How can we reach freedom, freedom in what? If we exist in a closed volume of creation and are acted upon by the Light, and I’m under the control of my uncorrected desires, then these uncorrected desires have a hold of me. In their having command over me, there are a few levels of their rule over me.
They can have such a power over me that I do not feel I’m in their grip; I simply act according to their rule upon me, according to their desires. This is similar to when we sometimes are under the power of another person without feeling that this is the case. He has simply entrapped us under his influence, and we just behave this way, and that’s all. Someone can pull me out of such a state or I myself suddenly start seeing: “Yes, I fulfill all of his commands; yes, I do whatever he forces me to. He is playing with me this way; he is manipulating me this way.”
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