The book has everything you need to know. This book had every hotel, lodge or tented camp we stayed at and the information was accurate. It also list places to eat, shop, and sites to see in each area. The book gives you a history of the country, profiles on the different tribes, details about each park and reserve, maps and travel tips that were very good. Really liked the information on the wildlife since this was the main reason for our trip. My 10 old daughter also enjoyed reading this book.

I like how the book describes certain details.

ISRAEL OUR DUTY OUR DILEMMA addresses many questions Christians have about who the Pharisees are. The Pharisees were the religious leaders that Jesus condemned as being 'hypocrites,' a 'den of vipers,' and 'children of an adulterious generation.' You get the picture.

During the Babylonian captivity, some of the Israelites caught on to the magical and occult practices and religion of the Chaldeans. They did not like how the Bible, especially the Law of Moses and the Prophets, condemned thier adulteries and idolatries and witchcraft. They developed secret oral traditions seemingly based on the Bible, but the Bible was interpreted using numerology which was studying the numerical value of the Hebrew letters in the text was supposed to give the true meaning of Scripture rather than its literal, in-your-face meaning. These teachers and leaders of many of the Israelites, called Pharisees, developed the Kabbalah, which they said was delivered to Moses on Sinai but given to Aaron and the priestly succcession. They also developed the Mishnah and Talmud which Moses was supposed to have given to Joshua, and Joshua passed it on to the prophets, the prophets to the teachers of the law and then to the Rabbis. Jesus denounced their oral law of the Talmud and was crucified for exposing their ways of nullifying God's Law.

Jesus indicted the Pharisees of 'going across seas to make a single convert, but once you do so, you make him twice a child of hell as yourselves.' The Rabbis from Babylon, at the invitation of the King of the Khazars, converted the oriental Khazar tribe en masse to Judaism in the 700's and 800's. These 'Jews' of Khazaria are today's Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe.

Most of todays Jews are descended from the Khazars. Yiddish was the language that the Khazars spoke, with a mixture of Hebrew and German words. In the 1300's the Khazar kingdom was dissolved and its Jews moved westward into Russia and Poland.

This books documents the destructive movements that Jews have been involved in and how they have been very detrimental to Christian civilization. Pike mentions their control over the media from which much anti-Christian propaganda is disseminated, their leadership role in international Communism, which was the most lethal idealogy in history, and in Zionism. Today's Israeli leadership is in the hand of Ashkenazis, who were heavily influenced by Marxist ideals from Europe.

A final interesting point this book makes is the need for a constant stream of wars to be fought in the Middle East since the founding of Israel in 1948. They take place every ten years or so in a predictable cycle: 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982, 1991 (Persian Gulf) and 2001/2003? (US 'War on Terrorism').

One final note: disregard this author's end of the world predictions. They are too speculative and interrupt the otherwise excellent flow of this book. I highly recommend that the reader take a look at 'the Gospel According to the Jews' where the modern occult ideas surrounding Jesus come from.

My Husband gave me this book because my old signed copy by Howard Ray Carey is in threads by now and I LOVE the book SO much. For almost 20 years "Journey Into light and Joy" has spoken to me. I have read it over and over, inside out --- and upside down. The book has been "My Bible" for all those years. Every morning after awakening, I just open the book to a page which is my message for the day. I am so grateful and thankful to Howard Ray Carey for having written such pearls of wisdom.

Jasmine Tritten

This book is a wonderful read! But, dont read it unless you read the first 4 Last Vampire Books. You just dont get whats happening if you read this one first. But, the end is sad.....almost had me crying. The end is also happy to! I realize Im probably just confusing you with all this: Its happy, but its sad stuff so ill just say this: read this book! or read the first four, then read this book! :) he-he

For the LDS student who is interested in the Dead Sea Scrolls, this is an exelent book. Donald Parry is one of the world's lead authorities on the scrolls and has done some first hand work on them. Dana Pike is one of the Church's great Hebrew scholars making them both reliable sources in this field. The book offers a perspective that is realistic and authoritative. It does not dive into the myths or try to make the relationship between the LDS Church and the Dead Sea Church something that it is not. I highly recommend this book.

Pike's works in general have fallen on bad times: even many Masons today are not intellectually prepared to read and understand Pike's works, whether Morals & Dogma or this fundamental one of the Liturgies of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. Masons who do not know their own craft are not able to defend it properly. As a scholar on Esoterica, having published on classical literature and Christian mysticism, and more importantly, as a 32º Scottish Rite Mason, I appreciate and value this work above most all other Masonic writings. It is essential reading for any Mason of the Higher Degrees who presumes to understand the meaning of the rituals he may only see once a year, and then, unfortunately, in abbreviated form.

Although not my favorite book in this series, "the living dead" was a great read. I recommend it for a short read, and if you like horror as well as comedy.

This book does a great job providing a pictorial history of Pike County. While there is little text to accompany the photos, the photos are a great collection and illustrate the rich history of the area. A must-have book for anyone from this part of Pennsylvania.

Without a doubt, one of the best books that explains what the world of Freemasonry is about. This is a must have for anyone, Mason or non-Mason, that would like to learn of the philosophy of Masonry. In a world where there is a lot of knee-jerk reaction to Freemasonry and its so called 'evils', this book comes out from the past and shows Masonry for it's true colors, "morality founded in faith and taught by symbols."