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The article attributed the teaching itself to Satan, saying that ‘One of the most subtle schemes Satan has yet adopted … has been and is the use of the pyramid of Gizeh’, and instructed readers that the faithful ‘will avoid the pyramid of Gizeh and its measurements’.

Claim ID claim-chronology-pyramid-1928-satanConcerns 1 December 1928Explicit statement
Explicit statement · 1 December 1928 Verified

The article attributed the teaching itself to Satan, saying that ‘One of the most subtle schemes Satan has yet adopted … has been and is the use of the pyramid of Gizeh’, and instructed readers that the faithful ‘will avoid the pyramid of Gizeh and its measurements’. The Watch Tower and Herald of Christ's Presence, 1 December 1928The Watch Tower and Herald of Christ's Presence, 1 December 1928

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The Watch Tower and Herald of Christ's Presence, “The Altar in Egypt (part 2)”

1 December 1928 · p.359 · par. 34 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society

“To be sure, if Satan can induce the consecrated to turn their attention to a pile of stone in Egypt and study its measurements in order to determine just when the church will be glorified he would accomplish his purposes. … One of the most subtle schemes Satan has yet adopted to accomplish that purpose has been and is the use of the pyramid of Gizeh.”

Paragraph 34, on p. 359. The article attributes the use of the pyramid itself, and not merely an error in applying it, to Satan. 'The Altar in Egypt' (part 2), The Watch Tower, Vol. XLIX, 1 December 1928, No. 23.

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Confidence note. Wording, issue, page and paragraph confirmed in this session by reading the article through from its opening page (p. 355) to its closing paragraph and study questions.

Scan provenance. Internet Archive item 'w_E_19281201' (single-issue scan). Public domain. Page-level text was extracted from the item's djvu.xml, one block per leaf. The scan's OCR reads the leading '3' of every page number in this issue as an '8' (the page printed 356 is read as '856'), and the item's page_numbers.json simply repeats those OCR numerals, so neither can be used directly. The printed numbers here come from the leaf sequence: the article opens on the leaf whose own text ends '355', and each following leaf is one page later. Paragraph numbers are the article's own and are cross-checked against the 'Questions for Berean Study' printed at the end of the article on pp. 361-362, which group the paragraphs in the same way.

Corroborated by. src-pyr-md3-1891-inspiration-witness

Notes. The phrase “Satan's Bible”, which is very widely quoted on this subject, does not appear anywhere in this issue; the whole issue was searched. It is attributed to the issue of 15 November 1928, of which no scan was found.

Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-pyr-w-1928-1201-satan-scheme

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The Watch Tower and Herald of Christ's Presence, “The Altar in Egypt (part 2)”

1 December 1928 · p.360 · par. 37-38 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society

“Such will avoid the pyramid of Gizeh and its measurements and adhere strictly to the Word of God. … They learned absolutely nothing from the pyramid that enables them to know and understand and obey the commandments of the Lord.”

Paragraph 37, the instruction to readers, and paragraph 38, the judgement on what the teaching had yielded; both on p. 360. 'The Altar in Egypt' (part 2), The Watch Tower, Vol. XLIX, 1 December 1928, No. 23.

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Provenance and verification note

Confidence note. Wording, issue, page and paragraph confirmed in this session by reading the article through from its opening page (p. 355) to its closing paragraph and study questions.

Scan provenance. Internet Archive item 'w_E_19281201' (single-issue scan). Public domain. Page-level text was extracted from the item's djvu.xml, one block per leaf. The scan's OCR reads the leading '3' of every page number in this issue as an '8' (the page printed 356 is read as '856'), and the item's page_numbers.json simply repeats those OCR numerals, so neither can be used directly. The printed numbers here come from the leaf sequence: the article opens on the leaf whose own text ends '355', and each following leaf is one page later. Paragraph numbers are the article's own and are cross-checked against the 'Questions for Berean Study' printed at the end of the article on pp. 361-362, which group the paragraphs in the same way.

Corroborated by. src-pyr-md3-1891-scoff

Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-pyr-w-1928-1201-learned-nothing

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