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  • The knowledge God forbade was experiential knowledge of evil
  • The first things demons do is affect perception
  • Eves sins
    • Curiosity (wanting to know things not fitting to your state)
    • She took emotional delight in something she knew contrary to reason
      • Because she committed the sin, all of us are subject to diabolical influence
      • Demons can introduce things to our imagination that look good but we know to be bad
    • Gluttony (eating the fruit)
    • Pride
      • Inept Joy
    • Perfect disobedience (both against God and Adam)
      • Men lead the household spiritually, morally, not the wife
  • Adams sins
    • Blames Eve
      • Now women don't trust their husbands to do right by them
    • Unwilling to be separated from Eve
  • If you see something, you deal with it. If you don't you don't.
  • 7 forms of influence
    • Infestation
      • more oftenly it's the person's in the house (where do problems follow?)
    • Ordinary diabolical influence (Temptation)
      • Satan is primarily a demon of fear, which leads to impurity
      • Demons have been watching you. they know.
      • Any unmoderated emotion you have is a weakness
      • Ask our lady: what is the one thing your son wants me to work on right now?
      • Loki subverts vocation
      • The warfare is completely and ultimately controlled by Christ
      • The demons that attack you tell the sort of virtues He wants you to develop
      • God wants variety
    • Mortal sin has possession as a natural progression
    • Mary is more beautiful than all of creation
      • One demon didn't want to show her
      • one demon didn't want to be second best
    • Demons are lawyers from Hell
  • Demons want anything but God
    • Have focus and the demons back off
    • don't pay too much attention to the diabolic
    • Demons envy the good of our life and it's normalcy
    • Demons want us to focus on the fact that life is difficult so we lose trust in God
    • HAVE ABSOLUTE CONFIDENCE IN GOD
    • Demons block being able to see some aspect of the faith
    • Confession is more powerful than exorcism
      • Demons block us from seeing a particular sin
    • God's mercy is due to the contrite and stupid
  • Consecration to our lady is a strong protection
    • "Watch my flank"
  • "Reveal to me..."
    • The problem my children struggle with
    • the demon I'm struggling with