Article November 17, 1945 Issue

Spiritual Freedom

GWEN M. CASTLE

Many centuries ago, a comparatively small group of people were told that to know the truth was to be free. The great Teacher who uttered the simple, yet profound words, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:32), had been born of a race that had experienced captivity at the hands of its enemies and was at the time under the government of imperial Rome. Yet his words bore a far greater significance than the promise of political or physical freedom.

Through spiritual discernment Jesus saw that humanity was in bondage to its belief in the power of sin with its attendant suffering. He knew that God had created man free—the perfect expression of spiritual freedom and supremacy—and, being conscious of this truth about man, he knew no bondage for himself or for others.

Long before the advent of Jesus mankind had been seeking an answer to the question, 'What is truth?'" but except on the part of a comparative few, whose thoughts were receptive and inspired, the search was conducted mainly along the material lines of human philosophy. In most instances God was glimpsed but faintly until our Master, through the clarity of his own pure thought, was able to demonstrate the living presence of the omnipotent Father. With Jesus' realization of God's supremacy, sin and suffering vanished from the consciousness of those who appealed to him for help. In this way he showed clearly to those who were present that to know the truth about God and man is to liberate the individual from false beliefs about himself.

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