Why Words Affect You So Deeply
Excerpt from the book The Secret Power of Words by Roy Masters
Education, as we know it, murders the soul — it dehumanizes,
confuses, and confounds.
Hear me well. The secret of salvation lies not in education, but in realization. Without understanding to
modify their influence over us, words become hypnotic. We
spend our entire existence being programmed, and resisting
programming, and struggling against the effect words have
on us, not only on a psychological level, but on a physiological
level as well.
Words have a way of triggering profound physical
changes in us as we accept them and endow them with
something of the reality they are intended to represent.
Crime, violence, mental illness, war, disease—even poverty—have their roots in the way we believe; and the way we believe
leads directly to the way we behave.
Language can be treacherous and dangerous beyond
belief. It is the purpose of this written word to alert you to
the pitfalls of mere rhetoric.
Take the matter of faith: religion is supposed to set us
on the path toward God. Let us take, in particular, faith in
a noble religion like Christianity (which can indeed do
what it claims) and see how perverted its teachings can become
when understanding of the Bible is intellectualized.
The first deadly sin of the spoken word is that which
bids us to study and concentrate on “holy writing” in order
to acquire understanding and the salvation of the Lord. But
was not the quest for knowledge the very sin that led to our
fall? If we heed the poison in this advice, and give credence
to the spoken or written word instead of trying to understand
the reality it seeks to awaken us to, we simply duplicate
the original sin.
In order for the skilled word monger to control your
mind, he must first seduce you away from the counter-influence of your own understanding. There are many tricks
he can use to lead you into a state of doubt and confusion,
the main one being to induce you to reach for a promise of
glory and power equal to the godhead, a state in which you
can do no wrong.
In order to hang onto the belief in your “godliness,” you
must be made to doubt the reality that says it isn’t so. That
reality, once doubted, becomes almost impossible for you
to believe again. You see it as the lie, in place of the lie that
made you doubt it. You can no longer believe or accept it;
you even see it as a threat. You become a victim soul,
whose only belief system is the relationship between you
and the words of your seducer.
Through your relationship with deceit, you undergo
emotional, mental, physical, animal changes. Through this
connection, also, come the suggestions that lead your
changeling being to calamity. If you are lucky (blessed), you
may wake up one day and see that you have been betrayed.
You see all those wonderful dreams, goals, and nice
people for what they are.
It doesn’t matter whether your ambition is “socially
acceptable” or downright illegal and immoral; the lie blinds
you equally well either way. The end result in either case
is betrayal, disappointment, disillusionment, guilt, rage, depression,
unhappiness, and frustration. But if deceit can be
used to make us set aside reality and encourage our pursuit
of the forbidden, it can be used again to “save” us from guilt.
Perhaps it is time now to turn to religion and salvation
from sin; and here is where we are in danger of falling to
the guile of the serpent again. Remember that the original problem was doubt, a doubt engendered by our separation
from understanding through the leading of words. When the
serpent speaks to your soul, he uses words in a very special
way, to deceive, to get you caught up with those words instead
of with “the enemy”—understanding. He wants you
to concentrate too hard, to
memorize scripture or learning
of whatever kind, to block your understanding, and to
make you the victim of an institutional power structure that
has its roots in hell. Remember, the only way to freedom and
salvation is to have faith in the understanding in your heart.
The first thing a deceiver does is to acquire gobs of religious
knowledge and a degree or two. Of course, he may
not see himself as a deceiver; he has simply “bought” the lie
that will poison all his actions from here on out. He knows
that our faith and very existence are locked into the knowledge
of this world, and that our ego inherently looks up to
authority. For the most part, the more knowledgeable a person
is, the more wicked he is, having traded deep understanding
for the “respect” that is bestowed on much learning.
The wicked have a great natural influence on the less
wicked. Wickedness is the authority of this world, and the
wicked person’s nature is nurtured by his mindless fixation
to knowledge. Thus, knowledge translates into power for the
authority figure.
Knowledge develops in us a wicked, lying nature that
is recognized as authority by other budding egos. Wherever
you look, in the political scene or the underworld, you
will see big sinners dominating, shaping and leading the
little sinners.
The error of Adam was to hearken to the voice of the
woman rather than to what he knew in his heart to be right.
The woman, with her serpent-coached tongue, became
Adam’s authority, the reinforcing source of his prideful
existence. To this day, the ego existence of man revolves
around woman and deceitful authority. A woman who is
pretty and is a good liar, good at supporting the male ego
in its prideful endeavors, does not have to work at all. A man
will work himself to death for her lying support. She represents
life and truth to him.
The spirit of the serpent ascends to power wherever
the masses of people are enslaved, by their pride, to the pursuit
of glory. At a certain point, that pride, in its guilt, needs
a religion to relieve it of pain and save it from sin. But the
egomaniac’s idea of salvation is not the same as ours. What
the prideful ego wants to be saved from is the knowledge
of its sin. It will accept any twisted teaching that helps it to
save face—anything that makes the soul feel good about itself
and that supports and sustains prideful wickedness
with a sense of goodness.
The first thing that false preachers do with their hypnotic
authority is make you believe that the Bible is the Word
of the Lord, when it is simply a message, a word from God,
designed to bring us back to understanding. Then, they
persuade you to study “The Word,” to focus your attention
on words in a hypnotic way, a way that draws you away from
real understanding.
Study is an unhealthy egotistical fixation on words, the
kind of involvement that ruined man in Paradise; it has
the same appeal and sustaining/reinforcing effect today as
it did then.
The sin of doubt has to do with joining (through misguided
faith) with the spoken word. Mankind’s biggest
problem is his inability to believe his own understanding to
conjoin with his own wordless, commonsense view. He
reacts, responds to, and accepts what other people (especially
experts) say. His response is based on the original trauma
of believing a lie, which set him up to respond to words and
to “authority” forevermore.
Responding is the key to growing in the likeness of the
source to which we are obedient. By responding, we dramatize
the subtle will of the source. Responding, therefore,
strengthens the original bond established through believing,
so that responding to the word makes us doubt our true
selves more than ever. Doubt leads to still more response,
until mindless response becomes our faith, and through that
faith comes our thinking and intellectual knowing, forerunners
of confusion.
Hellfire preachers use our compulsive responses to
make believers out of us. These masters of pressure tactics
chain us to the kind of faith that is not faith at all, but is actually
doubt in “faith’s clothing.”
The faith we have in words arises from our doubting
commonsense Truth. Because we are totally caught up in
words and have lost sight of the original truth, it is difficult
for us to see what is happening to us.
The seducer that ruined our lives with words now
rises to save us with words. And with words he pretends to
bring us back to God. What he fails to reveal is that we cannot
learn our way back to our Creator.We cannot expect
to find God through the study of religion. Truth is not in words, but in the understanding of the heart.
If I were to demonstrate the principles of hypnosis, I
would select my subject by his ability to concentrate, to focus
his attention onto an idea or object. Having tricked him into
concentrating, I could funnel suggestions to his subconscious
mind through his fixated attention. My will would become
his will, and he would obey me.A hypnotized person will
obey another’s command in much the same way that he
should be obeying the wordless prompting of his own conscience.
Doubt what you know to be right deep in your own
consciousness, and you will begin to follow the suggestions
of others. Doubt yourself, and you lose the ability to believe
or to follow what you know is right. When you lack inner
guidance, something has to get and hold your attention in
order to control you, and nothing is more powerful than a
promise of glory and salvation for your fallen ego.
When our understanding of the Bible’s message becomes
perverted to see it as the Word of the Lord, then the
book becomes a god, and the preacher becomes the high
priest, the interpreter of the message. The preacher uses the
Bible like the hypnotist uses a point of fixation—to overpower
the subject. He then twists its meaning into the
suggestion he wants his “subjects” to obey.
You will let anyone hypnotize you who promises to cure
you by releasing your “great hidden potential.” Inherently
and egotistically, we recognize how to obtain something we
want through emotionalized belief and fixation to lies.
Remember, the original sin was following the “spoken
word,” disobeying God’s command in order to eat of the knowledge of good and evil. The first couple, from whom
we have all evolved, simply could not resist the lure of
knowledge, thinking that just by knowing what there is to
know of good and evil, they would be able to rule the
world like gods. But no matter how hard a person studies
to know intellectually the Word of the Lord, all he can become
through all his learning is a student robot.
Teach and preach the Word of the Lord, and you become
a “wolf in sheep’s clothing.”Any “man of God” worth
his salt knows that he can’t “teach God” without becoming
something of a god himself to his students. Five years in a
seminary add up to five years of prideful endeavor, stuffing
one’s mind with the knowledge of God while leaving the
understanding of God far behind. All that the cleric has left
to show for his efforts is a pile of intellectual verbiage that
can do nothing but confuse the seeker of Truth, while helping
the willful to justify their sins.
The self-anointed Christian says, “Yes, I sin all right, but
I am always forgiven by the blood of Jesus.” And he sticks
to his story in spite of the fact that several chapters in the
scripture point to the fact that a man with a truly saved
nature can no longer sin. (See John 3: 1-11)
The mark of the Satanic minister, who misuses Christ’s
teaching, is his insistence that “no one is perfect other than
Christ himself,” and that we can sin all we want to because
Christ forgives us. Such a minister thereby uses Christ to
support every imaginable sin of pride, and overlooks Christ’s
own injunction to us to become perfect even as he is perfect.
It is incumbent on us who understand the true meaning
of Christ’s message to unmask the Devil wherever we find him, and to point out the inconsistency of his teachings
with the very book he claims to hold dear. It’s time to
unmask the Devil, to repudiate the “letter” that “killeth,” and
to proclaim the spirit of understanding that “giveth life.”
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