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Watchtower Literature And Documents
Old Watchtower Literature & Documents Where to find old JW literature online for viewing and downloading and to buy.
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About Me (Ken Raines) And The JW Research Site
The Story So Far
The Story Since Then What I’ve been up to since I stopped publishing the JW Research Journal.
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Watchtower Truth Claims
Examine The Evidence!
JWs: The One True Religion
God’s Channel of Communication
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False Prophecies
Uninspired Prophets Of God
1914
1925: Millions Now Living Will Never Die! Rutherford and the Watchtower Society claimed that the resurrection of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, etc and the setting up of God’s kingdom on earth would start in 1925.
Demons See Something Coming In 1925
The Next War
WWII: Armageddon Soon!
The “Generation of 1914” Dies A Slow Death
New Light: A Divine, Demonic, Or Human Interpretation Of Scripture?
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JWs And The The Occult
Jehovah of the Pleiades The Society believed that Jehovah was time and space bound being confined to a body located in space. That place was in the Pleiades star cluster, probably around the star Alcyone.
Rutherford’s Angelic Channeling J.F. Rutherford was the Watchtower Society’s second president from about 1916 to 1942. He wrote almost all Watchtower books and Watchtower magazine articles by the 1920’s. He claimed the holy spirit was removed 1918 and replaced by angels who transmitted instructions and Biblical interpretations for his books into his mind inaudibly.
Honest Demons
The Golden Age‘s Review And Endorsement Of Angels And Women The Watchtower Society in two Golden Age magazines endorsed the book Angels And Women. It was an “automatic writing” book “dictated” to Smith by a fallen angel according to the book’s foreword.
Angels And Women My review of the contents of Angels And Women.
Demons See Something Coming In 1925
Rutherford And The Occult
Dr. Albert Abrams And The E.R.A. This paper looks at the bizarre Electronic Reactions of Abrams (ERA), an occult medical method of diagnosing and curing disease the Watchtower endorsed and numerous JW doctors used from the 1920’s through the 1940’s. After ending their endorsement the Society said the method was psychic and spiritistic in nature.
Roy Goodrich And The ERA Ouija Board Roy Goodrich, a JW, got into a shouting match with the Watchtower’s president J.F. Rutherford over their promotion and use of the ERA. He said it was spiritism as it operated in the same manner as a ouija board. Rutherford, to “shut him up,” had him write an article in The Golden Age on this in 1930. Goodrich was later disfellowshipped after continuing to complain about the matter when he learned it was still used at Bethel headquarters in the 1940s.
Quack Cures And Radionic Ouija Boards In the early 1950s, the Society ended it’s endorsement of the ERA. By the 1960s, they said it was psychic and spiritistic and operated like a glorified ouija board, just like Goodrich claimed.
The Power Of The Mind
Lying Spirits
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Medical Quackery
The Watchtower Society And Medical Quackery An introduction to the Watchtower Society’s involvement in medical quackery, mainly in the 20th century.
Dr. Albert Abrams And The E.R.A. This paper looks at the bizarre Electronic Reactions of Abrams (ERA), an occult medical method of diagnosing and curing disease the Watchtower endorsed and numerous JW doctors used from the 1920’s through the 1940’s. After ending their endorsement the Society said the method was psychic and spiritistic in nature.
Roy Goodrich And The ERA Ouija Board Roy Goodrich, a JW, got into a shouting match with the Watchtower’s president J.F. Rutherford over their promotion and use of the ERA. He said it was spiritism as it operated in the same manner as a ouija board. Rutherford, to “shut him up,” had him write an article in The Golden Age on this in 1930. Goodrich was later disfellowshipped after continuing to complain about the matter when he learned it was still used at Bethel headquarters in the 1940s.
Quack Cures And Radionic Ouija Boards In the early 1950s, the Society ended it’s endorsement of the ERA. By the 1960s, they said it was psychic and spiritistic and operated like a glorified ouija board, just like Goodrich.
The Electronic Radio Biola Dr. R.A. Gamble, a Bible Student (JW) invented an ERA device called the Electronic Radio Biola. It both diagnosed and cured diseases automatically. It was sold in the Golden Age magazine for $35 in 1925 so Bible Students could cure their diseases at home.
The Radio Disease Killer: William Hudgings And The RDK Notes on William Hudgings and the Radio Disease Killer (RDK) ERA device he used at an “electronic clinic” in Brooklyn.
Roy Goodrich And The ERA Ouija Board Roy Goodrich, a JW, got into a shouting match with the Watchtower’s president J.F. Rutherford over their promotion and use of the ERA. He said it was spiritism as it operated in the same manner as a ouija board. Rutherford, to “shut him up,” had him write an article in The Golden Age on this in 1930. Goodrich was later disfellowshipped after continuing to complain about the matter when he learned it was still used at Bethel headquarters in the 1940s.
Quack Cures And Radionic Ouija Boards In the early 1950s, the Society ended it’s endorsement of the ERA. By the 1960s, they said it was psychic and spiritistic and operated like a glorified ouija board, just like Goodrich claimed.
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JWs And Science
A History of the Watchtower Society’s opposition to Organic Evolution. Jerry Bergman, Ph.D.
The Watchtower’s Endorsement of Theistic Evolution
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Doctrine
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