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THE SILENT LANGUAGE OF EVIL
consciences. Gradually their motor abilities lessen and they begin to
slow down. They cannot perform any rapid movement. The slow-
ness and lethargy they exhibit make others uncomfortable. They
take every opportunity to be alone, withdraw from the company of
others and find a place apart to lie down or sleep—more than a nor-
mal body needs to. Yet this has no invigorating effect on them; they
just want to rest and sleep more. Because of their bodies' intense
stress, they themselves notice the overall weak state of their consti-
tutions and their proneness to illness. No matter how industrious
and active they were before, their insidious traps make them stiff,
slow and exhausted. The same slowness of motion can be seen when
such a person brushes his hair. He will not lift his arms and move his
head from side to side as a normal person does. He uses extremely
slow and interrupted movements. Eating a meal or completing any
assignment takes a very long time. He takes a book and lies down to
read, but falls asleep after the first page or two. He does not hear a
knock at the door; if someone near him gets into danger, he does not
notice and do anything to help.
Besides, he'll maintain that the physical and mental problems
he experiences are the same normal discomforts that other people
endure and pretends not to be aware of the condition he's in. The
fact is however, because he makes cosmetic changes but makes no
effort to give up the moral wickedness he has chosen or conceals the
evil inside himself, he receives such a repayment.
We can see that those who try to obtain what they want by in-
sidiousness and insincerity fall into their own trap. While assuming
they can gain something by cooperating with satan, they lose out by
becoming his toys. They think they can wield their stiffness, slow-
ness and coldness as a ploy, but all these things encompass them like
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