Secret Power of Words

has been passing from mothers to children ever since the fall of the first man and woman.
     Whenever you indulge in any sin the spirit of that sin gets inside you. When Adam partook of the fruit of pride? the sin that was on the outside made a home in him. It has operated from its new home in all of us ever since. Even in your own not -so-original traumas, you will find the same phenomenon going on. Whatever is present in the trauma scene effects a change in your nature, and your changed nature henceforth answers slavishly to those people, places and things that excited the change, until you find the truth that sets you free.
     The trauma of original sin is the trauma of language. Language, women, food, and later on other fascinations began to affect man more than the God of his conscience. Remember how Adam received his instruction concerning the danger of reaching away from understanding, toward knowledge, toward pride? What caused him to doubt and fall? Wasn't it, in part, the spirit of language, spoken through a guileful woman? Adam listened to the words of his wife instead of the wordless language of his own heart. To this day, deceitful people have sway over our souls.
     Look within and behold this tug-of-war between listening to what we know deep down and the seduction of language. Somehow, instead of believing in ourselves, we allow ourselves to be affected by the words of others. We simply can't stop compulsively believing the lies and con­fusion emanating from others until we are redeemed from the tyranny of language. That is the redemption that faith alone can vouchsafe us.

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