This conditions the mind to refrain in imagination, power and possibility. It is based on the natural understanding that might not be conscious, that what we do has a reaction in the world, and there are cycles and there is momentum for any action, or energy in the world.
Produces fear, refraining, loss of sight (as you lack the actual experience of seeing how the workings, "world" works), based also on the simplicity of this, the mind appeals subconsciously to a personal higher force or entity, as a "providence", that is then routed in enemy religions by curses, lack of true spirituality.
Everything this is, by numerology also if used, is a direct curse to any human who tries to understand the occult. Based only on corrupted notions that are not understood, such as how the laws of the material and spiritual work.
There is no such thing in reality and the conditioning of the mind to this will yield only atrophy and destruction.
There is also no need to justify a possible way why this was "right" as only with a simple analyzation of the effects of this (by a spiritual person), outweigh any other justification of security in face of non-spiritual people. Simply this is a corruption of other notions.
One can relay very simply these base notions of the past without lying, subverting and conditioning the failure of the basic spiritual laws that start incubating in the mind at first. This invalidates any pursuit of spirituality, or even curiosity.