How to Use One’s Freedom

Eon in North Amherst, Massachusetts, April 29, 2001

People become often very nervous at the idea of absolute freedom, thinking, “Look at what has been done with absolute freedom.” Heh? Horrible things. Horrible, horrible things are done with the power of this freedom, and that’s true. True. People have been very badly harmed by others exercising their freedom.

And yet so many beautiful, beautiful things have been accomplished with that same freedom. Freedom is not the problem. The problem is how to use one’s freedom. If you could do anything without any limit, what would guide your actions? Would it be mere desire? Would it be merely “What I want?” Or would it be, what is what someone else wants? “What can I do for them?” Or would it be, “Who cares what anyone wants, what’s best? What is best for everyone?” Or beyond everyone, “What is best for God, for the Creator?

Whatever one’s motivation will be, one will learn a lot about it by indulging in it. And that, dear ones, is why bad things seem to happen in your world. People, experiencing the power of their freedom, are indulging in it through a motivation which results in harm. The motivation which results in harm is, “What is best for me? What do I want the most? I don’t think a second thought about others.”

That is the source and cause of all the examples of freedom run amok. And that, dear ones, although this may be somewhat startling to hear, is a very, very necessary phase of life for everyone to experience.