CONQUER LUST: How to Make The Devil OBEY You

it’s another late evening in my lab. time’s running out and I’ve got a whole stack of work to do.

I turn on the computer. light up the candle. put on red LED lights. jazz on low, always accompanying me.

but there’s something else always accompanying me… sitting on my shoulder. whispering straight into my ear.

> ‘before you start, slack off for a while. you’ve got plenty of time.’

seriously? you’ll need to try harder to move me tonight.

an hour passes. I’ve been so locked in I haven’t even blinked.

> ‘you’re so tired. go to sleep. you’ll finish tomorrow.’

there’s no tomorrow.

it shuts up again. not for long tho.

> ‘but why’re you even doing this? nobody’s going to see it anyway.’

nah. these tricks don’t work on me anymore.

there was a time in my life when I’d fold every single time. a single innocent suggestion would be enough for me to drop everything and give in to its claws. slack off ‘only for a while’ as my actual life was falling apart.

it has been studying me since I turned 3. it knows my every weakness. every wound. every unspoken vanity and forbidden desire.

it knows exactly where to strike to make me FEEL something.

and that’s what makes it SO dangerous for the sleeping man. and SO useful for the awake one.

the only thing it does now is give me even more fuel. even more ammo to keep going.

whenever I hear this little whisper I know exactly what I have to do to transmute every drop of it into my work and enter generational flow state.

devil is my bitch. he dances to whatever tune I play.

but I didn’t beat him.

that’s what most men try to do, and that’s why they keep folding. again and again.

today we’re about to change that.

by the end of this article you will know exactly how to deal with this tempting voice in your head and never give in to it again.

let’s get into it.

THE DEVIL: ACCUSING VOICE IN YOUR HEAD

> ‘the accuser of our brethren, which accused them before our god day and night’ — revelation 12:10

you probably have the preconception of a devil as a demonic being with horns, big teeth, and a pitchfork.

scary, red, ugly monster used to scare off children. but conceptualizing it this way is nothing more than reading the bible exoterically and externalizing the very thing that was meant to be read esoterically.

the bible in itself never explicitly stated that devil is an external being.

from hebrew ha-satan, it simply means ‘the accuser’.

read: the accusing voice in your head that gets in between you and the work. to lead you away from the man you were about to become.

this makes even more sense when you realize that the very word we have for the devil. DIABOLOS. means literally to get IN BETWEEN.

dia. across.

ballein. to throw.

in between you and your work. you and the ones you love. you and the reality you desire.

the easiest way to conceptualize it is to think of an alter ego. an active part of your brain that never switches off. running one layer beneath the conscious reasoning.

it has the access to a huge storehouse of data in the form of your subconscious.

since the moment you turned 3 you’ve been building this storehouse.

it holds everything you buried away. your deepest fears. insecurities. desires. every humiliation you never spoke out loud.

and fires it back at you in the moments you’re least prepared.

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THE MEANS OF THE DEVIL

> ‘put on the whole armour of god, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.’ — ephesians 6:11

1) APPROACH THROUGH INDIRECTION.

the reason why it works so well is because you almost never see it coming.

it comes disguised as ‘rest’, ‘pleasure’, ‘reward’. but underneath the cloak is the very opposite.

in the bible it never comes as darkness. but the very light.

‘satan himself is transformed into an angel of light’ (2 cor 11:14).

and 1 kings 19:12. god is not in the wind, the earthquake or the fire. but in ‘a still small voice.’

both of them whisper.

it never screams. it whispers. straight into your ear.

‘one more minute’

‘only this one time’

‘you’ve earned this’

2) IT SPEAKS IN YOUR OWN VOICE.

because it has the access to the entire database of your past, it will not use foreign arguments to persuade, but your very own beliefs.

and will twist them around in a way to justify giving in to its claws.

‘didn’t you say health comes first? go to sleep.’

it does not argue against what you believe. it argues FROM it.

3) IT DOES NOT LIE.

it deceives you. but technically it does not.

it will speak truth. though, incomplete truth.

in the book of genesis the serpent promises ‘your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, to know both good and evil’.

the very words of god though, three verses later:

‘behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil.’

it was right. tho not fully.

4) IT ATTACKS THE MOTIVE. NOT THE ACT.

in the book of job the accuser never says that job sinned.

he says ‘doth job fear god for nought?’

meaning: he is only good because you paid him well. take it away and watch him fold.

it will never tell you that you did something wrong.

it will tell you you’re a fraud for doing something right.

5) IT ESCALATES AS IT LOSES.

even the devil does not kick a man who’s already down.

actually, maybe it will, but not as hard as the man on top.

the better you do in life, overall, the bigger the offer on the table gets.

that’s why the most wretched are usually the men on top.

epstein files revealed the dark nature of the most influential people on earth.

the reason is simple: when the devil has nothing more to offer you, it will offer you EVERYTHING.

WHERE DEVIL LOSES ITS POWER

> ‘and he asked him, what is thy name?’ — mark 5:9

in the gospel of mark there’s a story about a man whom an evil spirit had taken over.

he went crazy to the point where nobody can hold him. they had tried chains and he tore them apart. they had tried fetters and he broke them to pieces. night and day out among the graves. screaming. cutting himself with stones.

then jesus lands on that shore, and speaks to it:

‘come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.’

and nothing happens. even jesus could not command it out.

so he does something else. he asks a question.

‘what is thy name?’

‘my name is Legion: for we are many.’

it leaves.

four verses later the man asks to leave with jesus, but is refused. he is told to go home, back to the same region, and tell them what happened to him.

he walks out into the decapolis and tells ten cities. ‘and all men did marvel.’

same fire, same intensity, only given direction.

here’s the lesson: every emotion in the universe carries some form of energy.

those with the highest energetical charge are usually perceived as negative: anger, fear, lust. and that’s exactly why they are the most valuable.

there’s no such thing as ‘bad emotion’. only unacknowledged emotion pointed badly.

the goal was never to fight or suppress it. but acknowledge and direct it.

once you can name it and aim it, the devil is the one that starts to OBEY you.

PLAYBOOK: MAKE THE DEVIL OBEY YOU

> ‘with all your heart means with your two inclinations. with your good inclination and your evil inclination.’ — mishnah berakhot 9:5

so let’s state it plainly: how do you conquer lust once and for all and take control over that voice in your head?

to my mind there’s only one way.

1) ACKNOWLEDGE

what makes it so persuading in the first place is that you haven’t yet properly conceptualized it.

devil is not an external being with horns. it’s not a higher force of the universe either.

it’s simply an unintegrated part of your subconscious that demands to be heard.

that’s why every other trick in the book works on you.

in order to rise above it, you have to see it for what it really is: a part of your being that was never given a job.

it’s not YOU. it’s YOURS.

the moment you stop identifying with the voice, it loses its power over you.

2) NAME

once you stop identifying with it, you have to name it specifically as it arises.

‘now it’s lust’.

‘now it’s fear’.

‘now it’s envy’.

it’s no longer release from the pressure, but a simple lust.

it’s no longer being realistic, but fear.

it’s no longer rest, but sloth.

this simple shift in perspective removes the clouds from your judgement and strips the disguise off the thing wearing it.

3) TRANSMUTE

naming it is one thing, the transmutation is the other.

these drives do not disappear as you name them. they’re still there. waiting for an outlet.

the only question left is what you’re going to do with it.

as you fully feel that drive, that electric charge passing through your chest, instead of relapsing, you channel all of it into your work.

just like the alchemist transforming base metal into gold, you’re transforming your repressed desire into output.

that’s how the elite athletes perform. how the military breaks a man and rebuilds him. how great creators turn a wound into a body of work.

they don’t kill the charge. they redirect it into the task in front of them.

whenever the devil speaks to you, name it. feel all of it. and channel every drop into your work.

that’s how you conquer lust.

that’s how you make the devil obey you.

— Cipher.

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