Posted by:
exminion
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Date: September 20, 2018 12:15AM
I had experienced "The Devil" only once in my life, and that had been during a temple dedication. We sat in the privileged GA seats, as my important relative was helping to officiate. During the dedicatory prayer, there were people sobbing all around me, including my mother. I opened my eyes and looked around, and this--paralyzing, scary feeling of intense hatred and fear overtook me. I was always convinced that was Satan, trying to take over! As for the sobbing spiritual Mormons, they said that they saw the Heavens open up, as though there were no ceiling in the building.
The only other times I have felt the presence of Satan have been in the temple--every time I was in there! I'm not kidding! I'm don't believe in ghosts, or the occult, but I can feel "bad vibes" and feelings of hatred, competition and jealousy, lies, greed, despair, ugliness. All that was in the temple. I went through for the first time, to marry a con-man, who had me and my parents completely duped. I wanted to back out, but everyone convinced me it was "wedding jitters." That was back in the days of the pantomimed throat slitting, chest slashing, and Hiri-kiri disemboweling motions. Yikes! Stan was there, even before all that began! The place smelled rank, like the stench of evil. Afterwards, I walked out of the temple barefoot, because some evil person had broken into my locker and had stolen my new wedding shoes and purse.
This was before I knew about the Satanic symbols all over the temple, and before I heard the tall tales of dead spirits lining up to be baptized, etc.
I never felt the presence of God in the temples, or in the Mormon churches, either, that's for sure!