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The Sword of Gilead & The Book of Angels

Satan deceives us into thinking that he is equal to
God.
Interestingly, when Satan or a demon is in
possession of a person and is engaged in a lengthy
battle with an exorcist over Jane, and this battle
goes on for several hours or days, what happens
to John’s possession unless it temporarily looks
like he is free of any infiltration by an evil entity?
Of course, this could well be the case, but either
way, it shows that neither the Devil nor his
demons can be in two places at the same time in
spite of their speed.
On the other side, angelic speed is to our
benefit and security when God dispatches them to
our aid in a time of need. Dionysius confesses:
"There are many blessed armies of the heavenly
intelligences, surpassing the weak and limited
reckoning of our material numbers." All the people in
the world at any time are a handful, a scattered
gathering easily lost sight of in the myriads of pure
spirits who most perfectly image the Creator of both
men and angels.” It is good to know that these are
all friends ministering on our behalf.
St Thomas says that once created, the
angels live forever, depending, as we do, on the
steady support of the hand of God but on nothing
else. He tells that all the things that pertain to us
because we have bodies have no place in the
angelic world - growth, nourishment, sickness,
pain, the decline of old age, and ultimately death.
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