From Forums of the Virgin Mary [translated]:

 

What circumstances could make the devil know in detail what we think.

Have you ever wondered why our time is more sinful than previous centuries?

The classic answer is that the demons generated a revolution against God’s plan, which was unfolding with evangelism, and it was successful.

And why was it so successful?

There is no longer even a classical explanation for this.

Is it not because the demons have had a better chance to tempt human beings and thus corrupt them?

We know from the vision of Leo XIII in 1884, that Jesus Christ granted the devil 100 years of greater power, due to the challenge that he made to him that he could destroy the Church.

But how could he tempt men more to make them fall into so many sins?  

Here we will talk about something that has been overlooked in the explanations, about how technological developments and new instruments of social communication have increased the possibility of demons to find the exact point to tempt each human being.

One of the central teachings of Jesus Christ in the Bible has been to resist temptations, because if we do not resist them we sin, and with that we distance ourselves from God and his blessings, even losing our salvation. 

We experience temptations as thoughts, feelings, and desires within us.

And if we don’t get used to resisting them, many times we will feel so guilty, so far from God, that we won’t be able to trust in His mercy, and we will drift further and further away from Him.

And where do our temptations come from? 

They come, as the classic saying of “the world, the flesh and the devil” says.

The world, our culture, and the people around us can suggest negative and sinful paths.

Our flesh, our passions and psychological wounds can give rise to unhealthy pressures.

And the devil, with the fallen angels who are with him, can generate thoughts and moods in us, in order to lead us into a loop of negative thoughts, towards ourselves and others.

However, wherever they come from, the devil will always be at least magnifying them.

And once he detects a weakness in us, produced by the world and the flesh, he will try to weaken us further there.  

His job is to distort reality, our thoughts and feelings to lead us astray.

But can he read our minds and feelings to distort our thoughts?

Perhaps not in a strict sense, but what you know of us so far is enough for you to work effectively.

Because our public words, our gestures, our actions reveal what we think, our desires, our ambitions, our “open doors.”

Therefore it has indirect access to our minds, hearing us and seeing us.

And from there it can influence our thoughts.

He is an expert in twisting things, even the most subtle.

Often when you constantly think of the negative instead of the positive, when you think badly of yourself or someone else, as a matter of reflexes, a demon is twisting things.

He is the cause of the distortions, because he wants our anguish.

And when we think of ourselves or others in a negative way, we insert darkness into our souls, instead of the light that God desires for us.

We turn our backs on the joy that God planned for us. 

Many times negative and sinful thoughts come through a feeling that invades us, we don’t know how it came about.

We are trapped by seductive loops in our mind.

But in recent decades the seduction capacity of demons has increased remarkably.

We see it in people’s current behavior and belief.

And also in the distance from God that is taking place.  

In 2 Timothy 3, Saint Paul writes that the last days will be troublesome times, filled with lovers of money, slanderers, impious and lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God.

This is because the devil’s plan would work more efficiently throughout society.

And this plan is to tempt our thoughts, feelings and desires.

And why in our time would it be more efficient, says Saint Paul?

We can assume that it is because the growing progress in brain research would give it greater precision to detect our thoughts and fantasies.

And because there would also be more instruments that would lead people to reveal what they feel and think. 

And with all this he would have much more precision to focus his attacks, tempting us at the exact point where we have a weakness.

Currently the demons do not know exactly our thoughts.

But they are able to understand what we are thinking in general terms.

Satan is not omniscient. Only God is omniscient, he intimately possesses the secrets of created reality, that of men and of angels, and he knows in depth the thoughts of each man.

However, satan and his demons have been watching and tempting humans for thousands of years. 

And they’ve learned a few things about us.