Hi all,
The only "connection" (and it isn't technically a connection), between Russell and the Masons is that both had/have interests in the Egyptian Pyramids. Russell was one of the most prominent "pyramidologists", with other prominent "pyramidologists" (Morton Edgar) also being Watchtower Society Officers.
Untrue, they are different kind of pyramidolgy. See the James Penton article.The Russell's pyramidology was a "christian" pyramidology in connection with second adventism (piazzi syth wrote in Barbour's periodical)Now, pyramid is not an important masonic's symbol. This is a urban legend. The only masonry who could be interested in pyramidology was the Memphis-Misraïm Rite, but there was none in Allegheny. This movement beginned in France, and have in France at this best time only an hundred of mason. It crossed the Atlantic and has perhaps more mason in USA, but there was no Memphis Misraïm lodge at the time of Russell.ByeCharles