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This conspiracy theory is pushed by David Vaughan Icke.

"David Vaughan Icke is an English conspiracy theorist and a former footballer and sports broadcaster. Icke combines New Age philosophical discussion about the universe and consciousness with conspiracy theories about public figures being reptilian humanoids and paedophiles. He argues in favour of reincarnation; a collective consciousness that has intentionality; modal realism (that other possible worlds exist alongside ours); and the so-called law of attraction (that good and bad thoughts can attract experiences)."

"In The Biggest Secret (1999), he introduced the idea that many prominent figures derive from the Anunnaki, a reptilian race from the Draco constellation. In Human Race Get Off Your Knees: The Lion Sleeps No More (2012), he identified the Moon (and later Saturn) as the source of holographic experiences, broadcast by the reptiles, that humanity interprets as reality."

"Icke is an opponent of the scientific method, describing it as "bollocks" in 2013. When asked by The Sunday Times to explain the existence of television, he said "It's not that all science is bollocks," but rather "[t]he basis of the way science judges reality is bollocks." He also thinks climate change is a hoax." - Wikipedia

Originally Answered: Was Charles Taze Russell considered a Freemason even though his name is currently not in their registry? He thought favorably of masons even calling himself a "free and accepted mason" ( see page 915 of his 1913 convention speech).

"No, Charles Taze Russell was not considered a Freemason. His name not only currently is not in any of our records, it never was. Ever. What Russell did do was similar to the opinion of Manly P. Hall before he (Hall) was made a Mason, in 1954, namely an approach taken in the preliminary information of his Lost Keys of Freemasonry, a book written by Hall decades before he petitioned a Lodge of Freemasons in California, and was made a Mason. Hall was of the belief at the time that all people were Masons, not just Freemasons!" - [quora.com]

"Some have claimed that various symbols Russell employed in his published literature are Masonic in nature, and that such associations implied he engaged in occult activity. In later editions of the Studies in the Scriptures series a winged solar disk was stamped on the front cover, a symbol that is also associated with Freemasonry. However, Russell's use of the winged solar-disk originated from his understanding of Malachi 4:2, which denotes a sun with wings, as a symbol that Christ's millennial Kingdom had begun to emerge."

"Some critics also claim that the pyramid that stood NEAR Russell's gravesite was Masonic because of its shape and its use of the Cross and Crown symbol, although this remains disputed. The Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon has said that Russell was not a Freemason, and notes that the symbols pre-date the fraternity."

"In June 1913, during a transcontinental speaking tour, Russell lectured in a Masonic hall in San Francisco, saying:
Although I have never been a Mason ... Something I do seems to be the same as Masons do, I don't know what it is; but they often give me all kinds of grips and I give them back, then I tell them I don't know anything about it except just a few grips that have come to me naturally."

"Throughout his ministry he said that he believed Christian identity is incompatible with Freemasonry. He described Freemasonry, Knights of Pythias, Theosophy, and other such groups as "grievous evils" and "unclean"." - Wikipedia

Pyramid monument NEAR his grave (not his gravestone) in the Rosemont, Mt. Hope, & Evergreen United Cemeteries was removed in 2021.

Picture of Charles Taze Russell’s Tombstone below.