What are you currently reading?

[Michael Wilson]

I will look for it, as I gave away my own copies. It was for me a "warning bell" as to the accuracy of the revelations.

[Bernadette]

I will look for it, as I gave away my own copies. It was for me a "warning bell" as to the accuracy of the revelations.

I just read the section on the Fall of the angels, and it's not in there.

[Maximilian]

Re-reading The Life of Jesus Christ by Anne Katherine Emmerich.

Ignore the "nattering nabobs of negativism" who spit out the same pre-programmed response every time they see the same stimulus.

[Michael Wilson]

Here is further information on the fate of some of the fallen Angels; it can be found online here under "The Old testament-Part 2-Cain the Children of Giants"
If you have the TAN edition of Ven. Emmerich's visions, its in Vol. I, Ch.5 pg. 31.
http://annecatherineemmerich.com/complete_visions/volume_1_the_old_testament/the-old-testament-part-2/

One of Cain's descendants was Thubalcain, the originator of numerous arts, and the father of the giants. I have frequently seen that, when the angels fell, a certain number had a moment of repentance and did not in consequence fall as low as the others. Later on, these fallen spirits took up their abode on a high, desolate, and wholly inaccessible mountain whose site at the time of the Deluge became a sea, the Black Sea, I think. They were permitted to exercise their evil influence upon men in proportion as the latter strayed further from God. After the Deluge they disappeared from that region, and were confined to the air. They will not be cast into Hell before the last day.

This does not accord with the teaching of the Church and what St. Peter tells us in his Epistle. All the Fallen Angels were precipitated into Hell at once and will be there until the end of time. Also the Angelic nature does not allow for an Angel to change his mind or repent once he sinned, or else God would have allowed the fallen Angels a way to repentance.

[Michael Wilson]

Against the almost unanimous tradition of the Church, the visions tell us that Cain was not damned:

treated badly in every way. And yet they followed him as their leader, though as one accursed. I saw that Cain was severely punished, but not damned.

And another thing I just read while searching for the fall of the Angels; in reading about the fall of Adam and Eve, a curious claim (to say the least) is made about Adam and Eve and their knowledge of reproduction.
This is from the book, Vol. I, 1. The Fall, pg. 13. 

...she (Eve) would no longer be in servitude, she would become free and understand how the multiplication of the human race was to be effected. Adam and Eve had already received the command to increase and multiply, but I understood that they did not know as yet how God willed it to be brought about. I saw, too that had they known it and yet sinned after that knowledge, Redemption would not have been possible.

This is very very strange. Why would the knowledge of how the non-fallen human race would have reproduced (allegedly) impede the Redemption?
And again, why would God give to human beings organs of reproduction, if these would never be used?
It goes back to the Gnostic theory of the evil of mater and therefore of sex, Marriage and reproduction.
There is more information on Clement Brentano and on the source of some of the information that is contained in these volumes.

[TradGranny]

I will look for it, as I gave away my own copies. It was for me a "warning bell" as to the accuracy of the revelations.

Thank you Michael. It would be warning for me also, I rwill e-read the opening of Book ONe .

[GMC]

"Saint Manuel Bueno, martyr". By Unamuno.

[Bernadette]

I've found a version of The Brothers Karamazov by a narrator I really like on librivox.org, so I'm planning to try it again. Can't remember how long it's been since I've read it. At least 15 years.

[LausTibiChriste]

Link?

[Bernadette]

Link?

https://librivox.org/brothers-karamazov-v3-by-fyodor-dostoyevsky/
He's a Canuck, Laus.

[LausTibiChriste]

Link?

https://librivox.org/brothers-karamazov-v3-by-fyodor-dostoyevsky/
He's a Canuck, Laus.

Poor guy.


Thanks for the link

[Bernadette]

Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult, by Bruce Handy.

[clau clau]

Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

I grabbed a copy from Project Gutenberg and side-loaded it onto my Kindle.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/120

I watched https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Pirate_Kingdom on Netflix. I really enjoyed it.  I did not know about Nassau in the Bahamas.
I also had to lookup the term "Spanish Main". I learned something new there.

There were several inappropriate sections though which I had to skip.

@Frank may sympathise with the treatment which Blackbeard had to use to treat syphilis. It was most unpleasant.

https://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/29/living/blackbeard-medical-supplies-feat/index.html

[Bernadette]

I read Treasure Island years ago, and didn't like it. I suppose women weren't the intended audience. Lol

[clau clau]

I read Treasure Island years ago, and didn't like it. I suppose women weren't the intended audience. Lol

I had a similar reaction to Pride and Prejudice.  Touche.