Human Behavior and Undulation

Animals Inhabit Time

• Animals, including humans, are constantly changing due to their existence in time
• The closest they can get to constancy is through undulation, which involves:
  • Returning to a level
  • Experiencing a series of troughs and peaks

Observing Undulation in Humans

• A person's:
  • Interest in their work
  • Affection for friends
  • Physical appetites
  • Emotional and bodily richness and liveliness
  • Periods of numbness and poverty
  • Dryness and dullness
• These aspects will alternate, and it's essential to make good use of them

Making Good Use of Undulation

• To make good use of undulation:
  • Ask what the Enemy wants to make of it
  • Do the opposite

The Enemy's Strategy

• The Enemy gains permanent possession of a soul by:
  • Relying on troughs even more than peaks
• Some of the Enemy's favorites have gone through longer and deeper troughs than anyone else

The Enemy's Goals

• To the Enemy, humans are primarily:
  • Food
• The ultimate goal is to:
  • Absorb human will into the Enemy's own
  • Increase the area of the Enemy's selfhood at the expense of humans

The Enemy's Demands

• The obedience the Enemy demands from humans is:
  • A different thing
• The Enemy's love for humans is not what it seems