mansion joined him in its recital. As the
creature became benign, the younger man's
face was still filled with terror. "You think
you're scared of this thing?" The old man
said, "Don't you think you've scared a lot of
people letting this thing come lashing out of
you?!" Awareness and remorse lit up the
younger man's face.
Ironically, this man was not evil,
especially in the sense of what you might
expect in witnessing what had been living
inside of him. Pointing out that this
particular demon was quite common; the old
man had much to say. "The demon of rage is
what they call it," he said, "it often sparks
outbursts of rage and lives inside a great
many people who are anywhere from
verbally to physically abusive." Pausing to
look our way, he made sure we were
listening to importance of his words to come.
"This is not the demon of the mass murderer;
it's the demon of the common man."
Taking the now benign creature and
placing it into an unusual aquarium, we
realized that this aquarium had the power to
keep the demon benign and at rest while
encapsulated within. Feeling relief, the man
who'd undergone an exorcism felt relief, but
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