The demonologist ed and lorraine warren ebook

This is another significant fact for the Warrens, because negative forces prove unable to function in an environment of light Not by coincidence are these known as spirits of darkness.

Furthermore, the wildly screeching birds were active only on the left. In other cases that Ed and Lorraine have investigated, birds that screech at night on the left are often found dead on the ground the next morning.

As is evident in the Foster case, infestation activity does not come on as a quick, flamboyant assault. Rather, as noted, the phenomena will begin with three ominous knocks, or footsteps will be heard walking through the house.

There may be the sound of scratchings inside the walls. Strange hot or cold spots will be detected in certain areas. Most notably, the individual in an infested environment will have an unshakeable feeling of another presence in the house. As time goes on during infestation, things will begin to happen. Appliances will go on all by themselves. The front doorbell will sound, at the same time there will be knocks at the back door.

No one will be at either door. Food on the stove will not cook. The dishwater freezes. Keys will not open locks. Door handles will not turn, making the individual a prisoner in a cellar or washroom. Other times, things will simply not remain where they were left, no matter how many times the objects are put back. Children, particularly infants, are highly vulnerable to inhuman activity, even at the infestation stage. Infants one or two years of age in an infested home very often wake up screaming in mortal terror.

The demonic has no compunctions at all about assaulting a baby. An alert person who is suspicious and can spot the early workings of demoniacal phenomena should seek help immediately before events move onto a more personal level, and then out of control completely. Even before your five senses get into the act, your sixth sense is fully aware of its presence. Granted, in the early stages of infestation, the phenomena will be ambiguous.

The spirit deliberately hides behind ambiguity, in order to take hold. This is demoniacal phenomena! The activity takes on a meaningful pattern. What seems at first to be a curious run of events turns out, after study, to be events that are integrally linked with one another, distinct from coincidence and arbitrary, random activity. Whereas the disturbances during infestation may be troublesome, annoying, or frightening, during oppression the spirit begins to take hold and use all the malicious power at its command.

Infestation essentially means a house is haunted; oppression means that the spirits haunting the house are trying to take over the people living there.

On a practical level, therefore, one subject the Warrens emphasize in their lectures is oppression phenomena. They do so because infestation by spirits may have unknowingly occurred in a home, or it goes unrecognized, and the first time a problem is noticed is when oppression has already begun. During infestation, the demoniacal strategy is to create fear in order to begin breaking down the human will. However, this wild activity is a diversion.

The phenomena coming from two fronts—physical and psychological—weaken and disorient the victim, while taxing his emotions to the hilt. Furthermore, to make matters worse, if one or more entities have been successful during infestation, then additional, more powerful spirits are liable to come on the scene next, at which point the phenomena change from bad to worse, worse to terrible.

Perception of the problem is critical because negative activity will slowly build until it gradually transmutes into all-out chaos. Oppression strategy can best be summed up in one word: the demonic spirit seeks to dehumanize the individual.

By whatever means, it tries to reduce a human being—overtly or covertly—to his lowest ebb. Religious writers have long recognized this fact, and as a consequence divide oppression strategy into two forms: internal through the mind and external through the senses. One is a psychological phenomenon; the other physical. External oppression is an observable event: a negative spirit interacts with the physical world to bring about deceptive or frightening phenomena.

At this stage, the Warrens assert, a person can see and feel the activity. Essentially deranged, the demonic spirit directs its rage into material destruction or attacks on people. In some cases there will be subtle hints of a spirit presence; in others, an all-out rampage. Attraction can also occur when an individual displays a lapse by letting self-control falter. Hate, rage, despair, misery, drunkenness, and a suicidal sense of worthlessness will attract the demonic in a snap.

An individual can deliberately summon the demonic through a ritual or via some channel of sincere communication. Conducting one of the rituals is often the first step down a road of no return. People who practice Wicca are known as white witches, and worship Mother Earth.

They manipulate natural forces for positive results—healing, good luck, lasting love, and bountiful harvests. After that, however, you digress into gray witchcraft, black witchcraft, and Satanism, This is where problems develop because witchcraft goes both ways and can be used to bring about positive or negative ends. Essentially, gray witchcraft is performed in order to give one person unfair advantage over another.

The real problem, though, lies in black witchcraft and Satanism. The black witch seeks earthly rewards—money, sex, power, prestige—or the ruin of adversaries through the express help of diabolical agencies. Black witches may call on lesser demons and devils during their rituals; Satanists call on the satanic hierarchy—Astoroth, Beelzebub, even Lucifer—to intercede on their behalf. For their power and effectiveness, black witches work in legion with particular demonic spirits, while the Satanist goes all the way and worships Satan as a god.

In the more extreme rituals, celebrants would turn the Bible upside down and urinate on it, then begin a counterclockwise march, forming a magic circle while chanting blasphemies, renunciations of God and submission to the other-lord, Satan. Ultimately it wants the soul. That is why sorcerers, black witches, and Satanists will wind up paying a big price, maybe an eternal price, for what they do.

Nowadays, lone individuals performing rites gleaned from a drugstore paperback may not be prepared for the ghastly reality often bound, by what Ed calls cosmic law, to confront them. High symbolism there. So, the mother gave the fundamental invitation to the demonic to enter her home. Be that as it may, Meg was the one who gave permission. Had she returned the book or thrown it away, then none of the bizarre incidents would have happened.

However, through her own free will, Meg performed the formalized invitation rituals that set the process in motion. When neither the Laws of Attraction or of Invitation apply, then spirit infestation may have already occurred in a home before new tenants move in. This happened in the Amityville case, for example, where the Lutz family walked into a supernatural bear-trap. Surprisingly, the Warrens claim this is the way most ordinary folks come in contact with inhuman spirit phenomena.

Yet, even in an infested home, not all people may be vulnerable to negative interference. On the other hand, just as a fly is attracted to flypaper, a dour, depressive person in an infested house can almost be guaranteed trouble. I was one of the few people who examined the official records of The Exorcist case. That case—which happened to a boy, by the way, not a girl—occurred in , and do you know how it originally got started? By using a Ouija board! The same effect can be had with an upside-down wine glass on a waxed table, like they used in the s.

But in either case, it is a medium of communication. When you use the Ouija board, you give permission for any unknown spirit to communicate with you. Would you open the front door to your house and let in anybody who felt like it? Of course not. The Ouija board is one way to do it.