+Feast of the Epiphany+
A book review
So many today long for a simple, more comprehensive explanation of what has happened to the Church. Especially needed is one aimed at younger people estranged from religion entirely but who still believe, or those identifying as Christians who sense the emptiness of their sects’ teachings and are seeking a more meaningful relationship with God. And last of all but not least, those poor lost souls out there today surveying the wreckage that was once established religion and concluding that Christianity is nothing more than a fairy tale.
The book previewed below was written for all of them. The author is a Catholic mother and grandmother living in Australia who has worked through her own trials to finally arrive at the truth. It has led her to the belief that staying at home to keep the faith is the only way to save our souls. Her book lays the basic foundation for Catholic belief, then slowly leads the reader to a gradual understanding of what we have suffered since the death of Pope Pius XII, in the Church and in the world. Please share the link at the end of this blog with anyone you know who may benefit from it.
THE DREAM
It is now many years since the experience, but I have not forgotten it! When I was a child, I cannot remember the exact age, somewhere between eight and twelve, I had a recurring dream every night for at least two months. As soon as I closed my eyes after hopping into bed, I would see mist, thick mist starting to roll in towards me, like waves rolling in. It was grey to start with and not so threatening. As the mist ebbed out and came back at me, it grew thicker and darker. Through the dark thickness I could see a Light shining in the shape of a bright white disc, at the edge of the rolling waves. The dream used to frighten me, so much so, that I would wake up screaming most nights. My mother would come in often to try and comfort me and tell me it was just a dream.
Night after night, the same dream started soon after I closed my eyes. The ebbing would cause the darkness to grow in height, strength and thickness and it would roll in at me growing in greater force each time. I was certain I was going to drown in the darkness. Gradually though, as soon as the nightmare started, my focus would move away from the black monstrous darkness and onto the brightness of the Light shining at the edge of the waves. As the days and nights passed, I grew quite used to the dream because I began to realise that no matter how ferocious the thickening darkness became, it could never overcome me or snuff out that Light. The Light was something I clung to, something to feel safe with, to trust. Then one night the dream just stopped altogether.
CHAPTER ONE: AN INTRODUCTION
Dearest Reader, welcome! For you I have one desire: that what will unfold before you in these pages will help you personally to cast off all darkness. I desire to help you clear away conflicting thoughts, confusion, tension, stress, anxiety, guilt, nervousness, or anything else unbalancing you; and give you the power to replace the Darkness with the Light. For far too long we have been fed dangerous portions of brainwashing lies, so much so, that we have lost the capability to think for ourselves and act precisely.
More importantly, we have also been robbed of nourishment both spiritually and physically. You will come to know the culprits who have robbed us as you venture through. Having this information, hopefully dear Reader, will help you to broaden your mind and allow you to find remedies for your troubles.
It is true. I do not actually know you personally, but I can understand why you would choose a book with this title. Most of us living in this current time in history are troubled souls because confusion and lies have been deliberately forced upon us. Whether young, old, or somewhere in between, most of us feel confusion and have emotional disturbances within ourselves. Take courage, dear Reader, for Light and Understanding are about to open for you.
If you have become accustomed, wittingly or unwittingly, to the brainwashing lies being fed daily to us from all walks of life then it may take you a little longer to clear the darkness. These techniques used upon us may have without you realizing it coerced you into accepting changes in your personal, social, spiritual, public, political, critical and creative thinking, but you will learn to decipher how and why these changes happened. The darkness will lift. You will know when this lifting starts to happen because you will begin to have your own thoughts, ideas, desires, and freedoms again.
For the younger ones, you will discover these delights and ancient capabilities for the first time. At this comment you might feel a little insulted, especially if you believe you already have full control of your own thoughts. Of course, you have the capability to control your own mind, but you will learn how outside pressures can sway our thoughts and confuse us. It is a technique used to make us vulnerable, doubtful, or even unbalanced.
Equilibrium is a state in which opposing forces or influences are balanced. This generation, I believe, dear Reader, has lost its equilibrium and become imbalanced. Another way to explain this is that we have lost our compass, or we have a compass spinning out of control where new laws, rules, regulations, ideas, and opinions are tossed at us continuously. This happens at such a fast-pace we have no time to process or ponder let alone understand.
A compass points us in the right direction. The Light Compass points us in the right thought direction. Without either our Light Compass (or our equilibrium), we become vulnerable enough to accept anything, everything, or even despondently accept nothing.
Note here I use the word “vulnerable.” You may or may not be aware but our generation, dear troubled soul, has deliberately been made vulnerable. We are under attack constantly; our Light Compass has been deliberately tampered with and transformed into something else, and the true Light Compass is now in eclipse! Our equilibrium is imbalanced. The constant brainwashing being forced on us both physically and emotionally harms us.
If you are one of the older ones amongst us, dear Reader, you might remember a time when things were much simpler, more fulfilling, and rewarding—a time when people in general were happier. You might still be able to differentiate between truth and lies; goodness and badness; happiness and sadness; joyfulness and misery; right and wrong. You would have lived by a compass or a moral standard like the Ten Commandments. Maybe a loving family was your guide and compass. You would have known your neighbors, your friends, relatives, your children’s teachers, and they would have all seemed to be on the same page as you. You would have known your politicians and world leaders, and you would have recognized their lies and truths. Your equilibrium would have been balanced and this would have given you comfort and security.
Have you felt this balance slipping away from you? Do you feel the compass spinning? Do you sometimes feel you do not understand the changes in people close to you, or feel useless and confused in this modern world?
Currently most of us do not speak out about things we know in our heart are wrong, fearing even to raise these wrongs with our own acquaintances for the horror of being laughed at, judged, belittled, or ostracized. People are being blocked on social media, or even punished by law, for speaking out and using free speech. This might add to our fear.
Dear younger Reader, if you are a soul raised in a terrific family environment, you are one of the fortunate ones. Step outside the family and into the world and you too might possibly feel the confusion and stress. If you are a hurt soul, that has come from a broken family torn between two uncompromising parents, it must be difficult for you. Or perhaps you are under an abusive family; or sadly, you have no family and have been passed around from foster family to foster family. In whatever horrible situation you find yourself in, dear soul, you would possibly be feeling miserably unwanted and unloved. I want you to know there is help at hand. There is Light that shines so brightly it clears all your Darkness.
You might be one of thousands of souls caught up in a false reality due to taking substances, alcoholism, or trapped in a dark abusive situation. If you are of school age, or a university student, dear soul, you may feel you do not even know yourself. This confusion comes from lies being taught to you. Have courage young, troubled soul, as it is very possible, with a little determination, you will soon understand that a better life is ahead of you—a clearer, brighter knowledge, about who you really are, and what you really are capable of achieving. Read with an open mind, know that you are truly loved by Love itself. Go forth on this journey with confidence following the Light and dismissing the Darkness, all of which will be explained to you as we wander on through this adventure.
First though, if you are doubting any change in you is possible, I do understand; maybe you feel you are in a permanent dark hole. Yes, it is harder for those who have not been shown or raised by the Light Compass, or even been taught there is such a thing. Your equilibrium has probably never been balanced.
A thing known as common-sense has also been killed off. There was a time not so long ago, dear young one, that things that made sense, things that we knew were correct, were automatically understood by most of us. Unfortunately, common-sense is not so common anymore. In fact, the merging of truth and lies, goodness and badness, right and wrong, happiness and sadness, joyfulness and misery has been so deliberately mingled together you probably see life in a grey tinge. So dark a grey, that you live in a cloudy fog. You probably try with all you might to grab some happiness in anything that comes your way. Afterwards though, you are left feeling worse than before. Take courage, young one, for being young you can learn faster, see more clearly, and hear better. You will be able to find the Light Compass and balance your own equilibrium sooner. Therefore, you will be able to think clearly for yourself for the first time. Have confidence because Light and Understanding will also open to you.
For all Readers, of all ages, no matter what the darkness is that surrounds you now, it is obvious you are searching for a way out. I know this because you are reading this book in the hope of finding help. As mentioned already, I do not know you personally, but this is not important. What is important is that you get to know yourself better. Therefore, you will understand that what you yourself is searching for is what every human being desires: happiness! True happiness only comes through true freedom, which is the Light!
You will come to understand that happiness is not only found in the good times, the healthy times, the rewarding and successful times. It is very possible and often necessary to find happiness also in sorrow and suffering.
The trouble disturbing your soul presently, dear Reader, is probably coming from two sources: from outside of yourself, and from within yourself. From outside of yourself, there are two forces always working within the world around you, not necessarily in any equality or strength. From within yourself, there are also the same two forces working within you, but at lesser and differing degrees. One force is the Light, which is love; the other opposing force is the Darkness, which is hate. These two forces not only affect the spiritual and physical world which we live in, but also, they affect everyone’s life on earth. The Light governs with benevolent order, while the Darkness attacks with utter chaos. (End of book preview)
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