This might be a good place to mention why music is so effective. Language devoid of spirit has no luster. Music (inspired by the seductive ego soothing evil behind it) puts back into language sparkle, and now seduces again through its poetry and melody. 

Can you see what really happens? You actually become seduced, corrupted by a Hell-inspired, poetic, musical appeal to your ego. Your ego comes down to accept the glory of it and, for a fleeting, blissful moment you forget the pain of your guilts and feel as good as God.

You get high, in other words. But fall you did and sin you did, because whether you believe it or not, sin is the transference of relationship through any successful appeal to your ego, no matter what its form, even when the offering is to feel good in your fallen state.

If Adam was seduced by an apple, he can be all the more seduced by apple strudel. The aftermath of the “blues” or depression is actually the result of an awakening to what has, by seduction, really happened.

So what do you do next? You conjure up the temptation, the very thing that has destroyed you, and you employ it again and again to soothe the tortured soul in thought and in deed. The memory serves in a similar way as the actual experience, providing energy, illusions of worth, and escape from the reality of what a pathetic god you really are becoming.

Every time you feel guilty, useless or worthless you set a bigger goal or you hallucinate about the past glories or failings. Men stranded on a desert island dream about sizzling steaks and the girls they left behind. Why? To avoid facing reality. 

Ambition, sex and judgment are the most basic forms of ego appeal. They are most frequently used to help you escape realizing what those very things have done to you. 

When a male fantasizes about sex, he actually escapes from seeing what sex has done to him. When the alcoholic dreams of drink he actually fondles the memory of the corrupting power of drink to help him escape the painful guilt of the corruption by drink, and by sex, etc.

"Corrupt things and corrupt thoughts become more attractive, rising to meet your need to escape the painful reality within."

What helps us escape corrupts. But, the incorrigible ego has no choice but to fondle and play with the very things that are destroying him. You do not see the danger because you don’t want to see. Your involvement with fact and fantasy saves you in a hypnotic way; and as it soothes, you become that much more rotten without knowing why.

Corrupt things and corrupt thoughts become more attractive, rising to meet your need to escape the painful reality within. 

We reach and fall for the glorifying, forbidden things and then get mentally involved to forget the painful shame of what we have done. Between experiences and reliving those experiences, we enervate and deplete our minds and bodies of huge amounts of vital energy.

This is the main reason for feeling drained, tired and run down. And this state of mind causes us to fall prey to a host of diseases, especially cancer. 

One method of releasing lost vitality is with stimulants represented by drugs, tobacco and alcohol. The shock of each new traumatic experience becomes a new temptation base, exciting into our minds new memories to hide behind. 

The drug that excites the ego to come down into a fantasy world becomes one more vile mental thing for which the victim yearns with a sinner’s craving akin to true love. 

So falling men yearn for sex to forget the guilt of sex, drugs to forget the guilt caused by drugs, drink, music, food—anything.

The greater the guilt becomes, the greater our need to sink into delusions, into hungers and into longings for life, into the very emotions of sensuality we should be rising from and into the world we ought to be conquering.