Hi again-

I have a fascination with the influence of Egypt on alot of the apostasy happening within the Church - that is the Egyptian Cult of Death influence and origins in some of the religions and so called Christian sects, as well as the Egyptian roots to some of the new Bibles.

So, surprise when I saw I think it was CAL post a document about the Great Pyramid.... this is the second time in a week I saw strong support of an Egyptian involvement in JW....

can someone elaborate?

kindly

James

Charles Russell, founder of what would become JW's, believed that the Great Pyramid was God's Stone Witness and that it and the Bible were tied together. Interestingly, he used it to support (though not derive) his dates for Jesus' return, both 1874 and 1915 (later revised to 1914). The publications that used measurements from the pyramid to point to the 1874 date were subsequently revised to point to the 1915 date. Hilarious in retrospect, but people bought it then and continue to buy this sort of oops-sorry-we-were-wrong-but-we're-right-now logic today.

You can read the whole history as documented by JW's own literature at: http://quotes.watchtower.ca/pyramid.htm

Incidentally, most JW's do know about the pyramid thing, but they consider it an historical oddity, a pet theory of Russell's. They partially admit it in their most recent history book, "Jehovah's Witnesses: Proclaimers of God's Kingdom". Jw's are masters at historical revisionism, so anything they write about their own past is almost surely colored.

Dave

Isn't Russell buried in a pyramid or a masonic eye or something?

His gravesite has a pyramid. Here's a page with some pics.

http://www.freeminds.org/history/cemetary.htm

Nice pics in the link!
His burial ground looks like a space capsule ready to take flight to the moon!
It looks like where they buried Mr Rand from the movie "Being There".