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An Exorcist Explains the Demonic: The Antics of Satan and His Army of Fallen Angels Kindle Edition

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From Fr. Gabriel Amorth, the renowned exorcist in Rome, comes this powerful, eye-opening book on the deadly antics of Satan and his fallen angels, as well as spiritual remedies for each.

These pages provide a basic orientation in the dark phenomenology, succinctly explaining Catholic doctrine on the fallen angels and the innumerable manifestations. Among the many questions Fr. Amorth answers in this book are:

Where does the Evil One dwell in the human body?
How does the Devil appear and what does he look like?
What are the powers that comes from Satan?
Do the sins of ancestors influence our life?
How are spiritual evils contracted?
What is the state of souls in purgatory?
What is the role of sacramentals in fighting off temptation?
When should exorcisms and prayers of healing be performed?
What happens during an exorcism?
What you should do when a family is being attacked by a demon?
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  1. The most frequent weak points in man are, from time to time, always the same: pride, money, and lust.
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"Fr. Amorth combines Church teaching with practical application and his own rich background in the ministry of exorcism. This is a must-read." -- Abbot Eugene Hayes, O.Praem., J.C.D., S.T.L. "Personal Endorsement"

"Exceptional and timelya must read for all Catholics!" -- Kathleen Beckman, L.H.S. President and Co-founder, Foundation of Prayer for Priests "Personal Endorsement"

"Father Gabriel Amorth with his signature clarity, certainty, and discernment provides the reader with a keen insight into the machinations of the devil." -- Very Reverend Jeffrey S. Grob, J.C.D. Chancellor, Archdiocese of Chicago "Personal Endorsement"

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From Fr. Gabriel Amorth, the renowned exorcist in Rome, comes this powerful, eye-opening book on the deadly antics of Satan and his fallen angels, as well as spiritual remedies for each.

These pages provide a basic orientation in the dark phenomenology, succinctly explaining Catholic doctrine on the fallen angels and the innumerable manifestations. Among the many questions Fr. Amorth answers in this book are: Where does the Evil One dwell in the human body? How does the Devil appear and what does he look like? What are the powers that come from Satan? Do the sins of ancestors influence our life? How are spiritual evils contracted? What is the state of souls in purgatory? What is the role of sacramentals in fighting off temptation? When should exorcisms and prayers of healing be performed? What happens during an exorcism? What you should do when a family is being attacked by a demon?

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4.6 out of 5 stars
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Customers find the book full of knowledge and insights about exorcism. They also describe it as a good, easy read with penetrating anecdotes, advice, and admonition. Readers also say the book looks very scary but doesn't deliver.

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Customers find the book full of knowledge and insights about exorcism. They say it's an invaluable asset for the Church Militant and very important for today's world. Readers also say the book is incredibly informative about demonic influence, a good primer, and a dispassioned approach to a very rare, widely misunderstood subject. They also say it’s a basic handbook on terms and s s great starting point.

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Customers find the book a good, impressive read that's readable. They also say it's interesting and a job well done.

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Customers find the book easy to read, well-written, and fast. They also appreciate the straightforward stories and short chapters that address the main issues and questions.

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Customers find the book frightening, but it's not a scary read. They say it gets them thinking and contemplating hell. They also appreciate the lucid and illuminating text, which is clearly written and laid out.

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A EXCELLENT READ!
Satan fought against me tooth and nail as I began to read this book to prevent me from getting the knowledge to deliver myself from my affliction! He even performed something written about in this book. I am grateful for the knowledge it has shared. I am still afflicted but I am comforted by the knowledge now of awareness!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Enlightenment
Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2024
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A very enlightening book. It's full of knowledge and insights as Fr Gabriele educated the reader about exorcism, demons, and encountering satan himself. Easy reading and mind-expanding. Well worth a read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Satan himself began as a beautiful Angel who served on behalf of God at one ...
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In the course of two days I delved into a book composed by a priest who experienced demonic possession. With astonishing clarity he explains how demons operate in driving people away from their God. As for my conclusion, Satan himself began as a beautiful Angel who served on behalf of God at one time. However, his pride, intelligence, and self-love turned him away from God. Thus, he rebelled against our Lord, together with his followers. Other Angels chose to love and follow God. Therefore, when the fallen Angels led a revolt, the war between good and bad Angels was launched. However, the fallen Angels lost, thereby expelled from Paradise. As for Satan, he turned from a beautiful Angel into a hideous Beast because of his corrupt heart and mind. In fact, these creatures are highly intelligent and cunning, with Satan merely a huge liar. Their purpose on earth revolves around destroying Souls and creating suffering. How do they destroy Souls? First, somehow they push people to choose the wrong path in life. They encourage lust, anger, depression, hopelessness, and even frustration. Unfortunate Souls even become possessed by them, starting to behave abnormally. Some end up taking drugs, watching porno, and become so possessed that they end up ceasing their relationship with their God. A Demon is so cunning that it can appear to humans in any form, including an Angel, a beautiful woman, and even Jesus himself. Satan can promises wealth and success, yet those who embrace him by these empty promises gain only temporary relief that is followed by misery, hellishness, and the severance of the soul. Our world is so full of hopeless people looking for solutions, often instead turning from God to the occult, spells, fortune telling. They fail to realize that all of this derives from the Demon. Fortune tellers are themselves experiencing a variety of problems, even heath-related issues caused by dealing with the Demon. Some mediums even claim that they communicate with Spirits as guides to obtain answers, when in fact such Spirits are just another form of the Demon. No one can see into the future other than God, and indeed fortune tellers may have a gift but not from God whatsoever. They just tell people what they want to hear, thereby taking their money. In fact, one you go to them, you are building a bond with Satan because the gift is not from God. Instead of changing people's lives in a positive fashion, fortune tellers fling out false promises and predictions, making people lost their bond to their God. I myself have know acquaintances who consulted readers, with none of their predictions coming true. Hence, turn to God for answers, not to liars and moneymakers. Some even turn to witchcraft, of which there are two types, one black and one white. Those who use white magic believe it is normal, as it were, not realizing their neither black or white derive from God and ought to be stopped. There are also those people who use crystals, shoe horns, or other objects as signs of protection, thereby putting their Faith in inanimate objects not alive from God. Such practices leads to idoltery, inviting evil. Instead, holy water, blessed oil and salt, or even a cruxifixl are more useful to protect you from evil in your life or rid your house of rubbish. The best protection or omulets remain your relationship with God and prayers, especially deliverance prayers that chase Satan away. Yet, in the early stages of your prayers, you may experience negative events related to Satan persisting to remain in your life. Keep reiterating deliverance prayers, attend church services, and go to confession. Nonetheless, the conclusion of this book will open your eyes to many aspects of life of which you are unaware. It is a must read.
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Lilka Katarzyna
5.0 out of 5 stars Truly impressive, ignore at your peril...
Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2017
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You would be hard-pressed to find a better book from a more respected authority on the subject of the demonic. The author himself was an esteem exorcist, priest, and figure at the Vatican and had been doing this work longer than most of us had been alive, probably. As for the content, it walks beautifully that fine line between minimizing the subject matter and sensationalizing it.

Amorth addresses, first and foremost, the underpinnings of the topic in Catholic theology, scripture and tradition and starts from the basics on towards the "big guns." Something you don't often see in discussions of demonic possession is the reality that if one encounters Satan, he would much rather NOT manifest extraordinary action, i.e. vexation, possession, et al. He would much rather act in more ordinary means, such as temptation and sin. He deftly explains all the ways that Satan manifests in the ordinary, the spiritual implications, and how to deal with them.

In the sections regarding extraordinary action, he details each type of action and how they are addressed, ranging from the use of prayers and sacramentals to full-blown exorcism. I have read about the subject of exorcism over a number of years and Amorth gives the best explanation of how real-life exorcisms happen that I have seen, the kind of knowledge you can only get from the inner sanctum of demonology. Something else I noticed is that he doesn't just tell us what happens, but can tell us, physically, emotionally, and spiritually WHY it happens, in almost scientific fashion.

One of the best and strongest features of this work is the insistence of ruling out the mundane before jumping to the spiritual. Amorth insists that physical, medical, and psychiatric explanations be found first, and revealed that he refused to see clients until he could ascertain that the problem was spiritual. He and other exorcists admit that some of their clients were not, in fact, demonaics and thus turned them away, encouraging them to find the real, non-spiritual cause of their problem. I have always admired this quality in people who deal in the paranormal, when they are able to only use their hammer on actual nails, to not mislead or cheat people regarding their beliefs and abilities. It instills confidence in the reader.

Another best and strongest feature? The calm and understanding that is reflected in his work. Amorth tells us the need and the means to welcome people experiencing spiritual evils and to not treat them as modern day lepers. He shares with us the view that many of the poor women persecuted in times past were innocent, likely struggling with some kind of evil, spiritual or otherwise, and sympathizes with the view that our modern rationality was born out of the abuses of the church in centuries past. His case histories include people from all walks of life and all levels of demonic influence, so he doesn't just serve the far right of Catholicism, for lack of a better way to put it, nor does he exclusively serve the least active of believers.

In additional to respecting modern advancements, the work shows a reverence for history and tradition, reflected in the exorcist's preference for the exorcistic rituals of 1614 and in oldie-but-goodie ideas including, but not limited to, the idea that exorcism isn't just a means of healing but a means of diagnosis. Anyone versed in Catholic theology and sacred tradition will be pleasantly surprised at the mixture of ancient, centuries old, and modern sensibilities, trending neither towards clinging to musty ideas of a previous time, nor towards iconoclastic and post modern attitudes that discard everything passed down to us.

One minor criticism: Understandably, given the man's background, he tends to "see the devil everywhere," something he himself realizes and alludes to in his text. Especially when talking about swearing but also in other areas, I feel he overestimates the danger of these things, either seeing them as uniformly evil or at best, being of no value and being too dangerous to bother with. I appreciate his concerns as a reader and a believer, but I think he overstates his case here.

All in all, this is a work that deserves to be read by all. Truly impressive!
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Jennifer Bernard
4.0 out of 5 stars Great book!
Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2024
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I would recommend this book to anyone who feels drawn to knowing more about the enemy we face and how to defet him and his army of demons. Pray Pray Pray!! Say the Rosary daily!
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George Peabody
5.0 out of 5 stars THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT!?
Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2017
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Probably the most valuable section of this book is the INTRODUCTION which begins with a dazzling expression from the great sixteenth-century mystic St. John of the Cross: "In the evening of life, we shall be judged on love (alone)." This is essentially the same mysterious reality that Jesus presented to his disciples shortly before offering HIs life in redemption for the sins of mankind. At the sunset of our life, all that will remain is that particle of love that we have placed in each thing. Indeed every word of this introduction is filled to the brim with meaning for all of us who are experiencing this life together.

From Father Gabriele Amorth, the Vatican's chief exorcist (now deceased) comes this very powerful and very well-written dissertation on the deadly antics of Satan and his fallen angels. It also provides spiritual remedies for subsequent difficulties caused by the demons of Satan seeking to steal lost souls from God. Fr. Amorth outlines his information as follows: General explanation for the victory of Christ over sin; Catholic doctrine on the fallen angels; the foundation of Satanism, its cult, and its many manifestations; its spiritual consequences and its remedies.

If there is good in the world there is also evil and one does not have to look very far to find it. The question is are you and I contributing to the evil or practicing the art of loving others as we do ourselves.????
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Lisa
5.0 out of 5 stars Good book.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 11, 2024
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Good book and a good reading.
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Fran
5.0 out of 5 stars The best book I've ever read.
Reviewed in Mexico on July 23, 2020
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It is the most wonderful book I've ever read. Every single line you read gives you overwhelming knowledge. Read it slowly in order to get all the information. It is a very serious topic, not for everyone.
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Leda Anne
5.0 out of 5 stars "The Last Judgement: It Will Be Love That Will Judge Us" -Father Gabriele Amorth
Reviewed in Canada on May 20, 2018
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A well written and informed book by the 'world's greatest Exorcist', reads in a manner that lay people can understand.
Father Gabriele Amorth, provides a clear understanding of the life of an exorcist. He encourages all Dioceses have an exorcist as it is still a required position and he wants the education classes for vocational school to bring back the classes on Exorcism. There is currently a shortage of trained exorcists, not something we hear about in the media.

In main stream culture, and even in my conversion process to Catholicism there was little mention of hell, let alone exorcisms. I found the saints that he calls on to help him during exorcisms to be particularly interesting and would like to read more about them. As a convert, rather than a cradle Catholic I found this book to be helpful to explain the background of exorcisms and how they are still required in modern life.

I found the part about making sure the person is truly possessed by a demon (i.e. referral to a psychiatrist) to rule out mental health conditions prior to examining the demonic to be particularly interesting. Because some of the symptoms overlap between possession and mental illness, He emphasizes the differences between the two. Interestingly, those possessed by demons often seek the help from exorcists.

There are quite a few examples and details in the short, 143 page book. Covering the topics:
1. Victory of Christ in Sin an Death
2. Satan and the Fallen Angels
3. The Cult of Satan and It's Manifestations
4. The Extraordinary Action of Satan: Possession, Vexation, Obsession, and Ubfestation
5. Body to Body with Satan: The Exorcism
6. Other means of struggling with the Devil
7. The Principles of Christian Eschatology

Father Gabriele Amorth explains why he seek assistance from Mary in exorcisms, as the Evil One is repelled by Hail Mary Prayers. The ways in dark magic, white magic, occult, new age and wizards ect. have become mainstream norms of culture also caused me to question some of my own consumption habits of media and literature. Overall, a quick and interesting read that I will likely refer back to as I learn more about the Catholic Faith.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The truth minus hype
Reviewed in India on July 16, 2019
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What you come back with after reading this book by Fr. Amorth is that humbleness and humility are the most powerful weapons against the supernatural forces. Fr. Amorth is not afraid to tread over the path of truth which clearly declares that not all exorcisms can be 100% successful and there are 9 failures for every 10 exorcisms attended to and this is mainly due to the faith of the exorcist. As the lord had once said, that only real Faith can move mountains and one must remember that the crucifix of St. Benedict used mainly for exorcisms venerates the saint who was not an ordained priest, but an ordinary monk.
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5.0 out of 5 stars devil as a real personal being
Reviewed in Germany on March 6, 2019
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Read this but also have some distance to the material because it is so hard to believe that depicted cases have existed. Some are really fearful and not less terrible than scenes from movie Exorcist. Poor people besieged by demons and Satan himself. Hard to believe stuff. But if you believe in God very plausable. The most dreadful stuff that I encountered in my reading path till now where some chapters from a books about Ruanda genocide and impossible to imagine without intervention from Satan himself. This book will reinforce your faith in God.
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