Watchtower's Tarot Message

by Pleasuredome 25 Replies latest jw friends

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  ARoarer

  Pleasuredome,

  I have felt for a long time that the Watchtower has very Satanic overtones. I used to wonder if the sexual molesters within were being protected by very strong forces of evil.The origins of the Watchtower and the symbolism it uses in it's publicatons are so strikingly obvious of it's occult involvement. Some observations of my own:

  The Watchtower Society hooks new members by telling them "You will not die, but liver forever on the earth" Satan told that to Eve.

  The Memorial is celebrated by forcing everyone to reject the symbols of Christ by "passing them by'" which seems Satanic,

  My daughter accompanied her husband to the Memorial and afterward told me she was so upset sitting through it because she said after being away from WT and then go back you look at all the ritualism and it seemed "Satanic" to her. and that she felt that now she knew she could never go back there anymore. It seemed interesting to me that she would see this even after never having researched or known about these occult overtones.
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  shera

  What "IS" the watchtower?

  What was I really a part of?
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  gitasatsangha

  Pleasuredome,

  The WTBS had a certain liking for the winged-disk of Ra. Don't know why. Then again JW's (and most Christians) invoke Amen-Ra at the end of every prayer, unknowingly.

  "We ask all these things in Jesus' Name, Amen".
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  Buster

  Rich, excellent topic - and, hello!

  A few weeks ago I did some reading on the WT and occult symbolism in their publications. I approached the reading with a sceptical stance. When done, I came away with the sense that the illustrators have a dark-humored commedian or two among them - probably some underrecognized artist getting some satisfaction by puttin' one over on the old geezers. But I'll say that this person(s) knows a bit about their occultic symbolism.

  It seemed that the book with the largest amount of symbolilsm subliminally inserted into illustrations was the 'Revelation Climax' book. But there are other examples in the 'Live Forever' book:

  page 19: The stolen jewelery is in shapes used in occult (frankly, I didn't believe it myself until I read a comparison of the triangular pendant and a specific occult symbol)

  page 93: The background waterfall is a skull

  There are others in that book. But without some furter explanaiton, they will look like just so much shadow and fabric draping.

  Its the kind of stuff that one can decide not to see. I am certain that some of the symbols I've read about are in the illustrations as a coincidence. But I am equally certain that some are intentional. However, the reading I have done contains little explanation of motive or effect. so again, I think it is an illustrator with a (bad?) sense of humor.

  - Cliff
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  Pleasuredome

  gita

  i'll have to do some research into 'Amen'. have read a little about it from egypt. i dont think there's anywhere in the bible where jesus says amen, although he is said to be the 'Amen'. was the amen introduced into the bible after it was completed?
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  gitasatsangha

  Pleasuredome,

  There are aparently a lot of different opinions about "Amen" as used in prayers. As a Hebrew word it means something like "So be it". (interesting enough, many Rosicrucian and Masonic ceremonies end in "So Mote it Be") Jesus being a Jew, used it, but his calling himself "The Amen" is a bit odd. Is he saing "I am IT" or perhaps "I am Amen"? Muslims also say Amen but I dont know much about their reasons. Then again Allah might well stem from Allat (sp?) a Arabic moon deity similar to the Vedic God Soma. (The Fertile Crescent was where religious traditions really came to meet.. Mithraism, Zororastrianism, Vedic, Egyptian, Hellenistic, native Canaanite, Babylonian, etc ad nauseum.

  Personally, I think Amon-Re has secertly been giving Vedic Hinduism a run for the money as the longest going religious tradition. We've been throwin the Sun in our prayers right along with the Son. :-)

  Way to go Sun! A god you can see (till your retinas burn out)