Moving on (from recurrence)

How do I know I'm moving on (from recurrence) and that I'm no longer in the Kingdom of Satan? God has called me. He's gathered me. It's done. Effectual calling. I know the voice of the Shepherd, and I value it. I fear God alone and not man. I'm trustworthy to God. I'm one of His.

Though not intentional this quote captures some of the teaching on Recurrence

"The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes."

- Mark Twain

The moon and the departed

This echoes some things (I should say that the character speaking this is referring to his despised wife who is no longer alive and he and Tom Jones have been talking about the moon and love and so on):

"However, heaven be praised, she's gone, and if I believed she was in the moon, according to a book I once read, which teaches that to be the receptacle of departed spirits, I would never look at it for fear of seeing her..." - spoken by Partridge in Tom Jones, Bk. 8, Chp. 9

Nostalgia

Nostalgia - the illusion of good times - brings us back (recurrence). Kill nostalgia.

Machiavelli noted in his Discourses that people will even be nostalgic for the most tyrannous times a human being can endure through because once the danger and violence and chaos and torment and evil is passed and no longer around to threaten they then look back and only see what they knew (or imagine) to have been good. In our times notice how Russians who lived through the tyranny of the Stalinist regime will now look back at that with nostalgia and idealize it. The devil can't beat humans up enough in his kingdom that those same humans won't be nostalgic for it all when they are looking back on it.

Nostalgia - the illusion of good times - brings us back (recurrence). Kill nostalgia.