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The Reality of the Devil: A Call to Openness, Virtue and Love

The esteemed Catholic priest and exorcist, Father Reehil, recounts intense first-hand experiences with the demonic in a profoundly thoughtful recent video. Tales range from witnessing a possessed nun crawling high up a sheer wall to being summoned for the deliverance of a tormented child.

While such extraordinary accounts push the limits of skepticism, Father Reehil urges us not to outright dismiss realities that modern science has yet to fully penetrate. Instead of reactive judgment, he calls for openness, humility and non-judgment – a willingness to embrace possibilities beyond the confines of current models.

The Sturdiness of Faith Against Erosions of Meaning

Father Reehil notes that we live in an age where long-held sources of purpose and value face relentless questioning. Yet spirituality remains vitally important as a bulwark against creeping hopelessness and despair:

By believing in realms beyond rational knowing – be they mystical experiences or the eternal nature of the consciousness – we open ourselves to profound layers of meaning. Faith fortifies.

The act of believing mobilizes strengths far exceeding our conscious control:

Like a sturdy bridge securing safe passage over a deep chasm, faith supports travelers crossing through life‘s harshest storms into shelters of understanding, compassion and peace.

While reason has its place for navigating situations within its scope, faith governs domains beyond its purview. Just as the brain interrelates with the body, the rational mind coexists with subtler dimensions of awareness.

Attempting to reduce faith to low-resolution caricature – silly superstitions or deluded fairy tales – itself borders on fundamentalist zealotry. Rigidity is the antipode of wisdom. As scientific history has repeatedly demonstrated, reality unveils endless surprises.

The Power of Virtue for Rising Above Temptation

Father Reehil also discusses the immense power within each of us for self-cultivation of virtue. Though temptations surely aim to test our higher principles, we maintain agency in choosing how to respond:

By intentionally strengthening positive habits while incrementally releasing attachment to destructive patterns, we build lives of integrity – for our own wellbeing and to better assist others.

On the surface level, this involves typical disciplines around sleep, nutrition, exercise and career. But on the deeper dimensions, it means ruthlessly uprooting lingering jealousies, greed or self-absorption in order to nourish seeds of compassion.

The mountainous terrain towards moral greatness begins from taking small, manageable steps. As inspirational philosopher Fredrick Nietzsche profoundly observed:

“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster… for when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”

Through non-judgmental self-awareness, accumulated lackings become converted into learning opportunities for improvement. None stand so tall that they do not cast a shadow.

The Ultimate Victory of Love

For all the disturbances attributed to satanic mischief, Father Reehil focuses less on condemnation and more on solution. The symbolic serpent of Eden introduces necessary contrast – difficulty that calls for response.

Here the Bible resonates an enduring message that "God is love". Grace emerges through deep empathy for the shared struggles uniting humanity beyond surface level divisions. Peace manifests by uplifting those who needlessly suffer – whether from poverty, oppression or addictions.

Ongoing moral progress, for communities and individuals, entails sacrificing personal comforts to selflessly serve a higher cause – often spanning generations. As moral exemplar Martin Luther King Jr once proclaimed:

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

The victory of love – though perpetually challenged – proves inevitable in the expanses of time.
Goodness lives on in those who embrace loving intentions, words and actions amidst their daily travails. The enduring symbols from Christ to Buddha to artists creating beauty all point back to this deeper reality – beyond passing worries over demonic tricks.

As conscious beings, both bound and free, we each play a small part in tipping the scales.