Course VIII - Teaching 6: Liberation

Men are enraptured when a new prophet appears and teaches about liberation and new horizons of life.
How sweet are these words in their ears!
This means to break with ancient rites, old traditions and time-honored customs; in short, to break chains of bondage and to go out of the cage that keeps them in prison!
A “new life” begins with the bugle call, but how deceitful is human life!
Shortly after, this man has to confess that ancient rites have been substituted for other rites (if he has common sense), like a lady that renounced to her own cross saying it was a sign of superstition, and soon after displayed a little amulet of gold against bad luck. These “liberated” people and their happy habits replace old traditions, and cannot do without a cocktail, a cigarette, or a coffee time.
Time-honored customs have been trodden on in order to follow other new customs.
These people went out of one cage and are confined in another. They are merely jumping from one point to another: that of pairs of opposite passions in life.
It is marvelous to speak about liberation as the end of the spiritual path, but liberation is not a gift of the word, but a gift of the soul.
One can achieve the liberation by controlling mind, energies and vital forces.
The man is tied by inner bonds and not by the outer way of living.
A soul can be free and fly through vast spaces without impediments and barriers by observing outside, externally, a disciplined, ordered and self-denying life.
What benefit have brought to Humanity too much liberal ideas and the so-called “modern” ones.
Did they remove sorrow, misery and war?
“But seek you first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you”, said Christ.
So, do not seek freedom in the outer aspect of living but seek the liberation of your soul, the inner liberation, and a better way of outer life will emerge then to you: these things “shall be added unto you”.
Watch strictly by checking continuously your thoughts, feelings and impulses, and your spirit can be revealed in an open, sovereign and liberal way.