And if that wasn’t enough, then there has been providence in small and great ways that have focused my life in where I am now.
I mean I could in principle keep on multiplying conspiracy theories, but then that would leave me where? In the same muddle you are in now, obsessing over a book that is all down and no up.
We test the Lord like scientists test a chemical. In real life.
"When Christianity had grown weak, profitless, and powerless, the Arab Restorer and Iconoclast came, like a cleansing hurricane. When the battle of Damascus was about to be fought, the Christian bishop, at the early dawn, in his robes, at the head of his clergy, witll trle Cross once
so triumphant raised in the air, came down to the gates of the city, and laid open before the army the Testament of Christ.The Christian general, THOMAS, laid his hand on the book, and said, "Oh God ! If our faith be true, aid us, and deliver us not into the hands of its enemies!" But KHALED, "the Sword of God," who had marched from victory to vict ory, exclaimed to his wearied soldiers, "Let no man sleep! There will be rest enough in the bowers of Paradise; sweet will be the repose never more to be followed by labor."The faith of the Arab had become stronger than that of the Christian, and he conquered..."
--Page 36
http://www.hermetics.org/pdf/masonry/Albert_Pike_-_Morals_and_Dogma.pdf