What a wacko belief the wittnesses had at one time! I never knew until now.
While the Heaven's Gate suicides expected to be transported at death to a location in outer space associated with the Hale-Bopp comet, for many decades Watchtower believers hoped to go for their heavenly reward to the star Alcyone, the brightest star in the Pleiades cluster in the constellation Taurus ("the Bull"). Jehovah's Witnesses believed Christ traveled there after his resurrection, and they identified Alcyone as the residence of Almighty God Jehovah himself. (See their WATCHTOWER magazine, May 15, 1895, p. 1814.)
Joseph F. ("Judge") Rutherford (Watchtower President 1916-1942) continued the pattern established by founder Charles Taze Russell. In Rutherford's 1928 book RECONCILIATION he proclaimed, "the Pleiades is the place of the eternal throne of God." (page 14) Jehovah's Witness leaders did not repudiate this teaching until 1953 when THE WATCHTOWER stated, "it would be unwise for us to try to fix God's throne as being at a particular spot in the universe." (November 15, page 703)
While Heaven's Gate believers donned purple togas during their final moments, Watchtower founder Russell had his traveling companion fashion a white Roman toga from railroad sleeping-car bedsheets as he approached death on Halloween, October 31, 1916. A massive stone pyramid measuring nine feet across its base with the name WATCH TOWER BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY engraved in large letters on its side stands next to Russell's grave, marking the sect's burial plots in United Cemetery north of Pittsburgh.
Until 1928 the sect taught that the Great Pyramid of Egypt was lined up with the Pleiades star cluster and contained in its measurements prophecies of the life of Christ and the end of the world.
So that is what Jesus found in 1914 called the TRUE religion??