Origins: The Great Pyramid (1859–1930)

The theory that the Great Pyramid of Giza was built under divine guidance and that its measurements foretell God's plan: John Taylor's book that started it (1859), the editions of Piazzi Smyth's Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid, Seiss's A Miracle in Stone and other supporters, and the Egyptologist Flinders Petrie and the astronomer Proctor, whose work undermined it. C. T. Russell took up the theory in Thy Kingdom Come (1891), and The Watch Tower recommended the studies of the Glasgow Bible Students John and Morton Edgar. In 1928 The Watch Tower under J. F. Rutherford rejected pyramid study as unscriptural ("The Altar in Egypt"), and the Society has not taught it since.

These works were not published by the Watch Tower Society; see the Related Works section page for why they are in this library.

• The Great Pyramid: Why Was It Built? & Who Built It? (1859)
• Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid (First Edition, 1864)
• The Battle of the Standards (1864)
• A Poor Man's Photography at the Great Pyramid in 1865 (1870)
• Papers on the Great Pyramid (1870)
• Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid (1874 Edition)
• The Pillar of Witness: A Scriptural View of the Great Pyramid (1876)
• A Miracle in Stone (1877)
• The Great Pyramid: Its History and Teachings (1879)
• Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid (1880 Edition)
• The Scientific and Religious Discoveries in the Great Pyramid (1881)
• The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh (1883)
• New Measures of the Great Pyramid, by a New Measurer (1884)
• The Great Pyramid: Observatory, Tomb, and Temple (1888)
• John Edgar's Lectures at the 1906 Convention
• Pyramid Charts Prepared by the Edgars (1909)
• Great Pyramid Passages and Chambers, Vol. 1 (1910)
• Morton Edgar's Lecture at the 1911 Convention
• Morton Edgar and Charles Taze Russell at the Great Pyramid (1912)
• Great Pyramid Passages and Chambers, Vol. 2 (1913)
• The Great Pyramid and the Bible (1917)
• The Great Pyramid and the Bible (Fourth Edition) (1919)
• The Great Pyramid Portrayal of Creation (1923)
• The Great Pyramid: Its Scientific Features, Part 1 (1924)
• The Great Pyramid: Its Scientific Features, Part 2 (1924)
• The Great Pyramid: Its Spiritual Symbolism (1924)
• The Great Pyramid: Its Symbolism, Science and Prophecy (1924)
• The Great Pyramid: Its Time Features (1924)
• The Great Pyramid Witnesses and the Biblical Plan of Salvation (1930)