Most pleasant it would be to walk away from, to turn a deaf ear to, the Epstein scandal, but it would also be the turn of a deaf ear or blind eye to a fantastic manifestation of evil that has not been purged and won’t be until it is fully exposed and recognized.

The extent of the evil is only beginning to surface, but the nature of it was captured, recently, by a practicing Catholic named Melinda Gates, whose former husband, Bill, was ensnared by Epstein—so taken with the deceased pedophile-financial whiz that when they were still married, Melinda went to meet him to find out what the big attraction was.

The answer came immediately.

Said Melinda when she was on CBS Mornings a couple of years ago and asked if Epstein played a role in their divorce: “It was many things, but I did not like that he’d had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein. No.

“I made that clear to [Bill, a founder of Microsoft]. I also met Jeffrey Epstein exactly one time.”

“Did you?” she was asked.

“Yes,” replied Melinda, “because I wanted to see who this man was. And I regretted it from the second I stepped in the door. He was abhorrent. He was evil personified. I had nightmares about it afterwards. So, you know, my heart breaks for these young women because that’s how I felt. And here I’m an older woman.”

Let’s repeat that: “He was evil personified. I had nightmares about it afterwards.”

Strong words. Sounds like discernment.

Others have described the strange, strong “charisma” or “vibe” Epstein radiated (indeed it comes right through the screen when watching a video interview of him—when he was in fact asked if he was “the devil” (and of course more or less laughed that off).

Interestingly, Epstein had a fascination with “parapsychology” (the study of ESP, psychokinesis, and the like), inviting psychics to visit and at one point offering ten million dollars if a researcher could definitively demonstrate it in a way he could learn.

Some even felt Epstein had latent “psychic” abilities and tried to telepathically control people.

Others suspect that some young women and perhaps babies were ritually sacrificed by elites tied to the ring in an effort to create yet more worldly power. It’s the most unpleasant aspect of the whole thing, for sure, but perhaps is a final fruit of a culture that “sacrifices” babies through abortion.

We apologize for the upsetting nature of this. Let’s also add that authorities really need to take a look at the Savannah Guthrie case (and the kidnapping of her mother). Was this retribution? A warning to other journalists and survivors? (Savannah, an NBC anchorwoman, was the first to interview Epstein survivor Virginia Giuffre along with several other women abused by Epstein and his cadre.)

Curious. Also: prayer need.

Another curiosity: the Stanley Kubrick movie Eyes Wide Shut, which focused on satanic rituals by Masonic-like elites in a castle once owned by the Rothschilds. It seemed to predict what we now are seeing unfold.

Some have pointed out the coincidence that Kubrick died just days after the movie’s release, March 7, 1999, which was 666 days short of January 1, 2001, a year memorialized in the title of another Kubrick movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey.

That’s almost surely in the realm of happenstance; one can see “666” in many places, including on Interstate 95 in Florida, where a sign announcing exits also bears three sixes (for six miles to West Palm Beach, where Epstein had a mansion near Mar-a-Lago, and 66 to Miami).

The question is always when we see too much into such things. Can the name “Satan” itself be configured as “666”? That’s what some have thought using “gematria,” a traditional Jewish interpretive method in which Hebrew letters carry numerical value. (Even then it doesn’t add up.)
That recent storm in New York City? Well, this is 2026, the previous blizzard to hit there was in 2016, and before that in 2006 (three sixes in the final digits). One sees how, while keeping an open mind, things can get a bit strained.

When it comes to coincidences and conspiracies—which currently are all the rage—one should not give humans too much credit for orchestrating them. The devil is the real orchestrator of ones that bear spectacular meaning and uses far-flung organizations, movements, corporations, media, government officials, and—yes, certainly—billionaires, particularly, it seems, technocrats.

Lent is such a powerful time to pray this all away.

[resources: Online Retreat, “Our Exploding Times,” March 7]