Another thread made me remember hearing rumors of books of witchcraft and such found in if not the main library a restricted library at bethel, for research purposes. I wonder if anyone here had seen those first hand and if so, what exactly were the names of the books?
Did any bethelites here see first hand books of magic and witchcraft in their library?
by EndofMysteries 11 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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confusedandalone
I saw a few when I was in 30 cleaning. One of my assignments was actually cleaning the library that was in the Writing Department. There was some strange shit. THe guy who trained me showed me some books like Qurans and OLD Bbiles and weird books on mythology I was floored. Then there was some weird book about occult something or other I do not remember the name. It was a long time ago
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JustVisting
I heard a rumor that when a writing staff researcher goes in there to consult one of those "weird" tomes, several brothers wait outside all the while praying for him/her. If true, this is surely a cult warning alarm moment.
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confusedandalone
I would highly doubt that would be true LOL
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snare&racket
The uk bethel had one bethel overseer who you meet on your tour, who writes articles for awake. I took an interest in him and asked a lot of questions. On a side note, it was clear that he felt to get an article selected for the magazines was HUGE but very rare. He tried to fake some humility, saying he could not say what articles he wrote (must be some rule if an article is accepted) but he then went on to show me some. I was expecting some real gem articles, but it was all the bullshit like "Coconuts, natures milk cartons" or "Africa, the earths back garden"... those kinda nonsense articles.
Anyway, he had his own personal library, I am sure he said he had the most unique and extensive personal bible library in the uk. He tried to impress me with tiny bibles, old bibles, foreign bibles etc.... he was very friendly to be honest, but the desperation to impress was palpable and the obvious desperation to be noticed by Brooklyn, even more so. As a young JW I was suprised that he had all these 'false' bibles, all these commentaries from satan's world. Surely the holy spirit was all that was needed.... Yuck! What a dumb arse I was....
H then took me to the library in bethel, one for the bethelites, one for the writers that was NOT for anyone but them. He actually said it contained material not best read by anyone but the writing department. This should have rang alarm bells in me....but it didn't. Though it did all seem very unusual, I just didn't expect to see or hear it at bethel.
As I said goodbye and left we went past an old sister that looked about 379 years old, I swear her fingers were red raw, she was in a space the size of a coat room, she was so old she didnt talk or respond, she simply remained lent over an ancient machine with fine strings coming off it... she was binding old watchtower books. I asked the tour guide, some cynical guy that worked on reception, what that was about... he said her and her husband are allowed to live and eat at bethel, they were long time servants, special pioneers, but nobody can stay for free... so they have to work. I mentioned her husband before, he worked next to me in mailing, he literally put stamps on the deliveries. He did not talk, he shuffled around, he also made the tea. The memory of these 2 people sum up the cost of loyalty to Watchtower... they will be dead by now, with nothing to show for it, working to the end, for a book company. Shameful !
Sorry for the waffle, but that is as best as I remember my experience with the bethel library. There was definetly a seperate one for the writers. It had a half wall surrounding it, with glass from the wall up, old school like glass with the crossed wire in it . There library was small. I was suprised at how cheap and old the uk bethel was actually, the rooms at IBSA were embarassingly awful.
Ok sorry, before I waffle more... I am off....
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snare&racket
Sorry EOM, befoe I go, I do remember someone mentioning such books at Brooklyn, ask babara anderson, she was in the writing depatment. She is a gem!
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EndofMysteries
What a horrible story. It's disgusting what they do to the older ones. Atleast they let those ones stay, I hear many are just kicked out to live on welfare retirement.
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L3G
Like S&R says, the person to ask here would be Barb Anderson. On a post somewhere she discussed this secret library. Anyway, she worked in Writing so she could speak about this with authority.
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LivingTheDream
EndOfMysteries,
I wrote a post a few years ago about my Bethel experience with a book called "Angels and Women". It was supposed to have a demonic influence, at least, that's what my bethel elder told me. So, this is not a book about witchcraft or magic, but it was widely avoided due to some believing it had occult ties.
You can read more about it on JWN here:
There is also an expanded version of this story in my book "Journey to God's House", avaliable at Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Journey-Gods-House-Headquarters-Witnesses-ebook/dp/B00EEIWUFW/
Brock Talon
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snare&racket
Thats the one I heard about..... Angels and Women