"Now, the subtlety of sickness working through human beings is incredibly
unbelievable. So unbelievable that you've got a ways to go before you see
it with this great jolt that you must have. You still want to believe in
other people because you want to believe in yourself. Forget it on both
counts. To prevent human beings from delightfully discovering that their
life is their own business, evil forces have their sick, evil, malicious
weapons ready for you. I'm going to tell you one of them. Here's a real
expose. Here's where exorcism can begin to work, where you can be
dispossessed instead of being possessed. Dispossess the evil, malicious
forces.
Dedicated devils know that human beings don't know who they are. You don't
know who you are. Don't you say you know who you are. You don't! You've got
labels. You've got ideas. You live from them. You live from these
delusions.
By the way, a delusion has no power unless you act on it. Once you act on
it that means you believe in it and want to believe in it and so you act on
it. Now the delusion has power. If you could see it without acting on it
and say, 'That's a delusion,' then you would see through it and it would
fade and you would be exorcised."
Victory Over Harmful Forces - Part III
SOLVED The Mystery of Life,
Chap. 8, p. 241 (Original version)
Chap. 8, p. 180 (Current version)