This is an illustration all should be familier with it's actually a childrens story.
The Characters:
The Emperor= Watchtower Bible and Tract Society IE Governing Body (GB)
The clothing= Watchtower and Awake and other 192 page books as well as a NWT
The Tailor= Fredrick Franz
The Little boy= Raymond Franz
The Soldiers= Company men Elders
The crowd= The Rank and File Jehovah's Witnesses
There once was an Emperor who wanted to stand out as the most important Emperor in the world in fact when he paraded in front of his people he wanted to be admired and respected. So he set out to have someone sew him a fine set of new clothes somthing that would be original and would show his people and the world that he was the greatest of all the emporers.
Now a gentle old tailor hearing of this raised one of his crafty eyebrows and thought to himself that he could weave a set of clothes that would certainly make the emperor stand out as different in front of his subjects. He approached the emperor and told him he had the most beutiful threads for which to tailor the emperor the finest clothes imaginable. The emperor was anxious to see these threads so the tailor reached in his box and pulled what looked to be an empty spindle but he began unwinding the spindle. As the emperor looked on he was amazed he could not see the thread so he told the tailor and the tailor said "why that's because it's so beutiful that only those with a special minds eye can see it." The emperor thought a moment and finally said "yes, I see it, it's beutiful and I want you to weave a set of clothes for me and you can have anything in my kingdom".
The tailor knew exactly what he wanted he told the emperor that he wanted to be taken care of for the rest of his life in the kings castle. The emperor agreed and so the tailor began weaving. Clothing after clothing to the end of such clothing there was none he wove typical prophicies and anti-typical prophicies as well doctrine after doctrine and rule after rule. The emperor was delighted and everytime he would parade through the kingdom he would be wearing the clothes the tailor made. The crowds would go wild they would applaud him and shout, you are truly the one who is approved. but one day a small boy who was looking on and also shouting for joy realized that the emperor was actually naked and being an honest and fine young man he shouted out, "The emporer has no clothes on he is really naked" The crowd hushed they looked at the boy with astonishment and the soldiers immediatly arrested the boy and brought him to the dungeon to silence him. This scared the crowd so they again looked at the emperor and shouted praise for his wonderful suit of clothes. The emperor continued marching through the crowds with great pride and love for himself.
The end