The 67 Catholic Exorcisms said by the two priests involved for Anneliese brought at best temporary relief, but in the end were considered a failure due to her unanticipated and tragic death at just 23 years old. Goodman wrote: “Exorcism is basically designed to help the afflicted person to gain ritual control over the molesting entities … Unruly spirits (also) need to and indeed can be trained. Without ritual intervention, the undoing of such a pattern is extremely difficult, especially so if the alter is evil or, in religious terms, if the possessing entity has demonic powers. … It is the only strategy used cross-culturally against demonic possession, and in all instances where it is allowed to work without interference, it is eminently successful. … The worst situation in the West is the one involving demonic possession. Those afflicted by it need help. Exorcism works, other strategies do not, yet their diagnosis and treatment are determined not by what works but by the prevailing attitudes, the paradigm concerning the nature of reality. The position is so ingrained that arguments that religious experience is accompanied by measurable and recordable physiological changes are totally ignored. Finally, it should be noted that Mary, the mother of Jesus, reportedly told Anneliese in a vision she had months in advance that her ordeal would be over on the day she actually died.” What is the divine perspective on this outcome, and were the exorcisms “successful” according to the divine? What can Creator tell us?

Because of the complexity and the constraints of the rules of engagement, there are many situations where there is an incomplete resolution or, at best, a standoff to delay a worsening for a time without a true overcoming of negativity through a removal and healing of the dark spirit perpetrators. So in this instance, the death of the victim brought an end to the possessed state, and thus a victory for the light and a return to a normal life. But that does not mean the darkness won. This woman was able to be rescued as a consequence of the many prayers said on her behalf and so graduated to return to the divine realm and join her loved ones in a state of bliss, bathed in the love of the Creator. The losers, as always, eventually are the minions of the darkness. Even when they prevail in a contest, all that does is add to their karmic burden from collective mischief done for ages now in harming all they encounter, or at least making the attempt to do so, which in itself is a karmic misstep. This is the basic problem humanity must deal with, and do so effectively, to raise awareness not just on the part of humanity, about the reality of the dark spirits and the spirit realm as an in-between state of existence for all leaving the physical and returning to the heavenly realm at the end of their life. You were created to heal the rise of evil in your galaxy, so all evildoing by any being is on your plate to deal with.