THE THE LEGEND LEGEND OF OF LILITH LILITH © ©

The Legend of Lilith: The Origins of Evil and the Fall of Man
• Behavior Control -All kinds of peculiar rules, dress codes and standards of conduct (not specified
in the Torah) are impressed upon the member. Certain activities, movies, music, dancing,
smoking, and drinking are usually prohibited. New behavior models are enforced, such as going
door-to-door or on a street corner, attending several meetings a week, new attitudes towards those
who leave their group. The person is made to feel both special yet persecuted for his beliefs.
• Thought Control -Loaded language is used (terms peculiar to the particular group), such as
theocratic, YHWH's only organization, YHWH’s Apostle, the anointed, the truth, apostates,
prophet, etc. Thought-stopping techniques prevent entertaining wrong thoughts about the organization
that might lead to healthy doubts. Everything becomes black and white; the organization is
good and all else is bad. There are answers to all your questions and we have them-no need to
think for yourself.
• Control of Information -Members are denied access to information critical of their organization.
The member is kept busy reading their own literature and attending instructional meetings. Secrecy
is maintained in formulating policies, doctrines, and in disclosing the organization’s finances.
Several levels of knowledge may exist within the pyramid structure of the organization. Information
is kept from outsiders as well and only the inner group know the true doctrines being taught,
giving a more benign appearance to the public. Their meetings are closed to the public and security
is tight in case any outsiders want to visit. The victim of a cult develops a paranoia that the devil
is out to get him/her if they do not continue in the group and follow its leader’s dictatorial
reign. The members are led to believe they are not capable of using their own mind to discover
what is right and wrong, but must instead blindly follow the organization and their leader.
These methods foster the mentality of exclusivity that is the sure sign of cultic type thinking. The leaders
and individuals in these groups think that that they alone are enlightened and the sole possessor of the
Truth. Every one outside their group needs enlightenment and need the salvation that their group offers.
This type of thinking could never be possible if one embraces independent rational thinking, without any
preconditions. Minds are easy to manipulate, confuse, and deceive. Any form of psychic attack breaks
down rational thinking leaving the individual open to influence, control, and a slave of submission. There
is a slow strangulation of thought that infects the system until free thinking is cannibalized by the totalitarian
leadership or cult. 25
25 The set up is very convenient as it gives the power into the hands of a small minority who control the masses by
the manifestation of this fear of the unknown. These small minorities that constitute the leadership, in every religion,
creed, or sect, identify certain commonalities among its followers and create an aura of exclusiveness of their particular
group. They create certain rules to preserve the exclusiveness of the group by passing community wide edicts.
Their actual aim is to preserve the exclusiveness of their power over the community, in the guise of the protection of
the exclusiveness of the group. The eagerness of people to form exclusive groups is a manifestation of the fear of the
unknown. The group provides security (through numbers) and the exclusiveness gives the assurance of trust among
the people.The leaders who pass edicts and formulate rules need the security of the group behind him, and whenever
they see any individual breaking away from their grasp they first try to bring him back into the fold by passing harsh
strictures against the individual. In case the individual covers enough distance to go beyond the confines of their
control, they attempt to vilify him and make him an outcast to ensure that others in the community do not follow his
example. In case the breaking off movement is too strong, the religious leaders provide some modified version of
their exclusive rituals to placate their sense of control over the mass. In either case they can’t afford to slacken their
hold on the community. Loss of power is something no one ever learns to cope with, and the fear of losing it makes
religious leaders lose their broader perspective and become very narrow minded. They do not learn from history,
that closed minded control never works.
18