| Both are the outcome of the idea of | | | | fact of being under nature. |
| freedom. There cannot be life,even in | | | | Bondage and liberty, light and shadow, |
| the plant, without the idea of freedom. | | | | good and evil must be there, but the |
| In the plant or in the worm, life has to | | | | very fact of the bondage shows also this |
| rise to the individual concept. It is | | | | freedom hidden there. If one is a fact, |
| there,unconsciously working, the plant | | | | the other is equally a fact. There must |
| living its life to preserve the variety, | | | | be this idea of freedom. While now we |
| principle,or form,not nature. The idea | | | | cannot see that this idea of bondage, in |
| of nature controlling every step onward | | | | uncultivated man, is his struggle for |
| overrules the idea of freedom. Onward | | | | freedom, yet the idea of freedom is |
| goes the idea of the material world, | | | | there. The bondage of sin and impurity |
| onward moves the idea of freedom. Still | | | | in the uncultivated savage is to his |
| the fight goes on. We are hearing about | | | | consciousness very small,for his nature |
| all the quarrels of creeds and sects,yet | | | | is only a little higher than the |
| creeds and sects are just and | | | | animal's. What he struggles against is |
| proper,they must be there. The chain is | | | | the bondage of physical nature, the lack |
| lengthening and naturally the struggle | | | | of physical gratification, but out of |
| increases, but there need be no quarrels | | | | this lower consciousness grows and |
| if we only knew that we are all striving | | | | broadens the higher conception of a |
| to reach the same goal. | | | | mental or moral bondage and a longing |
| The embodiment of freedom,the Master of | | | | for spiritual freedom. Here we see the |
| nature, is what we call God. You cannot | | | | divine dimly shining through the veil of |
| deny Him. No, because you cannot move or | | | | ignorance. The veil is very dense at |
| live without the idea of freedom. Would | | | | first and the light may be almost |
| you come here if you did not believe you | | | | obscured,but it is there,ever pure and |
| were free? It is quite possible that the | | | | undimmed -- the radiant fire of freedom |
| biologist can and will give some | | | | and perfection. Man personifies this as |
| explanation of this perpetual effort to | | | | the Ruler of the Universe, the One Free |
| be free. Take all that for granted, | | | | Being. He does not yet know that the |
| still the idea of freedom is there. It | | | | universe is all one, that the difference |
| is a fact, as much so as the other fact | | | | is only in degree, in the concept. |
| that you cannot apparently get over, the | | | | |