magazine. The WT magazine has even used the phraseolgy that a new
race was to inhabit the New System.6
6. I have
read this in several places in WT material, but have been unable to relocate a
good reference to insert here. The WT 6/15/01 pp.204-208 states that the new
race will be composed of special androgynous units—"The race will be
composed of perfect units, such as Adam was originally, before being divided
into two persons."
>> This was taught in regards to the Saduccees questioning about 7 men marrying 1 woman consecutively and who would get her in the resurrection. Jesus explained that people do not marry in the Kingdom of the heavens because are angels. But the way it is worded in the New World translation lets the governing body assume Jesus was answering them according to the earthly resurrection and so it is assumed they are neuters or androgynous.\
I challenged this to the GB in an anonymous letter posted from Ontario Canada (1985), arguing that Jesus was preaching the Kingdom of the heavens and living in heaven as sprits/angels, and therefore, not marrying or having sex or even having bodies. they never id address it directly but gave a mention of it in a Watchtower on the back page or just inside the back page.
Many witnesses were terrified of
dying before Armageddon and being resurrected and not be able to have sex. The
young in particular worried about this.<<
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Elizabeth
Clare Prophet is infatuated with the Great Pyramid like H.P.B. and C.T. Russell.
She has produced an illustrated program with 8 cassettes entitled A Retreat on
the Ascension, which includes lectures on the inner mysteries of the Great
Pyramid. The Great Pyramid has long been held by esoteric groups as an
initiation center. Some confidential sources speak of gaining godlike power from
the pyramid. The occult leaders of the One World Power have held that the Great
Pyramid's King's chamber is an initiation center for godhood.
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EXAMINING JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES GNOSTIC TEACHINGS
Let
us examine for a while the Gnostic teachings of the Jehovah's Witnesses.
Rutherford in Preservation (1932) p. 153, "God has made known to his people
the meaning of much that has heretofore been hidden, and may not those things be
taken as proof that Armageddon is near,..."
The
Jehovah's Witnesses credentials are based on revealing hidden knowledge.
"Jehovah
had a great plan before the foundation of the world; but no one knew about it.
During the first four thousand years of man's history God's plan was kept a
secret. He began to reveal it to man nearly nineteen hundred years ago, and then
only to those who are consecrated to do his will. Promise was made that greater
light should come at the end of the age, and this promise has been kept. WE ARE
AT THAT TIME, as clearly proven by the contents herein...
People generally have not been thoroughly instructed
in the Bible. Even those who have attended the Sunday schools have merely
learned the text and not the meaning of the text. Like the prophets of old, they
have heard but understood not. The real reason for these conditions is that
God's plan could not be understood until his due time to reveal it. HIS DUE TIME
IS HERE. (Preface to The Harp of God, 1921)
"The mystery of God has been a stumbling block
to both Jews and Christians, so-called; but in God's due time he WILL MAKE KNOWN
to all the secret of his mystery and then all rightly exercised by this will
rejoice with exceeding joy." (Harp of God, p. 182)
"The mystery is THE CHRIST...(ibid. ,p.l82) The
Christ is the instrument or channel for the blessing of mankind. THE CHRIST IS
COMPOSED OF JESUS, THE GREAT AND MIGHTY HEAD, AND 144,000 MEMBERS. (ibid, p.187)
"Jehovah has so arranged that only those who
have their minds illuminated...can understand and appreciate the mystery of God.
These are the ones designated by the prophet Joel as the servants and
handmaidens of God..." (ibid., p.190)
ANALYSIS
Concerning the revelation of the "mystery"
Col. 1:24-27 says,
"...the mystery which hath been hid for ages and
from generations, but NOW is made manifest to his saints..." When Paul
wrote "this mystery is NOW made manifest" it was 19 centuries ago.
This is just one of several scriptures that say the
same thing. Rom. 16:25-26 and I Cor. 2:7-10 were both written by Paul and both
declare that the "mystery" which had been "hid" was revealed
to all the nations in Paul's day.
The Gnostic Rutherford would have us believe that he
is revealing to the world the mystery knowledge for the first time.
Were Christians to receive a better new message at
some future point? Paul warns the Christians that "the faith" that was
once delivered is the one and only gospel, and that if an angel (spirit being)
or man brings another gospel, whether better or worse which Paul had not
preached then let him be cursed. See Gal. 1:8,9.
Don't let anyone fool you. The church of the first
century knew this Mystery and proclaimed it to the world. Mt. 28:18-20, Mk.
16:15,16. Yes, the Mystery had been on the mind of God since the beginning of
the world, and had been only partially revealed in the Old Testament and the
prophets. Read Eph. 3:1-2 and we find that:
1. The
mystery was revealed to him-verse 3.
2. When
the Christians read Paul's letter they could perceive his understanding of the
mystery. They understood it then.
3. We see
in verse 5 that the "mystery" was revealed to the apostles and the
prophets by the Spirit.
4. Paul's
mission was to MAKE ALL MEN see what was the dispensation of the mystery for
ages which had been hid in God.
We are told that "in God's good time he will
pour out his spirit upon all mankind, so that all can understand his wonderful
plan." (The Harp of God, p. 190) Yet, the Bible verse that this is quoting
and the reference to this on p. 190 which is Joel 2:28,29 is applied by Peter in
the
New Testament to what was happening back on the day of Pentecost, "This is
THAT spoken through the prophet Joel." They misunderstand the meaning Joel
gives to " all flesh"- he doesn't mean every person that has ever
lived, but rather all kinds of people Jew and Gentile, Greek and Egyptian, and
they were all there at Pentecost.
It
is clear from II Tim. 2:15 that the day when the mystery was revealed partially
by inspired men and women is over. The revelation of God's will is complete; and
now we should study the written Revelation. This only makes sense.
Rutherford
says, "Those who are thus anointed have the spirit of the Lord and by
virtue of his spirit are ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THE MYSTERY OF GOD..."
The
Holy Spirit inspired the writers. He does not have to inspire the readers. If
so, there was no point in inspiring the writers. It does not require an inspired
man to interpret an inspired man. If so, the first inspired man's book is not a
REVELATION, but still a MYSTERY. If we can not understand the first inspired
man, how can we understand the second inspired man. Especially if they are
inspired by the same Holy Spirit.
Gnostic
leaders like the power that comes from people having to come to them for
enlightment. Even if the Bible is not understood by a man, because he is so
carnal that he can't think straight, he doesn't need to go to a man like
Rutherford. (Read more about Joseph Rutherford in especially chapters 1.12 &
1.14.) The reason Christ went away, according to Christ was so that the Holy
Spirit would be sent to teach us all things.
A
further study of Christ and his relationship to the despised common masses of
people, would show that he was advocating the opposite of Gnosticism. His wisdom
was not hid under a bushel basket, but set on a hill, so to speak, for all to
learn and profit from. Also Christ ministered and befriended those of every
social class, including government officials and gentiles. God wants to
reconcile himself to everyone, not just to some inner clique.
Jesus
Christ also taught the limitations of knowledge (gnosis).
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There
are many interesting parallels between CUT and the WT Society. Both make a big
show of being against the system, the United Nations and the people uniting the
world. However, neither group ever mentions the Masons in connection with plans
to bring in a one-world-state. The religious side of the One-World-Power can not
be understood with out an awareness of Freemasonry. While supposedly warning
their adherents of those men who control the world, both CUT and the WT Society
carry out a systematic program to condition their people to believe in a
soon-to-come Golden Age, and training people how to act in it. It's this
writer's conviction that it is not so criticaly dangerous to the One-World-State
for these people to know something of what is happening, because their
leadership, who they blindly follow, are part of the One-World- Religion.
According to CUT, Jesus was Chohan of the age that ended, now a new cycle is
starting with Sanat in charge.
<#29. Pearls of Wisdom, (Mar. 26, 1967), Summit Lighthouse, p. 1.
Another reference is Prophet, E.C.. Prophecy for the 1980s, p. 10.>
Elizabeth
Prophet writes about the coming Armageddon, "There's a certain sense in
America that it can't happen here, that somehow we are a favorite or chosen
people, that we will not go the way of a Rome or an Atlantis or a Lemuria—that
somehow it will be different. And yet collectively, as far as the entire
consciousness of the earth goes, we are Lemuria, Atlantis, Babylon, Assyria,
Rome come again. We are the melting pot and the descendants of all of these
movements..."
5. Mysteries of the WT Society. Three items of C.T. Russell, the Winged-Sun-Disk, Pyramids, and the Golden Age are exposed.
6. The Emerald Island. Are bloodlines still significant today? A look at Ulster, Ireland and the Russell family before C.T. Russell. The Scottish cultural seedbed of today's global power is examined.
7. God's "Annointed Seed. A close look at who C.T. Russell was.
8. "To have my throat cut". C.T. Russell as a Freemason, his membership and how his membership is reflected in his beliefs and speeches.
9. A Blank Check. An expose of how the B'nai B'rith helped Russell's organization get started, and why.
10. "Jehovah". Uncovering the meanings behind the Watchtower's symbology.
11. The Magical Watchtowers. Discovers the Masonic and Magical meaning to Watchtowers, puts forth a new hypothesis about what Watchtower means.
12. The Channel of Angelic Redemption. Explores J.F. Rutherford as a channeler who said he was helping redeeming demons.
13. Cult of the Double-Sexed God Jehovah. For centuries men have worshipped a double-sex God, explores the possible connection of this god with the rampant homosexuality of WT leadership.
14. The New World Society. A look at the Orwellian world of the Jehovah's Witnesses and their battles and fixation with demons.
15. The WT's Mein Kampf. What do they really say is in store for the world in "paradise."
16. The Mark of the Beast. The WT Society is preparing their people to accept the New Age Initiation, the Mark of the Beast.
17. Smokescreens. Identifying some smokescreens and blowing them away.
Many have asked this author, do the leaders of the
cults know what is going on? Yes, they have been orally, emphasis on that word
orally, told exactly what is happening. The leaders of the New Age, the Jehovah's
Witnesses, and the LDS church, know what they are up to, and what their roles are
in creating a one-world government. That is the method that Gnosticism uses. The
very top Prophet or Illuminated Master is informed orally.
Illumination for any Gnostic group comes from
superhuman knowledge. New Age leaders almost always claim they are channeling.
There is an evolving dualistic fight of lightness and darkness found in the
Hindu Vedas, the old Germanic legends, the Nordic sagas, and the Jehovah's
Witnesses myth that Jehovah is struggling to vindicate himself to Satan. Like
C.T. Russell, founder of the Watchtower Society, the gnostics often see the sun
as a primary sacred symbol. The Hakenkreuz (swastika) of the Nazis was a sun
wheel. The swastika was a frequently used Masonic symbol, until Hitler. Since
Hitler, the Masons haven't been using it. It is also called the gamma cross and
has been used for many centuries. The Jewish gnostic groups have tended to exalt
the moon, (also the planets and stars) while Aryan groups from India, Iran, and
Germany tend to exalt the Sun.
Mysteries of the Watchtower Society
You will learn in this chapter:
• You will be informed that the winged-sun-disk used by H.P.B and
C.T. Russell was
an Illuminati symbol and a symbol for the Church of Illumination.
• You will learn about three mysteries of the Watchtower Society, pyramids, the Golden
Age, and the winged-sun-disk.
• You will examine Charles T. Russell and his sun worship.
I
remember the first time I came in contact with Jehovah's Witness literature. I
was in high school, and as the caretaker of our family library I puzzled over
the symbolic meaning to the cover. Two tiny snakes with protruding gold tongues
encircled a Winged globe on the book's reddish-brown cover. The book was part of
a series "Studies in the Scriptures". What the symbolic meaning of
this strange Winged-Sun-Disk with snakes was not explained. Obviously, the
meaning was for those "in the know" and not the casual reader.
The
author of "Studies in the Scripture" spoke of a Golden Age to come. He
capitalized in bold underlined letters on each volume's title page THE GOLDEN
AGE OF
Russell
had a fold out chart in the front of Vol. 1 about the Great Pyramid. | was
unaware of who Russell was, and unable to realize the implications of all this.
I do, however, remember those first impressions as a Christian in high school
"this is weird."
Where
did all these strange beliefs come from? It doesn't take much to pique the
curiosity of my research oriented mind. My teenage mind was always from early on
searching in an effort to learn, checking out Plato, John Dewey, Will Durant,
Mahatma Gandhi, and many other philosophers and religious leaders. As a
youngster, I was always asking why?
The
curious can have a field day with the Jehovah's Witnesses. For instance, why
call one's meeting place a hall? why not Kingdom meeting, or Kingdom assembly,
or Kingdom study, or church, or chapel, or tabernacle, or temple, or something
else? why hall?
Why
all the secrecy? Why are the writers and leaders of the Watchtower Society
clouded in secrecy? Why have no membership records been kept? The answer given,
that it was a security measure in case of persecution didn't satisfy me. Why?
Because other groups equally persecuted made other choices, choices that are not
secretive. Others said, we trust God and are willing to suffer for Him, so why
be secretive? What have we to hide?
The
choice to be secretive is just that, a choice, a decision. And it was made at
the top of the Watchtower pyramid, by the Watchtower President, and now by the
Governing body. And this secretive attitude permeates down the pyramid to the
rank and file Jehovah's Witnesses.
"I
was interested in possibly joining the Jehovah's Witnesses," a stranger
related to this author in a chance conversation, "but when I arrived at the
Kingdom Hall, the meeting had begun. They had locked the door, there were no
windows, and I didn't want anything to do with a secretive religion like
that."
The
answer to where Jehovah's Witnesses receive their strange beliefs, strange
doctrines, and attitudes comes primarily from two men. Because primarily only
two men, Charles Taze Russell and Joseph F. Rutherford made all the decisions of
the Watchtower Society for the beginning sixty years.
Ray
Franz who was an important Governing Body member stated that the first two
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society Presidents "acted according to his own
prerogatives in exercising his presidential authority, with no hint of a
governing body."2
Since
these two WT leaders, two other Presidents have served, Knorr and Franz. But
while Knorr administrated, Frederick Franz was the real religious leader.
Governing Body member Klein referred to Fred Franz as their "oracle."
But today their oracle is 97 years old, blind, and only a figurehead.
How
does the researcher attempt to understand these problems and men?
Some
of this Author's conclusions after years of research, is that there are
certainly many pitfalls to investigating secretive organizations.
Material written by secretive organizations for the public's consumption are often loaded with fictitious information. Modern Masonic writers are quite frank that the early Masonic writers when writing about the lodge are not to be trusted.3 Not every Mason author identifies himself as a Mason. The Masons have lied to show their legitimacy and antiquity. The Jehovah's Witnesses have done similar things, but have also deceived to gloss over doctrinal controversies, embarrassing scandals, anything that doesn't square with the image of being God's selfless, pristine perfect organization. Periodically, they rewrite their history to match "present truth." The WT Society has been taken to task numerous times for scholastic dishonesty.
Anyone
familiar with the Mormon murders has a chance to know the elaborate deception
the LDS (Mormon) church leaders have gone to, to preserve their power.4
As the reader will discover, Masons and Mormons are given latitude to explore
religious thought, within the limits given them, but the power and integrity of
the leadership is an off-limits subject. Two insiders close to the top of LDS
pyramid of power, Frank J. Cannon and John C. Bennett, revealed in their books
some of the high-level working of the LDS church.5 LDS members were
forbidden to quote their sensitive material.
Both
Masonic and non-Masonic writers often have an incorrect view that all Freemasons
have a common purpose, common beliefs, and common methods. The higher Masonic
leadership has goals which will be exposed in this book. The lower levels of
Masonry are a cover, and for that purpose are permitted to have many ideas. Most
Freemasons are limited in their knowledge of Freemasonry. The Freemason next
door may regard his own personal experience, as universal of all Freemasonry. He
may have only experienced the lodge in terms of a philanthropic fraternity, and
has not bothered to study what Freemasonry has done historically, or what the
higher levels reveal. Like army-grunts in the field, they have no knowledge of
the high-level planning.
The
Masons have clouded their activities. The higher degrees are called "side
degrees" and they claim the higher degree aren't higher, but simply on the
side. The truth seeker has to work his way through these ruses.
How
does one investigate the strange Masonic connections of the Watchtower Society,
the Mormons, and other religious groups?
It's
like being a policeman who comes upon a suspicious car accident. If he rules it
"an accident", rather than a homicide, he will limit his approach in
gathering clues. On the other hand, if he assumes the worst and views it as a
homicide, he will collect all the evidence he can. This book is an attempt to
gather evidence. Yes, the fact that the policeman gathers facts means he's
suspicious. It doesn't mean anyone is guilty. For instance, just because C.T.
Russell was a Mason, doesn't mean Jehovah's Witnesses today join Masonic Orders.
Now
this Author can not actually take the reader through all the hoops of research
he has jumped through to get to his conclusions. But he can pass some of it
along in this book, along with his conclusions. This Author has concluded that
the following statement of Manly P. Hall, a powerful Mason who was on the secret
world council of thirteen,6 is an accurate reflection of the power
that the Masonic mystery religions feel they have.
"Under
new names and, to a measure, with new interpretation, the old wisdom which
guided the destinies of ancient peoples is being reconsidered and restored. It
becomes increasingly more evident that wisdom and understanding alone can can
bestow the security and happiness which all men still seek as the foundation of
a useful life. The shadowy forms of the venerated sages and prophets of the
Golden Age rise again, inviting our appreciation. Though long exiled from the
sphere of mortal purposes, these noblest of men are being re-established as the
great teachers of the human race. The mystery religions of antiquity, which
flourished long before the rise of the modern way of life, have been brought
into clear focus by progressive leaders in the fields of psychology and comparative
religion."7
Manly
P. Hall is correct in that Hinduism is presented today under a new name
"New Age Movement." And true, the Hindu forms of prayer, Yoga and
Transcendental Meditation have a new interpretation, they are exercises to
practice. And the venerated sages of Hinduism and Witchcraft have risen (and
fallen, like the "Bhagwan Shree" Rajneesh and Krishnamurti, and like
New Age leaders Jim Jones and Adolf Hitler). However, progressive leaders have
not brought the New Age movement into focus. That is why this book is needed.
The
author's experiences in New Delhi, India were a real picture of the end result
of the New Age beliefs. There are many clues around. For instance, this Author's
stamp collection contained Indian Nationalist postage stamps printed by Nazi
Germany, just a glimpse of the connection between the Hitler's promised thousand
year Millenium, and
the
New Age New Order. The more clues a researcher finds the worse the story gets
worse, much worse. No, progressive leaders have not brought the issues into
clear focus. For those readers who are interested in stories of power, for those
who do not want to be compliant servants of a New World Order, this book is
written for you. Dedicated to those whose love of truth and freedom led them to
pay the ultimate sacrifice, death.
Let's start by an examination of those three mysterious items of the founder of the Watchtower Society, Charles Taze Russell. Those were the winged-sun-disk, pyramids and the Golden Age to come. It is disconcerting to find that these items are three notable things discussed in Manly P. Half's classic reference book on esoteric Masonic knowledge, The Secret Teachings of All Ages.
As
we flip through Manly P. Hall's book page after page refer to a coming future
Golden Age. We also stumble upon the winged- sun-disk (on page XLIX) which is
explained as a solar trinity, and represents the various sun Gods of the ages.
At least eight pages discuss pyramids in detail, especially the Great Pyramid
that Pastor C.T. Russell wrote so much about. On page XLIII appears a Great
Pyramid drawing from Piazzi Smyth, C.T. Russell's mentor. It is well established
that Smyth was the mentor of the Watchtower Society's experts on the meaning of
the Great Pyramid. Smyth was the source of both Manly P. Hall's esoteric Great
Pyramid knowledge and C.T. Russell and the Edgar brothers' (well known WT
lecturers on the Great Pyramid) knowledge.
IDEAS DON'T COME OUT OF A VACUUM
When
something new appears it is good for us to remember there is nothing new under
the sun.
I
illustrated that point with a personal anecdote in my previous book The
Watchtower & The Masons. (This book Be Wise As Serpents is going to go over
some of the same material on the Watchtower Society as my previous book, but
this time more details and better explanations will be brought to bear on the
subject.)
Perhaps
the reader can think of his or her own experience that taught him how we derive
our ideas from sources, and not from out of a vacuum.
I
marvel at how much continuity a modern people have with their ancestors. This
point was highlighted one day. I was studying some ancient Egyptian cursive
handwriting from the 19th Dynasty while waiting for my meal in a restaurant. My
sample of cursive called hieratic was about 3,300 years old.
An
arab approached me and started a conversation, because he thought I was reading
Arabic. That caused me to reflect. The Egyptians had been conquered by the
Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans, and had gone through using various
scripts, yet they choose in relatively modern times to use the Arabic script
which resembles hieratic. The word choose here is used on the premise people are
responsible for their own actions. People tend to build, to adapt old ideas.
People tend to borrow rather than create new. (As I did with this paragraph from
from my earlier book.) When we see something "new" arrive in history,
such as the alphabet, then it is valid to question where "new" ideas
have come from. In the case of an alphabet, one looks for clues as to when it
was introduced. "New" ideas rarely come from a vacuum.
If
the researcher tracks down where Charles T. Russell's ideas come from he is led
to a source that was a common source of other religions too. The researcher
begins to see patterns, and to realize that religions stemming from the source
of Russell all have a common goal. The rank and file of these groups are of
course unaware of much of this, and are unwittingly contributing to a master
plan.
RUSSELL & THE WINGED SUN DISK
In
1910, Russell made his second trip to the Egyptian pyramids. He went inside the
Great Pyramid. When he returned, he informed the readers of the Watchtower
magazine about the Pyramid's hidden message. He also instituted some big changes
to the binding of his books. His Studies in the Scriptures received the Egyptian
trinity Winged-Sun-Disk on their covers, and the other Watchtower books also
received it. He also at the same time made an effort to look international
stamping the binding of the covers either "London and Brooklyn" or
"Brooklyn and London".
Another
religious leader, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, leader of the Theosophical Society,
also used the Winged-Sun-Disk. She by coincidence also started putting it on her
magazines Theosophy in 1912. She had also made a pilgrimage to the Great
Pyramid, and like Russell had to go in and explore the passageways and chambers
herself. She spent an entire night alone in the heart of the Great Pyramid in
the King's chamber.
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5 INTERLINKED CONCEPTS OF THE SERPENT
LUCIFER AKA LIGHT BEARER |
= | SEARCH
FOR LIGHT AKA WISDOM |
= | SUN
WORSHIP AKA ENERGY |
= | FIRE
(aka KUNDALINI FORCE) |
= | REGENERATIVE PRINCIPLES (AKA PHALLIC & SEX WORSHIP) |
equals | equals | equals | equals | equals | ||||
SNAKES | SNAKES | SNAKES | SNAKES | SNAKES |
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The
Theosophical Society had a branch in Pittsburgh when Russell lived there, and
also in Brooklyn where Russell reestablished. It would be hard to conceive that
Russell never came into contact with this group. Especially since he writes
about them, and mentions contact with Theosophists. Interestingly the man who
was famous in the Irish Lodge of Theosophy was George W. Russell, who wrote for
The Irish Theosophist. The Golden Dawn was a Society and the name of that
Society's magazine that was started by a Mason in 1887. The Irish, especially
George Russell, were attracted to this order and its Temple of Isis. The Temple
of Isis used the Winged-Sun-Disk over its portals.
The
tie-in with Masonry, the New Age, and the Theosophical Society is a close one.
The Scottish Rite started the modern Rosicrucians who started HP. Blavatsky off
with the Theosophical Society.8 They financed her and her constant
travels. The Grand Master of the Brotherhood of Luxor recommended H.P.B to
Olcott with a letter written in gold ink on green paper.9 Olcott,
himself an active Mason, suggested to H.P.B. that they start the Theosophical
Society using their group of Masons, Rosicrucians, Cabalists, and Spiritualists
that were meeting in a NY apartment.10 The Scottish Rite also has
published for over 100 years the New Age magazine, and has promoted the New Age
Movement from the Masonic Lodges. The publications of the Theosophical Society
are stocked in the Masonic libraries and read by them. Most of the leaders of
the modern Rosicrucians
have
been Masons. The leaders of the Theosophical Society have generally been women
who were in co-Masonry. And the T.S. has also been called co-Masonry.11
The Theosophical Society has openly promoted the New Age movement, in contrast
with the Scottish Rite's quieter methods. The leaders of the Theosophical
Society have been channelers,12 which is interesting because so have
the leaders of the Watchtower Society.13 One of the books put out by
a later president of the Theosophical Society is titled On the Watchtower.14
It is a regular part of the Masonic Knights Templar's libraries, and is a
selection of Theosophist articles. More on the meaning of Watchtowers and the
parallels between the W.S. and the T.S. later.
WHERE THE SYMBOL CAME FROM
The
investigator will find similar winged-globes in the pagan mystery religions of
the Middle East, but this representation of the Winged-Sun-Disk originates in
ancient Egypt. The meaning is derived from Ancient Egypt, and stands for Osirus
(the Sun God), Horus, and Isis.
Those
who study Egyptian Magic and practice it today use the symbol for its purported
magical properties. "Emblematic of the element of air, this consists of a
circle or solar-type disk enclosed by a pair of wings. In ritual magic it is
suspended over the altar in an easterly direction and used when invoking the
protection and co-operation of the sylphs." So says an expert on such magic
in his book Practical Egyptian Magic.15
According
to a book used by the Church of Illumination (Rosicrucian) to instruct on their
teachings, "The Winged Globe is pre-eminently a Rosicrucian symbol,
although the Illuminati may lay some claim to it, and it may be admitted that it
is of Egyptian origin. The Winged Globe is the symbol of the perfected soul
making its flight back to the source of its creation in Elysian fields
beyond."16
It
is also said to be the "house of many mansions", that is the God-like
reasoning that man supposedly has.17
If
one investigates further back into Rosicrucian thought one finds that the German
Illuminati used the Winged-Sun-Disk. The use of the magic symbol goes back to
the Kabbalah. The Kabbalists use it to portray Jehovah. However, their full
explanation of who Jehovah is, is that Jehovah is the sun-god. He is to the
Kabbalists the same as the Gnostic sun-god Demiurgus or the Greek almighty God
Zeus, which name at times is used interchangably with Jehovah. The Jewish
mystical thought that pervades Rosicrucian thinking then is seen in an
illustration of a secret 16th Century Rosicrucian book Die Goldene Zeit (The
Golden Age) which portrays the Winged disk with the magical Tetragrammaton in
the sun globe's center.
From
the sources quoted, the reader has learned that the Illuminati and Rosicrucians
use the Winged-Sun-Disk. What about the Masons?
Illustration
from the secret 16th century Rosicrucian book The Golden Age.
MASONIC USE OF THE WINGED-SUN-DISK
Upon
achieving the 32 degree, the Mason is given Albert Pike's Morals and Dogma. It
is now from the Pope of Masonry, Albert Pike, that the Mason learns that Phallic
worship is the true worship of Masonry. However, an examination of Phallic
worship, which is the worship of the regenerative parts is the same as sun
worship, the sun being the symbol of regeneration.1 The worship of
the sun has often been sexual in its ritual. The Elysian fields that the Sun
Trinity-the Winged Solar Disk represents are sexual rituals. Masonry itself
claims to perpetuate the ancient mysteries of Isis and Osiris, Tammuz and Baal19
which are Sun religions that ultimately are derived from a single common origin.
In
Albert Churchward's (30° Mason) book Signs and Symbols of Primordal Man, The
Evolution of Religious Doctrines from the Eschatology of the Ancient Egyptians,
he states that the Winged-Sun-Disk is used by 33 degree Masons.
The
33rd degree is the highest public level of the Scottish Rite Masons. There are
both honorary and actual operative 33 degree Masons. Notable persons, such as
Presidents and leading clergymen are initiated into the 33rd degree. According
to Churchward they alone know its meaning. However, exposure to the symbol is
almost unavoidable to those Masons reading Theosophic literature.
"That's
the sun disk Ra," exclaimed an active 32 degree Mason when this Author
flashed Russell's cover of the Studies in the Scriptures.
"It's
a Masonic symbol," this Author chimed in.
"No,
it's not a Masonic symbol," came the reply.
"How
did you know what it was?"
Complete
silence. He had immediately recognized the symbol but refused to talk about it,
or his knowledge about it. According to the Masonic oath they aren't to talk
about Masonic knowledge.
QUESTIONS & OBJECTIONS
Some
will object that if Russell went to Egypt he may have got the symbol from Egypt,
and not from esoteric Masonic-connected groups.
It
is true that it is found displayed over Egyptian temples. For instance, one of
the most spetacular exhibits ever, was the King Tut artifacts, discovered seven
years after
C.T.
Russell died. Four oak house-like structures, called shrines, contained the body
of this minor boy Pharoah. The inside of these large oak shrines were laid of
gold, giving us an idea of the splendor the other Pharoahs likewise received.
Visitors to the exhibit can view the Winged-Sun-Disk at the top above each door
and on the far side or rear panals.
However,
in drawing representations of this over their temples the Egyptians employed a
variety of styles. The snakes may look like vipers or cobras, and may even be
dropping down rather than looking out from the sun disk. In researching what
books were available to Russell, and what live Egyptian drawings Russell could
have studied of the Osirus, Isis, and Horus trinity, it is this Author's
conclusion that he would have seen a variety of representations. None of which
he used. However, he did follow basically the way the esoteric Masonic groups
drew it, so consequently his source was most likely an esoteric source.
Illustrations
from references of C.T. Russell's day showing the Winged-Sun-Disk are provided
to document the variety of choice.
Some
have speculated that the Winged-Sun-Disk is an angel's wing like a Cherub. This
is an uninformed guess. A close look at copies of Russell's books in excellent
condition will reveal that there are snakes on each side of the disk. Further,
Russell passes up ways to use it as an angel. It is undoubtedly the
Winged-Sun-Disk on his books.
WHAT DOES C.T. RUSSELL & THE WT SOCIETY HAVE TO DO WITH THE SUN-GOD?
Surprisingly,
there are a number of clues that show C.T. Russell did believe in a Sun deity.
Russell spoke about Zorastor as a true prophet (WT '06, p. 14). Zoroaster, was
considered to be the Sun God by his followers. Cyrus the Great, who name meant
the Sun, was considered by his gnostic followers to be the Sun-God. Russell
thought Cyrus the Great was a prefiguring of Jesus Christ. Russell in fact
believed the Resurrected Jesus was at the center of the Sun.
Russell
never left himself without a scripture to explain whatever he decided to
believe.
Mal.
4;2 refers to "But to you who fear My name, The Sun of Righteousness shall
arise With healing in His wings; and you shall go out And grow fat like
stall-fed calves."
Russell
at various times gave various interpretations to Mal. 4:2. A comprehensive
examination shows he said the Sun of Righteousness is
1) Jesus and his church
SYMBOLOGY OF THE MYSTERY RELIGIONS
After
reading thousands of pages on the Mystery religions, dozens of Masonic books on
their religious symbology, various books on the mythic images of mankind
globally, and the Christian scriptures it was clear that 5 concepts repeatedly
have been interlinked with each other on a worldwide basis and that each of
these 5 interlinked ideas has also been represented by the concept of a serpent,
a snake.
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diagram here]
It
is understandable how man in various areas could see the stars, the closest star
the Sun, and fire and worship these items. It is also easy to see how two
internal fires within man, sexual passion and curiosity could be integrated into
the worship of the Sun, stars, and fire. If one were worthy of worship, then all
the rest were too. It is easy to understand how a priesthood could persuade
people to give them authority in order that these items
might
be properly worshipped. An examination of the related Sun worships from the
classical world shows that the priests reserved an esoteric worship for
themselves that was hidden behind the worship of fire, sex, snakes and the sun.
The Egyptian priests that taught the people sun worship in Moses' day were
monotheistic. This monotheistic god was the Light-bearer.
To
understand the significance of pyramids to Masons (and New Agers in general) we
can show how pyramids, especially in particular the Great Pyramid of Giza,
relates to these 5 interlocked concepts.
The
Great Pyramid is important to Masons according to Masonic sources because:
a.
An initiate (then and now) after entering the Great Pyramid leaves as a
god. (light— bearer/godhood on chart)
b.
The Great Pyramid is said to be prophetic when its passageways are
measured. (wisdom)
c.
Sun worshippers built the Great Pyramid. (sun worship)
d.
All pyramids are said to emit special energy.
e.
Pyramids are an architectural picture of an ascended flame to heaven.
(fire)
f.
The pyramid's upward triangle shape stands for the male generative
principle.
When
the Masons Charles T. Russell and H.P. Blavatsky made their pilgrimages to the
Great Pyramid and went into the King's chamber it is possible the significance
of their visits included the above a through f items.
The
philosophy behind the mystery religions, Freemasonry, Theosophy, Gnosticism and
the New Age movement continue the idea that man should seek out the fruit of the
tree of good and evil for it shall make him a god. These religious philosophies
also declare that "true" Christianity (cosmic or New Age Christianity)
is also this gnostic quest for enlightenment.20
Many
Gnostic religions hate traditional Christianity. They have also over the years
criticized biblical Christianity for holding mankind back from finding his quest
for godhood.
For
several upcoming paragraphs we will contrast Christianity with the gnostic quest
for enlightment. We will refer to the head adversary of the Creator, what the
scriptures call "...the dragon, that serpent of old, the devil, or
Satan." Rv 20:1 Some readers will hold the view that Satan and demons don't
exist. They are free to speculate that, but there is no way to prove their
speculation. On the other hand, it is easy to substantiate an objective belief
in demons by examining the countless testimonies, etc. about them. J.W.
Montgomery in Principalities and Powers, written after years of research into
the existence of demons, concluded, "The problem involved in determining
whether demon possession occurs and whether witchcraft works is absurdly simple.
The documentation is overwhelming."21
Whatever
our view of demons and their reality, there is the visible behavior of humans
who are so brutal that we label their behavior as "inhuman" because
they exhibit a cruelty that surpasses all the animal kingdom and surpasses any
purposeful depraved needs. So why are these men so "demonically"
destructive? How do we explain a man like Pol Pot who cruely killed half the
people (many killed were of the better half) in his beautiful country of
Cambodia. These were his own people. Rational answers fall short of explaining
such irrational behavior for destruction. This destructive force may be labeled
demonic, whether we view demons as real or as a psychological phenomena.
"Be
wise as serpents...," What were the issues at stake in the Garden of Eden?
If we are to be as wise as serpents, what was it that the serpent knew that Eve
didn't know?
The
story of the Garden of Eden sets forth the Biblical view of this issue right
from the first part of scriptures.
The
serpent knew that man was man, and that it was a delusion for man to try to
become god. The only way since then for man to think he has reached godhead is
if he deludes himself. And the serpent is there to help him try. But why does
the Serpent want man to seek godhead through taking in the fruit of good and
evil?
The
biblical view of God was that man should not try to determine good from evil by
taking in knowledge—that is eating of the fruit of the tree of good and evil.
For man to determine for himself right from wrong is called situational ethics.
Rather than man pretending to be a god by declaring what is wrong by his own
wisdom of situational ethics, man was to allow God to decide. The creator had
laid down physical, spiritual, and moral laws. But the gift of choice was given
to man. That was God's will. God's will allows for bad choices on man's part,
including the option by man to reject his loving Creator and make up his own
rules in contradiction to truth.
Today,
we are seeing that many young people do not want the responsibility of making
their own choices about what is right and wrong. They are running to Guru's, and
laying their freedom of choice at the feet of these New Age "Godmen".
"Tell me what to do," they ask. And then men like Jim Jones, who
thought he was God,22 make their choices for these youth, often with disastrous
consequences.
Why
does Satan encourage man to seek divinity? Even today people are as naive as Eve
concerning the issue. Satan and the demons really hate the Creator and would
like to destroy his Creation. But how does seeking one's divinity aid in
mankind's destruction?
The
Theosophical Society tells us that "...all philosophy is an effort to
apprehend Reality; but it is an effort of the intellect merely, and as such it
is, and must always be a fruitless effort."23
The
inability for man to find godhead by reason and logic has been repeatedly
discovered by all the great minds. Man has always failed. For instance, William
James the philosopher tell us in A Pluralistic Universe, p. 212, "For my
own part I have finally found myself compelled to give up the logic, fairly,
squarely, and irrevocably. It has an imperishable use in human life, but that
use is not to make us theoretically acquainted with the essential nature of
reality."
To
apprehend reality as a truth seeker by using only logic and reason is a dead end
street. God reveals truth to man according to the Scriptures, and man obeys.
If
man chooses not to obey, and insists on seeking truth on his own, he invariably
must discard logic and reason and turns to mysticism, the occult and the mystery
religions including Hinduism. In order to achieve his delusion of godhead, the
initiate is encouraged to leave reality by using drugs, self-hypnosis, ecstatic
activity such as rigorous physical and sexual activity, psychotic states of the
mind and trances.
The
Theosophical Society states, "Some of our modern philosophers are beginning
to apprehend this fact: notably Henri Bergson, who speaks of a higher faculty
which he calls intuition, and which he says must replace intellect if we would
contact Reality."24 The Theosophical Society believes the world
is but an illusion, Maya, an idea they have learned from Hinduism.
The
reasoning that these people use is a form of reasoning not under God's authority
and is consequently according to scripture not under his protection from demonic
control. To step out from underneath God's authority is like stepping out from
underneath an umbrella during the rain, the protection offered is lost. Although
these people use reason, it is a distorted version. The dying words of atheists
who exalted reason, shows that they often discovered their philosophy turned out
to be a cruel hoax.
Does
Satan benefit by watching men pursuing altered states of consciousness and
tripping out and leaving reality? Yes. A life centered on deluding oneself is a
destructive life.
Satan's
Kingdom, often called the Kingdom of the World is taking advantage of man's
ignorant groping for godhood. Satan is out to destroy God's creation made in his
own image.
Get
in touch with reality and stay there. Quit trying to "cop out" of
reality. Christians are to test the spirits to see if they are of God. That
means elements of logic, science, and reason must be tested to see if they are
under God's authority. If they are, then embrace them. Christianity and the
Scriptures are not against science, logic, and reason. No those items are
powerful tools for Christianity. But when those items are used in a distorted
way that must be avoided. Science and intellect are not to be used to create
gods nor is their purpose to invent systems of morality.
Evolution
is an example of a powerful warped way of thinking. Because it was developed
intentionally as a tool to destroy belief in God, it has not been protected from
demonic powers. All kinds of demonic influences have directed the evolutionists,
and the list of frauds perpetrated by evolutionists is long. It is also used to
teach us morality, such as, only the fit (the best) survive. This means one is
superior if he survives by any means.
To
use reason, science and reality to become gods is in itself a distortion of
reality—a contradiction, for man is but man. In order to delude himself into
thinking he is a god, mankind is turning to drugs and other escapes from
reality.
The
Christian NT book of Ephesians chap. 4 deals with sins of the flesh in the
context of the old man (verse 22) and the new man (verse 24). In this context,
suddenly Paul warns us, "Neither give place to the devil." (verse 27).
By committing fleshly sins, the demons are given a place (lit. ground) for their
activity in the believer's life.
But
the Christian idea of God establishing right and wrong for us, is ridiculed as
simplistic by all the various Gnostic groups.
"
'Christianity,' so-called, lulls its devotees into a false sense of security, or
"salvation"; whereas the whole history of humanity, and of religion
itself, shows us that:
"
The path by which to Deity we climb
Is
arduous, rough, ineffable, sublime."'25
The
poem is right. The path to divinity is an arduous path, because it is a path man
is not to accomplish on his own. It is a cruel hoax which Lucifer as an angel of
light assists.
The
Masonic lodges which continue the ancient mystery religion (one religion with
various names) teaches the initiate that he needs light. Masonic authority
Mackey in his Encyclopedia states, "Light. Light is an important word in
the Masonic system. It conveys a far more recondite meaning than it is believed
to possess by the generality of readers. It is in fact the first of all the
symbols presented to the neophyte, and continues to be
As
a candidate for various degrees the Mason Will declare his need for light. For
instance, the Entered Apprentice, or first degree is asked by the Worshipful
Master, "In your present condition, what do you most desire?"
And C.T. Russell, Joseph Smith, Jr., Billy Graham, and Robert Schuler all answered,
"Light."26
"Light
is the first demand of a candidate at his initiation; and the material light is
succeeded by an intellectual illumination."—Historical Landmarks, Vol. 1,
p.135.
This
search for light continues up through the degrees. When the candidate receives
his lecture for the 32nd degree he is told, "You are here to learn, if you
can learn, and to remember what you have been taught. In the Scottish Rite you
will be taught that our ancient ancestors who knew all the Mysteries left enough
traces so that we today with diligant labor and teaching may renew them and
bring them to light for your enlightenment. We now come to the great symbol of
Pythagoras. Our symbols have descended to us from the Aryans, and many were
invented by Pythagoras, who studied in Egypt and Babylon. In order to preserve
the great truths learned from the profane, there were invented some of our
symbols that represent the profoundest of truths descended to us from our white
ancestors...The ancient Masters invented some of these symbols to express the
result of deity. They did not attempt to name him, but rather tried to express
their reverence by describing him as Ahura-Mazda, spirit of light."27
Ahura-Mazda
was the god of the Mazdean religion which worshipped five types of fire. The
five fires were the internal fire of the earth, the Kundalini aka as Sex-force
or serpent power, the fire of lightning, the fire of vegetation, and the fire of
Ahura-Mazda.
The
ritual quoted above of the 32 degree lecture introduces us to two concepts
worthy of note at this point. First, that symbols are used to conceal truth from
the profane, and second that Masonry involves the worship of the various 5
elements of the serpent.
In Ez. 8:16, Sun worshippers are described facing the east. Generally, sun
worshippers have faced east, as the Masonic rituals connected to sun worship do.
Because of a number of items, it appears that Lucifer may be playing a larger
role within the Masonic lodges than one is led to believe. The symbology of the
lodge includes frequent use of the Sun, the serpent, and the eagle representing
the sun.
In
order to bait mankind into continuing to self-destruct, Lucifer and his demons
have been appearing and providing enlightenment for those who are on the New Age
road. It should be obvious that a real angel of light (by Bible standards) is
not going to appear to help men become gods. The Bible is clear from the
beginning Yahweh the God of the Bible doesn't want situational ethics and
man-made gods.
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Notes
1.
The seventh volume was billed as Russell's, but was written by George H.
Fisher and C.J. Woodworm.
2.
Franz, Ray. Crisis of Conscience. Atlanta, GA: Commentary Press, 1983,
p.60.
3.
Morey, Robert. The Origin and Teachings of Freemasonry. Morey quotes a
number of respectable Masons-for instance Mackey criticising the Masonic
historians of Preston, Hughan, et. al—for instance the Mason A.S. Macbride
criticising 19th century masonic
historians—also
Melvin Johnson criticing Gould, Hughan and others, —also Delmar Darrah
criticizing Masonic historians. It seems that the phrase "First liar
doesn't stand a chance," may apply in some ways to masonic historians.
Morey himself isn't honest with the facts. The smokescreens of false information
have helped cloud the Masonic Lodge, but it is possible to get to the bottom of
it all. Honest men who have left Masonry like Charles Finney have been reliable
witnesses about the Masonic Lodge.
4.
Mormonism, Shadow or Reality by the Tanners in Salt Lake City does an
excellent job documenting Mormon deception. The casual reader may want to read
the compelling story about the Mormon document dealer Mark Hoffman and his
dealings with Mormon officials and the murders he committed. The book reveals
the mindset of the top Mormon leadership. The book is The Mormon Murders by
Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, New American Library a division of
Penquin Books, NY, 1988.
5.
In 1842, John C. Bennett produced History of the Saints. Frank Cannon's
material was originally a series in Everybody's and became the book Under the
Prophet in Utah.
6.
Confidential sources. As far as seeing this in print references to a
group of 13 men who control the world's religious groups can be picked up here
and there in various books, for instance in Stan Deyo's The Cosmic Conspiracy.
Hints about such a group come through in Manly P. Hall's books, and for a good
reason, he sat on the council.
7.
Hall, Manly P. The Secret Teachings of All Ages. An Encyclopedic Outline
of Masonic, Hermetic, Quabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy. Los
Angeles, CA: The Philosophical Research Society, 1971, preface.
8.
This was originally revealed by H.P. Blavatsky in her own books. The
Theosophical Societies have put out more information on the origins of the
Theosophical Society. H.P.B. also refers to other Adepts and Rosicrucians who
she met in her travels throughout the Middle East, Egypt, India, and Tibet.
9.
Ancient Wisdom and Secret Sects. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, p. 124.
10.
ibid.,p. 125.
11.
According to papers put out by the Deputy of the Supreme Council of
Universal CoMasonry for Great Britain and its Dependencies by the Grand
Secretary of the said Jurisdiction. The smaller group that broke away and is
headquartered now in Pasadena, CA claims to be against the idea of Co-Masonry.
This position is attractive to those Masons who have a difficult time accepting
Co-Masonry. For instance, Iverson L Harris, Theosophical leader, while under
oath in court in Florida said, "Neither is our Society in any way
responsible ofr the Co-Masonic Order which Mrs. Besant organized and publicized
widely as a Masonic Order for women. A number of our very prominent members for
years past have been Masons, and our late Secretary General, Dr. Joseph H.
Fussell, was a high Mason, and vigorously opposed this so-called Co-Masonic
Order." Theosophy Under Fire (deposition taken for a court case in
FL),Point Loma, CA: Pub. by Iverson L. Harris, p.9.
12.
Blavasky claimed she wrote Isis Unveiled under spirit control. Besant and
Bailey later TS Presidents also claimed the same thing for their books.
13.
The WT Society has on Numerous occasions referred to themselves as God's
channel of light. For instance The Finished Mystery, (1917), p. 144; WT 1/1890,
p.1; WT Dec. 1, 1981, p. 27; Theocratic Aid to Kingdom Publishers (1945), pp.
249-250. Some specific quotes are that the WT Society is the "sole visible
channel through whom alone spiritual instruction was to come." WT, c. 1956,
p.590.
Russell
says angels helped bring messages to him. WT 10/1/14. Rutherford declared spirit
beings brought him light. Vindication III, (1932), p.250. Franz also at various
times said that angels were bringing light to the Watchtower leaders, see pg. 40
of the Douglas Walsh Trial. "Well, we believe that the angels of God are
used in directing the Jehovah's Witnesses."
14.
Sri Ram, N. On the Watchtower. Adyar, India. The Theosophical Society.
15.
Hope, Murry. Practical Egyptian Magic. NY: St. Martin's Press, 1984,
p.107.
16.
Clymer, R. Swinburne. The Rosicrucians Their Teachings. Quakertown, PA:
Philosophical Publishing Co., 1923, p. 112.
17.
ibid., p. 113.
18.
Pike, Albert. Morals and Dogma.
19.
Numerous masonic and non-masonic authors tie phallic and sun-worship
together. "Phallus: a representation of the virile member (male sexual
organ) which was venerated as a religious symbol universally...by the ancients.
It was one of the modifications of Sun- worship, and was a symbol of the
fecundating (impregnating) power of that luminary. The Masonic point within a
circle is undoubtedly of phallic origin." Mackey, Albert G. Symbolism of
Freemasonry, pg.352.
20.
Kingsland, William. The Gnosis And Christianity. Wheaton, II.: The
Theosophical Pub. House, 1975, p. 13 et al.
21.
Montgomery, J.W. Principalities and Powers: The world of the occult.
Minneapolis, Minn. Bethany Fellowship, 1973, p.146.
22.
Film God's of the New Age exposes how Jim Jones thought he was a divine
reincarnation of Jesus Christ.
23.
Kingsland, op. cit, p.18
24.
ibid.
25.
ibid., p. 23
26.
Duncan, Malcolm C. Revised Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry. Danbury,
Conn.: Behrens Publishing Co., 1922, p.31.
27.
McKenney, Tom and Jim Shaw. The Deadly Deception., p.156.
The Emerald Island
You will learn:
• the importance of bloodlines in relation to the Power.
• about the bloodline of Charles T. Russell, founder of the Watchtower Society.
BLOODLINES
Bloodlines, they can mean authority (such as royal
lineages), they can mean mean power (occult wisdom and power is generationally
passed down in Satanists), they can mean like-mindedness (world views are
learned to a great extent from our parents, similar physical brains are
genetically inherited; for instance, identical twins separated at birth, and
rejoined at adulthood are found to have surprising similarities in modes of
behavior.) Today the principles of racial heredity are not popular at the public
educational institutions controlled by the Power. Also supposedly, royalty is a
thing of the past and aristocracy is fading with it.
After thousands of hours of research on the Power,
one thing is blatantly clear— the Power resides in bloodlines that pass
authority, occult power and knowledge, and likeminded worldviews from generation
to generation. Bloodlines have not ceased to be important.
THE PROCESS TO IDENTIFYING THE POWER
In researching the Power behind hundreds of
individuals and groups, it has been like peeling the layers of a onion. Which
men and women are front men, lackeys, and hirelings, and which ones are really
running the show and making decisions?
For instance, men like Anton LaVey, George Bush,
William Buckley, the major networks' news anchormen, although powerful in their
own right are, in the overall picture, front men.
There is an elite, not only in the United States, or
Great Britain, or Russia but an elite over the entire globe. Surprising? When
the astute observer begins to realize that an oligarchy is running the world,
then there are lackeys in academia to tell us we should not have been surprised.
Robert Michels concluded that elitism is a natural thing of society, because
society required organization and all organizations are oligarchies even
socialist societies.1 That elites are inevitable is debatable (the
elites are actually unproductive parasites on society), but this is not likely
to be debated in today's population, which have been conditioned by the elite's
media to be sheep. It was debated by the U.S.'s founding fathers, who set up an
alternative to an oligarchy or a democracy, by establishing a Republic. Although
there are societies, even somewhat modern ones without oligarchies, which prove
that a community can function without some self-perpetuating power elite, these
societies are not in control of the world.
The Power that is in control of the world is not the
benevolent wise and spiritual group some of the masses have been conditioned by
behavior modification to believe. This
IMPORTANT BLOODLINES
Important bloodlines for the Power include:
• The Jewish bloodline of the Prieure de Sion which
starts with the tribe of Dan, extends through the Merovingian Dynasty and into
the Hapsburg royalty. This bloodline has kept a close association with all
branches of the occult, often providing the leadership for the occult.
• The bloodlines of the leaders of the LDS and RLDS
churches which go back to the bloodline of the Prieure de Sion, the Merovingians.
A secret society of Danites was created by the LDS church.
• The bloodlines of the 13 Illuminati families,
which include several Jewish and Maranos Jewish families.
• The bloodlines of the petty Hasidic Jewish
messiahs that began their religious reigns in Poland among the Askinazim.
• The bloodlines of the Babylonish Talmudic Jews.
Historical evidence shows these bloodlines were of mixed blood even in Christ's
time, in disregard for the Scriptures commandments not to mix blood.2
• The bloodlines of the "Successors of the
Messiah", that is the bloodline of the Sufi leadership.
• The bloodlines of the Knights of Malta. The
aristocratic/royal bloodlines carry titles, wealth and power.
• The bloodlines of the descendents of William of
Orange and those who helped him conquer England. They have been in powerful
positions since, especially in England. Part of William of Orange's help was
derived from those of Jewish descent.
• The
bloodlines of the thirteen Illuminati families (which have tie ins to the blood
lines above). These thirteen are not a fixed set, but because of their power
change in who are the thirteen doesn't often occur. A tentative list of these
thirteen families includes Astor, Bundy, Collins, DuPont, Freeman, Lee, Onnasis,
Rockefeller, Rothschild, and Van Dyne.
Besides those families there are a host of other families that are important within the Illuminati. The list includes:
(those
of German Jewish Heritage): Adler, Geisenheimer, Goldschmidt, Guggenheim, Lazard, |
Oppenheim, Oppenheimer, Seligman, Sichel, Speyer, Stern, Russell, Wolf(e)
|
(and
those of British or Scottish Heritage): Acheson, Bell, Billings, Brown, Buckland, |
Clinton, Eddy, Frost, Gardner, Hall, Hopkins, Hooker, Kennedy, Leek, |
Lord, Morgan, Sinclair (St. Clair), Smith, Tolkein, Lewwellyn (and others such as): Hapsburgs, Sassoons. |
What makes this study of vital and timely importance
is that members of these bloodlines intend within the 7-year period of 1992-1999
to launch a sequence of events to lead the world into a one world slave-state
ruled by a man controlled by the god which the elites worship. Should the reader
allow, I will quote from the Power's own statements plus other proof to show
that this god, the god of the world, is Lucifer (aka Satan, Sanat, Venus, etc.)
For thousands of years, The Plan for world domination has been passed down from
occult generation to occult generation. Spaced every 20 years plus is a Feast
We read of the great holiday and its Great Councils
in Externalization of the Hierarchy, when Satan's instrument Alice Bailey
writes, "The past year...has, however, been the year in which the greatest
spiritual Approach of all time has shown itself to be possible - an Approach for
which the initiates and Masters have for centuries been preparing, and for which
all the Wesak Festivals since the meeting of the Great Council in 1925 have been
preparatory. I have, in past instructions, referred to the great meetings held
at intervals by Those to Whom is entrusted the spiritual guidance of the planet
and particularly of man." (Externalisation of the Hierarchy, p. 389.)
ONE SAMPLE OF THEIR PLANS
As example of how ingenious these plans are to create
a One-World-Government consider the following part of it.
The Drug War is not what it seems. It is a very
ingenious scheme to enslave the American people, and destroy all their civil
rights.4
The first rumblings of the Drug War part of The Plan
seem to stir from the occult, so it is highly possible the Drug War originally
was first developed by Satanists, perhaps even given during one of the Feasts of
the Beast.
The Drug War seems like the perfect plan, with no way for the Power to lose. First, the Power creates a drug culture in America. The Drug Culture would and did give many their first step into the Aquarian (New Age) conspiracy.5 The Power would make billions of dollars by running drugs, to further finance other nefarious schemes, and could use their world-wide power to crush all their competitors. When the Power crushed and arrested their competitors in drug running, they would be hailed as heros by the majority of people. (And they have.)
The introduction of drugs into society does several
things. It taxes the Christian church's ability to oppose immorality. It gets
the public indignant about drugs, and the public's moral outcry allows the Power
to pass "drug" laws that remove the last vestiges of legal civil
rights. In fact, the beguiled public demands the laws which abolish their
rights, and applauds these laws in ignorance unknowing what the laws actually
say and mean. If the public somehow gets a complete picture that their
government has been smuggling drugs to create a drug war in spite of the
controlled media, or perhaps through the media at the right time, then they can
create a scandal involving several U.S. Presidents to eliminate the U.S.
government and switch the public's allegiance to a world government.
(See chapter 3.9 for more details and a chronology of the secretly planned
escalation of today's designed Drug War.)
As an ex-Mason, who is very aware of their plans,
said to this Author, "These people are in it for the long-term."
THE BLOODLINE OF THE RUSSELLS
The purpose of this next subsection may be
misunderstood, unless I make myself clear at this point. This Author has not
established any link between the various famous Russells. (Although I have been
doing genealogy work, I have not had the chance to do the long term Geneology
work required to clarify the issue, if the reader is dissatisfied with the
extent of this information, he is encouraged that rather than criticize to
research it himself.) The reader will observe by the time he finishes this book,
that this Author has
done extensive research into many groups. One item
that has popped up consistently is that people with the surname Russell
repeatedly appear as important figures in the various elements of the World
Order as it has developed.
Before becoming aware of the One World Order, this
Author had no inkling how important blood lines have been for the elite that
controls the world. Friendships have also played a role, for instance, Eleanor
Roosevelt (who was involved in numerous communist organizations6) was
a close friend and confidant to Ronald Reagan's mother. This seems trivial, but
the reoccurrence of blood lines and the recurrent discovery of connections of
friendships between what have been thought of as unrelated personages, compels
one to believe the elite is more compact than appears. (More on that later).
The mysterious Watchtower Society and its founder
Charles Taze Russell will serve as perhaps the most used example in this book of
an organization that is secretly serving the New World Order. (The reader will
be presented with the history of all this throughout the book, especially in
chapters 5-17 of the first section.)
Let's comment about the type of Russells that keep
appearing throughout the course of the history of the New World Order as this
Author went about his research. To summarize, these various Russells (who until
the genealogy work is done to show the connections should be viewed as
individuals—not a group) have been prominent members of the Illuminati, the
Masons, the Fabians, the Mormons, the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Jesuits, the
Royal Society, and the Media controlled by those of the New World Order, and a
deputy chairman of the Federal Reserve. Typically they have been merchants and
lawyers, with a fair share of them also as Christian heretics. It will be easier
perhaps to illustrate how the Russells keep popping up in the New World Order
story line by listing a good sampling of them.
SAMPLE OF RUSSELLS OF INTEREST
RUSSELLS WHO FOUNDED FRATERNAL SOCIETIES
William
Huntington Russell- founder of what is believed to be an American chapter of the
Illuminati (Skull & Bones Order)7. More on this in chapter 2.3.
It’s legal name is Russell Trust.
John
Russell - founder of the fraternity of Daughters of Isabella (DOI) in May, 1897
in New Haven, Conn.8
RUSSELLS CONNECTED TO FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS
Charles
Taze Russell - Knights Templar Mason of York Rite, in Allegheny Pa. and founder
of the WT Society.9
Harvey
D. Russell - KT Mason leader of Pittsburgh, PA, Beaver Valley Lodge No. 8410
John
Russell- Pastor C.T. Russell’s step-mother was executor of his will. His
mother was the one chosen to dance with famous Mason and Illuminatus Lafayette
when he was in Philadelphia.11
William
H. Russell- Mason and part owner of the Pony Express, which was a firm made up
mainly of Masons.12
George
William Russell (1869-1935) - leading member of the Dublin Theosophist lodge,
wrote art. for the Ttheosophic periodical The Irish Theosophist. Initiated into
the Lodge of Isis (with it sexual rites). The keynote of his work is from the
Bhagavadgita. He was a good friend of Golden Dawn leader William Butler Yeats
who wrote some of the Satanic Masonic Rituals for the Golden Dawn.13
James
Russell - President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh which was associated with
esoteric groups like the Masons.14
Archibald
D. Russell (1811-1871) - A Presbyterian Mason who graduated from the Univ. of
Edinburgh, Scot. He studied at the Univ. of Bonn, Ger. and was active in setting
up various
Benjamin
Russell (1761-1845) - Mason and early American Journalist.16
Charles
H. Russell- Governor of Nevada, 1950-58, and 32 degree Mason, also in the York
Rite, and a Shriner.17
J.
Stuart Russell- Mason and newspaper editor and deputy chairman of the Fed.
Reserve Bank in Chicago.18
Lee
M. Russell (1875-1943) - Mason and Lt. Gov. of Miss. 1916-20.19
Louis
A. Russell (1854-1925) - Mason, organist for South Park Presbyterian Church,
Newark, N.J.20
Richard
B. Russell (1861-1938) - Mason, judge, editor & business exec.21
Richard
B. Russell, Jr.- Mason and Gov. of Georgia, 1931-33 and Sen. from Georgia since
1933.22
Before
going to our next section would be worthwhile to cover the family that Bertrand
Russell came from. They hold the title of Dukes of Bedford. Ordo W. Russell
served in Lord Palmerston's office from 1850-52. He served as unofficial
ambassador for Great Britian to the Vatican from 1857-70. His son Baron Ampthill
was Grand Master of the English Masons 1908-1935. He joined the English
equivalent of the Knights of Malta--that is the Order of St. John of Jerusalem,
and served as the Grand Master of the lodge formed at the Bank of England! He
was appointed head of the Indian Masons of Madras, India (home of the
Theosophical Society). Ordo Russell's son also served in some high political
positions.
RUSSELLS CONNECTED TO GROUPS THAT TIE BACK TO THE ILLUMINATI
(see
future chapters such as 2.5)
Charles
Edward Russell, Jewish Socialist who worked for N.Y. Life, controlled by J.P.
Morgan, and also for N.Y. Tribune and Herald.23
James
E. Russell, Columbia University professor who introduced
Wundt’s
Hegelian philosophy to his students at Columbia.24
Thomas
Russell (1767-1803) - a revolutionist of the Illuminati-stream of Revolution.25
Samuel
Russell - represented Baring Bros. Helped open up the Port of Shanghai for the
International Financiers.26
Bertrand
Russell - famous Fabian socialist, and One-Worlder.27
Alys
Russell - ex-eccentric Quaker, wife of Bertrand and also a Fabian Socialist.28
Rev.
Matthew Russell (1834-1912) - Jesuit writer.29
RUSSELLS CONNECTED IN SOME WAY TO THE IBSA (NOW CALLED JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES)
Charles
Taze Russell, Sr.- Pastor Russell’s uncle, broker and real estate agent.30
Moses
F. Russell, Postmaster of Saltillo, Hopkins Co, TX, near where Hayden Cooper
Covington’s parents moved.31
Brother
Russell- an early elder of the Belfast Ireland IBSA congregation. 32
RUSSELLS
CONNECTED IN SOME WAY TO MORMONISM
Elder
Isaac Russell- a prominant early Mormon missionary to Great Britian in 1837.33
Captain
Joseph H. Russell - original investor in stock in the Mormon Deseret
Manufacturing Co. which was intended to be an umbrella company for many early
Mormon enterprises.34
The
Russell who opened a store with Mormon blessings in the newly created Salt Lake
city. The store was called Miller, Russell & Co., a branch of Russell,
Majors, & Waddell, and was a primary source of goods in the area of Utah.35
OTHER
RUSSELLS
Baron
Charles Russell (1832-1900) - Solicitor (Lawyer) in Ulster and advocate for
Ireland.36
Jerome
Russell, a Greyfriar, burned in 1539 for heresy with John Kennedy in Glasgow,
Scot.37
Philemon
R. Russell - editor of the Christian Herald & Journal, in the Mar. 19, 1840
issue he stressed 2, 520 years in prophecy, which was an idea C.T. Russell would
later pick up and promote.
William
Howard Russell - first war correspondent for London's The Times newspaper in
1854. The London Times has long been part of the World Order, that William was
the first of his kind is quite significant.
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NOTES
1.
Michels, Robert. Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the
Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy. (orig. 1915) reprint:
2.
This subject is very controversial. One of the few books even willing to
touch the subject in a scholarly biblical manner is Crawford, Jarah B. Last
Battle Cry, Christianity's Final Conflict With Evil. Knoxville, TN: Jann
Publishing, 1986. Although I don't concur with all of Crawford's conclusions,
the book shows more than enough evidence to support the point superscripted.
3.
Confidential source personally involved with the it.
4. The documentation to show that the drug war is a contrived scheme is
extensive. I have chosen to place some of the documentation much further back,
but will state that several researchers give seminars exposing it in detail. The
Vietnam War was an important part of the scheme and since then some of the
recent important laws passed to implement this contrived war are P.L. 99-570,
P.L. 100-690, and the Omnibus crime bill in 1991.
5.
Marilyn Ferguson, New Age writer, states in her famous book The Aquarian
Conspiracy, p. 90, 'LSD gave a whole generation a religious experience.' But
chemical satori is perishable, its effects too overwhelming to integrate into
everyday life. Non-drug psycho-technologies offer a controlled, sustained
movement toward that spacious reality. The annals of the Aquarian Conspiracy are
full of accounts of passages: LSD to Zen, LSD to India, psilocybin to
Psycho-synthesis."
6.
Checks by the FBI, and other federal agencies confirmed this.
7.
Sutton, Antony. America's Secret Establishment. Billings, MT: Liberty
House Press, 1986, pp. 5,6,8,35, 66-67, 100, 212, 253.
9.
Various Christians have seen Charles T. Russell's KT membership records
which are filed in the Mother Lodge in Ireland. The connections between his
beliefs and his actions as the WT Society's leader and the Masons is the subject
of my previous book The WT & the Masons.
11.
This information is compiled from research from several sources. a. Nevin,
Adelaide Mellier. The Social Mirror A Character Sketch of the Women of
Pittsburgh and Vicinity during the first Century of the County's existence.
Society of to-day. Pittsburgh, PA: T.A. Nevin Publisher, 1888, p. 19.; b. The
Pittsburg Directory 1878-79 showing Elizabeth the widow of John, and c. John
Russell in the 1850 Census, and John Russell’s Will.
12.
Denslow, 10,000 Famous Freemasons, Vol. 4, p. 82. William H. Russell is
also mentioned in the New Age Magazine (June, 1963) p. 45.
13.
This information comes from several sources including
a. Boylan,
Henry. A Dictionary of Irish Biography. NY: St. Martins Press, 1988, p. 345;
b. Ancient
Wisdom and Secret Sects, Time-Life, 1989, p.154.
14.
15.
Denslow, op. cit., p.80.
16.
ibid.
17.
ibid.
18.
ibid.
19.
ibid.
20.
Denslow, op. cit., p.82
21.
ibid.
22.
ibid.
23.
Biography of Americans.
24.
Sutton, Antony C. America's Secret Establishment. Billington, MT: Liberty
House, p. 84.
25.
Boylan, Henry. A Dictionary of Irish Biography. NY: St. Martins Press,
1988, p. 345.
26.
Mullins, Eustice. The World Order. Staunton, VA: Ezra Pound Institute of
Civilization, 1985, p.92.
28.
ibid.
29.
Boylan, Henry. A Dictionary of Irish Biography. NY: St. Martins Press,
1988, p. 345.
30.
Springmeier, Fritz. The WT & the Masons, pp. 9, 215.
31.
Author’s geneological research in Hopkins Co. TX history.
32.
Early Convention Report
33.
Evans, Richard L. A Century of Mormonism in Great Britain. Salt Lake
City, UT: Publisher’s Press, 1937, pp. 34-35.
34.
Gibbons, Francis M. John Taylor Mormon Philosopher Prophet of God. Salt
Lake City, UT: Deseret Books, 1985, p. 129.
35.
Utah Historical Quarterly, 1941, Salt Lake City, pp. 190-211.
36.
Boylan, op. cit., p. 344
37.
ibid., and Black, George F. The Surnames of Scotland. NY: The NY Public
Library, 1962, p. 705.
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QUESTIONING OLD ASSUMPTIONS
There
was enough circumstantial evidence to lead one to question several assumptions.
I began to question the assumption that the W.T. presidents were unconnected to
each other. Another supposition that was questionable was that the WT Society
did not have a hidden agenda.
C.T.
RUSSELL'S STORY
Once
there was a Jewish family whose name was Roessel. They lived in early 17th
century Germany. They moved to a country called Scotland. There they re-spelled
the name Russell. They took on the ways of their new homeland. The English tried
to settle Protestants from Scotland in Ireland in order to control the Irish.
When the opportunity opened up to go to the Emerald Island (Ireland) with the
Scottish settlers who went to the plantation Ulster they went. It is possible,
but not known for sure that they learned to know the Rutherfords either in
Scotland or Ireland.
Scotland
repeatedly appears as the source of much of the religious heresy connected with
the Power. That C.T. Russell's family were in Scotland for a period, and also
from the German states which seem to be a hot bed for Jewish Satanism may be
only a coincidence and then again it might be a clue to understanding the
origins of the Watchtower Society.
This
Author's previous book The Watchtower and the Masons tells the story how the
Arian heresy began at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and spread to the
the Presbyterians of the Synod of Ulster. The book gives this Author's reasons
for believing that the C.T. Russell's family in northern Ireland were Arian in
belief before coming to the U.S. and chances are they were involved with
Freemasonry also.
THE ACKLEY CONNECTION
In
The Watchtower and the Masons the early history of C.T. Russell is given.
Charles and his father married two Ackley sisters a number of years after
Charles' mother died.
What
is an intriguing item is that C.T. Russell's mother's will indicates she owned
land in Iowa. A description of that land shows it was north of the town of
Ackley, Iowa. It turns out that a man named William Ackley had purchased the
land in that area, and had sold it in large part to Scot-Irish settlers of the
Presbyterian faith as they were coming to America. At the time C.T. Russell's
mother died a town named Ackley had been staked out in 1857, but the Civil War
had interfered with construction plans. A Presbyterian congregation had been
formed in the area during the early 1860s in the Ackley area, which indicates
some settlers had arrived. What connection did the Russells have with the
Ackleys years before Charles T. and his father married Ackley sisters?
Who
are the Ackleys? Maria Ackley, who was Charles T. Russell's wife, was
well-educated and an excellent writer. Interestingly, in the 19th century she
believed a socialist revolution was coming. She wrote, "This great
revolution has not yet come, but where is the statesman or the intelligent
citizen that does not see it coming?" (Russell, Maria. This Gospel of The
Kingdom, p. 26.) She was the ghost writer and ghost editor for much of her
husband Charles Taze's work. Her family was well-off. William Ackley, the land
speculator/seller in Iowa, traces his ancestry back to Prence Doane and
Elizabeth Godfrey. Elizabeth Godfrey in turn was the great-granddaughter of
William Brewster of the Mayflower fame. The Ackleys were Puritans to begin with
and seem to have been
concentrated
in the Connecticut area, and from there their family members moved out into NY
and PA. Another Ackley (1832-1881) at that time was Richard Thomas Ackley, a
Freemason who worked for the Miller, Russell and Company store in Salt Lake City
in 1858 soon after the Mormons built Salt Lake City.
LEADS
Of
course, these are all simply tantalizing leads for the investigator but nothing
solid. There seems to be much more to Charles Taze Russell than the little that
the public has been told. In the next few chapters we will attempt to dispel
some of the mystery surrounding the man.
God's "Annointed Seed"
In
1852, the Joseph Lyttle Russell family had a baby who they gave the same name to
as his uncle had. This baby, named Charles Taze Russell had a brother Frank who
was two years older, but Charles ended up the favorite of his father. Later
Charles would get a sister Margaret M.
Both
Charles T. and his sister Margaret spoke on various occasions that his had been
chosen before his birth for the work that he was to carry out.1
Margaret referred to her brother as the greatest man alive "a giant
unmatched." She stated that he had been chosen for his religious work
before his birth. Perhaps, Charles' Russell family, and his father Joseph L.,
(like Joseph Kennedy who had goals for his son to be president) had goals for
Charles. If Charles had been encouraged to meet such expectations and had gone
forward, then that could account for his sister's great admiration for him. He
had fulfilled her father's wishes.
At
the Put-In-Bay Convention his sister Margaret had outlined how God planned and
chose her brother. First God had planted a seed with the early church. But the
seed had laid dormant for centuries. "In due time", she says, the seed
of truth grew and was watered according to God's plan. During the Dark Ages the
seed of truth was barely kept alive waiting for God's Chosen One to bring it to
fruition. When it was time, God "anointed the eyes" of her brother at
age 17, and "God's smile of favor rested upon him." Margaret said her
brother was the one, the faithful one who God could depend upon, the "one
despite the burden and heat of the day" would remain faithful to God.2
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NOTES
1.
C.T. Russell is noted to have privately admitted his belief that he was
chosen for his great work before his birth.
The Finished Mystery. The Watchtower Bible & Tract Soc. 1917, p. 53.
A testimony speech given by his sister at the Put-In-Bay Convention where she
said similar things is commented on the The Laodicean Messenger, pp. 179-180.
2.
The Laodicean Messenger, pp. 179-180.
"To have my throat cut"
The
following stories, statistics and facts are revolting and are not something we
particularly want to dwell on. However, for the minute it takes to read through
the next few paragraphs, this Author wants to point out how prevalent yet secret
Satanism is. Whether you the reader are or aren't aware of evil spirits, the
facts remain there are countless people down through the ages who have
worshipped evil spirits.
On
Friday and Saturday nights across the United States members of Satanic Covens
are secretly meeting.1 They also meet on the many Satanic special
days. (See the list of their sacred days and the blood sacrifices that they
carry out on those days.) An ex-Illuminati member estimates that over 300,000
covens exist in the United States each having 13 or more members. A Black Prince
(Black Satanic Magician) estimated 40,000 to 60,000 satanic human sacrifices
occur in the U.S. yearly.
This
Author had the privilege to talk to someone who had an accidental rare encounter
with Satanists in Kansas City and managed to successfully flee to live and tell
about it.
Having
been a West Point cadet, it especially caught my attention when the West Point
Day Care Center was accused of being involved in the ritual abuse of 30
children. The officer requesting an investigation into his 2 1/2 year old
daughter's abuse was told to resign his commission. (This is no surprise in
several ways.)
Many
dozens of day care centers in California are investigated each year for
subjecting the children left in their care to Satanic Ritual Abuse. In Los
Angeles County 800 allegations of ritual abuse involving 64 schools and
preschools and 27 neighborhoods were reported.
The
newsmen and newspapers are repeatedly coming upon news stories involving
Satanism. Most of these stories never get printed, and many stories which do, do
not draw conclusions from the obvious clues indicating Satanic activity. An
example of this is a news story describing the desecration of a grave by some
young people. Certain bones are listed as having been taken, and the story
writes the incident off as youngsters playing games. If more were known about
Satanism the fact that the left hand was taken would have clued people that
Satanism was involved. The left hand, the femur, the Skull, and a particular rib
bone are especially important parts of the body. Left hands are associated with
Satan-right hands with God. Human sacrifices are always done with knifes in the
left hand, except when the Priestesses battle to the death for power.4
Many
criminal cases showing clues of Masonic involvement have the Masonic clues
ignored by the police and the press. Examples abound such as Jack the Ripper's
case.
This
Author knows personally from when he did farm work that occassionally cattle
would be found obviously killed from some type of Satanic ritual. The newspapers
often did not report such stories by farmers.
The
Chicago Tribune, Sunday, Apr. 27,1986 carried a story "Satan Worship Called
Dangerous, Growing" by Eric Zorn. The story told how youth in the area had
been involved in attempts to sacrifice humans to Satan, and about a series of
mutilation killings in Cook and Du Page Counties in 1981-82 in which 4 men
abducted and murdered up to 18 women. The parts of the dead women's bodies were
used in Satanic rituals involving cannibalism and sexuality.
Satanic Ritual Abuse Calendar
Jan. 1 ...................
|
.... New Years Day........................
|
...Druid
feast day |
Jan. 7 ...................
|
.... St. Winebald Day.....................
|
...blood
ritual, |
Jan. 17 .................
|
.... Satanic Revels..........................
|
...sex
ritual |
Jan. 20..................
|
....
St. Agnes Eve |
|
Jan. 26..................
|
.... Grand Climax...........................
|
sex
ritual, human sacrifice |
Feb. 2....................
|
.... Candlemas................................
|
...sex
ritual, one of the witches' Sabbats |
Feb.25 ..................
|
....
Blood Host or St. Walpurgis Day |
..
blood ritual, animal sacrifice |
March 1 ...............
|
.... St. Eichatadt Day.....................
|
...blood
ritual, demon hommage |
March 20..............
|
.... Equinox Feast ..........................
|
...sex
and blood rituals, Sabbat |
March 24 .............
|
...16
year old bride of Satan ritual |
|
April 19-25...........
|
|
...kidnapping,
sacrifice preparation |
April 24 ...............
|
....
St. Mark Eve |
|
April 25 ...............
|
.... Grand Climax...........................
|
female
sacrifice (can be a child), sex & fertlity ritual (5 wks. & 1 day
since equinox) |
April 26-30..........
|
....
high holy days for Beltaine |
|
April 30 ...............
|
.... Walpurgis Night or May Eve.... |
blood
ritual, |
May 1 ..................
|
.... Beltaine, Walpurgis or May Day................................................ |
...blood
ritual and/or fire festival |
June 21 ................
|
.... Solstice Feast............................
|
..
sex ritual, animal or human sacrifice |
June 23 ................
|
.... Midsummer's Eve ....................
|
fire
festival, most important times for the practice of magick [sic] |
July 1 ...................
|
.... Demon Revels..........................
|
..
blood ritual, sex with demons |
July 20-27 ............
|
|
...
kidnapping, sacrifice preparation |
July 25 .................
|
....
St. James Day |
|
July 27 .................
|
.... Grand Climax...........................
|
...
sex ritual, human female sacrifice |
|
(5
wks. & 1 day since solistice) |
|
July
31 or Aug. 1 ... |
.... Lammas / Harvest.....................
|
...
animal or human sacrifice, great Sabbat |
Aug. 3 ..................
|
.... Satanic Revels..........................
|
...
sex ritual |
Aug. 24 ................
|
.... St. Bartholomew Day...............
|
..
fire festival, great Sabbat |
Sept. 7..................
|
.... Marriage to the Beast...............
|
...
sex &. blood rituals, female under 21 |
Sept. 20 ...............
|
.... Midnight Host..........................
|
..
hands of glory / blood ritual |
Sept. 22 ...............
|
.... Equinox Feast Day...................
|
...
sex ritual |
Oct 23-30 ............
|
|
...
kidnapping, sacrifice preparation |
Oct
29-31 or 31 |
.... All Hallows' Eve.......................
|
blood
ritual, fire festival, great Sabbat, |
Nov. 1 ..................
|
.... Halloween ................................
|
...
sex ritual |
Nov. 4 ..................
|
.... Satanic Revels..........................
|
...sex
ritual |
Nov. 11 ................
|
.... All Hallows' Eve.......................
|
...the
ancient date, celebrated by some groups |
Dec. 16-23............
|
|
...kidnapping,
sacrifice preparation |
Dec. 21 ................
|
.... St. Thomas Day .......................
|
...fire
festival, great Sabbat |
Dec. 22 ................
|
.... Solistic Feast Day.....................
|
...sex
ritual (also burial ritual for some groups) |
Dec. 24 ................
|
.... High Grand Climax..................
|
...blood
ritual |
In addition to the above dates, the following dates should also be added:
year
2009 ................... Feast of the Beast......................... year long celebration, occurs every
28 years
Good Friday......................................................................
passion, mock crucifixion, male sacrifice only
Holy Saturday..................................................................
male or female sacrifice
year 2009 .....................Feast of the Beast ..............................year long celebration, occurs every 28 years
Good Friday......................................passion, mock crucifixion, male sacrifice only
Holy Saturday ................................male or female sacrifice
Easter .............................................male, female, adult or child, sacrificed,
followed
by three days of chanting the survivor's birthday .......highest of all days for that individual
The sabbath, from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday
is also observed. Astrological events like full moons and
eclipses are also causes for "celebration."
This
is a compilation of 6 different versions of SRA calendars. It is highly unlikely
that any one SRA survivor would have been abused on all the above dates.
However, most SRA survivors, irregardless of the group they belonged to, were
abused on the following dates: April 26-May 1, June 21, October 31, and December
22 & 24. Many survivors are also affected one to two weeks prior to the
celebration of any major ritual as this is the time for preparation rituals
leading up to a major event.
In
Mexico across the Texas border a Satanic group which sacrificed people recently
managed to splash across the headlines and television screens. Even though the
news media is careful not to give the full ramifications in such stories, and is
reluctant to carry these stories, the stories still can't be totally suppressed.
Two
points have been introduced, that Satanism is widespread, and that our awareness
of its activity is very slim due to its extreme secrecy and poor news coverage.
DEMONIC
DEPRAVITY
The
Satanic Skull and Bones Order has initiation rites which include the candidate
lying in a coffin and relating their sexual exploits. Another part of the
ceremony involves wrestling in a manure pile.5 This is the type of
degenerate activity Satanism is well known to draw people into. One of the top
Christian researchers in demons, and author of two excellent books on Satanism
and demons Merrill F. Unger writes, "People who deal in the occult are
often found to be immoral. Men and women who abandon themselves to immorality
reach a point where God gives them up, in the sense of restraining Satan and
demonic power from them, so that they are abandoned to the degrading depths of
immorality and are shamelessly reduced to actions that even animals avoid
(Romans 1:26-32; cf. Revelation 9:20, 21)."6
ROLE
OF DEMONS IN STARTING RELIGIONS
Hinduism
is replete with many gods and many superstitions. It has a deep-rooted tendency
toward mysticism, and derives much of its power from demonic activity. Some of
the Holiest men of Hinduism are deranged men who run around on all fours like
animals. This Author has personally seen the total demonic degradation of the
human by Hinduism all in the disguise of making the person spiritual.
Primitive
religions are as a rule full of magic and the worship of evil spirits. These
evil spirits are feared, ceaselessly placated, and slavishly worshipped.
The
polytheism of the Mesopotamians, the Sumerians, Assyrians, the Persians, the
Babylonians are full of demons from the earliest of historical records. Demonism
is the dynamic behind the magic and spiritual powers of these groups' religion.8
The Canaanite, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman gods relate to the Babylonian gods in
character and nature, and are also demonic. All kinds of magic, immorality,
human sacrifice, astrology, etc. came to be practiced
2 Page CHART
the SATANIC HIERARCHY
BASIS
FOR CHART:
This chart has been developed from charts by Ex-Satanists, it also is
colloborated by information received from many historical sources. Historical
information describing the hierarchies and power structure of demonology are
worldwide. Although differing in details, it is clear that multiple levels of
demonic authority have been experienced by people.
LEVEL
A. SATAN AND RULING SPIRIT PRINCES
The ruling spirit princes are widely known among Satanists. Many of the ruling
princes go by several names, as do many of the Satanists. Some of the ruling
princes are still referred to by names they used in ancient Babylon and ancient
Egypt.
LEVEL
B. DEMONS
The highest ranking Satanists teach their children that the demons are aliens
from other planets. Within the Satanic covens one variety of demons looks like
E.T. (but also can have more hair) are common and they serve as guardians. Also
a grey type of demon with almond eyes associated with UFOs is also working
closely with the high ranking Satanic Illuminati. The first rumblings of Satanic
plans to use a mock alien invasion from outer space to unite the world under
Satan's rule were given to the Satanists in the 19th century, perhaps at a Feast
of the Beast in possibly 1868. After the next Feast of the Beast 28 years later,
UFOs began appearing in large numbers in the USA esp. Calif. H.G. Wells novel
War of the Worlds was published in serial form the following year too. By 1917,
the secret occult fraternities show signs of working toward creating this
artificial alien invasion.
The
UFO phenomena is accompanied with a. repeated accounts by abductees and
contactees that man has failed to advance morally as rapidly as he has
technologically, and that these aliens will give mankind or the elite of mankind
both advanced technology and advanced morality. The secrets of the galaxies- not
just ancient mysteries but the mysteries of the ages- will be given to our elite
free by these aliens (actually demons), b. mankind is on the verge of a great
evolutionary leap forward, but also faces an Armageddon. Demons which appear
manage to come in all sizes and shapes. There is a munchkin variety called
elves, lepricans, or menihunis. There is a large giant variety too. The spirits
are assigned various tasks, and are often grouped in 4's, 7's, or 13's.
LEVEL
C. PRINCIPALITIES & POWERS
These forces are akin to "school spirit" or the power that a rampaging
crowd has within itself. These powers of synergy are carefully manipulated by
the Satanic forces. These energies produce a Zeitgeist -a spirit or fad of the
times. Peer pressure is a form of such power. These power structures are known
and manipulated by the Satanic forces.
LEVEL
D. GUARDIANS
These Nephalim (half men - half demon) are to be found distributed throughout
all the levels. They are the goon squads, the enforcers, the Sergeant-at-arms,
and have rank according to the level they operate on.
LEVEL
E. ILLUMINATI
Illuminati members depending upon their groups have various levels themselves.
Their knowledge of Satan's organization depends upon which group they are in and
which level they are at, most usually they may have only that knowledge needed
to function at their level. Illuminati members have their name written in blood
by a quill pen into a book. The various factions of Illuminati rule the world as
the Kingpins in politics, finance, porn, drugs, communications, and religion in
preparation for the Anti-Christ (Kashema) to take his throne, and rule with rest
of the Satanic trinity of the Beast, and the False Prophet. This level includes
the Grande Druid Council, and the 13 highest Satanic families. Various branches
have their own terminology and rules for their lower levels which are the
following pattern.
LEVEL
F. BRIGADES- SISTERS OF LIGHT/ ASMODEUS
These are the Mothers of light, the overseers of power. Training for these
Illuminati begins at age 11. Coronations for a Queen in the Mother of Light is
at 14 years old.
LEVEL
G. REGIMENT
This level is led by a Grande Master/Matriarch. Regiments are divided up into
various levels of groupings of covens into companies and sub-regiments led by
captain and major-types. Rings are worn by various levels.
LEVEL
H. COVENS
Basic low level group (similar to an Army platoon) containing 13+ witches with a
Priest or Priestess as an officer. Most covens are extremely well kept secrets.
A few show temples like Anton LeVey's Temple of Satan are put on for the
public's consumption.
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NOTES
Alan
K. Russell put together The Collector's Book of Science Fiction by H.G. Wells
which gives the information about the Pearson's Magazine serial publication of
H.G. Well's War of the Worlds.
Interestingly
not only do Masonic publications indicate a Satanic trinity, and Occult and
Magic publications describe this, but the Christian Scripture's book of
Revelation 20:10 (et. al.) also refers to the Satanic trinity of the Beast,
False Prophet, and Satan.
According
to the Masonic book An Interpretation of Freemasonry by Mason Martin Wagner, p.
97, the name Solomon which is used by Masons so frequently is actually a Sun-God
trinity, "This name Solomon is not the Israelitish king. It is name in
form, but different in its meaning. It is a substitute which is externally like
the royal name. This name is a composite. Sol-om-on, the names of the sun in
Latin, Indian, and Egyptian, and is designed to show the unity of several
god-ideas in the ancient religions, as well as with those of Freemasonry."
If Wagner, and exMason McQuaig who also claims this is the case are accurate,
and this view was known in Elizabethan England, then Solomon's temple that the
Masons are building ends up to be nothing other than Lucifer, the light-bearer's
temple. [end of Satanic Hierarchy Chart]
under
these systems. Another example from another angle, the cloven hoofed Greek god
Pan from who was derived the English word "panic" is a carbon copy of
what ex-Satanists claim Satan looks like.
In
Shintoism all kinds of deities and spirits are conjured up, and all kinds of
occult practices including divination, fortune-telling, spiritism, magic, and
conjuring are practiced.
In
Taoism, which is polytheistic, all kinds of magic, divination, charms, dealings
with demons, geomancy, and fortune-telling are practiced.
Buddhism
exists in many forms. This Author lived in Nepal and can personally testify that
Buddhists in Nepal and Tibet as well as other Asian lands have many
superstitions, do practice all the occult practices, and they live in fear of
demons which are placated.
Confucianism
was started strictly as a philosophy, not as a religion and does not concern
itself with the spirit realm. By default then most Confucists must learn of the
supernatural from Taoism which most of them practice. Taoism is very demonic.
Rabbinic
Judaism is based on the religions of Babylon, not the Old Testament as most
people especially Christians incorrectly assume. The Kabballa and the Zohar of
the Jews are the fundamental books that most occult, magic, and Satanic groups
base their activities on. One of the leading well-known Satanists and a magician
E. Levi wrote in his book Transcendental Magic, "All truly dogmatic
religions have issued from the Kabalah and return therein. Whatsoever is grand
or scientific in the religious dreams of the illuminated, of Jacob Bohme,
Swedenborg, Saint-Martin and the rest, is borrowed from the Kabalah; all Masonic
Associations owe to it their secrets and their symbols."9 (Bold
added)
A BIZARRE DISCOVERY
One of
the strangest things for this Author was to continue running into evidence that
seems to indicate Charles Taze Russell, the man who started the Jehovah's
Witnesses' Watchtower Society, was secretly an important Satanist. Lest the
reader devalue the evidence, permit this Author to state that the evidence came
in first before I came up with my theory that Russell was an important Satanist,
and not vice-versa.
Some
of the outstanding clues are:
a.)
C.T. Russell was definitely a Mason, yet he puts up some great
smokescreens in his writing concerning his membership.
b.)
C.T. Russell's Bethel staff became concerned about his occultic
activities and required him to take an oath forswearing any further occultic
activities.
c.)
In my previous book The Watchtower and the Masons, I study 35 parallel
beliefs that Russell had with Masonry. I spent a page per parallel. These 35 are
not in any way inclusive, Russell had many other identical ideas to what the
Masonic lodges propagate.
d.)
Various items from magic were part of Russell's religious beliefs
including healing handkerchiefs, phrenology, the Winged-Sun-Disk, Enochian
Magical planes, etc.
e.)
Russell's family's possible Illuminati links, and his wife's possible
connections with a family line of Satanists.
f.)
Russell's apparent secret Rosicrucian membership with the Quakertown, PA
group of Rosicrucians, as revealed by the pyramid he ordered erected, his use of
the Winged-Sun-Disk, and his cremation three days after his death.
g.)
Russell owned a cemetary in Pittsburgh. Leading Satanists try to own cemeteries
for several reasons. First, it facilitates the disposal of human sacrifices
which are buried in pieces below the fresh holes dug for someone else's burial.
When the casket is placed in the hole, it would be rare for anyone to dig below
the casket level ever again. Second, magic power is associated with cemetaries.
The spiritual power of the dead is pulled up by making a circle of light over
them then within the circle a naked Satanist lays. Third, specific bones are
sought such as the skulls and left hands. Left hands are preserved in order to
hold candles for certain ceremonies.
h.)
Contacts from various places today indicate that the modern Watchtower
Society is working with the New World Order. This implies that at some point the
Society began cooperating with the New World Order. Russell seems to be the
likeliest starting point.
UNDERSTANDING CHARLES T. RUSSELL
As with
all occult organizations a veil of secrecy is maintained by requiring initiates
to take secrecy oaths on penalty of death. As in Witchcraft, Masonry repeatedly
demands secrecy oaths at every new level. Charles T. Russell began participating
in this secrecy when he took the Entered Apprentice (first Masonic degree) oath
on penalty of mayhem and violent death, "I...do hereby and hereon most
solemnly and sincerely promise and swear that I will always hail, ever conceal
and never reveal any of the arts, parts or points of the secret arts and
mysteries of ancient Freemasonry which I received, am about to receive, or may
hereafter be instructed in..."
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NOTES
1.
Confidential interviews with ex-Satanists.
2.
Interview by Dr. Al Carlisle with a Black Prince recorded in Stratford,
L. Satan's Underground, p. 144.
3.
Stratford, ibid, p. 199.
4.
Confidential interview with ex-Illuminatus.
5.
Schrag, John, art. "Skeleton in His Closet", Willamette Week
(Sept 19-25, 1991), p. 10.
6.
linger, Merrill F. Demons In The World Today. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House
Pub., 1971, p.
7.
For study of this cf. Codrington, R.H. The Melanesians; Spenser, W.B. and
F.J. Gillen. The Native Tribes of Central Australia and The Northern Tribes of
Central Australia; Ellis, A.B. The Tshi-Speaking People of the Gold Coasr.
Westermarck, E. Ritual and Belief in Morocco; Lowie, R.H. Primitive Religion.
8.
Unger, op. cit., p. 152
9.
Levi, E. Transcendental Magic, trans. Waite. London: England, n.d. pp.
24f
10.
The wording of this quote is taken from ex-33° Mason Jim Shaw's book The
Deadly Deception. Lafayette, LA: Huntington House, Inc., 1988. The wording also
may be found in Revised Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry, Part 1, by Malcolm C.
Duncan, Behrens Pub. Co.,Danbury, Conn. 1922, p. 30 where the entire Entered
Apprentice ritual is given. The Knights Templar magazine (9/1988) p. 21
indicates that a few Grand Lodges have recently experimented with doing away
with the blood-curdling oaths on penalty of death, and substituting the use of
the more moderate oath on penalty of "expulsion from the Fraternity."
This was done as an expedient to raise recruiting levels.
A BLANK CHECK
WHICH EYE OF GOD BLESSED C.T. RUSSELL?
Jehovah's
Witnesses point to their success as proof of God's approval, in the same way
that communists have pointed to various revolutions to show proof that the broad
masses support them.
COLOSSAL SPENDING
During
the half century before his death C.T. Russell spent vast sums of money. Russell
travelled nearly continuously. His trips took him to Europe frequently and
around the world. He often had large entourages accompanying him. The Jehovah's
Witnesses, then called International Bible Students or simply Bible Students,
gave out enormous quantities of FREE books, tracts, and other things. For
instance consider some of the following expenses,
In
1881 the WT issued a 164-pg book Food for Thinking Christians. The cost of
printing was born by the WT Society, and for some unknown reason several
newspapers picked up the cost of distribution. These small books (now extremely
rare) were distributed free. Zion's W.T. in 1881 says that their tract
Supplement No. 2 is "for free distribution. Order as many as you can
use."1
In
1882 the WT magazine (then called Zion's Watch Tower) advertises, "We have
plenty of tracts and September numbers, which you can have for free distribution
by asking for them."2
In
1886, Russell had 300 workers distributing Food for Thinking Christians. 300,000
free tracts were distributed in Great Britain alone. WT literature was given
free to the colporteurs.
In
1893, the WT Magazine says "A good colporteur can put into the hands of the
people
In
1897, there was a mass distribution of 300,000 of the free WT booklet the Bible
versus Evolution.5
In
1899,948, 459 tracts were handed out by people a half block away from churches
in each direction as people came out.6
In
1910, Russell had 76 workers at headquarters and paid 2,000 different newspapers
to carry his articles. How much money would it take for an unknown person
without connections to pay 2,000 newspapers to run their articles? Russell
wasn't without connections. In 1910, the German branch ran a $7,340.49 deficit,
even though they received much of their literature free, and the British branch
came up $9,331.41 short that year, all made up by the Brooklyn,NY headquarters.7
Had
the gigantic literature giveaways ended yet? In 1913, in a Convention Russell
states, "Do you know how many copies of free literature have been
distributed by the people of Great Britian this year so far? Eight millions of
copies....And I am so pleased to see that many of God's people are rejoicing in
the privilege of showing forth His praises. Never mind if it is not customary to
go about giving out literature. Never mind if it is not popular to give out
religious literature. We have a message and work, and this is our way of
preaching."8
During
all this time period of 35 years, the Watchtower Society had managed to rent
such hugh building such as Prince Albert Hall—which by the way is famous for
many big Masonic events. Renting the Hall would have ranged in the hundreds of
dollars. In 1910 they rented it six times.9
WHAT WE HAVE BEEN TOLD
Up
to now, no one has contested the explanation that has been provided by the WT
Society and their official history. Supposedly, Russell sold his clothing store
and financed his activities from the proceeds.
Anyone
familiar with printing and shipping knows that the large quantities of material
Russell distributed free had to cost in just one year alone more than the
proceeds from selling his store. On top of that, Russell had legal fees from
repeated court battles, exorbant travelling costs, and a full-time staff to
house and feed.
His
followers were not required to give up their money to become Bible Students. So
where did the money come from? The foreign branches received free literature
some of which they sold, and came up short even after some sales and donations.
Bear in mind, the WT Society was not efficient as it is today. Today they make
their own ink and have the latest equipment to typeset and print with. But back
then, at least part of the books Russell printed he paid outside printers to
print.
Up
to now, it has been stated that Russell was a genius with money. That kind of
statement simply clouds what really happened. Russell was not Rumplestiltchen.
If he was such a man of finance (and he certainly had the reputation then), it
seems hard to picture him sending out his people to stand in front of churches
to hand out expensive books free to Christians as they left. A man that loose
with his own money would hardly makes a fortune in ten years of running a
clothing store. Russell wasn't being careless with his money, because he was not
having to finance his operation himself. His backers
The
Greek Orthodox church which jealously guards it turf, has repeatedly accused the
Jehovah's Witnesses of being financed by the agents of "International
Zionism."10 This topic is discussed more in chapter 6.
RUSSELL'S FINANCES
It
will surprise many people to learn that Charles T. and his father Joseph L. were
quite poor in 1870. They boarded and their store was rented to them. In 1870,
they were not involved in religion yet, and between the two of them they had not
a single piece of property. Joseph's personal belongings were $2,000.11
Actually,
they were doing fine, considering Joseph had left Ireland during the Potato
famine, and had left owing his brother-in-law money.12
The
first good financial break was when Charles T. Russell's uncle by the same name
died Dec. 1875. His father inherited $1,000.13 Because his father and
him were in business together, this was a real boost. According to court
testimony, Russell had a chain of 5 stores by 1880. Soon Russell invested in oil
in Butler Co. and his father and him opened a scrap metal business in 1882.14
They closed the men's furnishing business in 1883.
Charles
bought out his father, and when his father died in 1897, his will reveals that
he had 3 houses and lots in Allegheny, PA. a house and 3 lots at Farfron
Springs, FL. along with another 25 acres, 160 acres in Polk Co.,FL and stock in
the Carlin Co. Besides that he had shares of stock in the Railway and Dock
Construction Co. of NYC which C.T. Russell inherited.15
Because C.T. Russell's wife divorced him in 1897 Russell hid his money so that his exwife
would not be able to get any support, in court, C.T. Russell would not honestly
state his holdings even under oath. A Reverend J.J. Ross investigated on his own
and discovered that Russell had lied under oath. Russell was a stockholder in
the Pittsburgh Asphatum Co. which later became the Calif. Asphatum Co. which was
the organizer of the Selica Brick Co. Russell also had controlling interest in
the Brazilian Turpentine Co. located in Pittsburgh, a cemetary in Pittsburgh.
& the U.S. Coal & Coke Co. with capital of $100,000.16 After
having lied in court, Pastor Russell had to make a clean breast of his lies when
the Reverend Ross confronted him in court with the facts and the charters of
some of Russell's companies.17
Russell
also had money invested in timber limits. Russell had just secretly purchased
silver mines in Nevada, and had gone out to check them out on his western trip
when he died.
In
1874, when C.T. Russell began his religious meetings, he also began buying
property in Allegheny. He bought again in 1874, 1884, 1885 (two properties),
1889 (four properties), in 1890 (five properties), 1892, 1894, 1896, 1897 (two
properties), and four more properties after the turn of the century in that area
alone in his own name.18
Further,
the WT Society which he had control of had ownership of numerous properties.
Russell
had control (99% of the snares) of the U.S. Investment Co.,Ltd. which in turn
held 38 houses and lots in Binghamton, NY, several lots in Tacoma, WA, a farm
near Rochester, NY, a house and lot in Buffalo, NY, a farm in OK, 100 lots in
TX, a house and lot near Pittsburgh, and 5,500 acres in KT.19
By
the way, the original owners of U.S. Investment Co. were John A. Bohnet (5
shares),
Ernest C. Henninges (5 shares), and C.T. Russell (990 shares).20
The
popular story is that Pastor Russell gave all his money to his great crusade and
died a poor man, leaving his poor wife (the WT Society claims they were only
seperated- -the divorce papers say otherwise) with only $200.21 The
court records show a very rich man indeed. And most of Russell's money came in
after he started up his Watch Tower Society.
THE
ENIGMA REMAINS
Here
is a man that starts a religion from scratch. He is busy traveling, writing and
talking almost full time. He is well off but not a millionaire. After starting
his religion, he spends millions on giving away free literature, and invests
perhaps millions in gold, silver mines, government bonds, oil fields, property,
and stocks in companies. There has never been a real analysis of C.T. Russell's
finances, and his WT Society.
Russell was involved in several financial scams also. He lost in court.
WHOEVER FINANCED RUSSELL HAD BIG PLANS FOR HIS SOCIETY
Russell's
WT Society was financed by some heavyweights. The history of the WT Society
gives evidence that the power to bring in a one-world-government financed
Russell. The WT Society has been a proxy for the One-World New Order to
accomplish certain goals. Unfortunately, the JWs "in the trenches",
have not known how they have been used. JWs brought upon themselves all kinds of
persecution when Rutherford announced to them that the angels had revealed that
all national flags were the " devil's banner." On page 44 of Uncovered
Rutherford states "Flag saluting is in direct violation of God's law."
Individual JWs had to suffer first in order to bring the issue of flag saluting
before the Supreme Court. It would have looked bad for the Masonic Lodge to
openly support the issue, but the WT Society was accomplishing a goal that they,
the Masons had determined in advance. So the populace hated the JWs, and the
Masons could continue putting out Patriotic material for public consumption,
although in their own literature, they had clearly marked Nationalism for
destruction.
J.P.Morgan,
the Rothschild's representative in the United States, set up a trust fund to
unite the various Christian denominations. Russell praises this in his Jan. 1,
1911 WT, pp. 1-4 (WTR p.4735), "Mr. Morgan's well-known business capacity,
exhibited in connection with financial trusts, encourages many to believe that
he will accomplish the desired end in connection with the movement. More and
more all denominations are craving a religious trust or federation and are
becoming more and more willing to sacrifice doctrines and principles formerly
held dear, in order to accomplish the federation....Evidently this federation is
near at hand; the Scriptures have long foretold the Federation, as we have been
pointing out there from for thirty years. It is to us one of the special signs
of our day, one of the special indications marking the end of the Gospel age and
the inauguration of Messiah's kingdom."
Here
is a trust fund set up to pay denominations to federate, and here is Russell
saying this is fulfillment of Scripture.
"Our
message was to the Jews as Jews..."
In
1910 and 1911, Jews flocked to hear a Christian preacher. His message at St.
Louis (June 11-12, 1911) was "Zionism, the hope of the world."
This
fatherly figure of a preacher, the likes of which the Jews had never seen
before, was C.T. Russell. And he captured many of the Jews' attention if not
their hearts.
They
flocked to his meetings. Four thousand Jews listened to this Christian preacher
at New York City's Hippodrome on Oct. 9, 1910. Later in London 4,600 went to the
Royal Albert Hall (site of many large Masonic gatherings) to hear him, and 800
at the Shoreditch Town Hall. 1,200 Jews came at Manchester, 1,400 Jews turned
out at Glasgow, Scotland, and another 5,000 at Cincinnati, OH.
What
captured their hearts? Russell sums up his hippodrome message, "We were not
preaching Jesus to them. Our message was to the Jews as Jews, from Is. 40:1,2,
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people." 22
Russell's
repeated assurances that he wasn't proselytizing the Jews achieved their goal to
calm the fears of wary Jews. Further, Russell had a radical message for his
time, Zionism. Russell was a Zionist before the word existed.
In
1880, Russell began to predict that the Jews would return to Palestine.
He
wrote an article "God's Message of Comfort to the Jews" telling the
world that God had promised the Jewish nation would be restored. This article
was made into a 32 page Bible Student tract around Sept., 1881, and reprinted
again in tract and newspaper- article forms in Dec. 1887. One source also says
the booklet was put out in 1912. This Comfort for the Jews is not to be confused
with Rutherford's later book in 1925 by the same title.
Russell's
third book, Thy Kingdom Come, spends its entire 8th chapter on "The
Restoration of Israel."
His
prophecy about the Jews returning to Israel are, in this Author's estimation,
his most accurate. The others failed. This prophecy goes unmentioned by today's
WT because it clashes with their present light that the nation of Israel is not
in God's plan.
Russell
applauded as he saw his predictions on Zionism starting to happen. Russell advertised
Dr. T. Herzl's launching of Zionism. Russell published a Yiddish paper Di Stimme,
which circulated in Europe and Russia. With Jewish help it was circulated
worldwide. It was especially popular in Poland.
The
WT Society Collaborates with Jewish Groups
After
Russell's death, and while Rutherford, the second WT president was confined in a
Federal Penitentiary, the WT headquarter shifted back from Brooklyn to Pittsburgh.
The Watchtower magazine on Sept. 1, 1918 prints a revealing letter from the men
in Pittsburgh who were running the Watchtower Society. The letter equates the
Watchtower Society with the Jewish Zionist movement. Whether the two are
actually the same or not, it is evident from this article, that the Watchtower
leaders were not concerned that the Society and the Zionist movement be
identified together.
"On
Saturday and Sunday we had the pleasure of hearing our dear Brother Thorn
expound the further unfolding of God's plan. He spoke of the restoration of the
Jews to their land, called the attention to the significance of their Passover
Supper coming the day following ours, and also to the significance of the
opening date of the of the recent
Zionist
Congress in Pittsburgh, June 22nd, the day following a most memorable day in the
history of our Society. Note how in this wonderful sequence of events the
ceremonial and governmental features of the movements effected have been kept
seperate and distinct. This Congress accomplished more than did the former
twenty Zionist conventions put together..."(WT 1 Sept '18, p.275)
It
has not been a total secret that Jewish groups were associated with C.T.
Russell.
"...Russell
interviewed a large number of Jewish notables and leaders who came to visit him
at the central offices of the Witnesses in Brooklyn."23
Some
like the Jewish editor of the Boston Jewish Advocate, Jacob de Haas, a Hassidic
Jew and prominent member of the Munich Zionist meeting on Aug. 25, 1897, felt
Russell had identical religious beliefs to his.
Another
Jew, Raymond G. Jolly, states about his meeting with Russell, "I was very
much impressed with this godly man..."24 So much so that Jolly
joined Russell's movement, along with many other Jews. Numerous Jews would
become prominent figures in the Watchtower Society including Paul S.L Johnson,
John J. Hoefle, and Olin R. Moyle. Many with Jewish heritage would also find
Russell's movement attractive such as Frederick Franz and Nathan Knorr. Early
lists of Bible Students show that people of Jewish heritage may have made up to
20 percent of Russell's movement. This Author gives that figure, not as a
statistic, but as one of the many factors that lead him to conclude that Jews
joined Russell faster than the general population.
Jews
referred to Russell as a "great friend of the Jewish people."25
And Russell did love them, even those who were secular humanists, "I feel
great sympathy for the Jews in their unbelief..."26
When
the Berlin Conference in 1878 proposed a Zionist solution to the Jewish
question, Russell threw together a hodge-podge of scripture to show that this
event in 1878 had to be the beginning of the "Millenial day." This
Millenial day would then progress to the restoration of the Jewish Kingdom in
1914.27 Indeed, one of the plans to restore the Jewish bloodline of
David with a united Europe with the aid of the European Freemasons was scheduled
for 1914, but was delayed due to World War I.28
One
of the undeniable leaders of the Jewish people were the Rothschilds. Pastor
Russell wrote the Rothschilds several letters, one of which will be quoted, and
the importance of the Rothschilds will be discussed later in chap. 3.3.
The
B'nai B'rith finances Russell
The
B'nai B'rith was behind Russell's start. Before explaining who the B'nai B'rith
was and why they supported Russell let's look at some of evidence of the
cooperation.
Edith
Starr Miller, a researcher into international politics and the causes of social
unrest, who managed to position herself in amongst various important people,
came upon "irrefutable evidence" of the bewildering drama of a
conspiracy between various organizations. She writes that the B'nai B'rith was
responsible for getting Russell started.
Frank
Goldman, both a member of the Order (as the B'nai B'rith is known) and a Mason,
escorted Pastor Russell by car to the Hippodrome for his two hour talk. Jewish
financiers had by the way rented the Hippodrome for Russell. After Russell
finished his talk, the Zionist anthem "Rosh Hoshkana" was played.
Frank Goldman went on to become the President of the B'nai B'rith.
Interestingly,
the B'nai B'rith points out in their Los Angeles B'nai B'rith Messenger29
their close affinity,
"The
Jews themselves are Jehovah's Witnesses. In due time, according to prophecy,
Jerusalem will be the capital of the world and Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and
other Ancient Worthies' will be resurrected and form the nucleus of God's
Kingdom on earth. This was the understanding of Pastor Russell from his studies
of the prophecies, and he so taught during his long ministry."
Zionism
actually encompasses Russell's vision for the establishment of a universal
Israel, with Jerusalem as world capital. For instance, Yigal Aldon at the United
Nations on Sept. 30, 1975 speaking for the nation of Israel (and therefore in a
sense Zionism & Jews worldwide) defines Zionism, "Zionism is, in sum,
the constant and unrelenting effort to realize the national and universal vision
of the Prophets of Israel." A national homeland is not enough, the
universal kingdom the Talmud says is to be Israel's millenial kingdom is their
goal.
The
Watchtower Society distributed a Yiddish periodical Di Stimme (The Voice) all
over the world.30 It was especially attempted to place it Russia, to
motivate Russian Jews to emigrate to Palestine. Because the paper was ostensibly
Christian it's distribution came under less restrictions than Jewish literature.
The
Watchtower Society offered to supply the Di Stimme periodical to anyone "in
any quantity—free."31 There seems to have been no bottom line
to the financial backing of the WT Society.
The
same year that the offer was made to supply the Yiddish paper to anyone "in
any quantity—free", the WT Society's account books claimed a $22,415.93
deficit. "We doubt not this indebtedness will soon be cancelled;
nevertheless the fact that it is nearly double the shortage of last year
cautions us that we must to some extent put on the 'brakes.' " (WTR 1911,
p.4936)
So
how does the Society show caution and put on the brakes? Does it stop printing
and distributing millions of pieces of free Zionist literature? No. They have
subtly bilked their readers for more donations, but the pace of the free
giveaway of Zionist literature worldwide doesn't abate. The reason for this is
given away in the WT of Jan. 1, 1911, p. 4 which quietly reveals that funding
came from Jewish sources. The distribution of Di Stimme was aided "...by
Jewish Journals interested in the message..."
Secret
backers have always been the secret to Russell's success. In 1882, Russell tells
readers, "...a brother who has already contributed largely guarantees any
debts incurred, to the amount of one thousand dollars in excess of
receipts."
Although
there are reports of anonymous donations every now and then of amounts like
$9,000 and $1,000, the real underwriting must have been almost a blank check
when one examines the WT Society's activities.
Further,
the ease with which Russell visits, works with, and writes Jewish leaders
indicates a close relationship.
EVIDENCE OF RUSSELL'S JEWISH HELP STANDS IN COURT
Isn't
the evidence that the B'nai B'rith helped Russell's Watchtower Society
circumstantial? It wouldn't hold up in court would it?
A
swiss physician, Dr. Fehrmann, at a public meeting on Jan. 21, 1924 upset some
Dr.
Fehrmann brought forth a number of proofs. One letter entered as evidence was a
Masonic letter from high Masonic sources dated 27 December, 1922. The letter was
of unquestionable genuineness and stated, "We give them (the Earnest Bible
Students), in the usual indirect ways, much money through a number of brothers,
who during the war made a pile. It won't hurt their fat pocket books. They are
Jews."
Why
would Jews support the Christian Pastor Russell?
Obviously
today the WT Society would be a good investment. And for someone who was trying
to destroy the power of Christianity, the WT Society is very divisive. The
Society targets minorities and the lower classes so it isn't quite the threat to
someone in the power structure. But what about then, in Charles T. Russell's
day?
Not
much attention has been given this question.
The
prominent Jew, Jeane Kirkpatrick, who was the U.S.'s ambassador to the U.N.
described Russell's Zionism as "a neglected chapter" and concerning
his contributions to Zionism, she describes Russell a "neglected man."32
Such praise is significant. Kirkpatrick is a CFR member, in favor of a
One-World-State, and is often praised in the CIA's National Review.33
Her husband was involved in intelligence in key operations.34
Pastor
Charles T. Russell preached Judaism with a veneer of Christianity. Perhaps no
one else has more successfully passed off Jewish thought as Christian, than C.T.
Russell.
Russell said:
1.
The Jews would be the principle rulers during the Millenium.
2.
That the nations of the world would have to become Jews during the
Millenium.
3.
That God would bless the world through the Jewish people
4.
Russell advised the Jews to go to their Rabbi's to learn how to protect
themselves from Christian teachings.
5.
Russell told the Christians they should stop trying to convert the Jews,
for it was against God's will to convert them
6.
and that it was God's will for Jews to remain Jews.
7.
Russell promoted Zionism, and frequently reprinted articles from leading
Jews in the WT.
8.
Russell says the Messiah is a collection of Jews, with maybe a few
gentiles included.
9.
Russell says the Protestant and Catholic Bibles are inaccurate, and that
only he could understand the Bible. The WT Society would carry this to its
logical conclusion, they produced their own Bible called the New World
Translation, which true to its makers
10.
Christians are the most guilty and horrible of people.
11.
God has not tried to save the world of mankind.
If
Russell had labeled himself a Jew, he never would have been listened to by the
Christians. But by labeling himself the most orthodox of Christians, many
Christians bought into his message which was the same message some of the most
rabidly anti- Christian Jews have advocated for centuries.
Let's read some of the documentation on the previous points:
1.
Jews will rule the world. After the "times of the Gentiles"
ends in 1914 Israel will be restored. The Kingdom of David will be restored. 35
"God has certainly promised a restitution and a glorious future to Isreal
in the flesh..."36 "The channel through which this
spiritual and invisible kingdom will operate amongst men will be the ancient
worthies of Israel. 'Ye shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the
prophets in the Kingdom.' In close association with these, first to be
recognized will be the Jews, natural Israel."37 "We are
interested in the earthly Jerusalem and the prosperity about to come to it,
when, under Messiah's Kingdom, it shall become the capital of the world."
2.
Nations must become Jews. God will answer the prayers of the Jews and
fight against the nations. Then the Jewish remnant will be restored. The
gentiles will go up to Jerusalem from year to year, to keep the feast of
tabernacles.38 "To my understanding, dear friends, the
Scriptures are very clear in their statement that this New Covenant will be for
Israel only and that all the nations of the world, if they desire to receive the
blessings of that covenant, must come into Israel, so that during the reign of
Messiah, which will be for 1,000 years, all nations will be pressing into it
that they may become members of Israel, and so the nations will eventually come
to be a part of Israel, as the Scriptures say—the seed of Abraham, like the
sands of the seashore, filling the whole earth—and every one who will not
become an Israelite, who will not come into harmony with God, with that divine
law, with the New Covenant, will be cut off in the Second Death."39
2
& 3. In the New Order the world is blessed through the Jews. "All who
would enjoy Divine favor and restitution blessings will gladly gather to their
standard...will become Israelites, proselytes, children of Abraham...all who
will obey...will be lifted up, up, up to perfection..."40
4.
Jews should go to their rabbi to learn how to protect themselves from
Christian doctrine. "Jews should be taught by their rabbis, and should be
able to answer such arguments by showing that 'the wages of sin is death'...
God's Word applies to Jews as well as to Christians- "My people perish for
lack of knowledge;" This page goes on to say the blessing of the Messianic
Kingdom will come first to the Jew. Also Russell states, "So far from
endeavoring to bring Jews into any of the Christian denominations, Catholic or
Protestant, I would advise the Jews to stand clear of all of them. I seek to
point out to the Jew that he has his own Divine promises, which are separate and
distinct from those of Christians. God's promises to the Jew are all earthly.
The Israelites are all to come back from the state of death under Messiah's
glorious Kingdom, which will gradually efface sin and death from the
world..."41
5.
Christians should not convert Jews. (See quote pt. 8)
6.
It is God's will for Jews to remain Jews. "The Jew who ceases to be
a Jew ceases to look in the proper direction for the blessings God has promised
him."42
7.
His promotion of Zionism has already been discussed.
8.The
Messiah is basically a group of Jews. "The hidden Mystery is that
this great Prophet, Priest and King is not a man, but a Son of God on the spirit
plane; and further, the great Messiah is composed of many 'members,' of which he
is the 'Head.'" Christ is a son not the son and is made up of many people.43
The church is the Messiah—"twelve thousand for each of the twelve tribes
of Isreal..." "This class as a whole is the Messiah..."
"Does this make clear my reasons for not wishing to turn Jews into
Presbyterians, Baptists, Roman Catholics, etc.? Does it make clear my reason for
urging Jews to a preparation mentally, morally and physically for the great work
that God has for them to do? I hope so...it is my conviction that the Messianic
company, all saintly, will be composed more largely of Jews than of any other
nationality."44
9.
This is discussed in other sections.
10.
Christians are the most guilty and horrible of people. "Millions of
people are being turned away from faith in a God of Love and from faith in the
Bible as His Message by the most monstrous blasphemies of the 'dark ages.' I
charge the responsibility of all this against the sects and creeds of
Christendom."45 Christians are the biggest hypocrites in the
world.46
11.
God has not tried to save the nations. (Evil people would be resurrected
to learn Judaism in the New Order.) From the beginning, Russell accepted a very
Judiastic outlook. In reviewing the 1877 Three Worlds which Russell agreed with
although only helped write one finds...
(p.
11)- God has never tried to save mankind. Rather, God gave the gospel to only a
select group. God's promises to the Jewish nation are unfulfilled.
(p.
7-8)- Christ, which is a group of the elect, subjugates all the nations in the
Millenium with "real subjection" "with a rod of iron."
(p.
12)- "While under the past Jewish dispensation not a Gentile could be
saved..."
(p.
13)- God did not make any effort to save mankind, and they have died without the
truth. Why? Scriptures tell us that God made it "unlawful to give the
children's meat to dogs". Also, says Russell and Barbour, why did Christ
command his disciples "Go not in the way of the Gentiles..." "He
(God's son) did not come, at his first advent, to save the world;...He did not
even pray for the world, 'I pray not for the world.' (John 17 9)."
(p.
14)- "If God has been trying to save the world during the gospel
dispensation, He has made as great a failure as during the Jewish Age."
This Author would direct the
reader to a 12 part series of articles Russell wrote for the Overland Monthly.
Each was entitled "God's Chosen People". The individual articles had
titles which dealt with the following issues: how faith was the foundation of
Jewish character, how the Jews could revive their faith in Judaism, how Israel
had a "double", about the Jubilee of restoration, the Passover, the
Sabbath, Yom Kippur, Zionism, Must Jews Become Christians in Order to Receive
Divine Favor?, plus three other topics related to Jews.
THE
"CHOSEN PEOPLE -- STRONG STUFF
The
concept that the Jews are the Chosen people who will eventually rule the world
forms the basis of Rabbinical Judaism. In the Cabala, even more than the Talmud
(and the original Talmud is pretty strong stuff), the concept of world-dominion
is even more noticable. The Zohar accepts it as an accepted fact. The Toldoth
Noah, folio 63b (de Pauly's trans., I p. 373) states, "the Feast of
Tabernacles is the period when Israel triumphs over the other people of the
world; that is why during this feast we seize the Loulab and carry it as a
trophy to show that we have conquered all the other peoples known as 'populace'
and that we dominate them." The Zohar relates that the kings of the world
will end by declaring war on the Messiah. But "the Holy One, blessed by He,
will display His force and exterminate them from the world." (Zohar,
section Schemoth, folio 7 and 9b; section Beschalah, folio 58b -de Pauly's
trans., III. 32,36,41,260)
WHAT
IS ZIONISM?
A
popular misconception among the Goyim (gentiles) is that Zionism is simply a
desire of the Jews for a small place to call home. The WT Society itself is
aware that Zionism entails more. On page 296 of their tenth Souvenir Report,
"Many Hebrews of the United States believe that the whole course of world
events is now favorable to the Zionist movement, and that the day is near when
their aims will be realized and the Jews, as a united people, will become one of
the most powerful factors in the modern world."
But
when they needed to still opposition to taking over Palistine from the arabs,
the B'nai B'rith told the public, The Jews of neither America nor any other of
the democratic lands will return to Palestine.*" At that time (before the
state of Israel) the B'nai B'rith sounded like the Jewish people were loyal to
the countries they lived in, and harbored no desire to go to Israel.
THE HATIKVAH
The
Hatikvah ("The Hope") to return to Eretz Yisrael ("Israel")
didn't start with Theodor Herzl, but goes back to the Tenakh (the Hebrew O.T.)
But by and large the modern movement has been led by secular Jews along with
cultic and occultic Jewish leaders. A secular messianism has also pervaded
Judiasm where the modern state of Israel is believed to be the world's Messiah.
The one-world-conspiracy has distorted so many people into a deterministic
eschatological frame of mind. This mindset is that God's will has preordained in
heaven that this state of Israel would be great. Therefore, to oppose it is
wicked. Many Christian leaders and Jewish leaders take this one step further and
give Israel a blank check to do whatever they want without any moral
responsibility. Persecution has fallen on Goyim who have had the audacity to
reprint what the Talmud says on conquering the world and Jewish rulership. One
dare not criticize the large gay community in Tel Aviv, nor talk about the
Jewish prostitutes there, nor talk about the
Mossad
running drugs for profit, nor about the terrorism done by Jews to the
Palestinians-many of them Christians. One dare not talk about Christian church
services being shot up by Uzis, and innocent Christian ministers being beat up
by Israeli soldiers.
RUSSELL SAYS THE JEWS ARE SUPERIOR MORALLY & INTELLECTUALLY
Russell
preached that the Jews are superior to Christians morally and intellectually.
"Judged in this broad, general way, who will dispute that the twelve
millions of Jews are not in advance of the average of Christendom intellectually
and morally?"48
That's
quite appropriate for a man who has turned the Messiah basically into a
collection of Jews. Russell's hatred for Christianity, could serve the interests
of any group bent on Christendom's destruction. The reader will learn more of
how these various anti-Christian group relate.
Whether
justified or not, many Jews see the source of their problems as Christians. Most
of the various groups working toward a one-world government are united in their
hatred for Christianity. That fact doesn't automatically mean they are all in
collusion, but it is a tell-tale sign of their similar origins. After their
collusion is established, the investigator becomes aware it is an important
element of their collusion. This Author is reminded of when he visited a
synagogue Shabbat (what gentiles call "Sabbath") service, and how his
Jewish host clearly lumped all Christians into the category of evil and anti-
Jewish. He was not alone, sections of Chicago and New York, would oblige any
Christian desiring actual Martyrdom.
The
WT Society vilifies Christianity in the fashion the Talmud does, "...with
great pomp and glory that unholy system rides upon the backs of peoples. Without
the support of the common peoples that wicked system called 'Christendom' could
not survive...instead of heeding the message...those constituting the unholy
alliance...continue to oppress...The doom of 'organized Christianity' or Babylon
is sealed." (WT 10/15/27 p. 312, cf. Babylon the Great, p. 559 and a host
of other WT references.)
In
contrast, the WT Society doesn't attack the modern Jewish religion, or its
adherents, except with mild jabs.
"But
what grieves me today is the large scale voluntary assimilation (into Christian
society) especially among Jewish Youths." (A modern day follower of
Russell, Bible Student Kenneth W. Rawson) 49
THE HOLOCAUST
Today, men like CBS's Norman Lear (who is into humanism and the New Age) like to blame Christianity for the Holocaust. Lear's "Sunday Dinner" hero Ben is used in one scene to blame Christians for the Holocaust. The WT Society has been accusing Christians of the same for years.50 The truth is that many Christians opposed the Nazi regime and lost their life for it.51 The truth is that many Christians risked their lives to save Jews.52 The truth is that many Christians died in the Holocaust.53 Even Jewish sources will admit that many of the people rounded up as Jews, were not even Jews.54 The Nazis preferred to error on side of killing more than needed, rather than not enough.55 The truth is the Nazis did try a final solution, the Holocaust,56 and their new religion what is now known as the New Age religion, with its belief in reincarnation helped alleviate any guilt.57 The Truth is that much of what is shown the public about the Holocaust is lies. But how can we honestly evaluate what happened when the Power ruthlessly censors any real investigation into the facts? The truth is that Hitler was financed by international financiers,58 and that the list of people who have financed the Communists and those that helped Hitler are often the same, for instance Chase Bank, now Chase Manhattan.59
The
truth is that the religion that the one-world-government conspiracy is going to
bring in, the Power behind the New Age religion is responsible for the
Holocaust, not Christianity. Be rational and think about such things. Was the
Swastika a hindu or a Christian symbol? Did the Masonic Lodges or the Christians
use the Swastika as a symbol before W.W. II? The Masonic Lodges and the
Theosophic Lodges used it.
JEWISH KEHILLA
When reading Jewish books
written for Jewish readership this Author has repeatedly bumped into remarks
mentioning the KEHILLA. KEHILLA is consistently put into the context of being
the organisation that controls life in the Jewish communities. It turns out that
the KEHILLA is a secret (at least to the non-Jews) organization that does indeed
run Jewish life, and at the top it is run by Satanists.
_________________________
TYING IT ALL TOGETHER
This
may be getting quite confusing. Initially, this book describes Russell's belief
in a Sun-god, later this book shows Russell, a Jew financed by Jews, was
preaching Judaism with a veil of Christianity, and finally this chapter speaks
of a New Age religion. Isn't this contradictory? No, and this book will cover
all this in due time. Joseph Campbell shows an old synagogue with a picture
showing Sun-god worship was part of the synagogue, in his book on Myths.60
As one gets into where modern day Judaism is derived and what the Talmud and
Cabbala are about, an investigator finds that they are a continuation of
Babylonian magic and paganism. They are occultic. But then how widespread is the
Caballa among the Jews? For the religious elements it is extensive. Judaism has
become a cultural and traditional ritual for many Jews.61 The small
group of Karaites, Samaritans, and the larger groups of Messianic Jews
(Christian Jews) have rejected the Caballa. The Caballa, which came from
Babylon, forms the basis for many if not all the Satanic, Magic, and occultic
Fraternal Societies.63
Further
on, this book will show how the syncretism of the New Age movement has no
problem including each of these religious strains, and who, why, and how it was
brought it to the West. The New Age movement itself tosses various things
together like a tossed salad. I know this is difficult to envision for many
readers, perhaps one example will suffice until later. When this Author lived in
Nepal, many people were both Buddhists and Hindus. The Hindi world-view can and
does accomodate most anything but the Moslem religion and real Christianity.
Hinduism is many things to many people. Caryl Matrisciana who also lived in that
area of the world, and was active in the New Age movement concurs with this
Author in her book God's of the New Age that the New Age is basically Hinduism.
Does
that mean the New Age isn't related to the occult and Babylon? Hinduism and
Babylon's religion are closely related. For instance, the God Moloch goes by the
names Pluto, Saturn, Kali(Hinduism), and Durga. (See Spin diagrams) A whole book
could be written on the interweaving of religious ideas between Greece, Egypt,
Babylon and India. Such as Hinduism's Shiva relates to Jupiter. From Babylon
came Rabbinic Judaism. The speculative Kaballah is pantheistic. The Ancient
Mystery schools' wisdom is taught by the Jews today according to
"Academies", Jew. Encyc., p.67. Just one more of the many examples of
how far reaching the interweaving is, Horus of Egypt (sometimes depicted as an
evil adversary in the form of a snake) finds its counterpart in Calyia the Snake
God that Krishna, the 8th incarnation of Vishnu, killed.
Zionist
James P. Warburg of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. told the U.S. Senate that we were
The
question can be raised, is it unfair to put down Judaism's goal of world-wide
conquest when Christians envision the world will be entirely Christianized at
some point in the future? It depends. If Christians want to conquer the world
like during the Crusades, then yes the Christians are subject to censor too. The
Talmud doesn't portray a peaceful conquest of the world—but slaughter of the
"cattle" gentiles. (The author has in his possession photocopies of
several different modern Jewish documents spelling out present day plans to
carry out such a ruthless bloody conquest.)
In
informing people about the New Age "Aquarian Conspiracy", as New Age
writer Marilyn Ferguson calls it, she states on pg. 63 of her book who the
people are who are supporting the New Age Conspiracy. "Maverick theologians
and members of the clergy pondered "the new spirituality" that rose as
churches declined. There were networks of innovative, "transpersonal"
educators, caucuses of legislators, and a melding of
economists-futurists-managers-engineers-systems theorists, all seeking creative,
humanistic alternatives. A few captains of industry and finance. Foundation
officials and university programmers, artists and musicians, publishers and
television producers. A surprising clutch of celebrities. Scions of Old American
Wealth. Ex-political radicals, minus their rhetoric, now in positions of
influence." As you read further in this book, you'll learn more about who
these people are. The Scions of Old American Wealth can be found in groups like
the Skull and Bones Order. The publishers and televisions producers are Jews and
Masons. (See other chapters.) Thafs right, the Jews own and operate all three
major networks, and the major newspapers and publishing houses. On pg. 367 she
states, that the religious backgrounds of a poll she took indicated 20 % of the
Aquarian Conspirators were Jewish. What is perhaps not known, is the prominant
positions that so many Jews are playing. See the footnote for a list of some of
these.65
The
B'nai B'rith
According
to Jewish leader Rabbi Meir Kahne of the Jewish Defense League the Jewish
leaders such as Adler, Schiff, Marshall, Seligman, Loeb, and Warburg formed the
B'nai B'rith and the ADL. 66
Actually,
although these men were prominent in the B'nai B'rith, the origins of the B'nai
B'rith also ties in with the Masonic Lodge. Twelve men on Oct. 13, 1843, in NYC
began the Order of the B'nai B'rith.67 Most of them were Freemasons
and Odd Fellows.68
Philip Klulznick, B'nai B'rith president (1953-1959), heads a delegation of presidents
of sixteen major Jewish organizations meeting with Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles in October 1954 on American policy regarding Israel and the Middle
East. These cooperative efforts led to the establishment of the Conference of
Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations to coordinate American Jewish
policy on Israel.
For
the first sixty years the B'nai B'rith was patterned after the Masonic Lodge.
The Masonic Lodge had in turn also been patterned to a large degree from the
synagogue, with a smattering of witchcraft added. Because they were patterned
after the Masons and the Oddfellows, the B'nai B'rith was secret, benevolent,
exclusive, and fraternal.70 In contrast to the Masonic Lodges which
were open to all religions and types, the B'nai B'rith admits only Jews.
But
in contrast with the Masonic Lodges which are very select in selecting upper
crust candidates, the B'nai B'rith accepted men of low social status. In this
regard, it was in the fashion of the Oddfellows. This Author believes it was the
need to establish a secret Jewish fraternity open to the rank and file Jew, that
motivated the establishment of the Order (as the B'nai B'rith is called.)
The
founder taking his cue from the Masons billed his fraternal Order as nonreligious
and non-sectarian. And then in typical masonic fashion at the same time called
the Order as "the restoration of the Ideal synagogue, which had ceased to
exist."71
This
gives us a further clue as to Russell's connection to the B'nai B'rith, in that
the B'nai B'rith set out to Reform the Jewish religion into the Masonic
religion. The B'nai B'rith was associated with Reform Judaism after it was
drafted in 1885. Reform Judaism's centers of power were Pittsburgh and Brooklyn,
the two cities Russell operated his headquarters from.
BROOKLYN N.Y., JEWISH CENTER OF POWER
Crown
Heights Section of Brooklyn is just for JWs but is also the world headquarters
of the world's "best organized and most dedicated Jewish organization in
the world," the Habad of the Lubavich, at 770 Eastern Parkway. The National
Council of Churches reported in 1957 that there were 1,077,000 Jewish synagogue
members in Kings Co.,NY and 556,000 in the Bronx.72
THE
B'NAI B'RITH (THE ORDER) & THE MASONS
The
connections of the Order to Masonry are certain. One Mason exposed quite a bit
when he wrote about the B'nai B'rith having a made a secret treaty with Masonry.73
Albert Pike and Armand Levi concluded this secret treaty.
There
are numerous cases of the leaders of the B'nai B'rith also being Freemasons.
There are also numerous cases of leading members of the Order promoting
socialism and communism. An example of this is that the Grand Master of the
Order (of the B'nai B'rith) in Russia in 1917 was also a 32 degree Freemason and
one of the leaders of the Socialist Revolution.74
THE
ORDER WINS ITS FIGHT FOR CONTROL
Various
Jewish leaders have fought to prevent the B'nai B'rith from capturing control of
the Jewish people, but they were not successful. As this book will show the
Christians also have not been successful either, for many of the Christian
leaders are marching to a Masonic agenda too.
Many
of the Rabbis today are members of the Order, which has in the neighborhood of a
half million members and has membership all over the world.75
One
of the Order says, The question of who speaks for the Jews has no single
"A SECULAR SYNAGOGUE"
Those
Jews that are tied to the moral values of the Old Testament, are being
subverted, and humanism is being promoted. For instance, the B'nai B'rith has
promoted all kinds of Jewish education, that has eliminated much of the Jewish
religious teaching.78 The B'nai B'rith in the 1970s began to feel
that the seperation of the sexes was an artificial relic to be done away with.79
The Order in 1913 started the Anti Defamation League (ADL). This group organized
long before the Nazi brown shirts, has used tactics on the level of the Mafia.
Their radical leaders have repeatedly gone on record as having contempt for all
laws, believing in the end is justified by any means.80 Rabbi Meir
Kahane removes all doubt about how dangerous he is in his book The Anti
Defamation League. A comprehensive dossier on JDLs bombings, killings and
maimings is in the book The Zionist Terror Network. They apparently have power
within the Christian ranks, because they are able to mobilize Christians for
their causes when they need to.81 It is believed by many students of
Masonry that the B'nai B'rith has issued orders to various Masonic orders. If
the B'nai B'rith has some influence on the Freemasons, it would explain why the
ADL has influence within the ranks of fundamentalists and liberal
Christians.(For more info on this refer to chapter 2.1)
The
ADL has been exposed conspiring with the FBI.82 And its leader Meir
Kahane worked for the CIA prior to starting up with the ADL.83
JEWS
SPEAK UP
People
of Jewish heritage have all kinds of opinions. Some have bravely spoken as one
Jewish man, "I am anti-Zionist. Jewish chauvinism is no less despicable
than other kinds of chauvinism and more despicable than many since it is based
on racist ideology. In the dispute between Israel and the 900,000 Arab refugees
it had driven from their lands, I support the Arabs."84
Jewish
writer Kenneth M. Mitzner, in The Wanderer (June 29, 1989) encourages Christians
to oppose those Jewish forces that are corrupting the morals of this country. He
writes, "It was not anti-German to oppose Nazism, nor anti-Russian to
oppose Bolshevism. It is not anti-Semitic to oppose the forces within the Jewish
community which are waging war against you and your family."
Jack
Bernstein, a Jew, tells in his book how corruption, graft, persecutions and
dangers are forced upon those Jews who want to be Jewish but not Zionists.
Another Jew, Henry H. Klein exposes that the certain Jews are out to control
this country and the world no matter what they have to do in his book A Jew
Exposes the Jewish World Conspiracy.
SOME FUNDAMENTALISTS FALL UNDER JEWISH INFLUENCE
J.
Frank Norris, a Fundamental minister in a letter to another fundamental minister
named
Swain, reveals that if Rev. Sam Swain will say the proper things he can get
financing from the B'nai B'rith.85 Some of the nominal Christians
willing to work with the B'nai B'rith are those of Jewish heritage. The B'nai
B'rith magazine itself has written articles about the widespread practice of
Jews who have pretended to become Christians.86
The
B'nai B'rith has sponsored the National Conference of Jews and Christians, and
under the auspices of the Order Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish speakers
appeared together in the year of 1939 at 10,000 meetings in 2,000 communities in
all the U.S. states.87 While carrying on such conferences, the Order
has actively pursued the removal of all Christian books from school libraries,
have forced numerous Passion plays to shut down, and threatened Christian
ministers for discussing the crucifixion on the radio.88
New
Testament Scriptures specifically describe the anti-Christ as those denying that
Jesus is the Christ.
At
one point even the Almighty declared of the Hebrews, "How long will this
people provoke me?" But Jesus called his disciples to love, and if the
Christian can not love the Jew, and the Jew the Palestinian, and the Palestinian
the Jew, how can each of these love God. And if there are men among the
Christians who want power, the Christian should follow the example of his Master
Jesus Christ, and return good for evil. Those who live by the sword will die by
it. Those who live by power will die by it.
Zionism's
goal of real estate is not as important as the relationship of each Jewish
person to his creator. This author would like to see each Jewish person have
spiritual power. The religion that C.T. Russell was helped to create, has taken
away from its adherents the most precious legacy of the Jew Jesus Christ. That
is that God loves each of his children, and has given them the chance to be his
sons and daughters, and to receive the Holy Spirit to guide them.
_________________________
Notes
1.
Zion's Watch Tower 1881 (WTR p.214)
2
Zion's Watch Tower 1882 (WTR p.213?) (pp.2-3 in orig.)
3.
Zion's Watch Tower July 1-15,1893, Vol. XIV (p. 194 WTR)
4.
Zion's Watch Tower May 1,1893, Vol. 14, No. 9, p. 1 (WTR p.130)
5.
Magnani, Duane and Arthur Barrett. Dialogue with Jehovah's Witnesses,
Vol. 1, Clayton, CA..Witness, Inc.,1983, p.7 apparently quoting Jehovah's
Witnesses in the Divine Purpose.
6.
WT 1899, p.226 As quoted pg.40 Jehovah's Witnesses In the Divine Purpose,
WTB&TS,
7.
WT Jan. 1,1911, pp. 5-7
8.
Convention Reports, 1913 Convention, p.442
9.
WT Jan. 1, 1911, p.5-6 (WTR p. 4737)
10.
New York Times, June 4, 1970 cf. Awake! Nov.22,1976,p.23
II.
1870 Census of Pittsburgh, Ward 4, pg. 98, Line 4,5,6
12.
Will of Ann Eliza Birney Russell, this will mentions Joseph's business
failure in 1839 and his debt to Thomas Birney.
13.
Will of C.T. Russell.Sr.
14.
Sweetnam, George. Where Else But Pittsburgh!, Pittsburgh, PA: Davis &
Warde, Inc. 1958, p.112.
15.
Will of Joseph L Russell
16.
Ross, Rev. J.J. Some Facts and More Facts About the Self-Styled
"Pastor" Charles T. Russell, Hamilton, Ont.:(self-published), 1920,
pp. 31-32
17.
ibid, p.31
18.
Courthouse Records,Deeds, Allegheny Co.,PA, citations are from numerous
volumes and pages.
19.
Ross, op. cit, pp. 34-37
20.
ibid., p. 35
21.
The Divine Plan of the Ages, WTB&TS, 1924, p.8
22.
Horowitz, David. Charles Taze Russell, Early American Zionist, p. 69
23.
ibid.,p.33
24.
ibid.,p.68
25.
ibid.,p.71
26.
Russell, C.T. Jewish Hopes—Jerusalem Restoration Prospects,
Pittsburgh,PA, 1910.
27.
Horowitz, op. cit. p.24 ff
28.
Read Holy Blood, Holy Grail
29.
B'nai B'rith Messenger, Los Angeles (Jan. 15,1971)
30.
WT Jan. 1, 1911, (WTR p. 4355)
31.
WT Jan. 1, 1911, p. 19 (WTR p. 4743)
32.
Horowitz, op. cit. back cover
33.
Mullins, Eustice. None Dare To Call Him Traitor.,p.2
34.
Mullins, Eustice. The World Order, p. 115.
35.
Russell, Barbour, Three Worlds, p.57.
36.
ibid.,p.88
37.
Russell, C.T. Jewish Hopes..., p.19
38.
Three Worlds, p. 84-85
39.
1910 Speech by C.T. Russell
40.
Russell, C.T., Jewish Hopes...,p. 19
41.
What Pastor Russell Wrote for the Overland Monthly (a collection of his
newspaper articles), p. 154
42.
ibid.
43.
Jewish Hopes..., p. 10
44.
Overland Monthly, p. 156
45.
art. "Day of Vengeance", Overland Monthly, p. 347
46.
Overland Monthly, p.347
47.
Overland Monthly, p. 156
48.
B'nai B'rith & the Challenge of Ethnic Leadership, p.201
49.
50.
Various WT over the years since the 1940 through 1980s.
51.
A recent book that I read, the title escapes me, was a compilation of
stores of Christians and Nazi Prison guards who risk their lives to save Jews. -
52.
Bartoszewski, Wladyslaw and Zofia Lewin. Righteous Among Nations How
Poles Helped The Jews 1939-1945. London: Earlscourt Pub. Ltd., 1969. This book
is about Poles who helped Jews during W.W. II
53.
This is widely known.
54.
Bartoszewski, op. cit., pp. XX-XXI
55.
ibid., plus many other sources have said the same.
56.
Angebert, Jean-Michel. The Occult and the Third Reich, pp. 238 & 281
57.
58.
There are so many books and researchers that have brought this to light,
to name several to refer to Thyssen, Fritz. / Paid Hitler; Sutton, Antony. Wall
Street and the Rise of Hitler, and his America's Secret Establishment, None Dare
to Call it Conspiracy, Mullins, Eustice. The World Order.
59.
One example is Sutton, America's Secret Establishment, pp.171-174. On
page 172 and 173 Sutton reproduces intelligence letters.
60.
Cambell, Joseph. The Mythic Image, p. 200-201
61.
testimonies of Jewish people to Author
62.
Pike, Albert. Morals and Dogma, p. 744; Hall, The Secret Teachings of All
Ages, pp. CXII-CXIV; Butler, Ritual Magic, pp. 39, 50, 254 et al.
63.
Quoted in several books including Griffin, Des. Descent into Slavery. S.
Pasadena, CA: Emissary Pub., 1980, p.214.
64.
65.
According to my research Jews who have been New Age leaders include
(their original names are in parentheses): Helena P. Blavatsky, Benjamin Creme,
Baba Ram Dass (orig. Richard Alpart), Werner Erhard (orig. Jack Rosenberg), Da
Free John (orig. Franklin Jones), Helen Schucman (author of A Course In Miracles
being used by so many churches), Rudolf Steiner, and Stephen Gaskin (of The
Farm). Also the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh was a Jew from India. Some report his
second in command was married to a Jew. It is interesting to note that about 20%
of the early WT leadership appears to be of Jewish heritage. Polls indicate
that about 30% of the humanists are Jewish. New Age author Marilyn Ferguson in
her polls found similar high levels of Jews in the New Age movement too.
66.
Kahane, Rabbi Meir. The Story of the Jewish Defense League. Radner, PA:
Chilton Book Co., 1975, p.59
67.
Schmidt, Greenwood. Encyclopaedia of American Institutional Fraternal
Organizations. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1980, p.52
68.
ibid.
69.
My direct source is lost, however the statement can be realized by noting
when the various Masonic elements were dropped such as blackballing, secrecy
(much of which was dropped in the '20s), secret recognition signs, and lodge
regalia.
70.
Schmidt, op. cit., p. 52-53. The first few pages of Moore, Deborah. The
B'nai B'rith the Challenge of Ethnic Leadership describes the medieval secrecy
that the synagogues had. They were very similar to today's Masonic lodges.
Schnoebelen's Mormonism's Temple of Doom provides the parallels between
witchcraft & the Masonic lodges. The 1991 Jeremiah Film "Freemasonry
from darkness to light?" has a revealing series of interviews with
ex-Masons and witches showing the parallels in witchcraft and masonic rituals.
71.
Moore, Deborah, op. cit.,p.6
72.
National Council of Churches, N.Y..N.Y., Bureau of Research and Survey ,
Series C. Bulletin No. 6 (1957), Table 29.
73.
Margiotta, Domenico, 33rd degree. Adriano Lemmi, Chef Supreme des Franc-
Macons. France, 1894.
74.
Le Cahiers de I'Orde, Nov. 1927, and other sources
75.
Author's research along with Schmidt, op. cit. p.53. Schmidt notes its
international nature and its 500,000 membership.
76.
Kahane, op. cit. p. 156-157. For example, at the Constitution Grand Lodge
of the Order (B'nai B'rith) meeting in 1854 Dr. Sigmund Waterman proposed
"the founding of a religious free school for Jewish children." The
schools and reading rooms that the Order set up, although they taught Jewish
culture, tended to wean the Jewish people away from religious values and God
toward humanism. The B'nai B'rith aptly calls itself a "secular
synagogue"—Moore, op.cit. p.251. cf. p.140 on Frankel.
77.
Moore, Deborah, op. cit, p.255
78.
ibid., p.216 ff
79.
ibid., p.250
80.
Kahane, Rabbi Meir. The Story of the Jewish Defence League.pp 25,45, and
others
81. ibid., pp. 325-326
82.
83.
Mullins, Eustice. The World Order, p. 119
84.
Kahane, op. cit. p. not known
85.
Dilling, Elizabeth. The Octopus. Boring, OR: CPA Book Pub., 1986 reprint
of 1940 ed., p. 200-202
86.
B'nai B'rith Magazine (4/1940) p. 234, this type of thing is often
referred to, example Warrant of Genocide, p. 46.
87.
Saturday Evening Post, 6/1/40
88.
B'nai B'rith Magazine, (Mar. 1938) p.239 as quoted in Dillings, op. cit.
p.4
PART I. THE MAGICAL WATCHTOWERS:
Section C, chapters 1.10 - 1.17
On Russell, the Bible Students, and Jehovah's Witnesses - continued - final section
Chapter Number
1.10 "Jehovah" 1.11 The Magical Watchtowers 1.12 The Channel of Angelic Redemption 1.13 Cult of the Double-Sexed God Jehovah |
1.14 The New World Society 1.15 The WT's Mein Kampf 1.16 The Mark of the Beast 1.17 Smokescreens |
Chapter 1.10
JEHOVAH
One
of the biggest issues the Jehovah's Witnesses make a big fuss about is the name
Jehovah. Christians, they say, are obviously evil for Christians are not
promoting the name Jehovah. Although it is true the Bible has a Tetragrammaton,
even the Jehovah's Witnesses admit in their literature that Jehovah is not the
proper pronunciation; in fact, it is known to be a Middle Age invention. What is
not widely known is the importance that the word Jehovah has played in Black
Magic and Freemasonry.
The
word was introduced into Freemasonry, not in a Christian context but in a
magical context.
Albert
G. Mackey, 33 degree, one of the highest respected Masonic authorities for the
Masons states in his Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Vol. I, 1871,
"JEHOVAH
is, of all the significant words of Masonry, by far the most important.
Reghellini very properly calls it 'the basis of our dogma and of our
mysteries.'...The history of the introduction of this word into the ritualism of
Freemasonry would be highly interesting, were it not so obscure. Being in almost
all respects an esoteric symbol... That this name, in its mystical use, was not
unknown to the Medieval Freemasons there can be no doubt... It is now conceded,
from indisputable evidence, that the holy name was, in the earlier years, and,
indeed, up to the middle of the last century, attached to the Third Degree, and
then called the Master's Word...Third Degree refers to 'the mystic word, the
Tetragrammaton.'"1
What
was the esoteric, mystical use of the word Jehovah? It stood for what Medieval
Cabalists and other practitioners of magic called their Satanic Holy Trinity.
E.M.
Butler an expert on Magic writes in his book Ritual Magic that "...the
'triple name' could stand for ADONAY, ZEBOATH, JEHOVAH or for JEHOVAH, EMMANUEL,
ZAMEH (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) or any other of the variant holy names by which
the deity was invoked in black magic. With this exception, the invocation,
although there is a learned Renaissance flavour about it, follows orthodox
lines, and the word valeat instead of salveat represents ... rather subtle
attempt to make the invocation blasphemous. It certainly is at odds with
'Jehovah's name forward and backward anagrammatized' (a pithy poetical way of
describing the method used by Kabbalists to determine the seventy-two names for
God), and also with the abbreviated names of the saints in the circle. It makes
nonsense too of the conclusion: "By Jehovah, hell and the holy water which
I now sprinkle, and the sign of the Cross, which I now make.' It would be worse
than useless, it would be in the highest degree dangerous, to call on the name
of the 'triple deity' who had just been dismissed (however courteously) from the
circle."2
The
frequent use of the word Jehovah by Joseph Smith, Jr., and Charles T. Russell
was the impact of Masonry on their lives. C.T. Russell disliked Christ's name so
much he wrote the word Christmas as X-mas in his personal letters.3
Joseph Rutherford, who was involved in the occult, elevated the name. Jehovah
even more, and downplayed the name of Christ. There are many solid Scriptural
reasons why Jehovah is not the name that Christians are to promote and worship,
but that is a topic in itself. The point though is that a balanced view of
scripture in no way demands that Joseph Rutherford's worship of the word Jehovah
be adopted. The over emphasis these men placed on it, was due to their contact
with the occult.
WHO FIRST PROMOTED THE WORD JEHOVAH?
"It
was the Kabbalists who emphasized the mystery surrounding the letter JHVH by
referring to the name they represented as the 'word of four letter',
TETRAGRAMMATON, and this caught on like wild-fire in the magical texts. Few
indeed and far between are those modern rituals in which that awe-inspiring name
does not occupy the place of honour."4
From
a group of JW elders at my house came the advice, "If you will say a prayer
using Jehovah's name, and say it with lots of will power, you can count on it
working."
Folks,
those elders don't know it—but that's Kabbalistic Magic. Unfortunately, not
knowing history well, they do not realize who promoted the name Jehovah for
centuries— the Magicians of the Kaballist Jews.
THE
MASONIC HOLY TRINITY
But
if the Caballists believe in a Holy Trinity doesn't that make them Christians?
"The
Cabala is Occult Science itself. It is the secret theology of the initiates,
theology essentially Satanic. In a word counter-theology. Our God, the God of
the Christians, is the power of evil in the eyes of the Cabalists; and for them
the power of good, the real God, is Lucifer."
"One
cannot be a convinced Cabalist without soon becoming a magician and devoting
oneself to the practices of occultism."5 This explains why many
of the famous magicians such as Harry Houdini6 have been Jewish
Freemasons.
In
Freemasonry at the Kadosch the triangle is inverted to represent Lucifer, who is
said to be the Very Holy and Indivisible Trinity to which the Kadosch takes his
oath of blind obedience. The Grand Inspector Inquisitor Commander takes his oath
to this Very Holy and Indivisible Trinity of Lucifer also.7 This is
clearly described in the 33 degree French Mason Domenico Margiotta's book Le
Culte de la Nature dans la Franc-Maconnerie universelle. Is the reader surprised
that a Mason would publish something saying their Holy Trinity is the Trinity of
Lucifer?
Mackey
in his Ency. of Freemasonry, 1887 ed., p.617 explains that "The objection
to treatises and disquisitions on Masonic subjects, that there is danger through
them of giving too much light to the world without, has not the slightest
support from experience. In England, in France, and in Germany, scarcely any
restriction has been observed by Masonic writers, except as to what is
emphatically esoteric; and yet we do not believe that the profane world is wiser
in those countries than in our own in respect to the secrets of Freemasonry. In
the face of these publications, the world without has remained as ignorant of...
our art, as if no work had ever been written on the subject.... The truth is
that men who are not Masons never read authentic Masonic works. They have no
interest in the topics discussed,... "
This
Author agrees with Mackey. When this Author has tried to show what the Masons
are about, few people will even accord the courtesy of even a few seconds of
their time. Even when people are willing to spend a few minutes, how can a few
moments dispel all the Masonic smokescreens. Some read that the Masons believe
in a Holy Trinity and conclude they are solid Christians. If such men believed
in the Christian Trinity, why have most of the most anti-Christian philosophers
and writers been fervent Freemasons? Masonry and Christianity are not the same,
nor are their trinities.
"Theurgy
is the highest degree of occultism. Necromancy is limited to the summoning of
dead souls, but the Theurgists of the nineteenth century evoke entities
qualified by them as genii, angels of light, exalted spirits, spirits of fire
etc. In their meetings, scattered throughout the world, they worship Lucifer.
The three mysterious letters J... B ... M.... that the common initiates see in
the Masonic Temples, are reproduced in the meeting rooms of the Luciferians, but
they no longer mean Jakin, Bohaz, Mahabone, as in the Lodges, nor Jacques
Bourguignon Molay, as with the Knights Kadosch; in Theurgy these three letters
mean; Jesus Bethlemitus Maledictus. Theurgy is therefore pure Satanism."8
The
Cabalists and Masons profess to practice white magic and refer to Theurgy as
black magic.
What
the reader sees here is a common tactic by the devote Satanists. They rename or
slightly disguise their symbolism and foister it upon groups of people that
don't know what they are really worshipping or getting into. Albert Pike states
in Moral and Dogma that the lower levels are deceived.9 They have
been deceived from the very beginning of the Masonic Lodge. The Masonic
symbolism from the beginning has its origins in the occult. It use of Christian
symbols is esoteric.
TOPIC OF CHAPTER
This chapter will explore the relationship of Watchtower symbology and their special words to the Masons and the occult.
A VISITOR
The
young blond girl in a patterned dress at my door stammered and shook a little as
a Matronly older woman looked on and observed her memorized presentation.
"This
is the great issue that faces everyone," she said jitterly.
And
indeed the cover of her Watchtower magazine10 said, "The Great
Issue Faces You," along with a picture of an old man with stars surrounding
him.
As
a scholar of the Watchtower Society, my curiosity was aroused, What is the great
issue?
Her
visit had caught our family at an unfortunate time when I couldn't invite them
in. I took her magazines, and silently prayed she'd keep her word to return on
her back call, which she didn't unfortunately.
I
opened the magazine. What is the great issue—was it sin? That certainly was
Christ's great issue, his central message was man's slavery to sin. He preached
that theme from several different angles. The captives he came to set free were
the captives of sin. Those he was able to bless, were those poor in spirit, that
is those who realized their sinful nature.
The
apostle Paul continued Christ's message on sin. "This righteousness from
God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no
difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are
justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ
Jesus." (Rom. 3:22-24)
Even
the Apostle John, a favorite among the Masons and other esoteric groups made sin
the great issue. "If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and
the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will
forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness." (1 John.
1:8,9)
So
what was the Watchtower's Great Issue?
At
the end of page three, which is the first article, we learn the answer, "In
fact, the great issue facing each one of us is whether we accept or reject the
sovereignty of God, "whose name alone is JEHOVAH." Having been
associated with Jehovah's Witnesses,
I
knew that the issue of God's Sovereignty meant Jehovah's name. For instance,
Moses had done all he did to Pharoah and the Egyptians the JWs had instructed
me, solely to teach them his name is pronounced Jehovah.
Knowing
this, it was fairly certain what would follow in the Watchtower article,
"The time must come when he will resolve all aspects of this issue of
sovereignty in harmony with his own stated purpose: "They will have to know
that I am Jehovah."11
And
there they did it again. The WT Soc. has taken a Biblical concept the Sovereinty
of God and perverted it into a test of "Are they promoting the word Jehovah
or not?"
The
real issue is not whether some magical word Jehovah is promoted or not. The
issue is sin.
If
you want words the Hare Krishna's have magical words. "Hare Krishna, Hare
Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Krishna Krishan, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama
Rama, Hare Hare, " they chant.
If
you want magical words the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi will give you for around $20 a
mantra (the name of some Hindu deity picked especially for you) to relax with.
These
groups all have plenty of magical words to save us, but what do they say about
sin?
Transcendental
Meditation (TM) says sin is a state of mind. Hare Krishnas see sin as something
that can be purged with eating, clapping and dancing. The Watchtower Society
chooses to believe that the results of sin can be ignored, for in the New order
sinfull mankind will teach himself to be perfect with the aid of 144,000 elite
teachers. The guilt, the horror, and the need for confession of sin eludes their
religious teachings.
Christianity
realizes sin, realizes the guilt man has, his need to confess his sin to God,
and his need to rely on God for salvation.
WHAT IS THE WATCHTOWER'S REASON FOR USING THE TERM "NEW WORLD" & "NEW ORDER"?
The
WTs answer to the public was given in the WT May 1, 1987 issue pg.30. Their
answer is that the greek word kosmos allows them to fittingly speak of a coming
"new world." To quote, "But the Biblical use of Ko'smos allows
for a Christian to speak of a 'new world' when referring to the coming Paradise
restored on earth." This answer is good fodder for brain-washed androids,
but is not a responsible answer at all. Strong's Concordance's Greek dictionary
indicates that the word kosmos (word #2889 in the dict.) probably came from a
root word meaning orderly arrangement such as a decoration, and by implication
means the world. The Bible however does not speak anywhere of a new world order
or a new order.
AT-ONE-MENT
Did
Russell coin the breakdown of the word atonement into At-one-ment? Hardly, the
Christian Scientists and the Masons were using such phraseology before Russell.
Russell used it as the title of an approx. 500 page book he put out in 1899. An
example of the Masonic use of the term is an article in the Mar. 1923 New Age
Magazine entitled "TOWARD AT-ONE-MENT".12
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Notes
1.
Mackey, Albert G. Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Vol. I, 1871 ed., p.363
ff
2.
Butler, G.M. Ritual Magic. New York: The Noonday Press, 1949, p.307.
3.
Author's personal collection
4.
Butler, op. cit., p.40
5.
Bataille (Carl Hackse). Le Diable au XIXe Siecle, Vol. I, p.29.
6.
Denslow, 10,000 Famous Freemasons, p.255
7.
Margiotta, Domenico, 33 degree. Le Culte de la Nature dans la Franc-Maconnerie
Universelle. (18??), p.227
8.
Bataille, op. cit., p. 35
9.
Pike, Albert, 33°. Morals and Dogma., p.819.
10.
WT Mar. 1, 1991
11.
ibid.,p.5
12.
Milburn, H.A. art. "TOWARD AT-ONE-MENT", New Age Magazine, Mar.
1923, p. 147.
The Magical Watchtowers
You will learn:
• You will learn why it is possible that the choice of
Russell's to name his magazine Watch Tower was due to
its secret magical implications.
• You will find out the role Enochian magic may play in
tracking the lineage of the One-World-Conspiracy.
• You will be informed how the humanistic renaissance was
caused by the movement of Jewish thinkers.
The Masonic Watchtowers
The
Masonic Lodges are usually given a number and then are named after the location
they are at. For instance, in Oregon something like 9 out 10 lodges are named
after the town that they are in. However, some of the lodges are named after
famous Masons such as Franklin, Lafeyette, and Washington. Others are named
after Masonic themes Mystic Tie, Mystic Circle, Rising Sun, New Jerusalem, and
Mizpah. Mizpah? What is Mizpah. The Watchtower Society tells us in the issue of
the Golden Age 3/26/24, p. 387, that Mizpah translates Watchtower. The word
Hebrew word Mizpah (also spelled Mizpeh, and Mitspeh) occurs only once in
scripture.1 And the use of the word Mizpah among the Masons is
interesting.
This
Author has located 4 Masonic chapters so far in the world that are named Mizpah,
and three of these are in C.T. Russell's area of Pennslyvannia. These are all
York Rite (R.A.M-Royal Arch Masons) lodges like Russell belonged to. They are
Mizpeh Chapter No. 288 R.A.M. of Allegheny, PA, Mizpah Chapter No. 252 R.A.M.
Mahonoy City, PA, and the Mizpah Chapter 96 of the Grand Commandery of Knight
Templars of PA.
There
is a Mizpah Lodge No. 639 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and the Grotto, which is an
offshoot of the Masons, has a Mizpah Grotto in Long Beach, CA.
What
could be important enough to Masonry to call their lodges Watchtowers? The
highest Masons which get cryptic and mystic, are exposed to Enochian magic,
where the use of the Magical Watchtowers is the key, the heart so to speak, of
Enochian Magic.
It
is interesting to note that several of the Masons who founded new cults were
fascinated in the name and person of Enoch, for instance Joseph Smith, Jr. and
Charles T. Russell.
Joseph
Smith gave himself the name Enoch, called his first community the City of Enoch,
and created the communal Order of Enoch. Further, Joseph Smith, following the
Jewish pseudepigraphic Book of Enoch's story, purports to narrate Enoch's
experiences in the Book of Moses. (Joseph Smith, as the reader remembers, wrote
the Book of Moses.) Joseph Smith in fact believed that Freemasonry went back to
Enoch.
Freemasons
believed that the correct pronunciation of the sacred name of the Tetragrammaton
had been revealed to Enoch.2 In Enochian magic the Tetragrammaton
plays an important part. Each letter represents a different element. In Joseph
Smith's day it was popular for Masons to trace Freemasonry back to Enoch. It is
not so much in vogue now.
"...Enoch
may be considered as representative of that class of mankind which in the future
will be in harmony with God and have eternal life—the ones who will be brought
to perfection during the Millennial Age."—Charles T. Russell, 19073
Russell
was careful not to exceed what he could back with scripture, and he was not
about to break his Masonic oath of secrecy and blab about Enoch and Enochian
magic. However, Russell can still be recognized as having put an inordinate
amount of emphasis on Enoch. What happened to Enoch "seems to be one of the
secret things which Moses says belong unto God. Deut. 29:29" WT Apr. &
May 1884. Russell pointed out on numerous occasions that Enoch was the 7th man
from Adam, this meaning he was the perfect man. This view was still coming out
in the WT as late as 1941.4 The WT Society has been fascinated by
Enoch's transformation, but have been varible in their explanation of it. In
1943, the WT Society tells us that "Enoch was put into a trance"5
That "God gave him a final vision of the New World..."6 and
that when scripture says "transferred Him" in Heb. 11:5 that meant God
granted Enoch a vision of the New World.7 This was a change from
Russell's speculation that God may have taken Enoch to another planet. Also that
year, the WT Society tells us that Enoch was the first man to prophecy of
Christ.8
This
is just a glimpse of Russell and the WT Society's fascination with Enoch. Now we
will discover what Enochian Magic is about.
THE
MAGICAL WATCHTOWERS
Twice
a month, a magazine called the Watchtower goes out in 105 languages in about 13
million per issue. (Actually minor foreign language editions lag behind the
English editions, so that the 13 million copies are not issued simultaneously.)
Yet
no one has explained why Charles T. Russell chose the Watch Tower as the name
and center idea of his new religion. Many return to the Bible movements like
Campbell's
Church of Christ churches, have eschewed being associated with any symbology.
The idea of the Watch Tower must have been very important for Russell to have
situated it as the central symbol for his movement. Was he thinking that a tower
towered him above others? Or was it because ancient Watch Towers could view
approaching armies and thereby warn of approaching battles. Or was it chosen
because Masons have been associated with building castles and cathedrals?
Each
of these explanations put forth, has some merit. But there is another
explanation. One that seems bizarre, so bizarre that this author dismissed it
until such time as he was able to confirm C.T. Russell's Masonic membership.
C.T. Russell's membership records in the Masonic Knights Templar are kept in Ireland. The Blue Lodge records belong to the Grand Lodge of PA. Lady Queenborough in her book Occult Theocracy published in 1933 notes on page 737 C.T.Russell's masonic membership. His Masonic membership must have also been common knowledge to those associated with him, and those acquainted with the prominence Russell gave to the Knights Templar logo.
Bear in mind that under discussion is one of Russell's central symbols of his movement — the other at that time was the Knight's Templar logo. So the decision to use the word "Watchtower" was not trivial or accidental, but a very important decision. The name of Russell's religious publishing company had to express something important to Russell. Russell by this time was trying to distance himself from the Adventists, trying to remove the idea he was with them. Also noteworthy, Russell does not make any fuss about the word Watchtower. He selects it, but is silent about its importance to him. This silence needs to be taken into account by any explanation of the origin of the title "the Watchtower."
Second,
when this author surveyed the entire range of Second Adventist periodicals
(about 30) printed prior to Russell's Zion's Watch Tower, I discovered 8 of
these used the word Watchman in the title but not one used the concept of a
Watch Tower. Why would Russell in the beginning, when his movement was really
Adventist, substitute the magazine title Watchtower for the very popular
Adventist title of Watchman? While there were no Adventist magazines prior to
Russell's Watchtower magazine that used the word Watchtower, it appears that the
Masonic magazine Mizpah could have served as example to Russell. The Masonic
Mizpah magazine, and a masonic article in an early Masonic Review with the title
"Watchman what of the night" do prove a similarity here between that
Masonic thinking and Russell's Magazine.
Evidence
shows C.T. Russell was not only a high Freemason, but prominent in their
schemes, in other words he was a key player. Watchtowers are very important to
the very highest Freemasons. The highest secret knowledge of many Masonic rites
including such rites as the Scottish Rite, the Rite of Memphis, the Rite of
Mizraim, etc. is concentrated in a high level group of Illuminati. The basic
group of the Illuminati is the
O.T.O.
The initials O.T.O. can stand for a several names for this group one being Ordo
Templi Orientis (The Order of Oriental Templars). Its esoteric name is Order of
To Ov. Its members also have been referred to as the Great White Brotherhood or
Atlantean Adepts, and have worked with the B'nai B'rith.
The O.T.O. Illuminati teach their select group of initiates Hermetic Science (occult
knowledge), magick (called Holy Magick of Light), Mysticism, and Yoga of all
forms. The
O.T.O.
during C.T. Russell's lifetime established in every important metropolitan area,
including New York, a secret hidden center (Collegium ad Spiritum Santum) where
members could carry out their "great work" concealed without
interference.
However,
each Illuminati is nothing if he is not able to practice the Magick that gives
him a knowledge of the Watchtowers and the ability to enter the four
Watchtowers.
Is
this bizarre? Why doesn't C.T. Russell mention any of this in his writings?
This
author must unreservably without any doubt in his mind advise the reader that
C.T. Russell would never have mentioned anything of his higher esoteric Masonic
knowledge to anyone. The penalties for such higher secrets are harsh. This
author knows of some cases that the men were killed. Obviously without
presenting, any proof on that point, the reader can simply know that the higher
echelons in the esoteric group of Illuminism rarely lose their initiates,
because they are so sold out to the occult. This author as a teenager studied
the life of Benjamin Franklin, in order to emulate his great character. Benjamin
Franklin gives no hint in his Autobiography of his intense activities in the
Freemasons. Franklin was the Grand Master of the occultic Grand Orient Masons in
France, and participated in many weird unchristian activities. Benjamin Franklin
although hailed by many Christians as a Christian was not a Christian, in fact
he gave money to a Synagogue. But the bottom line is that, a great man like
Franklin, whose life was closely watched, could still get away with keeping his
Masonic activities fairly secret. Only the avid historian, or the average Mason,
is aware of his Masonic membership, let alone what he did in the lodge or with
his Masonic brothers.
C.T.
Russell was in the public eye. Everything he published was with the public eye
in mind. No one should expect to find any notes or slips about Masonic
activities or beliefs in Russell's writings.
C.T.
Russell followed a policy of backing everything he said with a scripture. If he
could not establish a point by twisting scripture in some fashion, then he would
try not to
publish
the point. What needs then to be looked for are-occultic strains of thought that
seeped into his Bible explanations, because they had a possible scriptural
explanation. There are a fair number of statements by Russell that seem to be
evidence of ties to the magic of Watchtowers, but this Author must strongly
emphasize that this is not written as proof that Russell used the term
Watchtower because of its magic meaning. No, this chapter presents this material
or evidence because to date this possible explanation has been unpublished,
(Indeed, this author knows of no one else who has observed a possible magical
explanation for the title Watchtower.) and this author feels it ought to be
placed on the table for consideration, for investigation and possibly even
rejection (if additional evidence can suffice to solve this mystery.)
WHAT
ARE THE MAGICAL WATCHTOWERS?
Watchtowers
are regions of the Magical Universe. The type of Magic that uses these regions
is called Enochian Magick.
According
to occultists, Magic is merely the use of hidden laws to bring about the will.
Every person has a spark of divinity—an inner God, also called an angel or
Holy Guardian Angel. The Magician is to get in touch with his Angel—his
divinity. This is where his knowledge of the Watchtowers is helpful. Enochian
Magick claims for itself two unique elements: an original language, and the map
of the indivisible worlds. The Indivisible worlds are known as the Magical
Universe. The map of this Magical Universe contains 4 Enochian regions called
Watchtowers. These are the Watchtower of Fire, the Watchtower of Air, the
Watchtower of Water, and the Watchtower of Earth. These 4 regions are often
symbolized in ancient esoteric manuscripts. The following are the 7 planes and
their regions on the map:
Occult
Planes Enochian regions
Divine-------------- ------------
Spiritual................... Tablet of Union
Causal
....................... Watchtower of Fire
Mental
...................... Watchtower of Air
Astral
...................... Watchtower of Water
Etheric
..................... Watchtower of Earth
Physical--------------------------
Should
all the bodies of the planes (except for the physical) be collectively taken
together, the Magician calls this the Body of Light. New Age, Masonic, and
Rosicrucian Magicians will then speak in terms of leaving their bodies and
entering into the Watchtowers (the Body of Light). To be an advanced magician,
you must be able to enter the Watchtowers.
It
is an established fact the Illuminists all learn this Magic and practice it.
Could there be some connection between C.T. Russell and the Illuminists who
practice Enochian Magick?
In order to answer this, this chapter will explore
a.
the history of Enochian Magic (to be divided 3 ways: early, since Sir
John Dee, and certain Masons worthy of study),
b.
clues in Russell's works that may indicate a connection in thought with
Enochian Magick.
WHAT
IS THE HISTORY OF ENOCHIAN MAGIC?
The
history of Enochian Magick is tied in part to the history of the Masonic
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Sir John Dee (1527-1608) made Enochian Magic
known to the esoteric initiates of the Elizabethian Era. However, the roots of
Enochian Magick go back before Dr. John Dee.
The
name of this magic comes from Enoch. Josephus in Antiquities of the Jews,
relates that some Jews identified Enoch as the Sun God. This identification can
be better understood knowing that the Hebrew word we translate Enoch comes from
the Hebrew word chanak (pronounced khaw-nak') meaning to initiate or discipline.
Note also in Gen. 5:21-23 that Enoch lived exactly 365 years. Enoch, the
Initiator, living 365 days, as the Sun God gave his name to Enochian Magic.
Esoteric
thought from Egypt was learned by the Greeks. Hermes was originally an Egyptian.
Hermetic thought and Pythagorean thought (secrets of Geometry), including magic,
have been passed down through the years by secret groups.
Today,
geometry is merely a field of math dealing with shapes and numbers, but
throughout history geometry has been viewed as sacred. Sacred geometry revealed
to man the unifying principle of the divine architect of the world. God's mind
and glory was revealed in shape and numbers. Even today the New Agers and
Satanists place an importance on the geometric shapes of circles, triangles, and
squares. Geometry, the study of shapes and numbers, became sacred to both
Judiasm and Islam. Note the importance of the geometric patterns on their
mosques and synagogues. Geometry was held to be tied to the Creator's mind, and
to reveal his master plan. It is well-documented that leading operative masons
during the Middle Ages also had knowledge of not only sacred geometry, and both
its building and mystical purposes, but also were philosophers, and mystics.
The
origin of this sacred geometric science is clearer when one notes that its big
revival in Western Europe, resulted from the infusion of Greek thought into
Italy which resulted in the Renaissance. Remember that the Eastern half of the
Roman Empire calied later Byzantine, which had as its center Greece, never fell
to invaders. The wisdom of the mystery schools and the ancient greek
philosophers and scientists was still intact until the Byzantine Empire's
capital of Constantinople fell in 1453 to the Islamic Turks. The vast libraries
of Greece which dated material back to Alexandria, Egypt were moved to Italy
where they spawned the Renaissance. Forty years later Ferdinand and Isabella by
expelling the Jews from Spain created another movement of people and ideas.
These two influxes of people and their esoteric knowledge are believed to be the
single most important contributing factor to the Renaissance. The Flemish
Renaissance resulted because the Netherlands belonged to Spain, and fleeing Jews
went both to Italy and to the Netherlands. From the Netherlands and Italy
esoteric knowledge went to the house of Guise and Lorraine.
An
example of how esoteric knowledge then became associated with the royal house of
Guise and Lorraine, is that the first edition of Corpus hermeticum (pub. in
1549) was dedicated to Charles de Guise, the Cardinal of Lorraine and brother of
Marie de Guise, who married James V of Scotland and who bore Mary Queen of
Scots.
Under
the cover of being zealous Catholics, the house of Guise and Lorraine spread
esoteric knowledge. Men like Sir William Sinclair imported the esoteric
knowledge into Scotland. Another figure was the Scotsman, James Beaton, the
Scottish ambassordor to France, who was also the former Archbishop of Glasgow
and who worked with the house of Guise and Lorraine.
SIR
JOHN DEE INTRODUCES ENOCHIAN MAGIC
Esoteric
knowledge spread to England before Ireland. A famous Welchman, Dr. John Dee,
created a center for estoteric studies. Sir John Dee, was the court astrologer
for Queen Elizabeth. He also was a brilliant magician, physician, philosopher,
alchemist, Cabbalist, mathematician, scientist, and diplomatic emissary. This
model of the Renaissance man lay the groundwork for modern speculative
Freemasonry. He lectured on the Continent to the great European universities on
Geometry. Sir John Dee was fully aware and spoke about the idea of Plato about
the Great Architect of the Universe, for which sacred geometry is a method to
understand this great architect's mind. In the preface Dee wrote for Henry
Billingley's translation of Euclid published in 1570, Dee refers to Plato as
"Divine Plato."
Sir
John Dee is credited for founding a type of Magick called Enochian Magick.
(Practitioners of magic often spell magic with a k.) He believed he could
conjure up Angels. And he was convinced that the angels he conjured up with
magic were not demons.9
John
Dee believed he was descended from the tribe of Dan, and that the Queen of
England and him were related to the Brutus and the city of Troy. He also
associated himself intensely with the King Arthur legends, and his belief that
the England had a destiny to rule the world.10 Dee had a
politico-religious program for the imperial destiny of Queen Elizabeth I. This
expansion was based on the belief that Elizabeth was descended from King Arthur,
who was supposedly also a descendent of Troy which had been settled by the tribe
of Dan, and that the Queen had a religious duty to conquer the world. He managed
to convince the Queen to follow through on these ideas. Francis A. Yates has
described this belief system in his book Astraea. The Imperial Theme in the
Sixteenth Century (1975). Dee received a vision of a vast universal religion.
A
good portion of the Christian caballists in Europe at that time were converted
Jews.11
Dee's
library contained thousands of books, including Lullist works, Pico della
Mirandola and Reuchlin. He had Agrippa's De occulta philosophia, and the 1545
edition of the Latin version of Giorgi's De harmonia mundi. Agrippa was an
cabbalist. Giorgi
wrote
on achitechtural symbolism, the sacred geometry and combines cabalism letter-
mysticism and Pythagoro-Platonic theory to create his own synthesis of these.
Dee
was very influential with the Earl of Leichester and his secret son Sir Francis
Bacon. The puritan Edmund Spencer the poet was also Caballist Neo-Platonist.12
Dee's
idea of an architect is more a description of an esoteric intiate, he writes,
"I thinke, that none can justly account themselves Architects, of the
suddeyne. But they onely, who from their childes yeares ascendying by these
degrees of knowledges, beyng fostered up with the atteyning of many languages
and Artes, have wonne to the high Tabernacle of Architecture...the Name of
Architecture, is of the principalitie, which this Science hath, above all other
Artes. And Plato affirmeth, the Architect to be Master over all ....
The
reader has a better appreciation of the significance of Russell's references to
God as being the Great Architect or the Divine Architect or Great Architect of
the Universe. This masonic buzz word for God, allows us to see the connection
between Russell and those who practiced sacred geometry.
In
1603, a scion of the Guise-Lorranne families became King James of England.
Scottish families at this point in history carried their estoric knowledge to
Ulster, Ireland, where over two centuries later Russell's family, originally
from Scotland would be living before coming to the New World at Allegheny, PA.
One
of Sir John Dee's principle disciples was Robert Fludd. Fludd and Francis Bacon
spread esoteric thought through the Rosicrucian channels. This esoteric thought
came the full circle back to England when Johann Valentin Andrea created the
lodge system to protect the Rosicrucians, and some of these lodges emigrated to
England. These later became the "Invisible College of the Rosicrucians",
and later became the famous Royal Society. In a Rosicrucian work from Germany A
Golden Treatise on the Philosopher's Stone (printed 1625) on the page entitled
"The only true way ... to attain true perfection.", there is a
paragraph labelled "Enigma". Two towers must be passed to get the true
believer to where he is going. The sun god is also referred to on this page. A
rare plate from Elias Ashmole's Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum also throws light
upon the subject. The plate is named the "Key to the Great Philosophical
Secret". It states the Philosopher's stone is a macrocosm and a microcosm
of the universe. It shows four areas which correspond to the four Watchtower
areas of the Magical Universe. They are Ignis(fire), Aer(air), Tera(earth), and
Aqua(water).
Before
dealing with how those who practiced Enochian Magic might have had a common goal
or worked with C.T. Russell, let us examine some of the items in Russell's
writings that seem to connect him with Enochian Magic and its Watchtowers.
The idea of planes of existence is an important Enochian Magic idea. In Russell's first book, pp. 225-237 a big issue is made of 6 planes of existence. These are:
Plane
M- plane of spirit begetting Plane L- plane of perfection of spirit Plane K- plane of divine glory |
Plane N- plane of human perfection Plane R- Adamic races' lower plane Plane
P- Plane of typical justification |
Russell's
answer to the following question is in line with Enochian Magic.
"Is
the body of a consecrated person a part of the New Creation? ... It is not a
part of the New Creation because the New Creation is spiritual .... "
"Is
the New Creature divine? The New Creature is begotten to the divine nature. The
intention of begetting was to bring these new creatures to the divine
plane..."
What
does Russell think of Enoch? C.T. Russell speculates that, "Since seven is
always in the Scriptures recognized as a perfect number and indicates
perfection, we might understand that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, would
represent that perfect man—the perfection of man, or man in his future state
when he will be perfect and when he will not die. And in this sense of the word,
Enoch may be considered as representative of (no ending text...)
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NOTES
1.
Strong, James. A Concise Dictionary of the Words in the Hebrew Bible;
with renderings in the Authorized English Version, contained in Strong's
Concordance, (Riverside Book and Bible House: Iowa Falls, IO), p. 71 of the
Hebrew dictionary, words #4707 and 4708. The Word Mitzpah occurs at Is. 21:8.
2.
Webb, Thomas. The Freemason's Monitor; or, Illustrations of Masonry. NY:
Southwick & Crooker, 1802, pp. 245-46,247.
3.
Souvenir Notes, Bible Students Convention, Indianapolis, IN, 1907, p.26
4.
WT 7/1/41
5.
The Truth Shall Make You Free (1943) WTB&TS, p. 127
6.
ibid.,p.126
7.
WT 3/15/43, p.95
8.
The Truth Shall Make You Free(?) , p. 207
9.
Yates, Francis A. The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age. London:
Routledge
&
Kegan Paul, 1979, p. 82.
10.
ibid., p. 85.
11.
ibid., pp. 111-112.
12.
ibid., p. 95 ff.
The Channel of Angelic Redemption
HISTORY
REPEATS ITSELF
In
July 1636, the town of Aberdeen, Scotland saw a member of the clergy confined to
its city limits. The clergyman had been imprisoned in for sedition against the
state. The man was Samuel Rutherford, and his radical hatred of the state, and
his advocacy of disobedience to it on religious grounds, seems to be a
foreshadowing of his descendent Joseph Franklin Rutherford, who would on June
21, 1918 be sentenced to twenty years in the Atlanta Pen for sedition against
the United States government.
THE
UNEDITED STORY
The
whole story of Joseph F. Rutherford may never be known. But the unedited story
will be presented, especially in regards to the Masons, the New Age and power.
Joseph
was born at Versailles, MO and grew up11 in the rolling farmland of
Morgan Co., Missouri.12 He was ambitious. His father wanted him to
remain on the farm, but he wanted to become someone important. He had always had
high goals for himself, novel goals at that. His goals were novel in part due to
his great imagination.14 Joseph had his flights into fantasy,15
and from the evidence available actually channeled with what he felt were spirit
beings.16 He liked to call attention to himself and his theatrics.
His booming voice, six foot figure, and emotional earnestness made him a dynamic
speaker. He was not interested in accumulating wealth,17 but he did
like the fine life.18 He lectured all over the United States, and
travelled throughout Europe and the Middle East.19
One
Watchtower source says, "Probably no man in the world was closer to Pastor
Russell than Mr. Rutherford." This is simply a big lie. Rutherford had made
himself obnoxious to the point, Russell had exiled him away from headquarters.
Russell even paid him to leave. Rutherford was very sensitive. He seethed at his
treatment by Russell. Russell stepped on his toes numerous times. In one case,
Rutherford wrote a complaint to Russell about his treatment, and Russell did the
wrong thing considering the sensitive feelings of Rutherford. Russell printed
the complaint in the WT magazine.20
Alexander
Hugh Macmillan, another man of Scottish blood, was responsible for Rutherford
joining the Society.21 Apparently Rutherford, who was a big reader,
purchased three books by Russell. While sick at home he happened to look at
Russell's books.22 Joseph Rutherford had become a lawyer, and up to
this point had not shown any interest in spiritual matters in his life. He knew
practically nothing about the Bible,23 and did not attend church,
although his parents were Baptists. But he liked what Pastor Russell taught. And
his friend A.H. Macmillan who was prominent in the WT Society, was able to get
Rutherford positions in the Society. Rutherford became the Society's lawyer, and
went to court numerous times to defend Russell in court.
After
1907, all the legal matters of the Society were handled by Rutherford.24
A.H.
Macmillan's friendship with Rutherford was an important one. A. H. Macmillan
claimed he had been put in charge of the Watchtower Society when Russell was
gone. (Macmillan, A.H. Faith on the March, p.70) Macmillan along with his cohort
Van Amburgh, the Society's accountant used their power to get Rutherford into
the WT Presidency. (Faith on the March, p. 68)
As
is common knowledge, Rutherford took turns filling in as a special judge in the
absence of any regular judge of the Eighth Judicial Circuit Court of Boonville,
MO. This happened before he became associated with the Bible Students. Because
of this the Jehovah's Witnesses called Joseph Rutherford, Judge Rutherford. It
was a term he liked.
The
Judge stated, "My purpose is good toward all." But his actions came
across entirely different.27
"When
Russell died all pandemonium broke out," a Bible Student said. Rutherford's
ability to take firm command of a situation was put into motion. Out of his L.A.
exile he came,
and
by force of his personality, legal trickery, and some nasty power grabbing
tactics took charge of the situation. He expelled 31 Bethel workers.28
And being the trail blazer that he was, he renounced all the former guide lines
and followed his own ideas rather than Russell's. He took the Society out of the
rut that the cult around Russell had the Society in. Many that were loyal to
Russell left the Society.
It
is important to understand Rutherford's nature to think for himself. It was so
extreme that he found it difficult to conform to any regulations. He set his own
guidelines. He was always resisting anyone thinking for him.29
Consequently, because the Judge liked alcoholic beverages, he was an alcoholic,
and even created the same attitude among some of his associates.30 He
encouraged JWs to break the prohibition laws and smuggle alcohol.31
Because the Judge liked certain women, he had his girlfriends,32 even
though the scriptures condemn adultery.
Mysterious,
distant, reserved, and cold, Rutherford is remembered best for his greed for
power. With dictatorial powers came the ability to live in luxury at the
Society's expense. His life of luxury during the depression is hardly known to
Jehovah's Witnesses today, but it included the use of several mansions, several
16-cylinder Packards, the best liquors money could buy, and
It
is hard to picture Rutherford as a Mason. He was so narrow-minded and had so
many prejudices that it isn't likely that he would have been asked or would have
cared to joined. None the less it would not be beyond the realm of possibility,
considering that some of his friends were some of the most powerful Masons in
the United States. Initially Rutherford had worked for three time Presidential
nominee, and Secretary of State and Arch-Mason William Jennings Bryan
(1860-1925). Rutherford had a friend in the in the U.S. Senate, a German-born
Jew from Cumberland, Md. named George Louis Wellington, who also was a banker
and president of Edison Electric Illuminating Co.34 Sen. Wellington
was a leading Freemason (32° and a Knight Templar). Wellington was also an
Oddfellow, and Elks, and a Knights of Pythias. Wellington's family had to leave
England during Mary Tudor's reign and move to Germany. His mother's maiden name
was Meyer. She was Jewish.34a
Certain
Bible Students have claimed that Russell was murdered. They believed that
certain men J.F. Rutherford, W.E. Van Amburgh, R.H. Hirsh (Jewish), Morton Edgar
(Scottish), Morton's brother Edgar, C.J. Woodworth (Methodist parents), Paul S.L.
Johnson (Jewish), Czeslaw Kasprzykowski, A.H. Mcmillan, George Fisher (his
father was an Episcopalian clergyman possibly of Jewish descent from Scranton,Pa),
Isaac F. Hoskins, William E. Page, Henry Clay
Rockwell,
and some others contributed to the murder. They believed that some poison was
slipped past Russell's foodtaster.35 They think the body was gotten
off the train at the next stop and embalmed quickly to hide the murder.
According to Macmillan, Menta Sturgeon took the body to an quack embalmer and
got Russell into a $20 casket.36
It
would be hard to determine anything now about Russell's body because the 5 foot
thick
Perhaps
the second most vital position of the WT Society was the London office, as it
helped with the European and Commonwealth work. Paul S.L. Johnson, a Jew, had
been assigned this position by Russell. Paul Johnson had for some time thought
Russell had selected him to suceed,39 and a majority of the Directors
thought so to.40 For a while the London office and British Guinea
were loyal to Johnson rather than Rutherford.41 But Rutherford
tricked the law into believing that the four Directors who opposed him were
illegal, and forced their dismissal.42 Then he had the upper hand.
The
motive for murder would have been power and money.
Rutherford
and his friends like Macmillan took over the Society. Rutherford became a
recluse.43 He gradually solidified his power and wealth. He had the
use of several Packards, and several mansions, even in Europe.44
[text
missing]
On
Feb. 8, 1942, Rutherford died according to one WT reference with his boots on.70
Some older Bible Students on the West Coast say he fell down the stairs drunk.
His death was kept secret for several days, and the local San Diego Union paper
didn't get the scoop until the 10th, three days later, and printed a story the
11th. His estranged son Malcolm C. (also a lawyer) and his neglected wife, who
he had ignored for years, Mary M. Rutherford lived in Los Angeles. His live-in
secretary Bonnie Boyd was with him at his Beth Sarim mansion when he died, and
signed his death certificate. Afterwards she married a man named W.P. Heath and
dropped out of the picture. It appears his death was kept secret until the petty
power struggle between the Triumvirate in Bethel was ironed out. Still why his
death was wrapped in secrecy is not known for sure.
His
burial was kept secret because he wanted to be buried at Beth Sarim which was
outside of any cemetery zone. In a fitting tribute to a man who had no respect
for anyone else's opinion nor was ever governed by anyone else's rule,
Rutherford was buried secretly against city ordinances at Beth Sarim.71
Three months later a lone unaccompanied hearse pulled up to Woodrow Cemetery and
a mock funeral was held in the Staten Island dawn by a select group of Jehovah's
Witnesses.72
The
death certificate says Rutherford died of uremic acid which he had had for 1
month, due to Carcinoma Rectum which he had had for 18 months due to Pelvic
metastasis which he had had for 6 years.
In
exploring the relationship of the WT Society to the One-World-Conspiracy several
items can be mentioned in relation to Rutherford.
1)
What ever Rutherford decided to do, he would have done it, for he was not
guided by moral scruples, but his own ideas.
2)
Rutherford had some powerful friends. He had campaigned with William
Jennings Bryan's presidential campaign, worked with civic groups73
and groups like the Masons,74 and had friends like Congressman
Blackburn Barrett Dovener of W. Va., a lawyer.75
3)
He had some pull with some newspapers, for instance, the National Labor
Tribune of Pittsburgh ran his sermon on Thurs. May 9, 1918.
4)
His modus operandi to cover over the controversy over the widespread use
of a demonic oeji healing device by Jehovah's Witnesses was to allow Goodrich to
write an article against it, and then to refute Goodrich's article in a
subsequent issue, and then to proclaim the issue closed to discussion.76
In light of this and other similar coverups it is not out of the question that
the anti- masonic article reprinted in the WT in 1930 may have been merely a
subterfuge.
Was
Paul Johnson slated by the B'nai B'rith to take over the WT Society? Was
Rutherford and his close henchmen tried on sedition, because they upset the
plans of the B'nai B'rith to put their man in? Did Rutherford strike a deal at
some point with the Powers? Circumstantial evidence points to Rutherford
agreeing to some kind of working relationship with the Conspiracy. Or did the
One-world-government planners support both sides of the struggle for power over
the WT Society?
There
was a noticeable change in Rutherford during the 1920's. He began channeling. He
wrote that wicked angels worked their sins off by bringing messages to the earth
for God. Since his messages from these spirit beings have proved false, the
conclusion is they were demonic. After God's channel to redeem the angels had
died, the WT described his death in these words, "Brother Rutherford's
advancing on to greater fields of activity, by Jehovah's grace..."77
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NOTES
11.
Death certificate from San Diego Co., cf. Harrison, Visions of Glory, p.
172
12.
Harrison, op cit., p. 172 and Cole, Jehvovah's Witnesses, p. 213
13.
ibid.
14.
Author's research
15.
ibid.
16.
Several researchers have studied Rutherford's channeling. Duane Magnani
gave a talk at the Pa. Convention of ex-JWs, 1987 on Rutherford's demonic
channeling, which was taped and sold as "Angels of the New Light."
Magnani has accumulated much information, yet to be published on the subject. At
least one New Age channeler has identified Rutherford as channeling. Rutherford
indicates this several times, because holy spirit has ceased to function
according to him, see Preservation(l932), pp.201, WT 11/1/31, p. 327 and WT Apr.
1, 1934, p. 105
17.
Author's research into Rutherford's character. One of the salient
features of his personality was his independent thinking.
18.
Magnani, Duane. Danger At Your Door. Clayton, CA: Witness, Inc., 1987,
pp. 210-224.
19.
Cole. op. cit.,p. , and WT publications during Russell's time.
20.
WT, 191?, p.
21.
Unpublished manuscript of talk by A.H. MacMillan. "History of the
WT, 1910-1920."
22.
ibid., and other sources
23.
Pike, Royton. Jehovah's Witnesses. London: Watt & Co., 1954, p.19.
24.
Cole, Jehovah's Witnesses, p. 214.
25.
Macmillan, A.H. Faith on the March. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.:
Prentice-Hall, 1957, p. 70
26.
ibid., p.68
27.
Rutherford, Government and Peace (1939),p.4
28.
Cole(?) , Jehovah's Witnesses, p.89
29.
Author's research
30.
Grass, Edmund. Apostles of Denial reprints a BTTBW publication #79, which
was a reprint of Olin Moyle's letter(Sept. 25,1940) to the Milwaukee, WI
congregation of JWs. Olin Moyles had been the Society's attorney. On page 295 of
Grass' book, Moyle wrote, "There appears to a definite policy of breaking
in newcomers into the use of liquor and resentment is shown against those who do
not join them. The claim is made 'One can't be a real Bethelite without drinking
beer." This statement is accord with the author's research on Rutherford's
personality.
31.
32.
Confidential Bible Student sources. Obviously this is a delicate
situation for an informant. Verna Peal travelled with Rutherford
internationally, and was his "nurse". See Bonnie Boyd Heath's
testimony for the New York Supreme Court, court transcript pp. 1364-1370. Bonnie
Boyd was his devout secretary, from 1923 to his death, she even signed his death
certificate Bonnie Boyd. She had a quick Los Vegas marriage to Heath, but lived
with Rutherford at his mansion. Rutherford's fascination with bare-breasted
women is quite evident just by looking at the many WT illustrations of topless
or nude women in their publications during his reign as President.
33.
This paragraph is compilation of indictments made against Rutherford from
a host of sources. Some of these sources are a. Letter from W.F. Salter (4/1/37)
to Joseph Rutherford. Olin R. Moyle's 7/21/39 letter to Rutherford which says
much of the same things that Salter's says. Rutherford's mansion at Beth Sarim
is mentioned in Time Magazine 3/31/30 and the San Diego Sun 1/9/31, and
photocopies of these are reproduced in Duane Magnani's book Danger At Your Door,
published by Witness, Inc.
34.
The Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. ?, p.545 and ?
34a.
History of Allegheny Co., p. 702-704.
35.
List do Chrzescijan Nr. 149 (orig.in Polish) The Ger. version is Brief an
Christen-This is a German trans, of Detroit Bible Student Stanley's letter
concerning what his Bible Student (Jehovah's Witnesses) parents who lived in
Pittsburgh,PA had experienced. They were friends of Maria Francis Ackley, and
left the Society after Russell died. The items in the letter have not been
substantiated, but there were Stanleys in the early Pittsburgh congregation.
36.
A.H. Macmillan. "History of the WT Society, 1910-1920"
37.
Souvenir Report of the Bible Student Convention, Pittsburgh, PA
1/2-5/1919, p.7
38.
ibid.
39.
40.
41.
42.
43.
(more on file below)
70.
Consolation (Feb. 4, 1942) p.17
71.
Confidential Bible Student sources, cf. Cleveland Plain Dealer Newspaper,
Jan. 12, 1942, which says he is to be buried according to their sources at Beth
Sarim.
72.
UPI reported this April 25 from NY
73.
The Catholic Northwest Progress Newspaper, Seattle, WA, Fri. Apr. 22,
1938 as quoted in Consolation, No.487, 1938, p.19.
74.
Numerous talks by Rutherford were given at Masonic Halls.For instance,
the annual meeting of the WTB&TS was held in late 1923 along with a five day
convention. Rutherford was present. The first days were held at the Memorial
Hall, but Sunday's convention service was held at Pittsburg's Syria Shrine
Temple a.k.a. the Syria Mosque, where not only the Shriners but various Masonic
groups held functions. The WT 12/1/23 p.360 records the use of this Masonic
facility for their convention. Consequently, with so much interaction between
the Society and the Masons, Rutherford could not have avoided dealing with them
at some point.
75.
76.
Goodrich, Roy. Demonism and the Watchtower. Fort Lauderdale, FL.:The
Bible Way Publ., 1969, p.1-35
77.
Consolation, Feb. 4,1942, p.17
BROTHERHOOD OF THE GREAT WHITE LODGE
Manly
P. Hall, the Great Masonic leader wrote, "Through the labyrinth of
diversity only the illumined mind can, and must lead the soul into the perfect
light of unity."1
The
Freemasons have promoted the "illuminated minds" of the New Age
movement. New Age leaders who have been illuminated by the Brotherhood of the
Great White Lodge have been helped by and promoted by the Freemasons. Most New
Age channellers are not Masons, nor are they expected to be to receive Masonic
sympathy.
The
leaders of the Theosophical Society, some of the higher Masons, and Church
Universal Triumphant's prophet Elizabeth Clare Prophet are some of those who
claim to have received enlightenment from the Brotherhood of the Great White
Lodge.
Note
the photocopy of the brochure of the New Age group Church Universal Triumphant
(Fig. ) This brochure indicates that their group will hold a meeting with their
prophetess at the Masonic Lodge.
So
who is the Brotherhood of the Great White Lodge?
They
are called various names, such as Ascended Masters, and spirit guides. They are
spirit beings who channel to the New Age leaders.
These
Ascended Master are also variously called "the Hierarchy", and
"the Brotherhood of Light" by channeller J.J. Hurtig, "the
Brotherhood" by channeler Richard Kieninger, and the "Divine Hierarchy
of Great Beings of the Universal Brotherhood" by channeler Earlyne Chaney.
They have provided much of the information that the New Age literature consists
of.
THE MESSAGE OF THE GREAT WHITE LODGE
What
have these Ascended Masters told their New Age channelers?
Turn
your radio on and you may hear a song such as "In the year 2525, if man is
still alive..." The Ascended Masters have stressed that man is on the verge
of a New Age, a New Order. Man needs to create a one-world-governent and a
one-world-religion. This new period is often called the Golden Age. At least one
spirit is reported
to
have called it a grand Second Genesis. Technology and New Age spiritual
philosophy are to combine to establish a paradise New World. 2 Examples of this
are The Book of Knowledge: Keys of Enoch a New Age Bible given by the spirits
Enoch and Metatron to J.J. Hurtag in a code to supposedly help man unlock the
divine plan in the minds of the Great White Brotherhood. The Keys of Enoch speak
of a grand Second Genesis, a second paradise.
Another
New Age Bible given by the spirit "god" to Michael Mathiesen warns
that man will be severely punished unless mankind organizes into a
1-world-government by the year 2000. Mathiesen titled his 442 page
"Bible" The New American Bible.
Interestingly,
this message of a coming Golden Age paradise has been given thousands of times
to New Age channelers. Often the spirits mention that a cataclysmic or series of
cataclysmic events must precede the New World System.
Yes,
the terminology and message happens to be identical to message given to
Rutherford by the spirits who channeled to him.
Interestingly,
the parallels don't end here. The Watchtower Society came out with a Bible
called New World Translation. It is apparent that portions of that translation
borrow from translations which were channeled, such as Johannes Greber's
translation.
THE STRANGEST CONNECTION
The
channeling connection between the Watchtower Society, the Freemasons, and the
New Age is indeed the strangest type of connection, because it suggests a
supernatural power is coordinating such "new light."
For
a while it appeared that the idea of the Devil was going to disappear from
Western culture. Psychiatrists told us that such supernatural phenomena did not
exist. It's interesting that these would be the people to tell us that, because
the early great psychiatrists were themselves into the occult and demonic
activities.
The
New Age channelers don't view their spirit guides as demons. That is the label
placed on their activities by Christians who note what the Bible states about
such activities. Most of us
It
is believed Randall N. Baer was murdered for revealing too much about the New
Age Movement. His book Inside the New Age Nightmare tells the story of someone
who left his channeling when he realized he was serving demons. The reader
should read his book to fully appreciate why Baer after years of being a New Age
leader concluded that Satan and his demons were the spirit guides of the New
Age. Baer tells the compelling story of how the spirits had power, indeed a
supernatural power, and were not simply figments of the mind. The skeptic of
supernatural events, will at least concede from his book that these spirit
guides are believed to be real by the people who communicate with them.
Some
examples of New Age channeler Baer's conclusions concerning such spirit guides
are. Public channeling is mass hypnosis. "Through speech cadence,
orchestrated body and hand movements, voice inflections, and invisible demonic
powers that fill the room, the spirit weaves a hypnotic web of rainbow-gilded
infiltration. Not only do the participants take in false information but, more
deeply, they absorb the permeating influences of the demon's formidable powers
into the heart, mind, soul, and spirit. Often, a type of open-eyed trance-state
overtakes the listeners with a sense of relaxation, pleasant tingling
sensations, and rapt fascination with the goings-on.3
It
is refreshing to see Baer, like so few prophets ever do, reveal that the
"psychic powers ultimately draw upon demonic principalities as their source
of power."4
"Channeling
is indeed a blending, a merging, a touching, between humans and disincarnate
spirits. However, behind the oh- so-friendly and wise facade are demons who
touch to deceive, blend to invade, and merge to possess. They come with an olive
branch of peace, love and universal brotherhood in one hand, and a smoking gun
concealed behind their back in the other."5
Baer
became a Christian when he discovered that these spirits were demons. Other New
Agers who have told their stories to this Author also came to Christ when they
realized that demons were the spirits that were controlling them. Baer praised
the Lord God for his salvation from "Satan's New Age Movement" and for
the true freedom and salvation received through Christ Jesus. He turned his back
on all his New Age practices and his demon Ascended Masters.
Baer
felt the New Age Kingdom was a delusion. "The ultimate paradox for New
Agers is that they believe the lie that they are heading for the New Age
Kingdom-on-earth. All the while, they're really following a Satan-conspired path
to destruction."6
If
Baer's insight from his years of leading the New Age can be applied to the
Watchtower's channeler Rutherford, then Rutherford was part of a demonic
conspiracy. At the very least even if some readers are very skeptical of this
whole thing, they must recognize the many similarities between Rutherford and
the New Age channelers.
There
are more similarities. The similarities go back to such things a Russell
believing that Cyrus (who was supposedly an incarnation of the sun god and
worshipped by his people as such) was a foreshadowing of Christ. Zoroaster was
also viewed by Russell as a great prophet7 (and is also tied to the
sun and its worship. One of the Ascended Masters is Zoroaster. Elizabeth Clare
Prophet has channeled Zoroaster's messages.
The
Masons also look to Zoroaster. Their New Age magazine calls this Persian prophet
a "noble" prophet.8 In another article, of the New Age
Magazine (Nov. 1922, p.658,) 32o Mason M. M. Javens writes, "It
is useless to dwell longer on Zoroaster and the Zend-Avesta as most Master
Masons are familiar with their position in Masonry."
The
New Age Magazine, the official organ of the Scottish Rite, in the June 1922
issue, p. 343) pronounce Magic as "good." In another issue White
Magicians are declared to be " 'angels encamped about the people,' serving,
protecting..." (Sept. 1933, p.554)
THE ILLUMINATI
According
to Illuminati, Masonic and other sources the Illuminati were white magicians.
The Masonic leaders believe they continue to guide mankind as the Great White
Brotherhood. "The ancient Illuminati manifested...in the 18th century have
no inheritors on the physical plane at this time...Their activities are chiefly
from the spiritual plane where they are momentous. They may be said to truly
exist, but their organized activities and beneficences in aiding needy humanity
are from the spiritual side." (The New Age. Sept. 1933, p.554)
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Notes
1.
Hall, Manly P. The Secret Teachings of All Ages, p. CCIII
2.
The Book Of Knowledge: The Kevs of Enoch.
3.
Baer, Randall. Inside the New Age Nightmare. Lafeyette, LA, Huntington
House, 1989, p.104
4.
ibid.,p.113
5.
ibid.,p.103
6.
ibid.,p.42
7.
8.
The New Age. July , 1961, p.46-50
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