Notes

1. It's interesting we have in our power to truly change ourselves for the better, or at least in an interesting way, by simply picking up the right book at the right time and making the dedicated effort to read that book, cover-to-cover, and get real understanding of it.

I say 'real' book, though. I.e.:

a. Not something that covers old ground for you. (Necessarily. Reading a good book again is one of the least exploited benefits of having read a good book once to begin with. I.e. you've earned a second read, and if it's a great book you'll get much more out of it.)

b. It should be a book that's objectively good rather than something you already know about and know you like. Classics are objectively good. Time-vetted even.

c. A book that's not just one of many, but is iconic. Any novel by Trollope is perhaps classic and interesting, but War and Peace is iconic.

Imagine knowing a kid who often referenced Dostoevsky. He'd made the effort to read the great, iconic works. Then maybe he'd read a biography of Dostoevsky. Then maybe he read a great work of literary criticism of the works like Konstantin Mochulsky. You can see that Dostoevsky changed this individual's life, and all he had to do was pick up a book.

The act of picking up the right book at the right time may only be a gift from the gods, so to speak. Maybe some individuals plow through all influences and force the gods' hands.


2. Staying on the subject of books...

There's something to be said for a complete, contained influence. I'll use Bible commentaries as an example. Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible is a complete, contained, 'plain' influence. I know it was finished by different hands from Romans to completion, but even that well-organized effort to complete the work shows perhaps a providential hand in it being 'supposed to be' a complete, contained work.

It's a work that a person can give themselves to and rely on solely. A desert island book if you will. The scholar would shake his head and grin, but does his state of being drowned in a hundred different modern, scholarly commentaries show in any way in his life or ability to navigate effectively the spiritual battlefield?

The scholar's experience with the Bible becomes scattered and never whole or complete. The simple Christian with the simple, plain - complete, contained - influence is drinking water from a wooden bowl and building real, whole understanding.


3. Epstein didn't kill himself. (Ha,ha, just kidding...) We're all learning just how much of a grip Satan and his influence has had on us and our history via dynastic and racketeering and gang stalking influence. All of us, all over the world.

We live in a Satan-marinated world, and we've been unconscious to it, for the most part, at least to the extent and degree of it.

Yet when we read the Book of Revelation it's all there; and it's through all that evil that biblical prophecy of the consummation of God's plan of redemption comes through. I.e. Rothchilds are not operating outside of God's sovereign decree and revealed prophecy. They are God's monkey just as Satan is. Lord rebuke them all.