Is it wrong to study about demon?

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Sometime ago I heard that asmodeus is a demon destroys the family. This made me interested in studying about demons and how they attack etc…

Little insight about asmodeus, he is also a lustful spirit he will motivate a marriage partner to
be unfaithful, thus bringing in an adulterous spirit. Many marriages have been
destroyed because of adultery, extreme jealousy, rage and physical abuse.
Remember that, men as well as women can be affected by Asmodeus. lovebetterinstitute.com/ASMODEUS.pdf

Unfortunately, since then I’m not able to do any research and also not able to spend more time in prayer and don’t feel I’m close to God like how it was before I decided on studying about demons. I wonder if this is something to do with my decision:shrug:.
 
Come join our group on here: Things That Go Bump In the Night.

We discuss these very same things.
 
jackydarapper said:
Sometime ago I heard that asmodeus is a demon destroys the family. This made me interested in studying about demons and how they attack etc…

Little insight about asmodeus, he is also a lustful spirit he will motivate a marriage partner to
be unfaithful, thus bringing in an adulterous spirit. Many marriages have been
destroyed because of adultery, extreme jealousy, rage and physical abuse.
Remember that, men as well as women can be affected by Asmodeus. lovebetterinstitute.com/ASMODEUS.pdf

Unfortunately, since then I’m not able to do any research and also not able to spend more time in prayer and don’t feel I’m close to God like how it was before I decided on studying about demons. I wonder if this is something to do with my decision:shrug:.
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I think it is best to leave the study of demons to professionals and those prepared for spiritual attacks. Maybe a nice chat with your priest would help you get back on track.
 
Be aware that demons do exist but keep your focus on Our Lord.
 
The only names of Angels and Demons we know are those in the Bible. Anyone claiming anything else is in league with the dark side. Esp since even Exorcists say to not name demons.

You are being led up the garden path, that wide easy comfortable road by guess who!

Turn back. Start praying, and get back on that narrow, thorny, prickly goat track.

Pray for perseverance. Think of the perseverance Our Lord needed in His Passion.
 
Dr. Pitre said one day he was talking to a Vatican exorcist about his own research into angelology.
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Pitre told this Priest-exorcist that he was collecting the names of the demonic spirits that he was encountering in his research outside of the Bible (in some of the apocryphal literature).
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The Priest told him something to the effect of . . .
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If you keep doing that, you will need to have an exorcism performed upon you sooner or later.
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Pitre laughed at the joke . . . then he looked and the Priest who was dead serious . . . and Pitre realized it was no joke.
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If interested, you can read the whole post here.

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?p=11243220

I am not suggesting you need an exorcism jackydarapper. But if I were you I’d talk to a Catholic priest very experienced in spiritual warfare.

God bless.

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No, it isn’t. The best military strategists study the ways of the enemy, so why shouldn’t we if our faith is strong enough.
 
May not seem to be wrong to you, but it is dangerous. Stop-speak to a priest-pray If you find time to study about demons you have time to pray. Prayers for you.
Remember “Lost in Space?” “Danger, Will Robertson, Danger!”
 
Matt241 said:
No, it isn’t. The best military strategists study the ways of the enemy, so why shouldn’t we if our faith is strong enough.
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It’s not that kind of a war. We don’t need detailed knowledge of the enemy. We need to know how to access the power that defeats them.
 
MtnDwellar said:
It’s not that kind of a war. We don’t need detailed knowledge of the enemy. We need to know how to access the power that defeats them.
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Once again, if your faith is strong enough, and you have access to powerful prayers, like the rosary, there is no problem in knowing how the devil works. Knowing how the first assault will come will forearm you when and if it occurs, because you know how that particular demon attacks the senses or the intellect.

The enemy has detailed knowledge of us, and where our weakest points are to be able to assault us in our spiritual and material lives.

If you are able to arm yourself first with regular private prayer life, confession and Mass, this is power sufficient to overcome, if you have faith that God is more powerful than the devil.
 
Matt241 said:
Once again, if your faith is strong enough, and you have access to powerful prayers, like the rosary, there is no problem in knowing how the devil works. Knowing how the first assault will come will forearm you when and if it occurs, because you know how that particular demon attacks the senses or the intellect.

The enemy has detailed knowledge of us, and where our weakest points are to be able to assault us in our spiritual and material lives.

If you are able to arm yourself first with regular private prayer life, confession and Mass, this is power sufficient to overcome, if you have faith that God is more powerful than the devil.
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We, of course, need a general knowledge of our adversary. I think the question of this thread is whether a study of demons, in particular a study of individual demons, is helpful or harmful.

My answer is that the study is not necessary or helpful. It may indeed be harmful.

Likening our battle against Satan with that of a military strategist is not an accurate analogy.
 
Matt241 said:
No, it isn’t. The best military strategists study the ways of the enemy, so why shouldn’t we if our faith is strong enough.
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The only one who can defeat this enemy is Jesus. Yet he left his Church to protect us until Jesus returns. The Sacraments are sufficient. For more direct battles, it must be through the Authority of the Church (Bishop w/ Apostolic succession approving exorcist) not just a random Christian using Jesus’ name in faith; or the outcome will probably be unfortunate.
Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists undertook to pronounce the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches.” Seven sons of a Jewish high priest named Sceva were doing this. But the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?” And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, mastered all of them, and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
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Act 19: 13,16
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Let me be clear: I do not advocate “lay exorcism”. That’s best done by a properly trained priest-exocist, acting in and with the authority of Christ. I do not advocate the “summoning” of the devil either. Let’s be clear on that fact.

I do advocate the academic study of demonology, with the saving support of Christ and His Sacraments. If somebody has a wish to study, this, I’d recommend doing so with the support of a priest…

catholicwarfare.blogspot.com.au/p/why-this.html

Nor do I support the notion that the Devil doesn’t exist. Otherwise why bother to study him? Everyone with an interest in these things must necessarily have a strong faith. I think that even a cursory study of demons and demonology would prove only to strengthen faith in God, and not the opposite, because “the Light shineth in the Darkness, and the Darkness comprehendeth it not…”, and hence is unable to overcome that Light.
 
Matt241 said:
Let me be clear: I do not advocate “lay exorcism”. That’s best done by a properly trained priest-exocist, acting in and with the authority of Christ. I do not advocate the “summoning” of the devil either. Let’s be clear on that fact.

I do advocate the academic study of demonology, with the saving support of Christ and His Sacraments. If somebody has a wish to study, this, I’d recommend doing so with the support of a priest…

catholicwarfare.blogspot.com.au/p/why-this.html

Nor do I support the notion that the Devil doesn’t exist. Otherwise why bother to study him? Everyone with an interest in these things must necessarily have a strong faith. I think that even a cursory study of demons and demonology would prove only to strengthen faith in God, and not the opposite, because “the Light shineth in the Darkness, and the Darkness comprehendeth it not…”, and hence is unable to overcome that Light.
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Is that blog from this individual?
nowtolove.com.au/news/real-life/the-real-life-australian-exorcist-10501
 
Matt241 said:
No. Just a “random” one I found after a brief internet search on “Lay study of demonology”. Probably not the best one to link to, probably this would have been better, for the real, academic treatment of the subject to see how seriously the Church Fathers took the Devil vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19750626_fede-cristiana-demonologia_en.html (it, after all, looks at demonology through the eyes of Christian Faith).
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Yep, best to ignore all those wannabe greeder websites and blogs. Stick with the Vatican and real priests.
 
Matt241 said:
No. Just a “random” one I found after a brief internet search on “Lay study of demonology”. Probably not the best one to link to, probably this would have been better, for the real, academic treatment of the subject to see how seriously the Church Fathers took the Devil vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19750626_fede-cristiana-demonologia_en.html (it, after all, looks at demonology through the eyes of Christian Faith).
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I’m sorry. Is this what’s considered a real academic study of demonology? If yes, you are completely correct to say that we should study the enemy.
 
MtnDwellar said:
I’m sorry. Is this what’s considered a real academic study of demonology? If yes, you are completely correct to say that we should study the enemy.
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Of course. That’s why I clarified twice what I was and wasn’t advocating. I certainly respect the enemy, and acknowledge his existence, but I refuse to be a Dr. Faustus, and try to conjure up Mephistopheles.
 
Matt241 said:
Let me be clear: I do not advocate “lay exorcism”. That’s best done by a properly trained priest-exocist, acting in and with the authority of Christ. I do not advocate the “summoning” of the devil either. Let’s be clear on that fact.
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Thanks for the clarification.
Matt241 said:
I do advocate the academic study of demonology, with the saving support of Christ and His Sacraments. If somebody has a wish to study, this, I’d recommend doing so with the support of a priest…

catholicwarfare.blogspot.com.au/p/why-this.html

Nor do I support the notion that the Devil doesn’t exist. Otherwise why bother to study him? Everyone with an interest in these things must necessarily have a strong faith. I think that even a cursory study of demons and demonology would prove only to strengthen faith in God, and not the opposite, because “the Light shineth in the Darkness, and the Darkness comprehendeth it not…”, and hence is unable to overcome that Light.
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Pope Paul VI spoke on the topic during a general audience.

CONFRONTING THE DEVIL’S POWER. Pope Paul VI
 
Thanks for all your responses. I realize the mistake. I had been doing this out of curiosity. I’m now changing my approach to study this for understanding and helping others. But I’ve truly felt and known what the devil can do when you allow him to takeover.
Thanks to God, Mamma Mary, all the Angels and Saints, who constantly prays for all humanity. 🙂 I feel blessed :extrahappy:
 
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