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Saturday, December 04, 2004 regarding evil for MicheleI have probably never encountered true evil in a living form but have read the authorities M. Scott Peck, Michael Green and Malachai Martin, the Jesuit ph.d and author of Hostage to the Devil, the definitive work on posession. I have also read the book and seen the film The Exhorcist which has two notable features in that the exhorcism is done so quickly and the posession of a child in the history of the church is extremely rare.Martin gives some tests for demonic posession. He details that there are two types: influence and posession. The Roman Church has an order of exhorcism in one of its prayer/service books. It is probably in the Brevy. Each Diocese of the Roman Church should have a person able to do an exhorcism, and experienced at least as an assistant. Peck says that for hundreds of cases suspected of being posession mental illness is the real problem but as Christian with the Bible we should believe that posession is possible. Martin feels that one is not posessed against one's will and there is the suggestion that baptised Christians have some protection. In an Anglican service a child or adult is actually signed with the cross in water on his/her forehead. I was; I was baptised at thirteen and of course remember it. So Malachai Martin says that one gives in and becomes seduced and overtaken by evil: there are at first nicities like healing, good sex, or power. I can't add much more I have a copy of Dr. Martins book here (it is difficult to get in this country) and can look up the five or six 'tests' if you wish. best wishes from Gary # posted by Anonymous @ 9:01 pm 0 comments
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