Former Vatican chief exorcist, Fr. Gabriele Amorth, has given great insight into the world of fallen angels and their operations. This is contained in his book, "An Exorcist Explains The Demonic: Satan And The Fallen Angels," on the stable of Sophia Institute Press.
God, in His infinite power, created multitudes of angels, an impressive, incalculable number. Psalm 146 says that God knows the stars one by one and calls them by name. The same thing can be said of the angels: God knows them one by one.
According to Fr. Amorth, "one day during an exorcism, Father Candido Amantini — a Passionist priest and my great teacher — asked a demon: “How many are you?” The demon responded: “We are so many that if we were visible we would obscure the sun.”
The demon on that occasion gave information that we have no reason to disbelieve because it is confirmed in the Bible.
God created the angels as extremely intelligent beings, with knowledge immensely superior to man’s; and He predestined them to paradise, to eternal beatitude. Paradise, then, is not a passive and static contemplation of God. God Himself created everything in movement, both visible things — for example, the stars — and invisible things.
A great number of the angels fell because they rebelled against God. We know that before God admitted the angels to paradise, He subjected them to a trial of obedience and humility. We know the nature, but not the specifics. The sin of the fallen angels was one of pride and disobedience!
Satan, the most beautiful of all the angels, being aware of his extreme intelligence, rebelled at the idea of being subjected to someone. He forgot that he was a creature made by God. Many angels followed him in his folly of omnipotence. The same blind folly led them to an irrevocable choice, from which they never turned back.
Incidentally, that also happens with man, particularly in our day, when many appear to have forgotten God.
The original sins of the angels are the same as those who implicitly or explicitly adhere to Satanism. Angels and men who follow Satan base their existence on three principles and practical rules of life:
1. That you can do what you wish, without subjugation to God’s laws. That is, undefined and unlimited freedom!
2. That you obey no one;
3. That you are the god of yourself.
Get this great book, if you can and enlighten yourself more.
Fr. Gabriele Amorth, S.S.P. was an Italian Catholic priest and exorcist of the Diocese of Rome, who performed tens of thousands of exorcisms over his sixty plus years as a priest, before his death in 2016. But the legacy he bequethed to the Church lives on!
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