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or Jehovah's Witnesses, there are two things that instill instant fear in them. One of those fears is apostates. Apostates are to be shunned completely and utterly, without question. The other is spiritism. Although Jehovah's Witnesses are not known to perform exorcisms. They will get rid of anything that has a hint of spiritism or anything that will invite demons into their presence. In Jehovah's Witnesses' literature, you will find many scriptures quoted and articles written condemning ones from engaging in practices of spiritism and from touching unclean things. ( Isaiah 52:11

What is ironic is the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society's ties to spiritism. Yes, I said it: The Watchtower has ties to spiritism! When I found out this information, I was shocked to the core.

If you have a Watchtower Library CD ROM, please type in the name Johannes Greber into the search engine. You will find that there are several references to this man in Watchtower literature.

Who was Johannes Greber?

Johannes Greber was a Catholic priest turned spiritist who translated the New Testament with the help of God's "spirits." He used his wife, who was a spirit-medium, to channel spirits to help translate difficult verses in the bible. His experiences with spirits and their communications with him are related in his book Communication with the Spirit World, published in 1932. With this information, let's look at each reference to Greber in the Watchtower publications.

33 Is such official Catholic teaching as the above an impenetrable defense against the invasion of spiritism? No! It is an invitation to spiritism, and the conditions in Roman Catholic lands, such as Peru, Costa Rica, Cuba and Haiti, show Roman Catholicism to be no bulwark against this spreading peril. In such lands the Catholic people, even up to 90 per cent, mix spiritism or voodooism right in with Roman Catholicism, practicing both at the same time with no objection or penalty by the priests. It comes as no surprise that one Johannes Greber, a former Catholic clergyman, has become a spiritualist and has published the book entitled "Communication with the Spirit World, Its laws and Its Purpose." (1932, Macoy Publishing Company, New York) In its Foreword he makes the typical misstatement: "The most significant spiritualistic book is the Bible; for its principal contents hinge upon the messages of the beyond to those existing in the present."

– The Watchtower 1955 October 1 p. 603 par. 33 Part 3—What Do the Scriptures Say About "Survival After Death"?

Here, Watchtower fully exposes who Johannes Greber was.

10 Says Johannes Greber in the introduction of his translation of The New Testament, copyrighted in 1937: "I myself was a Catholic priest, and until I was forty-eight years old had never as much as believed in the possibility of communicating with the world of God's spirits. The day came, however, when I involuntarily took my first step toward such communication, and experienced things that shook me to the depths of my soul. . . . My experiences are related in a book that has appeared in both German and English and bears the title, Communication with the Spirit-World: Its Laws and Its Purpose." (Page 15, ¶ 2, 3) In keeping with his Roman Catholic extraction Greber's translation is bound with a gold-leaf cross on its stiff front cover. In the Foreword of his aforementioned book ex-priest Greber says: "The most significant spiritualistic book is the Bible." Under this impression Greber endeavors to make his New Testament translation read very spiritualistic.

– The Watchtower 1956 February 15 pp. 110-111 pars. 10-11 Triumphing over Wicked Spirit Forces

Again, another exposé on who Greber was.

5 But most controversial of all is the following reading of John 1:1, 2: "The Word was in the beginning, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god. This Word was in the beginning with God." This reading is found in The New Testament in An Improved Version, published in London, England, in 1808. Similar is the reading by a former Roman Catholic priest: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god. This was with God in the beginning. Everything came into being through the Word, and without it nothing created sprang into existence." (John 1:1-3)* Alongside that reading with its much-debated expression "a god" may be placed the reading found in The Four Gospels—A New Translation, by Professor Charles Cutler Torrey, second edition of 1947, namely: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was god. When he was in the beginning with God all things were created through