September 9, 2021

Since power is required for corruption and has no place in human existence, corrupters need to change the image of power. So they pretend that power is virtue and the secret source of knowledge.

A lot of persons buy into that assumption, being surrounded by it in society. This is why cults exist. The use of power to impress vulnerable persons is what cults are.

Every cult follows the same pattern without exception. The procedures are described over and over. It starts with the cult leader, who is said to be charismatic, creating a starting point in a few persons who he impresses. Then those persons draw in more persons who rely not only upon the impressiveness of the cult leader but the other persons who they trust.

Only after a significant group of persons are impressed by and following the cult leader does the tactic shift to control through abuse. Abuse is a method of control which carries a cult into new dimensions—never an exception.

That process is the story of power. It must first impress; and then it must abuse. If not, it does nothing.