Posted on 09/21/2010 10:18:48 AM PDT by NYer
“I know someone will ask me, ‘Do you really mean, at this time of day, to reintroduce our old friend the devil—hoofs and horns and all?’ Well, what the time of day has to do with it I do not know. And I am not particular about the hoofs and horns. But in other respects my answer is ‘Yes, I do.’ I do not claim to know anything about his personal appearance. If anybody really wants to know him better I would say to that person, ‘Don’t worry. If you really want to, you will Whether you’ll like it when you do is another question.’”
—C. S. Lewis, “Mere Christianity”
Honest exorcists will admit that not all exorcisms work.
I do not know where this priest gets the idea that the devil has no visual form. All one needs to do is read revelations and see what the dragon who will be chained looks like..yikes!
Also, something that he may be missing because you don’t go to school to learn this...that almost everyone has a demon in them which talks through their mind and seems like the person whom is it’s host. It is truly through irritations and anger that they get inside us. That is why the remedy is patience...”through patience possess ye your souls” which means we get dispossessed through love!
Fhu.com has the simple be still exercise which is the remedy and is even being used widely by our very own military to overcome post traumatic stress.
Here's another, equally relevant:
"There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors, and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.”
C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Good easy to understand article.
Do not tempt darkness.
:) My exact first thought after reading the article but with Brass as the pre word.
I didn’t know this until recently,but “satan” actually means “prosecutor” in Hebrew.
Ouch!
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