It would be foolish to deny that there are external authorities more powerful than I am. But my attitude and belief will not change! I will always seek to follow the still small voice of conscience and the Christ spirit that speaks to me from within my heart! This is the only authority that I recognize, an internal authority!
Everywhere I turn I am told to submit to one external authority after another. We are taught that external authority is our friend and that we should be humble before it. We are taught that we should fear the power of external authority whether it be God or the human collective. Now the fear of God has been replaced by atheism but that fear has merely been transferred over to the human collective. The human collective is today’s God and fear of the collective has replaced the old fear of God.
Nothing has really changed. In the past God was the external authority, now the human collective is the supreme authority. God was the mediator, now the human collective is the mediator. God was the spirit, now the human collective is the spirit. The power belongs to the collective, the world belongs to the collective, and I belong to the collective.
But none of that matters because I follow my own internal authority. I get those things that I desire through my own efforts. The still small voice of conscience that speaks to me from within my heart, the Christ spirit that dwells within every human heart, is who I really am!
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Amen, amen, amen.