Demonic affliction was hardly unknown among the spiritual orders, and customarily came only to those souls who had reached such an advanced state of grace that the enemy of God took note and inflicted all sorts of horrible inner and outer torments in order to drag the spiritually-minded brother down from his lofty height. If that were indeed the case with me, then I knew I should count it an honor to be singled out by Satan himself as worthy of special attention.
