"Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad."

-Messenger Elizabeth Clare Prophet

                 Now there are individuals of course who do not stand guard, and therefore they become suddenly and ferociously the instrument of a “sea monster” that is out of control....Once in control of the conscious mind the dweller-on-the-threshold takes over the whole house, attracting discarnates and demons that bring death and destruction to many innocent bystanders before the victim, himself but a tool of the sinister force, succumbs....

Nevertheless the planetary momentum will tie into and activate the personal anti-Christ to catch off-guard even the souls nearest their victory over the beast; at that moment the individual must slay not only the personal carnal mind but in so slaying it, drive back the planetary momentum and overcome the original Liar as well as the lie which the originator of evil has propagated in his seed. 

Now you may day by day resist the temptations of your carnal mind and of the planetary dweller, but you may not have completely slain the personal representative of the Evil One....Instead of surrendering it (the dweller) at the wye (of initiation between left and right-handed paths) the initiate may instead embrace the dweller. Instead of eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of God (assimilating the light of Alpha and Omega in the body of Christ), he literally drinks the cup of the blasphemy of the fallen angels and eats at their board the infamy of their anti-Word....Such an individual would then be on the left-handed path.  His will, not God’s, is supreme.  An adept on the left-handed path is called a black magician.          -Messenger E C Prophet:  3-13-1983 at Camelot, Los Angeles

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"Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad."   The gods are the fallen ones who have enthroned the carnal mind within them and they’re all insane by the very act of having enthroned the carnal mind.   -Messenger E C Prophet:  1-8-1979 at Camelot

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The first version of this phrase appears in Antigone of Sophocles (verses 620-623) as "τὸ κακὸν δοκεῖν ποτ᾽ ἐσθλὸν τῷδ᾽ ἔμμεν' ὅτῳ φρένας θεὸς ἄγει πρὸς ἄταν" meaning "evil appears as good in the minds of those who gods lead to destruction".   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whom_the_gods_would_destroy