Documentation on Russell's Grave

I know that there were some pics of Russels grave posted sometime back.

Does anyone know the link or where I can find some info on Russell? I am trying to send this to my mother. She does not believe that he has a pyramid on his grave.

Any other info on his life would be appreciated.

Thanks all!
Tina

I dont know who can access this, but I have one on my profile.

http://publish.hometown.aol.com/_cqr/qp/qp.adp?time=1022857111&cc=english&prompt=profile

You can clearly see the pyramid, the size of it, the Masons Headquarters in the background, the cross and crown.

I have other pictures of Russells own grave some'ers :) Russell is not buried under this..his grave stone with his picture on it is uphill about 20 feet from this pyramid.

When a JW asks me if I have nothing better to do than spend my days bashing religion, I reply "Actually, no, I don't. I'm a PIONEER, just like you." :)

I believe that the pyramid is a monument and his grave is elsewhere nearby.

TR

UADNA-WA
Unseen Apostate Directorate of North America- Washington Division

http://pages.globetrotter.net/mleblank/occulte/dpyramidea.html

Scroll down a little, and click on the blue numbers
Nr. 6 is a good one, but look at all the pics.

WOW!!

XLovesMeNotX...I could not pull up the link...I am using AOL so I thought it would go through.

Celia!! Wonderful...I am copying this to Word, printing out the pics and sending it all to my mother, along with a few other things I found on Freeminds and the other sites. The pics are telling!

Thanks again for the info...I think this is the stuff my mother never new and never tried to find out. Every little bit helps.

Russell was not a Mason nor did he have the Pyramid put there. He did have a respect for Free Masons and there was a relationship between them(the early bible students/pilgrims) of mutual respect.
I haven't found any documents yet stateing who put the pyramid there but IMO it was put there as a sorta tribute to Russell by Free Masons.
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The Link below explains Russell’s views on Free Masons and is a probable explanation for why someone (probably a Mason) placed the Pyramid near Russell’s grave after he died.

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http://www.exjws.net/museum/masonry.htm

http://www.exjws.net/museum/russell.htm

http://www.godstruthfortoday.org/BibleStudents/PastorRussellsWill.html

http://www.watchtowernews.org/wav/russell.html

http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/personnel/russell/students.html

http://www.biblestudents.net/software/htdb.htm

http://www.premier1.net/~raines/pyramid.html

http://www.godstruthfortoday.org/BibleStudents/

http://www.godstruthfortoday.org/BibleStudents/PastorRussellsLastDays.html

http://www.godstruthfortoday.org/BibleStudents/PastorRussellsRelationToThePilgrims.html

plum_crazy22002@yahoo.com

DIRECTIONS FOR FUNERAL

I desire to be buried in the plot of ground owned by our Society, in the Rosemont United Cemetery, and all the details of arrangements respecting the funeral service I leave in the care of my sister, Mrs. M. M. Land, and her daughters, Alice and May, or such of them as may survive me, with the assistance and advice and cooperation of the brethren, as they may request the same. Instead of an ordinary funeral discourse, I request that they arrange to have a number of the brethren, accustomed to public speaking, make a few remarks each, that the service be very simple and inexpensive and that it be conducted in the Bible House Chapel or any other place that may be considered equally appropriate or more so.
C.T.Russell

http://www.godstruthfortoday.org/BibleStudents/PastorRussellsWill.html

Souvenir Report of the Bible Students Convention

Pittsburgh, PA.

January 2-5, 1919

Page 7

well that should be enough to figure something out.

plum_crazy22002@yahoo.com

Ah the good old days, when JWs used national holidays to mark the passing of time. Decoration Day=Memorial Day for those of the "I'm way too young and don't hang out with any old fogies to know that" class.

I wonder what we would put in an Apostate Time Pyramid?....

Sincerely,

District Overbeer

LOL Valis..Pictures of Ruthuford

plum_crazy22002@yahoo.comhttp://ourworld.cs.com/Pwmkwzy/PAGE+1+home.html

The spoken word conveys meaning other than how it's written. Russell said he was a Freemason; and he said he wasn't a Freemason. For a man who supposedly wasn't a mason he knew an awful lot about their secret rituals and handshakes, somthing that non-masons are not supposed to know. I believe it's in the book Occult Theocracy by Lady Queensborough in 1933 where mention is made of Russell's mason connection. Another researcher claims Russell's name appears on file as a Knight's Templar in the mother lodge in Ireland. Maybe this semantic difference would allow Russell to claim that he wasn't an ordinary (blue) mason seeing that he believed himself to have a special calling from God since infancy. His elitist view of himself would easily qualify him as a KT. Apparently, the pyramid near his grave was built by WTS corporate affiliates as a reminder of Russell's links to the occult world of inner freemasonry.

Oh for crying out loud spaz your just being a little too nit pickie. Havent you ever heard of METAPHORES. I hope I spelled that right.

He also reffered to ALL JW's as Free Masons and he reffered to Jesus as a Free Mason.
He reffered to EVERYONE who strived to BUILD a relationship with thier Heavenly Father a Free Mason. NOT IN THE LITERAL SENSE!!!! IT IS A METAPHORE HE USED AS A RESPECTFUL WAY OF SAYING THANK YOU TO THE FREE MASONS FOR ALLOWING US TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF YOUR KIND GENEROSITY>

IT COULDN"T BE ANY CLEARER WITHOUT SHOUTING!!!!!
Now go in peace

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Tina,
There are a bunch of articles on Russell at:

http://watchtowerobserver.org

On the left side under History, just click on Russell.

Okay, here's a picture of me back in 1999, doing some research on the Bible Students, I went to visit the cemetary [my first and only visit, although I'm in the neigborhood every year to attend a convention]

The people on my left [your right] I met there. They're Jehovah's Witnesses from Chicago. So there you have it, Bible Students and Jehovah's Witnesses gathering around the monument. The couple were actually tracing the names on the open book with a pencil and paper. There are some names on the books.

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That's my story and I'm sticking to it! . http://www.food4jws.org/testimonies/rr144.htm

Hi Plumcrazy,
What's your rules of grammar to extricate metaphors from statements of fact or at worst, cryptic comment?
# Russell," Do our Masonic friends understand...the Temple and being Knights Templar?" (Where was Knights Templar introduced?)
# "We (not JWs) are also Masons"
# "I am a free and accepterd Mason...our Masonic brethren like to tell us that they're free and accepted Masons"{which here is metaphor and which is literal?)
# "But not just after the style of our Masonic brethren"
# "I am not going to say a word against Free Masons"{to do so would've resulted in his assassination)
# "Some of my dear friends are Masons"
# "How do you{Russell} know about our highest {secret} logic"
# Note capital 'M' in the word mason
Q. Who was Russell talking about, "One who had been a Mason for a long time recently bought a thousand books...about the Great Pyramid" if it wasn't he himself?

I just visited Russell's grave today. BTW Russell's name is engraved on the pyramid also.

When you look at the pics of Russell's actual tombstone notice the medallion with his picture. That picture medallion is no longer there. I don't know maybe time took its toll on the tombstone, but actually it looked to me like someone smashed the picture  with a heavy object. Either way, its gone.

 

Hey, look!  That circular design on Russell's pyramid matches the eye on the "Illuminati" symbol!      

      

If you use the SEARCH facility you'll find numerous threads discussing this very subject.

I have shown this grave to many JW's, they can't believe Russell is buried next to a pyramid.  I have also been accused of making this entire thing up about him being buried next to a pyramid. So go figure...

The Jehovah's Witnesses:  Proclaimers of God's Kingdom book on page 201 in discussing "Practices That Have Been Abandoned" admits:

"For some 35 years, Pastor Russell thought that the Great Pyramid of Gizeh was God's stone witness, corroborating Biblical time periods. (Isa. 19:19) But Jehovah's Witnesses have abandoned the idea that an Egyptian pyramid has anything to do with true worship (See "Watchtower" issues of November 15 and December 1, 1928)"

  Oh, yes, they have abandoned the measurements of the pyramid because nothing Russell predicted for that year came about  except supposedly the end of the  Gentile times.  So they  kept the date 1914 to make  a big issue about the generation born then, but even that had to be "adjusted" in more recent times as fewer and fewer people remained from that time period.