Photo drama of creation - pg 1

So I have a copy of the book The Photodrama of Creation published by the International Bible Students (later name change to Jehovah's Witnesses). It was published in 1914. The copy I have says it was a Christmas gift to Emery in 1917. The recording of the photodrama was shown all over the world and is talked about in the JW's book commonly called the "Proclaimers" book (a history of their growth from their perspective.) I was astonished to read the IBS teachings of that time. This is decidedly NOT the religion I grew up in. So I'll quote one thing a day. Let's see how many changes this adds up to.

Our Sun is only one of the fixed stars, of which the most up-to-date astronomical methods estimate there are one hundred and twenty-five millions. Around each of these fixed stars undoubtedly revolves a planetary System like our own. Thus reckoned, there are one thousand million worlds. Even this is not the limit. If we should stand upon the farthest and dimmest star, we should no doubt from there see as many more beyond. We are appalled at the greatness of the Universe. The zodiacal signs illustrate various sections of the heavens, visible at different seasons.

This is from page 1 of the book and I hesitated to even put this in. After all, the science was fairly accurate for 100 years ago. Even the comment about the zodiac could be seen as innocent enough. This page is accompanied by a picture called "Signs of the Zodiac" in a neat circle with the sun in the middle. However, the Society (as Jehovah's Witnesses call their parent organization) is vehemently opposed to any occult practices including astrology. You can see an article on their website about astrology here. It is inconceivable that such an innocent quote would be included in their literature today. Jehovah's Witnesses are taught that the light of truth is continually getting brighter so this small discrepancy would not bother them at all. It does, however, give me pause and sets the stage for what is to come.