Outwitting the Devil: Chapter 12 Summary

Outwitting the Devil: Chapter 12 Summary

Chapter 12: Where the Devil Dwells and Nature’s Ways

The Devil’s Pervasive Influence
The Devil operates wherever he can control and appropriate. He is the “negative portion of the electron,” the source of pain, war, poverty, famine, lust, jealousy, envy, greed, fear, destructive gossip, and discouragement of free thought. He is the “creator of all forms of human misery.”

Hypnotic Rhythm’s Universal Nature
No one can avoid hypnotic rhythm’s influence, similar to gravity. It permanently fixes dominating thoughts, whether positive or negative. Non-drifters benefit from it, as it helps actualize their aims.

The Balance of Power
The Devil explains that “God” does not annihilate him because universal power is equally available to both positive and negative uses. Any human being can use this universal power as effectively as “God or the Devil.”

The Human Obstacle to Intelligence
Humans haven’t found the road to “infinite intelligence” sooner because the Devil has intercepted them, making negative ends attractive through greed, avarice, lust, envy, and hatred.

Churches as Decoys
The Devil doesn’t take over churches because they serve as a “decoy,” attracting people’s attention and sowing seeds of fear and doubt, which aids his cause. This fear leads to drifting, solidified through hypnotic rhythm.

Applying Hypnotic Rhythm
It’s not something to be evaded, but to be studied, understood, and voluntarily applied to attain definite desired ends. If not consciously applied, it operates automatically to achieve undesired ends.

Environment’s Influence
Nature forces every living thing to conform to its environment. Similarly, environmental influences are forced upon human minds unless their own thoughts are stronger. Only man has the power to establish his own “rhythm of thought” if exercised before environmental influences impose themselves.

Individual Thought Rhythm
This is the key difference between individuals. Positive thoughts (power, success) attract those outcomes, while negative thoughts (misery, failure) attract those. Success and failure are results of habit, solidified by hypnotic rhythm.

Hypnotic Rhythm as a Magnet
It acts like a magnet, attracting things with which it has an affinity (e.g., poverty-stricken people cluster together, success multiplies for successful people).

Transforming Desire into Reality
If one knows what they want, demands it, pays the price, and refuses substitutes, the law of hypnotic rhythm will translate that desire into its physical counterpart.

Environmental Control
While heredity cannot be changed, hypnotic rhythm can modify and make permanent one’s environmental influences. Individuals can resist negative influences and reverse hypnotic rhythm’s application from negative to positive by understanding and applying seven psychological principles.