One might assume that the abstract nature of power would make it a weak reinforcement. But the opposite is true. It is a pervasive reinforcement, which causes it to permeate a large amount of reality and to produce a very significant cumulative effect over time. Another important fact is that since it is abstract, its corruptive influences easily escape awareness of the unwary. Once it escapes awareness, it does its destructive things to the mind without the corrective effects of awareness.
Awareness is corrective.
Awareness can only exist as a perfect thing. It cannot exist if it is not perfect. It can be corrupted, which is what sin does, but it then is not awareness. In other words, corrupting it destroys it, which is why it is a perfect thing. Corrupted persons lack awareness, because their awareness gets corrupted.