Why was Charles Taze Russel buried in the Masonic Cemetery, under a pyramid with Templar inscriptions?
Russel was not a freemason. Freemasons, from their part, have stated: “Russell was not a freemason”. Neither the symbols found in the Watchtower nor the cross and crown symbol are exclusively Masonic. Charles Taze Russell is buried at the Rosemont United Cemetery, 226 Cemetery Lane, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This is not a “Masonic Cemetery”. You have never visited this site. I have been to Russell’s grave my self. His actual marker is really quite simple. Several years after his death some of hid friends erected this larger tombstone that your pictures show. For some 35 years, Pastor Russell thought that the Great Pyramid of Gizeh was God’s stone witness, corroborating Biblical time periods. (Isa. 19:19) But Jehovah’s Witnesses have abandoned the idea that an Egyptian pyramid has anything to do with true worship.
Russell was not buried in a Masonic cemetery, nor was he buried under a pyramid at all. There is a pyramid monument in the center of the plot area owned by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society in the United Rosemont Cemetery; Russell, however, was never buried under that monument, nor is that monument a tombstone at all; no one is buried under it. Nor does that monument have any Knights Templar inscriptions, although the Knights Templar do use a cross and crown symbol, the Knights Templar symbol is not the same as the one engraved on that monument. The pyramid monument was built a few years after Russell died, but that monument has nothing to do with the Knights Templar.
The cemetery isn’t Masonic,it is open to public burial.However,it has a lot of Masons buried there due to the fact that it DOES overlook a Masonic Temple.Also, his will stipulated that he be buried in New York, I’ve seen it.However, short of digging it up,I can not vouch for that.I am not a JW, but I have a VERY curious mind, and have always researched religion.Russell had some eccentric ideas,due to his upbringing, but I believe that in his mind he honestly thought he was doing some good, and could apply all his knowledge to turn others towards God, also his Bible knowledge,was excellent.All that said, there is not one branch of Christianity that is not tainted by Paganism.And quite honestly one of the biggest offenders, in ritual and tenant is the Catholic church.They have just as many, if not more questionable connections.Also,One more interesting fact the Cross & Crown was used by Catholics LONG, LONG, before it was ever used by Russell,his students, or the JWs, and that’s an histo
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