I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent
deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the
simplicity that is in Christ. (2 Corinthians 11:3)
Deception is not
something out there that is put upon us willy-nilly, or in spite of ourselves.
All deception has its own ground in man. What is that ground? It is the fact
that man is now a psychical being. Now if you can get to the bottom of that, if
you can apprehend that, you will understand the whole thing. The ground of all
this is in the fact that man is a psychical being, and when Satan interfered
with man at the beginning and man consented along the line of his own
soul-life, Satan made man suitable to his own government. It was not that he
came and set himself up as man’s ruler and subjected man by sheer force to his
own government. How did he do it? By breaking into that realm in man’s being
where man was linked with God, and that was in the realm of man’s spirit. “He
that is joined to the Lord is one spirit,” and man was in fellowship and
communion with God by means of his spirit, not his soul, not his body. These
two were under the government of his spirit. The enemy, the Deceiver came to
man’s soul, and instead of man reacting by his spirit-fellowship with, and
knowledge of, God, he dropped down on to his soul, came out of his spirit and
reacted in his soul.
What is soul? It is reason,
emotion, feeling, desire, and then, of course, choice, or will. And the enemy
reasoned through the desires and captured the will by deception. You see what
happened when man violated the very organ of his union with God, his spirit....
So the enemy governs man, and the whole of the race now through the nature of the
soul-life. What is the basis of deception? It is just that! How do you get a
counterfeit Holy Ghost operating? By reason of your psychical nature. You can
become mediumistic in your very psychical nature and open all the avenues of
your being to supernatural guidance and come under the power, the sway,
dominion, of deceiving spirits operating in a multitude of ways. You can so
suspend your soul and come into a state of utter passivity that you are open to
everything to play upon you. You can have your quiet hour in your soul, which
is the most perilous hour of your life. That happens by suspending all
spiritual activity and becoming utterly passive and opening your psychical
being, which is a most dangerous thing. God never asks you to become
spiritually passive.
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