Prayer and the Demons

Everyone prays.  As God is all present, even knowing our thoughts, (Matthew 12:25) one way or another, everyone will communicate to God, weather it is your thoughts, desires, love or hatred.

Even the witches and warlocks pray, even though it is to a demon.  

Anyone, and I mean anyone who does an incantation or a spell with the intention of harm to someone else or for a benefit is seeking access from the fallen side of the eternal realm.   This is dangerous and may lead to demonic obsession or worse.  The demons CANNOT read your mind, but with their angelic intelligence, they can make an excellent guess.  

Be careful what you say about someone, if it is negative or cursing, you could attract something you don't want around.  

Demons do study us and at times it can appear that they can read minds, but they cannot.  Even though they are fallen angels, they still have their intelligence and rank - what changed was their permanent position with God and their task for which they were created.  Example:  An angel created to inspire peace in human beings would then try to cause strife and division in his permanent fallen state.  

The good news is this angel only has a short time to do his evil work on the earth.  While he seeks to wreak havoc on the earth, we, the ones in a state of grace in full communion with the Catholic Church,  are those who are chosen to fight them. 

Know that the demons are very legalistic.  They know the scriptures better then you do and their aim is for you to break God's word so that at your judgement they have a shot of dragging you to hell.  Demon's love Ghost hunters with their 'e.v.p.'sessions because these misguided paranormal investigators talking to spirits are destined to love God yet are speaking to demons, putting themselves in the territory of the demonic.  

These are just some of the scriptures they want you to break:

"Do not have recourse to the spirits of the dead or to magicians; they will defile you. I, Yahweh, am your God. (Leviticus 19:31) 

If anyone has recourse to the spirits of the dead or to magicians, to prostitute himself by following them, I shall set my face against him and outlaw him from his people. (Leviticus 20:6)

This is what they use for you to fall.  Study it, know the word of God.  The word of God is one of the armors given by God to keep you on the right path.  

We as Christians have many weapons that we can use in prayer to both armor ourselves and to fight for others.  

The Rosary is a great weapon of prayer. 

In addition to the Rosary: 

1.  We can pray silently and the evil one cannot know our thoughts, these prayers are direct to God.
2.  We can pray vocally, and by using the name of Jesus with reverence and love for God, the demons who are assigned to our destruction (yep, you have one, just like you have a guardian angel, you have a guardian demon) are tortured.  Remember where it says to pray constantly?  This will definitely keep evil at bay as they evil ones will not want to come near someone who is constantly seeking the presence of God

3. We can place images of holy things before our eyes and keep demonic influences at bay.  You see we are in eternity right now although we cannot perceive it.  When we view something Holy to God (crucifix, etc) while we pray we are accessing the eternal truth that the Holy Crucifix contains that is eternal and not bound by time, without doing idol worship for we know that the carved or created image is not God himself, but an access to the truth contained within the witness of the Cross. 
4. Keep St. Michael Close, it is he who can protect you against the Principalities.  (Yep, they're a thing.) 

So be a force on the earth to fight the demonic forces.  Pray constantly, either vocally or silently using the tools that God has given us to do what every Catholic is called to do...

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to make WAR on the earth.

Mathematics and Mysticism

St. Francis Adoring the Crucifix

The Catholic Church calls those that have extra-ordinary revelation, "mystics." 

I do not like this term, The mystical is shunned and looked down on in our society because some people look on the mystic as someone unbalanced, or if their revelations are believed, then they are looked upon as a person who has attained a friendship with God to which no one else can attain.  There is nothing farther from the truth.  God gives 'information' to some souls that love Him greatly to call all those that perceive the revelation to a state of grace and holiness to which the mystic should  already be living.  

Mystical revelation is looked on skeptically by the Church, as it well should.  The Catholic Church is the safeguard of the truth of our Lord Jesus Christ, and should maintain that trust by giving a questioning countenance to any who would seek to add (or take away!) of the already perfect knowledge given by our Lord Jesus Christ.   Great discernment is required of the Church so as the faithful will not be turned away from the truth that the Church safeguards.  

Mystical information is just that, 'information', and is very much like Mathematical information.

Euler's Identity...Isn't it Beautiful!

If I know Euler's Identity, it does not make me great to have this knowledge, because the Identity existed before I did.  To attain knowledge of the Identity, I was given a basic knowledge of it and that it was possible to know this beautiful equation.  In faith, I pursued this knowledge, and with effort I attained it.  As I am not the creator of the Identity, my stature is no way enhanced by the knowledge perceived in the Identity.  Yet as a flesh and blood woman who will one day die, if I truly love Mathematics, the beauty of the Identity and my fellow human being who may not be aware of such beauty, then I have an obligation to pass on the truth of the Identity to anyone who would listen in the hope to stir a love in another's heart that already beats in my own.  

Mystical information is just that...information.  If the receiver is prideful and wishes to be carried in a gold chair, they need to get over themselves.  The true mystic who has truly encountered the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is laid out on the floor shaking to their bones in fear at the encounter.  They speak afterwards of fearing God, and you see a noticeable change in their lives which may be hard to perceive.  With the true mystic, a normal life goes out the window.  The true mystic never embraces the pleasures of the world, but they will seek to do many prayers and penances, not for themselves, but for others.   A true mystic has been given the scariest 'information' ever received from God.  This information is found in this scripture:  "Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction, and those who enter through it are many. How narrow the gate and constricted the road that leads to life. And those who find it are few." (Matthew 7:13-14). 

Having touched the edge of Eternity, the mystic now is on a mission to become the greatest friend of God, not for themselves but to plead for the other.  They are willing to lose, home, reputation, advancement, family and friends to attain even that one soul on the path of destruction (and there are many), may not face the 2nd death.  They are hidden in everyday life, seeing the old woman at the grocery store and right their in line at Krogers, pleading to God to be merciful to her at her judgement.  

Much knowledge is hidden from them because they only seek the information needed to seek God's mercy for another...not for themselves.  To this end they never know the results of their prayers.  So why would a person continue?  Because in their acting on their faith God has given them even greater faith to carry them onward.  The life of the mystic is the greatest witness that in sometime in their past they have encountered the reality of God to such a degree that they will never be the same again.

I encourage all who read this to dive into this deep friendship with God.  Here are some pointers.

1. God knows your heart, purify yourself with the tools of our faith.  Confession, Holy Mass, Rosary, Stations....etc.    Do much penance for yourself and when you are clean, you can do penance for your brother. 
2. Be hidden in everything you do, tell no one of any accomplishments or anything you do for another, let it just be between you and God.  
3. Ask something great of God that does not contradict scripture in any way, and then offer something to God for Him to complete it. (Penance, Rosary, Stations, Novena's...)   You can't ask God to eliminate murder, as God will work all things for good, but you can ask for the conversion of an atheistic abortion doctor in your area.  Don't expect to know what God does with your prayer.  Trust Him.
4. Don't do blanket prayer, asking for the conversion of many, remember Jesus healed one at a time.
5. Go to War.  Set your mind that this soul you are asking for is hanging from a cliff with only two fingers keeping him or her from eternal suffering in hell.  This is not the time for a half hearted Hail Mary.  Use everything you've got and petition God with many tears for the soul that He loves, no matter what state of sin that soul may be in.   This is a great time for time in front of the Blessed Sacrament, and if you can't go in person, set it in your mind what this looks like, and at every spare moment be mentally in front of the Blessed Sacrament pleading for this soul.    
6. Know when to stop, and then don't ask again.  You will feel a 'completeness' in your prayer, now let it go, and go on to the next thing.  Don't be like Lot's wife and look back, God will work in His time, not yours.  Again, trust Him.
7. Ask God to keep you motivated, and then watch what happens.

Many souls are on the path to destruction, they need your prayers...happy hunting. 

St. Dominic Adoring the Crucifix