Was Jeffrey Epstein possessed?

The question is asked for obvious reasons.

Few public figures in the past century or more have spun such a nefarious web.

The wife of multi-billionaire William Gates, Melinda, described Epstein as “evil personified,” and had nightmares after meeting him.

Others have described the intense charisma he radiated, with which, along with his mysterious money, he roped in more than a thousand women and not just younger ones but older models, actresses, and professional types. He also corralled hundreds of multi-billionaires, high financiers, bankers, tech-tycoons, university administrators, scientists, politicians, artists, actors, sports figures, media moguls, and socialites.

He did all that, plus, we are led to believe, ran a major financial “consulting” operation that accrued hundreds of millions and operated at least five major personal estates. Some say he was a “genius” (note the root word “genie,” as in perhaps “jinn“); others that he was an amazing, historically noteworthy conman who could talk his way into and out of everything.

He seemed preternaturally good at mathematics. He talked physics with the likes of Stephen Hawking. He gave counsel to and was close friends with Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Ehud Barak, and Donald Trump. He had what appear to have been ties with intelligence agencies, especially the Mossad (Israel).

All that, and did we fail to mention he was a maestro at the piano?

How could a single person achieve all that without a little preternatural help—and more to the point, how could a person come across as such an amiable person (even smirking humbly, nearly with self-deprecation, when asked if he was the devil)? How did he manage to come across as so high-minded , avuncular, and philanthropic while badly abusing young women and underage girls, perhaps even having some of them tortured and murdered?

No one has reported things that went bump in the night. No one has claimed that he had multiple personalities. In other words, no one has indicated demonic possession in the classic sense. He never levitated above a bed (that we know of).

But what if Epstein was a case of what the famous writer and priest Malachi Martin, in a book called Hostage To the Devil, called “perfect possession.”

In other words, just what Melinda gates said: evil personified; in a constant state of demonism.

Evil can instill great and instant “talent” (it’s good at maestros), not to mention charisma.

As one writer noted in New Oxford Review, “Father Martin warned that being absolutely controlled by evil, the totally possessed gives no outward indication, no hint whatsoever, of the demonic residing within. The individual will not cringe at the sight of a Crucifix or violently react to the touch of Holy Water or hesitate to discuss religious topics with equanimity.”

Added Dr. Scott Peck in People of the Lie, “Martin correctly states that the rare cases we call possession should more properly be termed ‘partial,’ ‘incomplete,’ or ‘imperfect’ possession. Martin suggests the hypothesis that ‘perfectly possessed’ human beings may exist, even abound, but he offers this hypothesis only as a highly tentative one. Since they are the least likely to submit themselves to psychotherapy, the truly evil are even less likely to undergo an exorcism through which the demonic would be fully discovered.

“If there is such a thing as perfect possession, it is highly likely to preclude its own revelation.”

In his 1992 book, Father Martin wrote, “In every case of possession that comes to the point of Exorcism, the subject has reached a crucial crossroads. Some small corner of reservation remains, some glimmer or recollection of the light of Jesus still shines.”

It is from that last redoubt that the possessed manages to muster sufficient autonomy of will to call for help. That is why their possession is only partial instead of complete.

Not so with the perfectly possessed.

A priest who wrote Exorcism: Understanding Exorcism in Scripture and Practice observed in “perfect possession,” the individual has freely given himself totally to evil.

Instructive it is to note that although the Gospels recount numerous instances of Christ casting out demons, He did not do so with Judas, nor did the Apostle Peter exorcise Ananias (Acts 5), nor Paul cast a spirit out of Elymas (Acts 13), instead blinding him.

God respects our free will, and Father Martin believed that unlike cases of partial possession, those who are perfectly possessed do not want the demons to leave.

So, who are the perfectly possessed?

Not a convicted sex offender named Joseph Edward Duncan III, who began his criminal career at age 17 in 1980. Gruesome testimony (excuse the explicit nature of it) included a videotape of the torture and murder in which Duncan screams, “The devil is here, boy, the devil himself…. The devil likes to watch children suffer and cry!” Duncan periodically broke into shouting, and at one point sang the Lord’s Prayer in a high voice. While it tells us something about the force behind pedophiles and ritualists, that’s not perfect possession. The demonic was obvious.

Not so with the flinty, sly-eyed mystery named Jeffrey Epstein, who hid his demons perfectly during life (as far as we know) but now in death has led to a great awakening in the public, an unveiling, of the actual metaphysical existence of Satan.

[resources: Malachi Martin: In the Shadows of the Vatican]