Hidden Curses of the English Language
- Ruaan van der Walt
- Oct 20, 2025
- 4 min read

Our Premiere Life Sentence (one example among many):
"We AWAKE each MORNING, and go off during the WEEKDAYS to various JOBS to EARN a living until we come to the WEEKEND."
At first glance, it looks harmless. A simple schedule. But split it apart and the funeral mask appears. This is not a sentence. It is a rite of death spoken daily. And it is only one example.
The Sentence Unmasked: A Funeral Rite in Disguise
ššš®šøš² ā A wake, the gathering for the dead.
š š¼šæš»š¶š»š“ ā Mourning, the grief that follows the wake.
šŖš²š²šøš±š®šš ā Weak daze, the trance of exhaustion while trading life for wages.
šš®šæš» ā Urn, the container for ashes of the dead.
šš¼šÆ ā Job, from the Bible, the archetype of suffering and persecution.
šŖš²š²šøš²š»š± ā The weak end, the final depletion before the cycle restarts. You are also progressively weakened as the days pass, drained piece by piece, until you arrive at the weak end, where the cycle collapses into exhaustion before beginning again.
Everyday speech is a spell. A funeral ritual in disguise.
Hidden Curses of English and How to Break Them
Language is not neutral. It is a machine for shaping thought, and thought shapes the world. Spoken carelessly, words bind. Spoken with precision, words free.
Every syllable cuts a groove in the mind. Every repetition deepens it. And when people shrug, āItās just a phrase,ā that is denial itself, the curse defending its own walls.
The Numbers Behind the Words
Using English gematria (A=1 to Z=26), the values of the life sentence are:
Awake = 41
Morning = 90
Weekdays = 93
Earn = 38
Job = 27
Weekend = 67
Total = 356 ā reduces to 5.
Five is instability, struggle, the wheel that never stops turning. Morning sets grief. Weekdays stretch the daze. Job binds you in suffering. Earn reduces life to ashes. The weekend collapses you into depletion. Then the cycle resets.
Numbers are not superstition. Numbers are geometry. Five is the wheel. Four is the box. Three is the triangle. Each shape is law, and each law binds reality.
This is not coincidence. This is architecture.
Side by Side: Life and Time Curses
The Time Curse says: āWe KILL TIME waiting for the DEADLINE.ā
Kill = 37
Time = 47
Deadline = 55
Total = 139 ā reduces to 4.
Four is the square, the box, the prison. Kill makes life itself disposable. Time becomes something to waste. Deadline is a line of death. This is a slow execution ritual, repeated every day.
Side by side, the pattern is brutal. The life sentence drains vitality. The time curse erases meaning. Both repeat. Both spread. Both are spells.
More Life Sentences That Bind
š§šµš² š£šæš¼š±šš°šš¶šš¶šš šššæšš² ā āIf you are not busy, you are failing.ā Exhaustion becomes the proof of worth. Identity tied to speed. Dignity reduced to fuel.
š§šµš² šš“š¶š»š“ šššæšš² ā āAs you get older, you slow down and accept less.ā Assumed decline. Trained resignation. Vitality bound by expectation.
These are not harmless sayings. They are mass liturgies. Millions chant them. The psychic field amplifies the curse. Every time you refuse the chant, you weaken the field and show others how to refuse it too. Rebellion is contagious.
The Religious Layer of the Curse
Institutional Christianity reinforced the same pattern with guilt, fear, and shame. Guilt says you are born wrong. Fear says you will burn if you disobey. Shame says you are never enough. These do not just weaken the individual, they enforce obedience to hierarchy and authority. The life sentence, the time curse, the productivity curse, and the religious curse all knot into one net.
Language as Sorcery
Spelling is spell-casting. Every letter is a sigil. Every word is a spell. Every sentence is a command chain impressed on the mind. Language is sorcery. You cast every time you speak. Speak growth. Name strength. Refuse decay.
The Lost Tuning of Ancient Tongues
Not all languages curse. Ancient tongues were tuned to uplift. Sanskrit was designed with vibrational precision. Hebrew wove number into letter. Egyptian glyphs united sound, symbol, and power. These systems carried consciousness upward. English drags it downward. One liberates. The other enslaves.
The Evidence Read Plainly
Letters are laws. Words are wands. Numbers are flames. Together they form shapes that bind reality. The uninitiated speak spells that keep them small.
Language structures perception. Perception structures reality. What once served empire and conquest can be reclaimed as initiation.
English is empireās spell, spread by sword and ship. To speak without awareness is to serve empire still.
The Blade Edge, Practical and Immediate
The first cut is recognition. The next is refusal. Interrupt the liturgy. Replace automatic phrases with conscious ones. Speak strength. Name growth. Refuse decay. Repeat until it roars louder than the curse.
You are not innocent. You have spoken these words. You have repeated the curse. That is complicity. To know this truth and ignore it is to choose chains. To break it is to choose initiation.
There is no middle ground. You choose chain or flame.
Final Oath: A Ritual of Counter Spells
Speak these aloud until they carve grooves stronger than the old ones:
I rise, I do not wake. I greet the dawn, I do not mourn the morning. My days are strong, not weak. I build, I do not earn. My work is craft, not Jobās suffering. My week strengthens me, it does not end me. My time is sacred. I do not kill it. I cross no deadlines. I walk lifelines.
These are not affirmations. They are counter-spells. Spoken with attention, they forge new architecture in the psyche.
This is language reclaimed for initiation. Language either binds or frees. The unexamined phrase is a rope around the throat. The examined phrase is a key in the hand.
Walk into every room with that intention. Watch the air shift when you refuse the hollow chant.
English became the empireās tongue through conquest. Its curses are not accident, they are weapon.
Yet the same grooves of control can be cut anew into channels of ascent.
Speak like a magician. Speak like a leader. Speak like a flame.




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