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

This quiz explores how humans, like other animals, experience constant change and undulation in their lives, affecting their interests, emotions, and physical appetites.