I

Satan uses fame and gain to control man’s thoughts,

until all people can think of is fame and gain.

They struggle for fame and gain, suffer hardships for fame and gain,

and endure humiliation for fame and gain;

they sacrifice everything they have for fame and gain,

and they’ll make any judgment or decision for the sake of fame and gain.

In this way, Satan binds people with invisible shackles,

binds people with invisible shackles,

and people have neither the strength nor the courage to throw them off,

they have neither the strength nor the courage to throw them off.

They unknowingly bear these shackles

and trudge ever onward with great difficulty.

For the sake of this fame and gain, mankind shuns God and betrays Him

and becomes increasingly wicked, becomes increasingly wicked.

In this way, therefore, one generation after another

is destroyed in the midst of Satan’s fame and gain.

II

Maybe today you still cannot see through Satan’s sinister motives

because you think one cannot live without fame and gain.

You think that if people leave fame and gain behind,

they’ll no longer be able to see the way ahead,

no longer be able to see their goals,

that their futures will become dark, dim and gloomy.

But, slowly, you will all one day recognize

that fame and gain are monstrous shackles that Satan uses to bind man.

When that day comes,

you will thoroughly resist Satan’s control

and thoroughly resist the shackles Satan uses to bind you.

When the time comes that you wish to throw off all the things

Satan has instilled in you,

you will then make a clean break with Satan

and you will truly loathe all that Satan has brought to you.

Only then will mankind have a real love and yearning for God.

Only then will mankind have a real love and yearning for God.

from The Word, Vol. 2. On Knowing God. God Himself, the Unique VI