yet continue to render such freedom impossible of achievement by fostering an inward condition of enslavement. They thus pursue a shadow without, and ignore the substance within. Man will be free when he is freed from self. All outward forms of bondage and oppression shall cease to be when man ceases to be the willing bond-slave of passion, error, and ignorance. Freedom is to the free.
While men cling to weakness they cannot have strength; while they love darkness they can receive no light; so long as they prefer bondage they can enjoy no liberty. Strength, light, and freedom are ready now, and can be had by all who love them, who aspire to them. Freedom does not reside in co-operative aggression, for this will always produce, reactively, co-operative defence—hence warfare, hatred, party strife, and the destruction of liberty. Freedom resides in individual self-conquest. The emancipation of Humanity is frustrated and withheld by the self-enslavement of the unit. Thou who criest to man and to God for liberty, liberate thyself!
