The guy who runs the Postcards from Barsoom substation, has an interesting post on the reality of demons. Aside being cogently argued for normies too, it has some nice art from the RPG Rifts.
I also like his affinity for Edgar Rice Burroughs stuff, I mean my older blog had the tagline a Martian in London, and I loved the film John Carter of Mars and of course have read most of the books. But that all aside, and the article being good too, the reality is that no one there TELLS you how to actually fight demons.
Forgetting about the initial barrier to begin with, that is, your conscious acceptance that demons are real, once you have passed that one, what then?
If it were as simple as arming yourself with a big crucifix, a holy water pistol and a blessed assault rifle that shoots silver bullets, life would be grant.
But that’s not how demons fight. They are evil, sneaky, vile, cowardly and they certainly do not prefer a head-on war when they can act by subterfuge and creeping evil by using their minions and the mechanising ways of bankers, taxation, government and demonc laws designed to cripple humanity.
Nevertheless here are some guidelines for you. I am not going to waste time justifying every aspect of what I say, because by now, you either have learnt to research anything you doubt by yourself, or your mind is already made up, so, what I write here is simply the best advice I have. Take it, ignore it, or laugh at it, I don’t care either way. those who are unlucky or unfortunate enough to end up relying on it will attest to the fact that everything I say here is sound.
1. Catholicism is Best.
Catholicism is the only valid Christianity in existence and always was. Your whiny Protestant or “Orthodox” noises notwithstanding. Go cry somewhere else, no one here cares. It’s just how it is.
In any event, even that is much degraded today because the only Catholics left are 1958 Sedevacantist Catholics. Probably no more than a million souls in all around the planet.
According to Catholic Dogma, only a trained Priest that has had the permission from a Bishop should even think of performing an exorcism or tangling directly with demons. This is a very wise and protective rule. I have had the unfortunate experience of having to deal with nefarious forces at least four or five times in my life, and while two were relatively mild affairs, one a mid-type event but that lasted months, the remaining two were really quite serious, and one of which honestly was a very narrow escape. My point is that dealing with demons is not to be taken lightly at all. Let me try to give you a rough idea:
You’re trying to face up to an entity that is immortal and has been around since the dawn of creation, is totally evil and hates you and everything you love with the passion of a thousand suns, is intelligent and has absolutely no moral qualms. It also is intimately familiar with the entire realm of human existence, while you are barely capable of even believing these entities exist, never mind be aware of their natures, laws they have to obey, what these laws might be, or how to invoke such laws, if they exist, and so on. And you think you’re going to go up against them and just dispatch them as if you were Biff the cool jock in a zombie movie where he brains a few slow zombies with his baseball bat? Think again.
Now let’s add a few more important points. They are telepathic, they can get in your head and make you hear or even see things, that may in fact be true, so as to cause you to question your very sanity. They can even affect material reality, once again, making you question your sanity, when an object you just put down disappears or reappears in a different place. You’re far more likely to think you’re in the early stages of dementia than a demon did it. And let’s not forget that if you do have dementia, they are far more likely to make you think a demon did it, just so you will appear even more unhinged to your loved ones. Are you starting to appreciate just how sneaky and evil they are? Because if you are, about now, you should be afraid. Very afraid, of tangling with one unprepared. And in case I have not been clear, you are always unprepared. But… and there is a but, a tiny light at the end of the tunnel, fear itself is not the answer. It never is. Caution is. And caution is not fear. We may all experience fear from time to time, but you don’t need to surrender to it. The very definition of courage is not to not be afraid, but to be afraid and act anyway.
Alright, say you have followed me up to now and at least intellectually you accept as a premise that not only Catholicism is the only religion that really understands how to deal with demons, but you also accept as a premise that their rules for dealing with them are the best or safest. Cool. So what if you don’t have an actual sede priest anywhere near you and yet you suspect some demon activity is involved? Well… my suggestions in this next section will be purely practical and purely protective. We’ll discuss actual fighting demons later.
2. Practical Protection from Demons
Again, without any justifications and blah, blahs, these are the things that will help keep you safe:
- Be a properly baptised Sedevacantist (1958) Catholic. If you don’t know what that is, read my books Believe! and Reclaiming the Catholic Church (see Books I wrote and my E-store or look for hardcopies on Amazon at the links provided).
- Actually believe. As a real Sede Catholic does.
- Trust, with absolute faith and unshakable certainty, in the dimity, protection and salvation within our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Attend Holy Mass as regularly and as often as possible.
- Have a proper Sede Priest bless your home and give you some Holy Water.
- Pray regularly. Thank God for all the good things in your life as well as the tests you may be facing. Be as properly Catholic and good as you can in all you do.
- Do sprinkle some Holy Water around your home if you feel the need and invoke the power of God and Jesus to protect you, your home and your loved ones.
These are the basics. If you suspect actual Demonic oppression or attacks, trust in god, and pray and absolutely use the name of Jesus Christ and say it out aloud that you belong to our Lord Jesus Christ. Remember that as a Catholic, you do not belong to a spirit of fear. So trust in your Lord and your Faith in Him. They hate the name of Jesus Christ and that alone has the power to keep them at bay if not dispel them completely from your vicinity.
Do use Holy Water.
Do cross yourself and use an amulet or cross to remind you and reinforce you faith, not as an icon or idol, but as reminder.
3. Fighting Back
Please understand that I will absolutely repeat what the Catholic Church teaches on this matter:
Only trained exorcists that have had approval from the local Bishop should ever even think of attempting to deal directly with a demon.
We do, however, live in dark times, and a couple of things that are still true might be useful to know.
First, given that there is no current valid pope, Bishops have no authority of jurisdiction anywhere, so Priests can act as exorcists in their own right should they so choose, though it is obviously best if they are trained and do get the approval of whatever Bishop they operate with.
Second, despite all of the above, the rules for having exorcisms and dealing with demons be the purview of only trained priests is not a divine Law, but rather a Church Law. It is protective for the faithful, not an absolute. And you need to realise that exorcism is a skill that includes not only training and specific prayers that are generally used for it, but above all it requires an unshakable Faith. Any and all doubts or fears and weaknesses will be exploited ant taken advantage of and used against anyone that dares to attempt tangling with demons. So, while it is absolutely not advisable to do so, in certain emergencies or cases, you might not have any options. And if your back is against the wall, well, you might as well go down swinging. Sometimes, you even get lucky and survive it, as I can personally attest to.
In such an emergency, that is, one that you happen to find yourself in, not one you necessarily went looking for, you may as well fight back. And I repeat again, do not go looking for these fights. Please, just do not. And if you become aware of a situation that might entail these entities, do your utmost to avoid it yourself and get a proper priest to deal with it.
Lastly, be aware that the overwhelming cases of weird behaviour or events that get labelled “demonic possession” or demonic activity are most often actual psychological disturbances and/or rationally explainable events that do not involve demons at all. So keep that in mind. Right then, all the corollaries and warnings having been given, if you have no other choice, here are the best suggestions I have:
In the case of Demonic Oppression.
This is most difficult to identify as it will tend to just feel like a series of things going wrong, continuous bad luck, and so on. It mostly afflicts people who have just been baptised or who are contemplating doing so, or are on the path to discovering real Catholicism. The response is the same regardless of if it is actual demonic oppression by the minor imps of Hell, or just random bad luck. Throw yourself into your faith and Catholicism. Increase your prayer life and spread the gospel to family, friends, and strangers alike (without becoming a Bible thumping nuisance). Personally, when this started happening I wrote Believe!, which has now helped get over a hundred people to proper baptism and Sedevacantist Catholicism. After that I was left alone for quite a while. When it started up again I wrote Reclaiming the Catholic Church, which has become a basic reference book and manual for anyone wanting to understand Sedevacantism in depth, or wanting to refute the many lies told about it. The general demonic oppression I might suffer now is mostly indistinguishable from day to day life problems that crop up in all our lives. The point here is that a good offence is the best defence. If every time you get oppressed you become even more of a firebrand for Christ, and help convince, awaken and convert more people to Catholicism, they will tend to leave you alone more often. It’s just strategically not wise to poke a guy that starts lighting fires for Christ all around him and then some. So their attacks, if they come any more, will tend to be even more indirect. In such cases, simply redouble your efforts and ensure your immediate family are well educated in the Catholic Faith.
In Cases of Demonic Possession of Places.
Here, you really need to try and get hold of a priest to bless and cleanse the home, office or whatever, but failing that, prayer, your own use of Holy Water, and a strong and powerful belief in the cleansing energy of your faith and the protection and cleansing Grace from God, which you might imagine as a kind of “orbital laser” from Heaven to dispatch unwanted demonic entities, can definitely clear areas.
In Cases of Demonic Possession of People.
There are two types of demonic possession that can happen, partial possession and full possession. In either case, mores than in any other case, I strongly urge you to not ever try to deal with his stuff on your own, and to get a proper Priest and exorcist to do so. I personally believe I have seen and been in very close proximity to one partial demonic possession of a person, and it was absolutely freaky, and no, I was not able to liberate that person of the possible demon that may have been partially possessing herald my attempts to do so where weak and unsuccessful, besides the fact that an exorcism I believe can normally only take place when the victim actually also still has some free will to chose to be exorcised, though I am not certain of this. I can’t imagine what it might be like to have to deal with a full possession, not do I ever want to find out.
Final Words.
I again can only reiterate that you should never, ever tangle with this stuff, and if you need a little nudge to further convince you, then read the scariest book I ever read, Hostage to the Devil, by Malachi Martin. I always caution people to not read this book, because when you do, you will become aware of realities that for now you are blissfully ignorant of, and once you become aware of them, you can’t ignore that reality any more. Your ignorance in the vast majority of cases is protective. You basically being an NPC as far as the demons are concerned, means you’re not a threat to them, nor of any consequence. You’re probably just marching along to the general increasing degeneracy of humanity at large and nothing further needs be done to you specifically. The moment you become aware of this alternate reality, you can begin to potentially be a problem. In short, you might begin to attract some demonic attention. The reason people who begin to move towards Sedevacantist Catholicism begin to encounter various difficulties in life, as do the newly baptised, is precisely because once you have chosen a side, newbie that you are, if they can dissuade you or distract you right at the beginning, that’s one less soldier of Christ they have to worry about later.
Reading Hostage to the Devil will make you aware of things you can’t unseen later. So, I suggest you leave well enough alone. If you decide to read it anyway, I suggest you do so as a properly baptised and believing Catholic first. And with a strong faith and a detached approach to the information you will read in that book.
That’s about all the advice I can give you, and I sincerely pray you never have to use it to fight actual demons. But you may end up having to one day, perhaps we all will. If so, may your metaphorical sword be mercilessly sharp and true, and your armour impervious, pure, and perfectly able to deflect every blow the enemies of our Lord try and inflict upon you and your loved ones.
Ave Soldier. March on and remember: Nec Spe, Nec Metu.
