This week we’re starting a two-parter, or maybe a three-parter?–on the writings of Mary Kathryn Baxter. According to her autobiography, in 1976 she was visited by Jesus for 40 days, and taken on a journey through Hell and Heaven. God gave her a unique divine commission to write what she saw down and spread it to the world, a process of composition, possibly revision, likely no editing, that took about 20 years. The hosts of the Dispatchist, who have a strong background in editing/publishing, have questions about this timeline, given the importance of the client.

Anyway! Both “Divine Revelation of Hell” and “Divine Revelation of Heaven” are available for free, so read along. While Jacob would like to have “divine revelation of angels and demons,” there’s a general lack of desire to support the author or publisher. We’re reading the books out of order, starting with Heaven, although Jamin didn’t know this.

Hell news and appetizers…

Beverages! Food and Wine has a nice article and recipe for the “Last Word” cocktail, share and enjoy!

Berbs! Our ongoing translation of Berbiguier’s “Farfadets” is here. When we get to $50/month on Patreon we’re going to start the audio book version!

Oh no! You’ve probably missed the Young People Jubilee 🙁 It started on July 28 but runs through August 3, so there’s still time!

The “Realm of Satan” trailer is out and limited theater releases on this film documenting the Church of Satan!

From the New York Post, “I was dead for 2 minutes and didn’t want to leave.” The article features her artwork!

“Word of the Day,” we’re trying something newish, since there always seems to be one. This week’s word, which really should be for the next episode, is “backslidden,” which comes from “to backslide,” basically to fall back into older habits but more specifically to fall out of good religious habits and into apostasy. We might also add Hanlon’s Razor to this, “never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”

Sources

Besides the big obvious resource of “the original books”

Youtube, “Mary K Baxter: Divine Revelation of Heaven and Hell” Experience the down-home style of MKB. In fairness, she’s not a bad speaker, at least for her target audience.

“The Hell Hustler” – not particularly favorable to MKB, with some biography and theories.

A Critique of Mary Baxter’s Book…. – This article is from a near-death experience group. Extremely detailed.