Enemies of freedom
"Freedom is looked upon fearfully by those who are not free. It is looked on with suspicion by those who are still a slave to their own mind, a slave to their fear, a slave to their cultural conditioning, a slave to their weakness." [1]
"There are people who are freedom oriented and there are people who are control oriented, and the control oriented are afraid of freedom, and they are afraid of Mystery because they do not believe in the essential goodness of the human spirit. They have lost their faith in humanity and have placed all their faith in their ideology and their prescriptions that they believe have come from God. But God has only given recommendations through the great Teachers, not rules—recommendations for living, guidelines for living to help people orient their lives correctly and productively and beneficially." [2]
“You cannot give up your spiritual reality to become a completely worldly person, or you will never have a real sense of your life and destiny. And you will never understand or be able to experience consistently the greater purpose that has brought you here. You will make all your decisions based upon your ideas or the ideas of your culture, and you will be bound and chained to your culture. It, more than you, will dictate who you are with and what you will do, what you will value and what you will avoid. You will not be a free person, even if you live in a free nation.” [3]
“If you are not free to follow Knowledge, then you are a slave to other forces. You can escape slavery, but you must exercise great strength and determination to do it. You must face discomfort, for when you break the laws of manipulation, you will feel fear because fear is what governs them. Beyond this fear, there is freedom and release.” [4]
References
- ↑ New Year's Message 2010 (December 27, 2009)
- ↑ The New Message on Religion (July 20, 2009)
- ↑ The Mystery (June 8, 2010)
- ↑ Steps to Knowledge Continuation Training, Step 27: I must learn to be discreet today.
See also
Further study
- Life in the Universe, Chapter 8: Freedom in the Greater Community
- The Journey to a New Life, Chapter 3: The Prison
- The Allies of Humanity Book One, Second Briefing: The Challenge to Human Freedom