Bible + Homer

There's a way to keep an on-the-mark attitude with the
Bible and biblical doctrine (i.e. to stay on the side
of its power and higher meaning as opposed to all the
forces that attach to it and pull it down to the
shallow, General Law realms), and it is this: keep the
Iliad and the Odyssey always near by the Bible and
read them complete every now and then (7 times like
the Bible perhaps, or at least have that as an ongoing
goal). A Christian who really know the Bible AND
knows the Homeric epics is just in a different
category.

The Homeric epics are a gateway to the sun work. The
Bible is the sun. The Work (Ouspensky's main books)
is the practical knowledge that you do.
(Those are the three big influences...)

Remember how all the Work is contained in the Homeric
epics (I outlined some of it on previous forums), and,
more than that, what you currently CAN'T SEE in the
Work is also contained in the epics (and the Bible)
even in the little details and seemingly small
aspects, but also in the overall things too, and
reading the two epics and the Bible give you the
ability to eventually see the new things you currently
can't see. That's because the Bible and the Homeric
epics give you the language (higher visual language)
necessary to be able to see the new things. So the
value is in just simply reading them. Get
understanding of them too along the way of course,
but just reading them gives you what you can't detect
now or in the process of doing it. It pays off in
time, down the road...