So here we go.
Usurpation is a word used to describe how a tyrant achieves his / her goals of rule / influence / exercise over others. Ready to continue the ride to Freedom?
Usurp:
- To seize and hold by force or without right
- To commit forcible or illegal seizure of an office, power, etc.
- Encroach
Seize:
- To take possession by force or at will
- Capture, take prisoner
- Grasp with the mind; impress (the mind); arrest (the attention)
From this, it appears that to usurp someone else's power is a means to capture or imprison that person and that this can be done either by force or by this person's own request or consent. Think how many people in their sense of helplessness are very eager to give up their freedom in exchange for safety. Think how many people without realizing it, live by laws that don't apply to them.
Regardless of whether the usurpation is done with or without the consent of the target person, it is the case that by the very definition of usurpation, such an action is illegal and without right. It is done through encroachment.
Encroach [<en- + hook]:
- To trespass upon the property or rights of another, esp. stealthily or by gradual advances.
Steal-thy (remember the definition of occult?) gradual advances are key here. The way of the unrighteous - unholy has been put into place step by step with the hopes that by the time people realize what has happened it will be too late to do anything about it. A recent example of this is when they sent Europeans to the Americas. They didn't just show up and announce their intent to plunder and enslave the people. Instead, they presented themselves as friends and slowly introduced the indigenous people to the ways of the unrighteous - unholy: the alcohol, the guns, the lust for gold, furs, women, money, and so on. They offered glass beads and trinkets claiming fair trade yet to receive these trinkets, natives had to turn against themselves and the very land that nourished them. Step by step the indigenous people were contaminated until it was too late for them to do anything about it except fight hopeless battles.
Father calls this "falling prey by contact"
We speak of a gradual decline that is very stealthy indeed, at least to those targeted for this decline. Every time the unrighteous - unholy take it up one notch, there are those of older generations who recognize something is wrong and make it known, yet the younger generations which are the target just can't see it. Each new generation is a generation that is further away from Truth and thus thinks that those who complain are just being "old fashioned" and not "in tune" with an "open mind" about things.
According to the dictionary, this stealthy and gradual increase in trespassing involves three steps:
- The grasping of the mind
- The impression of the mind
- The arresting of the attention.
And of course, I might add, a careful planning and willful intent to act in such ways.