Fritz Springmeier

Chapter 1.5Mysteries of the Watchtower SocietyYou will learn in this chapter:• You will be informed that the winged-sun-disk used by H.P.B and C.T. Russell wasan llluminati symbol and a symbol for the Church of Illumination.• You will learn about three mysteries of the Watchtower Society, pyramids, the GoldenAge, 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 inhigh school, and as the caretaker of our family library I puzzled over the symbolicmeaning to the cover. Two tiny snakes with protruding gold tongues encircled a Wingedglobe on the book's reddish-brown cover. The book was part of a series "Studies in theScriptures". What the symbolic meaning of this strange Winged-Sun-Disk with snakeswas not explained. Obviously, the meaning was for those "in the know" and not thecasual reader.The author of "Studies in the Scripture" spoke of a Golden Age to come. Hecapitalized in bold underlined letters on each volume's title page THE GOLDEN AGE OFRussell had a fold out chart in the front of Vol. 1 about the Great Pyramid. | wasunaware 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 thecuriosity of my research oriented mind. My teenage mind was always from early onsearching in an effort to learn, checking out Plato, John Dewey, Will Durant, MahatmaGandhi, and many other philosophers and religious leaders. As a youngster, I was alwaysasking why?The curious can have a field day with the Jehovah's Witnesses. For instance, whycall one's meeting place a hall? why not Kingdom meeting, or Kingdom assembly, orKingdom study, or church, or chapel, or tabernacle, or temple, or something else? whyhall?