Thelema In Context of Eastern Meditation
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@nirbiraja said
Tell me: How do governments benefit by you not realizing your utmost spiritual potential?
Every man, woman and child can be free and free from being governed. That’s the threat. That’s where your programmed fear of loss of individual free-will and economic concerns originate; that, and being manipulated by your peers not to realize your supreme and sovereign existence because they are too cowardly, or ignorant in their own studies, to realize it in themselves.
Many people come to similar conclusions through more mundane means of knowledge, though I can appreciate how achieving one's spiritual potential might make it resonate on a more personal note. However, the problem isn't the government concept itself, but that fear-based social programming you mention. Ideally a government exists only serve & nurture its citizens: like a family unit, but on a grand scale. Fears (due largely to territorial/property attachments) create scenarios where freedoms are exchanged for the "service" of fear-alleviation (freedom as a commodity is no less subject to greed). This infects the symbiotic government-citizen relationship, and doesn't seem to me to be different than the case of an adult living with their parents due to the anxiety of stepping out on their own. The mantra of the old aeon: If you live in my house, you'll live by my rules. Question: If parents today are less strict than our ancestors; how long until government catches up?
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.