The symptoms of a possession
A possession is a state in which a person’s body has been taken control of by Satan. It is an extreme state of devil’s actions on a human being. How to recognise it?
Demonic possession
How do demonic torments and possessions manifest themselves? What are the causes of an unusual evil spirits’ influence on man? The articles below will help you with the first recognition of symptoms and effects of the devil’s action on man. Some of these articles have not yet been translated. Why?
Symptoms of an evil spirits action
Symptoms of demonic interference may appear on various surfaces and be characterized by various scales of intensity, apply to people, animals, places and objects. An exorcist priest’s task is to recognise the scope of the evil spirit’s action in a given case. His evaluation is usually conducted after medical examinations in order to exclude, e.g. mental disorders or a natural genesis of the phenomena.
Reasons for tormenting, enslavement, visitation and possession
The list of spiritual threats possibly resulting in demonic tormenting presented below is not exhaustive and contains the most common of contemporary practices. It was constructed based on the knowledge of the Church (the Roman Ritual), exorcist priests books and testimonies of people freed from the evil spirits actions.
The kinds and levels of diabolic tormenting
Several kinds and intermediate levels of demonic interference can be distinguished, ranging from temptation to possession.
A psychiatric classification of possessions
The difference between a mental disorder and a possession is not always obvious, especially in cases, where medicine claims the right to spiritual matters. Every case takes intuition and a separation of a psychiatrist’s and an exorcist’s competence.
Anneliese Michel
Anneliese Michel (born on 21 September 1952 in Leibfing, Bavaria, died on 1 July 1976 in Klingenberg am Main). She experienced a multiple possession. Fr. Ernst Alt, Anneliese’s spiritual guide, whom she let into her secrets, says that the girl voluntarily accepted the suffering accompanying a possession as expiation for other people’s sins. She became a sort of a prison for evil spirits, thus limiting their work in the world.