Over the course of 2000 years of Christian history much has been written about the subtle means used by Satan to tempt individual souls into both serious sin and loss of faith. We also have many accounts of mystics who have dealt personally with direct demonic attacks.
Satan, however, desires more than the acquisition of a certain number of human souls. He wishes to establish a world culture that is so poisoned in its intellectual and affective atmosphere as to make it impossible for any human being to not breathe in these toxins with virtually every breath. He desires, in other words, and, if this be possible, to so change working human nature itself that knowledge and love of God and His Truth become an impossibility. Satan seeks, in other words, a final triumph over human nature itself.
Corresponding to the two spiritual faculties of the human soul, this campaign is waged on a twofold front. In the realm of the intellect, it is conducted as an onslaught upon traditional scholastic philosophy; and in all those things which pertain to the human will, it aims at corruption of the life of the Spirit as taught by Christ in the Beatitudes.
The War Against Being And The Return To God is a work which seeks to penetrate to the heart of these errors of the intellect, and to expose these aberrations of the spiritual life. Far from being a predominantly negative analysis, however, it offers the radiance of traditional Thomistic
philosophy and theology, and the glory of Christ’s teaching, as the twofold means of our return to God.
James Larson is the author of numerous articles to be found in the British magazine Christian Order, and his writings have also appeared in Homiletic and Pastoral Review. He is the author of two books: The War Against Being And The Return To God, and The War Against the Papacy, both available from Bourbeau Press. In the year 2000 Mr. Larson, along with Mr. Hans Kroll, received the Catholic of the Year Award from the Minnesota Catholic Defense League for their explanation and defense of the Catholic faith on a series of radio programs. He and his wife Mary Jo have been home-schooling their children for 23 years, and live in Long Prairie, Minnesota.
