Hi Guys, This belongs with the original post on or about Nov 24th, 'Watchtower Roots'.
The Watch Tower's Greatest Blasphemy
Since his corporate coup d'etat after Russell's demise. Rutherford had been busily fine tuning his fifth columnist mystical machinery. But mystics play with language in a manner difficult for outsiders to comprehend. Adepts will identify other mystics by the multiple, literal and figurative meanings peculiar to each group. Russell's speech to Masons earlier mentioned is a case in point; his speech to Jews is another. Hitler's swastika is yet another: This occult symbol can represent Light or Dark or Naziism. God's Holy Name is often employed in mystical symbols and names, such as FreeMasonry's Jahbulon.
By 1931 Rutherford had fairly decided to incorporate the Divine Name in such a perverse manner. Rutherford, defying the Divine will that Christ's disciples be called Christians, lifted a Hebrew phrase out of Isaiah 43:10, "Atem Edai Na.oom Yehovah" and turned it into an anglicized plural noun, something the text does not intend. This profane use of God's Name alerted some that something's wrong; and they left. Rutherford's anachronistic new identity, foisted upon the religious membership, was coded speech alerting yet others that a denigration of the Divine Name had begun. Rutherford was also signalling his intention to fully align his corporate Mammon closer to the talmudic ideals of Haskalah or non-Judaic, non-Biblical Zionism which FreeMasonry covertly represents.
Rutherford's methods are history now. It is significant that the oldest extant NT manuscripts refer more often to God as "Father" (Abba) than to his personal name. This contrasts with OT usage where the Divine Name is more frequent than 'Lord' and "God' combined. The reason for this shift seems linked to Jesus' command to "hallow God's name", which in turn, is complementary to the Mosaic command to 'not pronounce God's name in vain'. To hallow or not use God's name in vain means, primarily, NOT to reduce it to vulgar or common usage, such as by "over-use and/or over-familiarity". And this is precisely what Rutherford commenced and his successors and corporate executives continued:- The vulgarization of the Holy Name! Anyone remotely familiar with watchtower culture knows that God's Name is used so frequently that it is not only grating to the ears, but far exceeds the normal usage of human names in human conversations. It would seem that the Arch-Fiend's name is shown greater respect in Watcher culture by virtue of less usage. Another method the corporate machine uses is the minimimization of God's Holy Name. This is achieved (i)on its Mishnah vehicle,the corporate gazette, The WATCHTOWER (large bold type) announcing J------'s kingdom(smaller type), and (ii) KINGDOM HALL (larger letters) of J------'s Witnesses (smaller).