Franz's reforms created the organization of Jehovah's Witnesses that we know today. Franz introduced a new practice – "disconnection" (or "disfellowshipping") – and developed methods for the practical implementation of the sect's total control over its members. To understand what "disconnection" means, you need to make a little explanation. Jehovah's Witnesses believe that they live under the only true – theocratic – government. Christ appeared in 1914 and has been invisibly present on earth ever since, and he gave real power to his ViBR, the Watchtower Governing Corporation, which governs the faithful, and in fact the entire earth, because only the faithful recognize this rulership. The ruling corporation is the messenger and embodiment of Christ's rule throughout the world, and because it is a ViBR, Jehovah has placed it over many. But since the Jehovah's Witnesses do not have their own country that would recognize the rule of the VIBR, they do not have real power in any country. If there were such a country, then they could apply their own laws there, which, as we can assume, would be very harsh. For apostates and traitors, there can be only one measure of punishment – eternal death, but the Jehovah's Witnesses cannot execute anyone yet, they do not have the right. However, they can consider everyone who has fallen away already dead, non-existent. And if they see such a person on the street, they have to walk through him, as if they were seeing a ghost; No communication with him is possible in principle. After the Dane mentioned above left the Jehovah's Witnesses, he was "deprived of fellowship" and became dead to his parents. When asked about him, the father and mother said that their son was dead, and in the street they passed by without noticing him. So did all his former friends and acquaintances. Whoever violates the ban on communication with the expelled or left the sect will himself fall under the death sentence, which seems to be suspended in the air, but for the members of the sect is quite real:

Another danger to our spirituality is apostates. By avoiding all contact with these opponents of the truth, we will save ourselves from their perverted thinking.

... In general, one should not talk to an exiled person or even greet him... We must hate them in the truest sense of the word, that is, treat them with extreme and manifest abhorrence, consider them disgusting, vile, filthy, and abhor them.81

Thus, Franz dotted the i's: the only immutable and unchanging object of faith of Jehovah's Witnesses is not the invisible God, with whom communion is not provided for in any way by their doctrine, but the visible and real "Spirit-directed" organization. It is she, not God, who demands unquestioning obedience.

The highest-ranking Jehovah's Witnesses recognized that the basis of the sect's doctrine was the "unity of the organization." After Franz's reforms, the preservation of this unity became an end in itself for the sect: the Jehovah's Witness leadership protects it as a sacred thing, and goes to any lengths to preserve it, not allowing the slightest deviation from the system of requirements established by the organization. The most uncompromising struggle is being waged against dissent.

At one of the trials against Jehovah's Witnesses, a member of the sect's Governing Body, Hayden Covington, said:

«Если кто-то из членов организации будет несогласен с той или иной ее позицией, касающейся вопросов веры и деятельности, и будет пытаться возбудить это несогласие и у других членов организации, она избавится ("отсоединится". – А. Д.) от него. Она будет пресекать любые попытки нарушения гармонии в ее внутренней жизни и не допускать, чтобы какие-то ложные идеи, идущие от низов, а не от руководства, вносили диссонанс в ее жизнь и деятельность... Наша главная цель состоит в том, чтобы поддержать единство».

«Единство любой ценой?» – спросили Ковингтона члены суда. «Да, единство любой ценой, – ответил он, – потому что мы верим, что Иегова управляет нашей организацией, правящим телом нашей организации, даже если время от времени мы допускаем ошибки»82.

Для выполнения этой главной задачи руководство секты идет на любые меры, не брезгует никакими приемами и средствами. Бывшие иеговисты свидетельствуют об отработанной в организации системе шпионажа и доносительства друг на друга, о подхалимаже и заискивании перед начальством. Как мы помним, свидетельствуют они и об обратной стороне этого жесточайшего контроля: о глубоком моральном разложении и тайном пьянстве среди высокопоставленных сотрудников «Вефиля».

Исходя из принципа монолитного единства, Франц разработал жесткую тоталитарную систему законов и норм внутрисектантской жизни. Иеговистам запрещено проводить какие-либо сборы, собрания и другие мероприятия подобного рода, не разрешенные руководством секты.