Striking Evidence of Tree Worship
The Watchtower, June 15, 1955
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Traces of ancient tree worship turn up where most people seldom expect it. Thus John Stewart Collis writes: “If, after having been to a museum and examined the extraordinary and rather frightening Chaldean symbols of tree-worship of 4000 B.C. [?], we then enter the Christian medieval edifice of St. Mark’s at Venice, we will see embedded in the walls a number of sculptured slabs on each of which a conventionalized plant, with foliage rendered in truthful detail, is set between two fabulous monsters, the whole making a design which can be traced back to the signs and symbols of tree-worship as exhibited four to six [?] thousand years ago by the Chaldean Semites.”—The Triumph of the Tree.
Also in this issue
- Announcements
- Check Your Memory
- Dedication to Jehovah
- Discharging Their Responsibility
- Identifying the Antichrist
- Italian Communists and the Catholic Church
- Part 12—An Era of Prophesied Happiness Begins
- Questions From Readers
- Report on “The New World Society in Action” in Europe and the Americas
- Steadfastness Bears Fruit
- The Reassuring History of Dedication
- Wheedling Money for Religious Causes
- “Nothing Doing!”