One of the obligatory formalities before being sent to earth is a day-long crash course called "Instruction 71p". That was today. A boring instructor told us everything we need to know on possession, exorcism and such.
I won't go into the details. In a nustshell, he told us not to do it. Possessing people, I mean. Corporate doesn't allow it, Inquisition doesn't approve it, and we don't want it - for reasons I will explain below.
Centuries ago, possession was a quite common behaviour. For a tempter, the possibility to seize a human soul, to torture it while still inside its body and to drink its pain and despair is very... well... tempting. In the old days, it was kind of a sport - not encouraged by the authorities, but tolerated.
But there are two problems with this sport. First of all, possessions make the existence of demons very obvious, which is against current politics. Corporate wants us to hide as much as possible the existence of demons, for obvious reasons. The less humanity knows about our existence, the better we can operate in secret. Thus, every possession would risk to compromise our agents in the field.
The second problem is exorcism. A thousand years ago, human followers of the Enemy have developed techniques to expulse a demon from the possessed body. There are still some humans capable of expulsing a demon: Exorcists.
The instructer insisted on the fact that an exorcism is a very unpleasant and painful experience and can destroy a demon. He cited an example of a recent rogue possession and exorcism in New Zealand: The demon, a class-15 tempter from fifth cercle, was destroyed in the process.
As a sidenote, a human can be under full demonic control whithout being possessed by a demon (I am speaking of the spasms-and-funny-voices type of possession). A textbook case was a certain Adolf Hitler who was controlled by a committee of 23 demons. Despite the committee, the operation was surprisingly successful - probably because 13 of the 23 committee members were blackmailed and controled by an ambitious Earl of Hell who wasn't even member of the committe himself. So the committee was a mere facade for the Earl's own decisions. The Earl's goals remain unclear, possibly he intended to get ahead of his cousin and arch-rival who controlled, indirectly, a certain Joseph Stalin. What the two cousins did was completely unauthorized, but as they wreaked havoc with Europe and earned the hell truckloads of souls, Management decided to authorize it a posteriori. Which didn't hinder Inquisition to try both rivals for high treason and heresy, but that's another story...
That was "Instruction 71p".
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