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The Bible states that a demon of lust “hath power” over all spouses who come together for various lustful reasons in their marital acts
In the Biblical book of
Tobit or Tobias, we can read about how a powerful devil or demon of
lust that is called Asmodeus kills and deceives lustful people, and
that this demon “hath power” over married spouses and individuals
who come together for various lustful reasons in their marital acts.
Tobias
6:16-17 “Then
the angel Raphael said to him [Tobias]: Hear me, and I will shew thee
who they are, over whom the devil can prevail. For
they who in such manner receive matrimony, as to shut out God from
themselves, and from their mind, and to give themselves to their
lust,
as the horse and mule, which have not understanding, over
them the devil hath power.”
Haydock
Commentary
adds: “Verse
17.
Mule,
which are very libidinous, [Showing excessive sexual drive; lustful.]
Psalm xiii.”
The interesting thing
about the sexual connection of a horse and a mule is that they cannot
produce offspring, thus making their sexual relations completely
sterile and unproductive. So what does this mean for marriage? It
means that this verse alone proves that God’s word condemns as
sinful and unlawful all human sexual relations or acts that (1) are
performed for the sole motive of lust; (2) that cannot produce
offspring naturally (not referring to natural infertility or
defects); (3) and that are done with an intention or mindset opposed
to procreating offspring. Our Lord Jesus Christ
in the New Testament of the Bible also connects the will to bear
children to salvation, teaching us that a woman: “shall
be saved through child-bearing;
if she continue in faith, and love, and sanctification, with
sobriety.”
(1 Timothy 2:15)
The biblical book of
Tobias describes how the pious and pure virgin “Sara daughter of
Raguel” had married seven husbands, but all seven of them had
mysteriously died when they first entered the nuptial chamber, that
is, when they first tried to perform the marital act: “…
she [Sarah] had been given to seven husbands, and a devil
named Asmodeus had killed them, at their first
going in unto her.” (Tobias 3:8). Haydock
Commentary explains the reason for this: “God justly
suffers the wicked to fall victims to their iniquitous appetites.
(St. Gregory, mor. ii.)”
This specific demon who is
allowed to control and kill people who fall into sins of the flesh is
named Asmodeus, according to Holy Scripture. Haydock Commentary adds
the following about this demon: “Asmodeus, "the fire of
Media." Hebrew, "king of the devils," of that country,
exciting people to lust, (Menochius; Serarius, q. 8.) and destroying
them. (Worthington) --- Unto her. Greek and Hebrew intimate,
when they first entered the nuptial chamber, chap. vi. 14.”
The
Catholic Encyclopedia gives the interesting explanation that “God
allowed the demon to slay these men because they entered marriage
with unholy motives,” and that “the permission given by God to
the demon in this history seems to have as a motive to chasten man’s
lust and sanctify marriage.” The only reason why the demon Asmodeus
was allowed to kill all seven of Sarah’s husbands “at their first
going in unto her,” that is, when they first tried to perform the
marital act, was because they all intended to perform the sexual act
for sinful, selfish, impure and lustful reasons instead of for the
love of God and of children that always must be connected to the
marital act. St. Isidore of Seville (c. 560-636 A.D.) who is one of
those special theologians honored with the title of Father and Doctor
of the Church agreed with this doctrine of the Natural Law, teaching
that in a true marriage “couples seek not pleasure but offspring”
and that “therefore when a person is more sexually active than [is]
needed for... procreation, he sins.” (St. Isidore, De
Ecclesiasticis Officiis)
In the same Book of Tobit
the holy angel Raphael told Tobias to marry Sarah the Virgin but
Tobias was afraid to do this since he knew about the death of Sarah’s
seven former husbands. St. Raphael however assured him that only
those husbands and wives who are lustful and who seek fleshly
pleasures are able to be controlled or killed by the demon, thus
reassuring him in his holy motives.
Tobias
6:14-18,22 “Then Tobias answered, and said: I hear that she hath
been given to seven husbands, and they all died: moreover I have
heard, that a devil killed them. Now I am afraid, lest the same thing
should happen to me also: and whereas I am the only child of my
parents, I should bring down their old age with sorrow to hell [not
the literal Hell, but to the place where the souls of the good were
kept before the coming of Christ]. Then the angel Raphael said
to him: Hear me, and I will shew thee who they are, over whom the
devil can prevail. For they who in such manner receive matrimony, as
to shut out God from themselves, and from their mind, and to give
themselves to their lust, as the horse and mule, which have not
understanding, over them the devil hath power. But thou when
thou shalt take her, go into the chamber, and for three days keep
thyself continent from her, and give thyself to nothing else but to
prayers with her. … But the second night thou shalt be admitted
into the society of the holy Patriarchs. And the third night thou
shalt obtain a blessing that sound children may be born of you. And
when the third night is past, thou shalt take the virgin with the
fear of the Lord, moved rather for love of children than for lust,
that in the seed of Abraham thou mayst obtain a blessing in
children.”
Haydock
Commentary explains:
“Ver.
14. Died.
Greek, "were destroyed in the nuptial chamber, (numphe).
… he
was permitted by God to exercise his malice against those who would
have gratified their impure desires.
(Calmet) --- Ver. 20.
Society
(copulatione.)
He then obtained this blessing, though he knew not his wife till the
fourth night. (Worthington) --- His marriage resembled that of the
patriarchs. (Calmet)”
The archangel Raphael also
told Raguel (Sarah’s father) that his daughter Sarah could only be
married to a man that feared God, thus showing us the necessity of
fearing God in all our actions.
Tobias
7:11-12 “Now when Raguel heard this he was afraid, knowing what had
happened to those seven husbands, that went in unto her: and he began
to fear lest it might happen to him also in like manner: and as he
was in suspense, and gave no answer to his petition, the angel said
to him: Be not afraid to give her to this man, for to him who
feareth God is thy daughter due to be his wife: therefore another
could not have her.”
This shows us that Sarah’s
seven former husbands did not fear God; hence that they deserved to
die. For Sarah, who was a holy and
devout virgin, did not deserve to be united with such impure and
unholy men that did not fear God — and especially during the
marital act. For this reason, God allowed the demon Asmodeus to kill
all seven of her former husbands.
Before Sarah had met with
Tobias, she had fervently prayed to God and fasted for three days so
as to be delivered from her reproach after she experienced the sad
event of the death of her seven husbands. Her words while praying
clearly shows that her intention when marrying was not to gratify
pleasure (that, sad to say, is the most common reason today of why so
many marry), but rather that she may be joined in wedlock in the fear
of the Lord and for love of children.
Tobias
3:16 “[Sarah said:] Thou knowest, O Lord, that I never coveted a
husband, and have kept my soul clean from all lust. Never have I
joined myself with them that play: neither have I made myself
partaker with them that walk in lightness. But a husband I
consented to take, with thy fear, not with my lust.”
Haydock
Commentary explains: “Verse
16. Coveted,
through impure love. Greek, "I am pure from all the sin of a
man, and I have not defiled my name, nor the name of my father, in
the land of our captivity. I am an only child," etc. (Haydock)
--- Lust:
a very high encomium; which Sara mentions without vanity, placing her
confidence in God. (Menochius) (Proverbs xx. 9.) --- Ver.
17. Play,
lasciviously, (Menochius) or dance. (Hugo.) (Exodus xxxii. 1.)”
In contrast to Sarah’s
seven former husbands, Tobias was spared from being attacked and
killed by Asmodeus since he was holy and desired to please God
instead of his own flesh.
Tobias
8:9-10 “And now, Lord, thou knowest, that not for fleshly lust
do I take my sister to wife, but only for the love of posterity,
in which thy name may be blessed for ever and ever. Sara also said:
Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us, and let us grow old both
together in health.”
Haydock
Commentary explains: “Ver. 9. Only. Greek,
"for truth," resolving to be ever faithful to her.
(Haydock) --- We cannot read the pure sentiments of Tobias and Sara,
brought up in the midst of infidels, without surprise. Nothing more
perfect could be required of Christians (Calmet) in the married
state. (Haydock) --- St. Augustine (Doct. x. and xviii.) adduces this
text to shew the true intent of marriage. --- Ver. 10. And.
Greek, "Order pity to be shewn me, and that I may grow old with
this woman. And she said along with him, Amen. And they both slept
the night," probably on separate beds, ver. 15. (Haydock)”
While
most people are not physically killed by the demon Asmodeus when
performing the sexual act with unholy and sinful motives, this text
from the Bible demonstrates that those who are sexually lustful with
their spouse, or with other people they are not married with, die a
spiritual death through their sins. Most people do not like to think
about these facts, but the amount of people today who are controlled
and killed bodily, spiritually and eternally by the Devil is, sad to
say, far too many. For “they that commit sin and
iniquity, are enemies to their own soul.” (Tobias 12:10) If
lust is not controlled and in some sense fought against, it will
almost always end in mortal sin, because all control is lost. “Go
not after thy lusts, but turn away from thy own will. If thou give to
thy soul her desires, she will make thee a joy to thy enemies.”
(Ecclesiasticus 18:30-31)
It
is thus absolutely clear that the
Holy Bible and the Christian Faith teaches us
“that
those marriages will have an unhappy end which are entered upon...
because
of concupiscence alone,
with no thought of the sacrament and of the mysteries signified by
it”
(Pope Gregory XVI, Mirari
Vos
#12) since those kinds of sinful, selfish, and lustful “marriages”
in effect are nothing but fornication in disguise of a marriage. St.
Augustine, speaking about the Holy Patriarchs and Prophets of old and
St. Tobit, makes clear that “wantonness even in regard to wives is
abuse and intemperance” thus teaching us that all unnecessary or
non-procreative sexual acts in marriage “is abuse and intemperance”
against God’s Holy Law: “And
assuredly those [holy] men of whom I speak knew that wantonness even
in regard to wives is abuse and intemperance, as is proved by Tobit’s
prayer when he was married to his wife.
For he says: ..."And now, O Lord, Thou knowest that I take not
this my sister for lust… therefore have pity on us, O Lord."
[Tobit 8:5-7]” (On
Christian Doctrine,
Book III, Chapter 18, Section 27, A.D. 397)
St.
Clement of Alexandria (c. 198 A.D.): “Marriage in itself merits
esteem and the highest approval, for the Lord wished men to "be
fruitful and multiply." [Gen. 1:28] He
did not tell them, however, to act like libertines,
nor did He intend them to surrender themselves to pleasure as though
born only to indulge in sexual relations. Let the Educator (Christ)
put us to shame with the word of Ezekiel: "Put away your
fornications." [Eze. 43:9] Why, even unreasoning beasts know
enough not to mate at certain times. To indulge in intercourse
without intending children is to outrage nature, whom we should take
as our instructor.” (The
Paedagogus or The
Instructor, Book II,
Chapter X.--On the Procreation and Education of Children)
In
conclusion, it should be totally clear that “the
devil hath power”
over all people who shut God out from themselves and their hearts,
“as the horse and mule,” and who do things such as masturbation,
oral sex, or any other act that are completely shameful, unnecessary,
non-procreative and selfish (both before, during, or after the
marital act) that they normally wouldn’t do if they really believed
that God was present with them. Good and virtuous spouses always
remember that God is present with them, and that is also why they do
not stoop to the evil and unnatural sexual sins that so plague
humanity today. “The activities of marriage itself, if
they are not modest and do not take place under the eyes of God as it
were, so that the only intention is children, are filth and lust.”
(St. Jerome, Commentary
on the Epistle to the Galatians,
Book III, Chapter 5:21, A.D. 387)
In
truth, “filth” is the most suitable word that sums up the worth
of every marital act that lacks a procreative purpose. While
most people looks upon carnal lust as something good or normal, God,
on the other hand, views it as “filthiness” and “unclean
stench”. The Son of God spoke to Saint Bridget, saying,
“The evil spirit fills
and incites those in the worldly marriage to carnal lust where there
is nothing but unclean stench,
but those in the spiritual marriage are filled with my Spirit and
inflamed with the fire of my love that will never fail them.” (The
Revelations of St. Bridget, Book
1, Chapter 26) In another part of the same book, Christ explains that
“lusty pleasure
and worldly delight are well compared to a sulfurous mountain”
because of “the
stench of concupiscence
and the fire of punishment”
that all who perform unlawful sexual acts have within themselves. “In
truth, lusty pleasure
and worldly delight are well compared to a sulfurous mountain, since
they have within themselves the swelling of the spirit and
the stench of concupiscence and the fire of punishment.”
(The Revelations
of St. Bridget,
Book 5, Revelation 11)
Thus,
“...when it [the
sexual act] is from lust or for the sake of pleasure, then the
coition is a mortal sin and the man sins mortally. … And
these dicta assume that the man and his wife have sex according to
the order of nature, for anyone who goes against
nature always sins mortally and more seriously with his wife than
with anyone else and should be punished more seriously…
Note the difference between the two
cases of husband-wife sex, for incontinence and for pleasure and
lust… In the second case, he seeks to procure pleasure
with hands or thought or passionate uses and incentives so he can do
more than just have sex with his wife…
[thus sinning mortally] because he acts as an adulterer when he burns
like an adulterer even with his own wife.” (Gratian, On
Marriage, Dictum
Post C. 32. 2. 2)
That is why it is of the
greatest importance that a couple learn to control their lust.
Risking eternal damnation and insufferable, indescribable torments in
the fires of hell for a momentary, brief, pleasure or sin is not
worth it, and is a horribly bad choice to make.
Jesus
Christ spoke to St. Bridget, saying:
“Therefore, two holes will be opened in him. Through the first
there will enter into him every punishment
earned for his least sin up to his greatest,
inasmuch as he exchanged his Creator for his own lust.
Through the second there will enter into him every kind of pain and
shame, and no divine consolation or charity will ever come to him,
inasmuch as he loved himself rather than his Creator.
His life will last forever and his punishment will
last forever, for all the saints have turned away from him.’
My bride, see how miserable those people will be who despise me and
how great will be the pain they purchase at the price of so
little pleasure!”
(St.
Bridget’s Revelations,
Book 2, Chapter 9)
The
more sexual pleasure and sensual gratification a person seeks to
derive from the sexual act, the more the devil’s power over him
will be increased also, and the more the sin is increased (with an
intention of persevering) the more the devil’s power is increased
as well, until, what was a venial and pardonable sin, becomes a
mortal and damnable sin. Therefore,
if a person understands that he may be living in venial or mortal sin
with respect to sexual pleasure, he or she must learn to control
their lust immediately, keeping it within the range of what is licit
and permitted (non-sinful) within a marriage, and not going any
further.
The sexual act and the
desire to please oneself sexually is so powerful to invoke the powers
of darkness and devils that almost all satanic cults have sexual acts
and rituals along with all kinds of abominable perversion as a
prerequisite in their rituals to invoke the devils and demons of
hell. These servants of Satan knows that the sexual act is especially
powerful to summon various demons, and so they always try to act out
their sexual perversions in order to be able to better commune with
their lord and god, who is the Devil.
The book Malleus
Maleficarum, which means “Hammer of the witches”, and which
was a very influential writing in the 16th century, explains that
“God allows the devil more power over the venereal act, by which
the original sin is handed down, than over other human actions”,
adding that this happens, “because of its natural nastiness, and
because by it the first sin was handed down to posterity.”
Indeed, the truth that the devil have “more power over the venereal
act” than other acts, if one thinks about it, is proven by the fact
that very many of the most evil sins that humans can commit on this
earth are connected to sex: Homosexuality, abortion, contraception,
pedophilia, rape, and all other unlawful and perverse sexual acts.
The book also explains that spouses can sin with each other in their
sexual acts, and that sexual sins in the marriage and between spouses
makes the spouses more liable to bewitchment, or in our language,
possession or obsession of demons or devils. Thus, “even in a
state of matrimony it is possible to commit the sin of incontinence
in various ways. … He
who loves his wife to excess is an adulterer. And they who love in
this way are more liable to be bewitched after the manner we have
said.”
Malleus
Maleficarum, Part 2, Chapter II: “Although far more women are
witches than men, as was shown in the First Part of the work, yet men
are more often bewitched than women. And the reason for this lies in
the fact that God allows the devil more power over the venereal act,
by which the original sin is handed down, than over other human
actions. In the same way He allows more witchcraft to be performed by
means of serpents, which are more subject to incantations than other
animals, because that was the first instrument of the devil. And the
venereal act can be more readily and easily bewitched in a man than
in a woman, as has been clearly shown. For there are five ways in
which the devil can impede the act of generation, and they are more
easily operated against men. …
“And the infirmity we are considering can only be due to the sin of
incontinence. For, as we have said, God allows the devil more power
over that act than over other human acts, because of its natural
nastiness, and because by it the first sin was handed down to
posterity. Therefore when people joined in matrimony have for some
sin been deprived of Divine help, God allows them to be bewitched
chiefly in their procreant functions. But if it is asked of what sort
are those sins, it can be said, according to St. Jerome, that even in
a state of matrimony it is possible to commit the sin of incontinence
in various ways. See the text: He who loves his wife to excess is an
adulterer [Against Jovinianus 1.49]. And they who love in this
way are more liable to be bewitched after the manner we have said.”
Another
interesting example which shows us that the devil,—by tempting
lustful spouses to commit sexual sin,—is the mastermind behind why
spouses perform non-procreative and unnecessary sexual acts, is found
in the great Revelations of St. Bridget,
where Our Lord Himself also reveals that spouses who perform
unnatural or unnecessary sexual acts with their spouse will be damned
to suffer and be tormented for all eternity in the fire of hell
unless they repent and cease committing these acts:
“A
demon appeared at the court of divine judgment with a certain
deceased man’s soul that was trembling the way a heart trembles.
The demon said to the judge: “Here’s my prey! Your angel and I
have been following this soul from start to finish—he did it to
protect her, I to harm her. Both of us chased her like hunters. But
in the end she fell into my hands. My passion to gain possession
of her is like a torrential stream rushing along which nothing can
resist but the barrier of your justice. However, your justice has not
yet been applied against this soul, so I am not yet secure in her
possession. I long for her as intensely as an animal consumed by
starvation that hunger drives to eat its own limbs. Therefore, since
you are the just judge, adjudge a just judgment upon her!”
The judge [Our Lord Jesus Christ] answered: “Why has she fallen
into your hands and why were you closer to her than my angel?”
The demon answered: “Because her sins were greater in number than
her good deeds.”
The judge answered: “Show me which!”
The demon replied: “I have filled a book with her sins.”
The judge: “What is the name of this book?”
The demon answered: “Its name is disobedience, and it is really
seven books, each one containing three columns. Each column contains
more than a thousand words: none less than a thousand but some many
more. … The seventh book was his lust and it, too, had three
columns. The first was that he spilled his seed in an undue and
intemperate way. Although he was married and kept away from the stain
of other women, nevertheless he spilled his seed unduly as a result
of embraces and unsuitable words and immodest behavior. The second
column was that he was extremely frivolous in his speech. He not only
led his own wife on to more passionate sexual desire, his words also
lured others many times to hearing and imagining indecent things.
The third column was that he fed his body too luxuriously, having
sumptuous dishes prepared for the greater enjoyment of his body and
for the sake of his reputation, in order to be called a great man.
Over a thousand words are in these columns—sitting longer at table
than he ought, not keeping to schedule, speaking unsuitably, eating
beyond natural requirements.” (The Revelations of St. Bridget,
Book 6, Chapter 39)
In
Book 4, Chapter 52 of the Revelations
a similar vision describes how a married couple that performed
non-procreative or unnecessary sexual acts was condemned to eternal
punishments. After an angel’s explanation to St. Bridget about the
terrible vision of a man and a woman and their spiritual
significance, he says the following concerning the woman: “You
saw the woman’s hands were like the tails of foxes and her feet
like scorpions. This is because, just as she was undisciplined in her
whole body and all her passions, so
too by the lightness of her hands and her way of walking she excited
her husband’s physical delight and stung his soul worse than any
scorpion.” This
shows us that all lasciviousness and all unlawful lust outside of the
normal, natural and procreative marital act kills the soul. In truth,
today too many people in this world fall into hell because of “the
lightness of her hands” by performing masturbatory acts with their
hands either on their spouse, or on themselves, or by arousing their
own or their spouse’s lust by lascivious and impure behavior, just
like this woman in this example did.
The following words
describes the woman and the man’s terrible punishment due to their
lustfulness and worldliness:
“At
that very moment an Ethiopian appeared with trident in hand and three
sharp claws on his feet. He shouted and said: “Judge, it is my hour
now. I have waited and been silent. Now is the time for action!”
Immediately, I beheld a naked man and woman before the judge as he
sat there together with his innumerable host. The judge said to them:
“Though I know all things, tell us what you have done!” The man
answered: “We heard and knew about the ecclesial bond, and we paid
no attention but disdained it.” The judge answered: “Because you
refused to follow the Lord, justice says you must experience the
malice of the executioner.” Right then the Ethiopian thrust his
claws into their hearts and pressed them together so tightly that
they looked like they were in a winepress. And the judge said: “Look,
daughter, this is what people deserve when they knowingly distance
themselves from their creator for the sake of creation.”
“The judge spoke again to the two of them: “I gave you a sack to
fill with the fruit of my delights. What, then, do you bring me?”
The woman answered: “O judge, we sought the delights of our belly
and have nothing to bring but shame.” Then the judge said to the
executioner: “Let them have their just reward!” And he
immediately thrust his second claw into both their bellies and
wounded them so badly that all their intestines appeared to be
pierced through and through. The judge said: “Look, daughter, this
is what people deserve when they transgress the law and thirst after
poison [that is, sensual pleasure] as though it were medicine.”
“The judge spoke again to the two
of them: “Where is my treasure that I provided for your use?”
Both of them answered: “We trampled it underfoot, for we sought an
earthly treasure and not an eternal one.” Then the judge said to
the executioner: “Let them have what you must and can give to
them!” He immediately thrust his third claw into their hearts and
bellies and feet in such a way that everything seemed to be like one
big ball. The Ethiopian said: “Lord, where shall I go with them?”
The judge answered: “It is not for you to rise or rejoice.” At
that the man and woman disappeared with a wail from the face of the
judge. The judge spoke again: “Rejoice, daughter, because you have
been kept apart from such creatures.” (The Revelations of
St. Bridget, Book 4, Chapter 52)
Another Revelation of Our
Lord Jesus Christ confirms –
in an even more horrifying manner –
the fact that non-procreative sexual acts are utterly hated by God.
Our Lord tells us about a woman who used to use her arms in a
lascivious manner, and tells us that in Hell “The arms and
other limbs with which she used to lasciviously embrace the loved one
so tenderly are now stretched out like two snakes that coil
themselves around her, mercilessly devouring and tearing her to
pieces without rest.”
The
Revelations of St. Bridget, Book 6, Chapter 16: “Then the Lord
said to the same saint: “Tell my bride here what those persons
deserve who care more about the world than about God, who love the
creature more than the Creator. Tell her what kind of punishment that
woman is now undergoing who spent her entire lifetime in the world in
sinful pleasure.” The saint replied: “Her punishment is most
severe. For the pride she had in her every limb [through vanity], her
head and hands, arms and legs burn horribly in a blazing fire. Her
bosom is being pricked as though by the hide of a hedgehog whose
quills fasten to her flesh and mercilessly press into her. The
arms and other limbs with which she used to lasciviously embrace the
loved one so tenderly are now stretched out like two snakes that coil
themselves around her, mercilessly devouring and tearing her to
pieces without rest. Her belly is terribly twisted, as
though a sharp pole were being driven into her private parts and
thrust violently inward so as to penetrate ever more deeply.
Her thighs and knees are like ice, hard and stiff, with no warmth nor
rest. The feet that used to carry her to her pleasures and lead
others along with her now stand atop sharp razors slicing them
incessantly.”
This hair raising example
shows us the miserable end in hell of all who perform unlawful,
non-procreative and lascivious sexual acts and touches, like this
woman did.
Indeed,
all people who are performing inherently shameful, unnatural or
non-procreative sexual acts for lustful and selfish reasons of course
knows by nature and instinct – just like the satanist do – that
they are sinning against the Natural Law imprinted on their hearts.
St. Augustine in his book On
Marriage and Concupiscence,
explains to us that the “law of righteousness [the law in our
hearts] forbids allegiance” to such lusts.
“Now
this [shameful] concupiscence [or lust], this law of [original] sin
which dwells in our members, to
which the law
of righteousness forbids allegiance,
saying in the words of the apostle, "Let not sin, therefore,
reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in the lusts
thereof; neither yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness
unto sin:"
[Rom. 6:12-13]—this concupiscence [of original sin], I say, which
is cleansed only by the sacrament of regeneration [Baptism], does
undoubtedly, by means of natural birth, pass on the bond of [this]
sin to a man’s posterity [children], unless they [the children] are
themselves loosed from it by regeneration. In the case, however, of
the regenerate [the baptized], concupiscence
is not itself sin any longer, whenever
they do not consent to it for illicit works, and when the members are
not applied by the presiding mind to perpetrate such deeds.
So that, if what is enjoined in one passage, "Thou shalt not
covet," [Ex. 20:17] is not kept, that at any rate is observed
which is commanded in another place, "Thou shalt not go after
thy concupiscences." [Ecclus. 18:30] Inasmuch, however, as by a
certain manner of speech it is called sin, since it arose from sin
[i.e., the first sin and consequent fall from grace by Adam and Eve],
and, when it has the upper hand, produces sin, the guilt of it
prevails in the natural man; but
this guilt, by Christ’s grace through the remission of all sins, is
not suffered to prevail in the regenerate man, if
he does not yield obedience to it whenever it urges him to the
commission of evil.”
(St. Augustine, On
Marriage and Concupiscence,
Book 1, Chapter 25, A.D. 419)
Recent studies prove
that 75% of men who died during intercourse committed adultery
Recent studies have proven
that the demon Asmodeus is still very active today and that he
kills a considerable amount of people who commit sexual sins of
various sorts. According to these studies, the risk of a heart attack
is 2.7 times greater when compared with those not engaging in sex. Of
those who died during intercourse, 82-93% were male of which 75% were
having extra-marital sex, usually with a younger partner, at an
unfamiliar location and after excessive food and alcohol! Beware!
The fact that 75% of all people who die during sexual relations are
adulterers and that they were committing an act of adultery when they
died is an astonishing and undeniable proof of the fact that the
demon of lust, Asmodeus, still kills wicked, sinful and lustful
people even today. All those unrepentant adulterers whom the demon
killed are burning in Hell right now as we speak, and nothing they
will ever say or do will change that fact however much they weep and
plead in their eternal abode of excruciating fire.
However
hard this might seem to some people, especially unbelievers, a
considerable amount of people really do die of heart attacks or
sudden cardiac arrest during sex. And almost all of those people who
die are older married men cheating on their wives with younger women
in unfamiliar surroundings. I came across this information while
reading this article: “Heart 411: The Only Guide to
Heart Health You’ll Ever Need”,
by Marc Gillinov and Steven Nissen, both high-ranking cardiologists
at the Cleveland Clinic.
They
wrote: “Men with coronary heart disease do need to follow
the rules. When heart attacks occur during or after sex, they almost
always involve older men in extramarital affairs with young women.
For those men, it would have been safer to stay at home and burn off
excess energy on a treadmill in the basement.”
I
wrote to Steven Nissen, and asked him to back that statement up with
some data. Almost instantly he sent me two scientific papers, the
first of which was “On
the association of sex with cardiac events”,
and the second was a scientific statement from the “American
Heart Association on sexual activity and cardiovascular disease”.
The latter states: “Of the subjects who died during coitus, 82% to
93% were men, and the majority (75%) were having extramarital sexual
activity, in most cases with a younger partner in an unfamiliar
setting and/or after excessive food and alcohol consumption.”
The astonishing level of
people that dies during sex when committing adultery (75%) compared
to those of the rest of humanity who dies during sex (25%) is
irrefutable proof of God’s holy indignation and displeasure of
sexual sin, and especially adultery (which even most people of the
world looks upon with horror and disgust). It is a fair assumption to
say that married men have much more sex with their wives than with
other women, and yet 75% of all people who die in the sexual act die
when they are committing adultery. This gives us solid statistical
evidence that adultery and sinful sexual lust actually kills people.
You who are reading this
document may not be committing the sin of adultery, but most of you
are certainly committing some form or another of marital sexual sin
since that is what you have been taught by the media, the world, and
even by the so-called “moral theologians”, false priests and
heretical bishops. In fact, an incredible 25% of all people who die
during sexual activity perform some form of sexual activity other
than adultery. This is not an insignificant number, but every 1 out
of 4. So the scientific claim about extramarital and marital sexual
activity holds true and is just another proof of how God allows
demons to kill and damn people who sin sexually. Thus, it is true to
say that “Inordinate love of the flesh is cruelty, because under
the appearance of pleasing the body we kill the soul.” (St.
Bernard of Clairvaux, A.D. 1090-1153) And that “The activities
of marriage itself, if they are not modest and do not take place
under the eyes of God as it were, so that the only intention is
children, are filth and lust.” (St. Jerome, Commentary on
the Epistle to the Galatians, Book III, Chapter 5:21)
Truly, the news network
CNN also confirms that having sex less, or taking less pleasure in
sex, saves many people’s
lives, in an article called: “Great sex linked to heart disease for
older men but not women”. “If you’re
an older man in a relationship and you have sex once a week or more,
you may be twice as likely to have a heart attack, stroke or other
cardiovascular event than a less sexually active man, according to a
study released this week in the Journal of Health and Social
Behavior. Especially if you enjoy it. "Older men who found sex
with their partner extremely pleasurable, or satisfying, had higher
risk of cardiovascular events than men who did not feel so,"
said study author Hui Liu, associate professor of sociology at
Michigan State University.
The
study analyzed survey data from 2,204 people enrolled in the National
Social Life, Health and Aging Project in the United States. Men and
women aged 57 to 85 in partnered relationships were asked about their
sexual satisfaction, frequency and health status in 2005, then again
five years later. Each person’s cardiovascular health was also
recorded by measuring their blood pressure, heart rate, elevated
C-reactive protein and history of heart attacks, heart failure and
strokes. While the analysis found great sex is risky for men in the
survey, those who had sex one to three times a month and rated it
less pleasurable had no increased risk for heart concerns. …"These
findings challenge the widely held assumption that sex brings uniform
health benefits to everyone," Liu said. "I think it is
important for older people to understand the potential risks and
benefits of sex." … Lastly, said Lui, having a high frequency
of sex may indicate problems of "sexual addiction, sexual
compulsivity or sexual impulsivity" for men, and could be
related to "psychological states such as anxiety or depression,
which may lead to negative cardiovascular health."”
All people should
seriously consider and think about what it actually means to give
oneself over to a devil or a demon as the Bible describes happening
with those who commit sexual sin. The implications and result of
giving oneself over to the devils and demons are endless, but some
obvious examples are murder, “divorce”, incest, rape, arguing,
adultery, fornications, abuse, gloating, and drug and alcohol abuse.
This list could obviously go on for pages. Even a worldly couple
would appreciate the inestimable worth of having a peaceful home free
from all strife and troubles, but most people, however, live as
though they cared nothing for such things.
It is true to say that a
huge part of the abuse or other problems that people endure in this
world happens as a result of the married and unmarried performing
unlawful sexual acts (such as kisses and touches for venereal
pleasure) that are not able to procreative in themselves. When men
and women abuse the sexual act by performing unnatural sexual acts,
they cease seeing each other as persons created in the image of God,
and start seeing each other as objects to be used to gratify
themselves. Since they do not use the marital act for the good
purpose of procreation but abuse it in order to derive more pleasure
than God and nature allows them to have, they sin by committing a
crime that is selfish in nature, and this selfishness will in turn
taint all of their conversations and relationships. It is easy to
understand that a person who is seen as an object will be much more
easy to maltreat or abuse than someone who is seen as a person.
Indeed, one can even understand this fact from the light of natural
reason, as selfishness is the cause of abuse, and non-procreative or
unnecessary sexual acts are at the root cause of all selfishness, as
we have shown. This shows us that reason itself confirms that
non-procreative and unnecessary sexual acts are at the root cause of
abuse or other problems in a marriage and in the world.
St. John Chrysostom,
commenting on the Bible’s
Word in Romans 13:14 “And make not provision for the flesh, to
fulfill the lusts thereof” shows us how sexual selfishness is
associated with problems in marriage: “Wherefore also Paul, after
saying, “not in chamberings and wantonness,” proceeds, “not in
strife and envying,” as knowing the wars that result therefrom; the
upsetting of families, the wrongs done to legitimate children, the
other ills unnumbered. That we may then escape from all these, let us
put on Christ, and be with Him continually. For this is what putting
Him on is; never being without Him, having Him evermore visible in
us, through our sanctification, through our moderation. So we say of
friends, such an one is wrapped up in such another, meaning their
great love, and keeping together incessantly.” (St. John
Chrysostom, Homily 24)
Pope Pius XI also confirms
that there is a great danger for people who marry – and that have
led a lustful life before their marriage – and “who before
marriage sought in all things what is theirs, who indulged even their
impure desires, will be in the married state what they were before”,
again making clear the fact that “there will be sadness,
lamentation, mutual contempt, strifes, estrangements, weariness of
common life” in such a person’s
marriage. Lustfulness and selfishness are directly connected, and
that is why a marriage of lustful and selfish people will so often
fall apart and produce a so called “divorce.” People who intend
to get married must be educated in detail about the purity and honor
of the sacrament of matrimony, so that no one defiles this holy
sacrament.
“All
these things, however, Venerable Brethren, depend in large measure on
the due preparation remote and proximate, of the parties for
marriage. For it cannot be denied that the basis of a happy wedlock,
and the ruin of an unhappy one, is prepared and set in the souls of
boys and girls during the period of childhood and adolescence. There
is danger that those who before marriage sought in all things what is
theirs, who indulged even their impure desires, will be in the
married state what they were before, that they will reap that which
they have sown; [Gal. 6:9] indeed, within the home there will be
sadness, lamentation, mutual contempt, strifes, estrangements,
weariness of common life, and, worst of all, such parties will find
themselves left alone with their own unconquered passions.” (Pope
Pius XI, Casti Connubii, #112, December 31, 1930)
For those who want to read and learn a lot more on sexual ethics, I can recommend the following interesting and informative article that is absolutely packed with quotes from the popes, saints and fathers of the Church:
Sexual Pleasure, the Various Sexual Acts, and Procreation
