cam, maybe it was that "other" Russell bloodline... who started Skull & Bones... (j/k)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=russell+bloodline&btnG=Search
As for CTR being born in 1852 (100 years before me!) -- and Skull & Bones being founded in 1856 -- well... maybe it was CT's dad, cousins, uncles... who knows... in a prior thread about a week ago, I think it was Homer who wrote that some thought CT's father was The Mason, etc. etc.
How far is Yale from PA, anyway? Distance Between Two USA CIties, and evidently New Haven is 373.8 miles from Allegheny, PA... where CTR came from.
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Here's a nicely laid out site, this page entitled ILLUMINATI FRIENDS: http://www.politicalfriendster.com/showPerson.php?id=3740&name=llluminati
They have everyone listed, with little photos, and all the connections between the families... Interesting to see it laid out this way...
Russell, Bundy, Rockefeller, Rothschild, DuPont, Onassis, Kennedy, Yale, etc. etc.
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A google for "Yale - Charles Taze Russell" gave this result, same info everybody already knows... but there could always be a new lurker...
http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:w-h9_gEGWpIJ:www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%2520Religions/Jehovah%2520Witnesses/jw.htm+Yale+and+Charles+Taze+Russell&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us
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The founders of both "faiths," the Mormons and Jehovah's witnesses, were of the Illuminati bloodline. Charles Taze Russell, who founded the Watchtower Society (Jehovah Witnesses), was of the Illuminati Russell bloodline, which also founded the infamous Skull and Bones Society at Yale University. Charles Taze Russell was a Satanist, a pedophile according to his wife, and a friend of the Rothschilds. Indeed it was the Rothschilds who funded the Jehovah's Witness operation into being, along with other Illuminati bankers, through "contributions" by organizations like the Rothschild-controlled B'nai B'rith. This was proved in a court of law in 1922. One of the key people involved in this was Frank Goldman who later became President of B'nai B'rith. Why would an organization set up (in theory) to help Jewish people and promote the Jewish faith, be funding into existence the Jehovah's Witnesses??? I think the name Rothschild answers the question. Russell was also a high degree Freemason and Knights Templar. He promoted Zionism, another Rothschild creation (see Hitler was a Rothschild), on behalf of his friends and backers.
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On an opposite note, this from the Anti-Masonry FAQs re: Were these various people ever masons? ...
http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:ZBGZ4uIrVfYJ:www.freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/anti-masonry03.html+Yale+and+Charles+Taze+Russell&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=23&gl=us
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Charles Taze Russell?
Claims have been made that "Pastor" Russell (1852/02/16-1916/10/31), founder of the International Bible Students Association — forerunner of the Jehovah’s Witnesses — was a freemason; that the banner on the front of early issues of the Watchtower contained masonic symbols; and that Russell’s gravestone bears a masonic cross and crown symbol.
Russell was not a freemason. Neither the symbols found in the Watchtower nor the cross and crown symbol are exclusively masonic. And the cross and crown symbol does not appear on his gravestone in the Rosemont United Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — it appears on a memorial erected some years later.
In an address delivered in a San Francisco masonic hall in 1913, Russell made positive use of masonic imagery by saying, "Now, I am a free and accepted mason. I trust we all are. But not just after the style of our masonic brethren." He further develops this idea: "true Bible believers may or may not belong to the masonic fraternity, but they are all masons of the highest order, since they are being fashioned, chiselled and polished by the Almighty to be used as living stones in the Temple Built Without Hands. They are free from sin, and therefore accepted by the God of Heaven as fit stones for the heavenly Temple." Later in this address, Russell stated quite clearly that "I have never been a mason." Those who claim Russell was a freemason quote this address out of context without noting the rhetorical imagery.
Although Russell wrote about the pyramids and the Knights Templar, the pyramids are not a part of Freemasonry and Russell’s understanding of the relationship between the modern Knights Templar and Freemasonry displays an outsider’s ignorance of both organizations.
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FWIW, this was posted at a Mormon forum this past summer 2008... they say that "William Huntington Russell" was uncle to CT Russell of IBSA fame. Is that true? Never heard of WH Russell...
http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:jzASOeN5dQYJ:www.lds.net/forums/lds-gospel-discussion/11805-why-did-pres-monson-reveal-temple-content-george-bush.html+Yale+and+Charles+Taze+Russell&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=20&gl=us
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The "Skull and Bones" society is a Satanism-themed fraternity that operates on the campus of Yale University. They only accept entrants from Yale's student body that are either from top wealthy families or have made serious accomplishments. Many of their rituals are copied from masonry except they do some pretty sick things, I can't mention them on here but I'm sure you could find them with a google search. They were co-founded by Alphonse Taft (distant relative of Ezra Taft Benson) and William Huntington Russell (uncle of Jehovah's Witness founder Charles Taze Russell, and related to the Russell family that owned "Russell Bros," one of Brigham Young's original investors that ran the first clothing company and printing press in Salt Lake City.)
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The only other things that are popping up, other than the above, is that CTR quoted from "Yale College" professors re: science and other matters in his old books that are on google books... there's been four of them so far that I've seen, The Time Is At Hand, The Battle of Armageddon, The New Creation, Studies in the Scriptures, and Millenial Dawn. Five times that I noticed he quoted from a guy named "Professor Fisher" at Yale College who wrote "Universal History."
And I just noticed on the Studies book that it was written by "Charles Taze Russell, Clayton J. Woodworth, George H. Fisher"... Is George H. Fisher any relation to the Professor Fisher at Yale College?
Let's see, google says: "Outlines of Universal History" was written by George Park Fisher in 1885, and he lived from 1827 to 1909:
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/George_Park_Fisher
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GEORGE PARK FISHER (1827-1909), American theologian, was born at Wrentham, Massachusetts, on the 10th of August 1827. He graduated at Brown University in 1847, and at the Andover Theological Seminary in 1851, spent three years in study in Germany, was college preacher and professor of divinity at Yale College in 1854-1861, and was Titus Street professor of ecclesiastical history in the Yale Divinity School in 1861-1901, when he was made professor emeritus. He was president of the American Historical Association in 1897-1898. His writings have given him high rank as an authority on ecclesiastical history. They include Essays on the Supernatural Origin of Christianity (1865); History of the Reformation (1873), republished in several revisions; The Beginnings of Christianity (1877); Discussions in History and Theology (1880); Outlines of Universal History (1886); History of the Christian Church (1887); The Nature and Method of Revelation (1890); Manual of Natural Theology (1893); A History of Christian Doctrine, in the "International Theological Library" ' (1896); and A Brief History of Nations (1896). He died on the 20th of December 1909.
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As for GEORGE H. FISHER who wrote "Studies in the Scriptures" with CT Russell... There was an old 1910 NY Times obit for someone of the same exact name... but it's not the same guy... This obit/person died in 1910, but the WT's GH Fisher was still around through 1926...
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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B03E5DF1430E233A25754C0A9649C946196D6CF
George H. Fisher.
February 7, 1910, Monday
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9B03E5DF1430E233A25754C0A9649C946196D6CF
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The WT's G H Fisher also co-wrote The Finished Mystery w/Russell and Woodworth. Another google brought me back to JWD for more info on the "real" George H. Fisher:
http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:7FpvwOhdaV8J:www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/8064/1.ashx+%22George+H.+Fisher%22+Russell&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us
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"On 27 April 1926 George H. Fisher wrote a letter to W. Nieman of Magdeburg, Germany accusing Rutherford of attending Al Jolson's Winter Garden Theater to see the Paris Edition of the then notorious show 'Artists and Models.' ... Rutherford's lame answer to Fisher's charge was that he was too busy in the Lord's work to be bothered with replying to such criticism, and anyway, had never seen Al Jolson in his life and did not know what he looked like." ibid, P.318, Note 4. Also see The Golden Age (4 May 1927), 505, 506)
Did not know what Al Jolson looked like? Then, if that is true, I don't know what Elvis Presley or the Beatles looked like either. Come on! In 1927 Al Jolson was the biggest thing since Peanut Butter!
Who was George H. Fisher? He was a close trusted Rutherford selection to be on the Board of Directors. Fisher was among the four selected to replace the four Directors that Rutherford had earlier removed. So, George H. Fisher was not one of those fallen 'evil slave', but specially chosen by Rutherford to serve alongside him in directing the Lord's work. Fisher was effectively the equivalent of a member of the GB today.
What did Fisher have to make his case?: George Fisher wanted to take Ruthrford before the Bible Student 'ecclesia' for discipline, and he documented this in the above referenced letter, and had the necessary witnesses to do so. ibid, P.318.
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Nothing came from the accusation of George H. Fisher, he died before any judicial proceedings could occur.
How convenient for the "Judge".
George Fisher was also one of the Watchtower men convicted of sedition and was sent to prison along with Rutherford.
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Some more relevant information about George Fisher.
Under the supervision of Rutherford, Clayton J. Woodworth and George H. Fisher wrote "The Finished Mystery," which appeared in the year 1917. This was supposed to be the posthumous volume 7 of Russell's "Studies In the Scriptures."
But was rather an attempt to justify Rutherford as the rightful successor to Russell. (who else but the rightful successor would be publishing the 7th volume?)
But, by the year 1927, Fisher had become a non-person as far as Rutherford and the Watchtower were concerned. This may have been because of the accusation Fisher made concerning Rutherford attending the Burlesque show. Whatever the reason, the 1927 edition of "The Finished Mystery" has all the parts written by Fisher removed.
It was said Fisher was unfaithful, well, yes he was, unfaithful toRutherford, and so his words were excised!
How petty can you get?
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More results for the WT's George H. Fisher can be found via JWD Search: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/search.aspx
Evidently he was from Scranton, PA.
http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:ttyprr_NVCoJ:www.heraldmag.org/2004_history/04history_6.htm+%22George+H.+Fisher%22+Watchtower&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=17&gl=us
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George H. Fisher (d. 1926): Another in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Active also in the German Watch Tower. (In 1926 urged the German classes to disfellowship J. F. Rutherford.)
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But since George Park Fisher (1827-1909), the Divinity Professor at Yale oft quoted by Russell, was born in Massachusetts, there is obviously no connection between the two Fishers (of Men? lol).
End of my ramblings and playing with google.
