He suffered for our salvation, liberated those already dead and waiting, and rose from the dead three days later. He ascended into Heaven and sits at the right hand of God. Afterwards, he shall come to judge the living and the dead. At his arrival, all human beings must rise again with their bodies and they must give an account of all their own actions. And those who have done good, will enter eternal life. And those who have done evil, will enter eternal fire.
This is the universal faith. If you do not faithfully and firmly hold on to it, you cannot be saved.
Gloria.
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Amen.
9: PSALM READINGS
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Psalms: 90, 67, 34, 30, 21, 3, 10, 12.
10: CONCLUDING PRAYER OF THANKS
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We pray you, all-powerful God, that Evil Spirit have no more power over this servant of yours (give name of possessed), but that it flee and not come back. Let the goodness and the peace of our Lord Jesus Christ enter him (her) at your bidding, Lord. For through Jesus we have been saved. And let us not fear any ill, because the Lord is with us, He who lives and reigns as God with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, for ever and ever.
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Amen.
CHAPTER THREE: EXORCISM OF SATAN AND APOSTATE ANGELS
1: INSTRUCTIONS
The following exorcism can be recited by Bishops and also by priests who have received authorization to do so from their own Bishops.
2: INVOCATION OF MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL
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Most glorious Prince of the Heavenly Army, Holy Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle against the princes and powers and rulers of darkness in this world, against the spiritual iniquities of those former angels. Come to the help of men whom God made in his own image and whom he bought from the tyranny of Satan at a great price. The Church venerates you as her custodian and patron. The Lord confided to your care all the souls of those redeemed, so that you would lead them to happiness in Heaven. Pray to the God of peace that he crush Satan under our feet; so that Satan no longer be able to hold men captive and thus injure the Church. Offer our prayers to the Most High God, so that his mercies be given us soon. Make captive that Animal, that Ancient serpent, which is enemy and Evil Spirit, and reduce it to everlasting nothingness, so that it no longer seduce the nations.
3: ANNOUNCEMENT OF EXORCISM
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In the name of Jesus Christ, God and Lord; through the intercession of the Immaculate Virgin, Mother of God, Mary, and Holy Michael the Archangel, the Blessed Apostles, Peter and Paul, and all the Saints; and relying on the holy authority of our office, we are about to undertake the expulsion of diabolic infestation.
4: PRAYER
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(Psalm 67)
May God rise up, and may his enemies be dissipated.
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And let those who hate him flee before him.
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Let them be dissipated like smoke.
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As wax flows before fire, so let sinners perish before God.
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Look on the Cross of the Lord. Be defeated, all enemies!
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The ancient strength will conquer, the King of Kings!
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Let your mercy be with us, O Lord!
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According to our hopes in you.
5: EXORCISM ADDRESS TO SATAN AND TO APOSTATE ANGELS
We exorcise you, each unclean spirit, each power of Satan, each infestation of the Enemy from Hell, each Legion, each Congregation, each Satanic sect! In the name and by the power of our Lord Jesus + Christ! Be uprooted and put to flight from the Church of God; from the souls that were made in the image of God and redeemed with the blood of the divine Lamb.
+ Do not dare further, most cunning Serpent, to deceive the human race, to persecute the Church of God, to strike and shake the chosen of God like chaff +. The Most High God orders you +. It is he whom you, in your gargantuan pride, emulated. He wishes all men to be saved and to come to the acknowledgment of the truth.
God the Father + commands you. God the Son + commands you. God the Holy + Spirit commands you. Christ orders you, he who is the eternal Word of God become man +; he who destroyed your hateful jealousy against the salvation of our race; he who humiliated himself making himself obedient to death; he who builds his Church on a firm rock and provided that the strength of Hell would never prevail over that Church; he who will remain with his Church for all days even up to the end of human time.
The Sacrament of the Cross + commands you. The virtue of all the mysteries of the Christian faith commands you. The most exalted Mother of God, Mary the Virgin, + commands you. She, though lowly, trampled on your head from the first instant of her immaculate conception. The faith of the Blessed Apostles, Peter and Paul, + commands you. The Blood of Martyrs and the pious intercession of all the Saints + commands you.
Therefore, Accursed Serpent, and all the power of Satan! We enjoin you under penalty, through the living God +, through the true + God, through the holy + God, through God who so loved the world that he gave his only son so that all who believe in him should not perish but should have eternal life:
Cease to deceive human beings and to offer them the poison of eternal perdition.
Cease to injure the Church and to set traps for the Church’s liberty. Go, Satan! Inventor and master of all falsehood! Enemy of human salvation! Give way to Christ in whom you could find nothing of your own evil. Give way to the Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church which Christ himself created by his blood. Be humiliated under the powerful hand of God. Fear and take flight, when the holy and terrible name of Jesus is invoked by us. For he is feared by Evil Spirit, and to him all Powers and Virtues and Dominations of Heaven are subject. And the Cherubim and the Seraphim praise him with unfailing voices, saying: Holy! Holy! Holy! Lord God of Hosts.
Lord, hear my prayer.
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And let my cry reach you.
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May the Lord be with you.
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And with your spirit.
6: PRAYER
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Let us pray:
God of Heaven! God of Earth! God of Angels! God of Archangels! God of Patriarchs! God of Prophets! God of Confessors! God of Virgins! God who has power to grant eternal life after death and rest after labor! There is no god but you. Nor could there be any other god. Creator of all visible and invisible beings! Your kingdom is without end.
We humbly supplicate you in your majesty and glory: Liberate us, through your power, from all the power of Evil Spirit, from its traps, deceptions, and treachery; and deign to keep us safely. Through Christ Our Lord.
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Amen.
7: INVOCATIONS
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From the ambushes of Evil Spirit.
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Free us, O Lord.
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When we ask you to help your Church to serve you securely in liberty,
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We pray you: Hear us!
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Humiliate the enemies of the Holy Church,
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We pray you: Hear us!
8: BLESSING OF PLACE OF EXORCISM
The place is sprinkled with Holy Water
APPENDIX TWO
Prayers Commonly Used in Exorcisms and Mentioned in the Exorcisms of this Book
PATER NOSTER
Our Father Who art in Heaven: Hallowed be your name! May your kingdom come! May your will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven! Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our offences, as we forgive those who offend against us. And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from Evil. Amen.
AVE MARIA
Hail Mary! Full of Grace! The Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women. And blessed is the fruit of your womb. Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God! Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
GLORIA
Glory be to the Father, and to the S
on, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in beginning, is now, and shall be, for ever and ever. Amen.
ANIMA CHRIST!
Soul of Christ, sanctify me. Body of Christ, save me. Blood of Christ, exalt me. Water from the side of Christ, wash me. My Good Jesus, hear me. Within your wounds hide me. Never permit me to be separated from you. At the hour of death, call me. And bid me come to you. So that with the angels and saints I may worship you. For ever and ever. Amen.
SALVE REGINA
Hail Holy Queen! Mother of Mercy! Hail! Our life, our sweetness, and our hope. To you do we cry, poor banished children of Eve. To you do we send up our sighs mourning and weeping in this valley of tears. Turn, then, most gracious mother, your merciful eyes towards us. And, after this our exile, show us the blessed fruit of your womb, Jesus. Clement, loving, sweet Virgin Mary, Pray for us, most holy mother of God, that we may be worthy of the promises of Christ.
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Albert, 323, 345
altered consciousness, 348–350
Aquileia, 321, 364, 365
Ara, 260
astral travel, 353–355, 386
aura, Non-Self, 348, 351, 400
aura, Non-Thing, 351–355
Beedem, Jay, 279–283, 288, 313
bilocation, 387
Black Mass, 213–217
Breakpoint, 19
Bryant Park, 41–43
Byrnes, Fr., 221
Cain’s thumbprint, 5
Carl, 321–406
Censor bond, 393
Clash, 21, 233, 234, 393, 396
Conor, Fr., 37–45, 71, 76, 77, 80, 81, 82
consciousness, altered, 348–350
consent, 436
control, diabolic, 439–441
control, remote, 113, 413–442
Coos County, 89, 146
David, Fr., 88–171
death, 427–428
de Chardin, Teilhard, 92, 93, 94, 97, 98, 123–148
diabolic control, 439–441
Donna, 323–325
Doors of Perception, The, 331, 341, 342
double, psychic, 387
double vision, 453–455
evil, good and, 413–425
Evil Spirit, 9–23, 371, 411, 435–443
evil spirits, 418
“Exaltation,” 358
exorcists, 9–26
fallen angels, 413–425
“familiar,” 283, 301–320
“familiarization,” 262–270
femininity, 183–187
“funny-looking face,” 263–265
G., Fr., 100, 101, 140
George, 42, 43, 56, 57, 58, 60
Gerald, Fr., 173–248
Gesland, Henri, Fr., 11
Girl-Fixer, 173–248
good and evil, 413–425
Hammond, Dr., 230–231, 238–240, 243–248
Hartney F., Fr., 340, 345, 367–406
helplessness, 427
Herlihy, Fr., 106
“higher prayer,” 337–340
Hilda, 84–87
Himiko, 372
human being, 410
humanness, 409
of Jesus, 427–434
Huxley, Aldous, 331
identity of spirits, 422
imagination, 112, 113
inner life-style, 48
James, Fr., 30–32, 66
Jamsie, 249–320
Jerome, 84
Jesus, 427–434
Jesus Omega Point, 114
Jesus Patch, 184
John, Fr., 175–176, 233, 236
Jonathan, Fr., 83–171
Joseph, Fr., 150, 151, 152, 163, 165, 166, 167, 169, 170
Kingdom, The, 61, 74, 238, 307, 391, 413
Kyoto, 373
Lake House, 205, 208, 231
Lazarus, 428–430
levitation, 363
life-style, inner, 48
Lord of Light, 131, 143
love, 178–180, 427
Lucifer, 413, 434–443
Lydia, 260–289
“Man,” the, 46, 47, 51, 52, 54
Mantryana, 339
Marianne, 29–82
Mark, Fr., 252, 253, 293–320
marriage with nothingness, 49
masculinity, 183–185
Massepiq, 83
medallion, 32–34
Methodism, 370
mirror of eternity, 129
Mister Natch, 156, 160–248
Moira, 200–202, 205, 206–209
Multus, 311–312
Mushroom-Souper, 308, 311
Nanking, 3–5
New Being, Shrine of, 120
Nicholas, Captain, 197–201
Non-Self aura, 348, 351, 400
Non-Thing aura, 351–355
Norman, 323
Obata, 373–378
Olde, 336–341
Old Edward, 90, 96, 97
Ordination, 108
Osterreich, T. K., 11
Paul, 212
Paul VI, Pope, 39–43, 71
perfectly possessed, 299–305
person, personality, 409–411, 418–421
Peter, 29–82
Petrus, 323–325, 362
Pierre, 103
Pinnacles National Monument, 254
Ponto, Uncle, 249–320
possession, 10, 409–421, 435
“prayer, higher,” 337–340
Presence, 17, 72, 73, 80
Pretense, 18, 70
Preternatural, 422—424
psychic double, 387
Puh-Chi, 3–5
reincarnation, 360–364, 386
remote control, 113, 439–442
Richard O., 173fn, 187, 191
Richard/Rita, 173–248
Romain, 103, 104
Rooster, 327–328
St. Declan’s, 109
St. Joseph, Miss., 194–198
Salem, Mass., 91
Salem Chorus, 158, 159, 161
Samson, Fr., 214–217
Satan, see Lucifer
Schumbard, Fr., 268
Shadow, The, 256–258, 304, 317–319
Shrine of the New Being, 120
Smiler, 76, 77, 80
Spirit and place, 421
spirit-raising, 369–371
spiritual capacity, 427
Strong, Michael, Fr., 3–8, 447–457
supernatural, 422–428
Sybil, 103, 167
symbols, 324
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, 92, 93, 94, 97, 98, 123, 148
telekinesis, 332, 333
telepathy, 332, 340, 372, 374, 376, 392
Thomas, Fr., 144, 145
Tortoise, 327–331, 383, 385, 393, 397, 398, 399, 400, 401
total evil, 416
Tourette’s Syndrome, 11
“trances,” 343–345
transcendental consciousness, 404, 405
transcendental perception, 33–37
transsexual operation, 211
travel, astral, 353–355, 386
Udine, 321
Uncle Ponto, 249–320
Vajnayana, 338
Virgilius, Mother, 43, 44, 45, 66
Virgin, The, 179–181
vision, double, 453–455
Voice, 20, 73, 74, 244–248, 316, 384–388
Wanola P., 340–343
Welsh Celtism, 368–369
Wood, Lila, 252, 281–283, 300
Wu, Thomas, 3–8, 448–451
Yves, 103–171
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