(EN) George D. Chryssides, Historical Dictionary of Jehovah's Witnesses, Rowman & Littlefield, 2019, p. 133.
«Hislop is first mentioned by name in a 1929 edition of The Watch Tower and has been cited on various occasions since then. A few Watch Tower articles have cited with approval Hislop's claims that Roman Catholic beliefs and practices, such as confession, the celibacy of the clergy, transubstantiation, the veneration of Mary, and sacred relics, all derived from ancient Babylonian religion, as did the mainstream Christian doctrine of the Trinity.»