Q.31

‘From birth to death ⎯ people believe and insist that their five senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste, correctly predicate the ‘reality’ of themselves and the universe around them. Therefore, because they draw their mind power direct from Divine ‘Creative Power’, it is done to them according to their beliefs.’ (L1)

Each thong represents a person’s habitual thoughts, responses to people and events, prejudices, hates, animosities, anxieties, sorrows, all of which bind him down and shut out the Light from his inner vision drawn from the ‘Creative Power’. Thus he enters into darkness but does not know it. He believes he is growing up and becoming mature in the ways of the world which will enable him to forge ahead and make ‘good’ ⎯ become successful ⎯ the aim of most people on earth. (L1)

In fact, the more mature he becomes and versed in worldly ways, the more densely do his chains and thongs imprison him within the grip of the twin IMPULSES of ‘Bonding-Rejection’. (L1)

Furthermore, each chain is forged out of selfish and deceitful desires, greed, aggression, violence and rape. These chains hang heavy around him and burden the psyche, which is the ‘creative consciousness power’ deep within him. Chain and thong will bind him tighter with every passing year until he realises what he is doing to himself and sincerely repents each thong and chain and makes due restitution to others whom he has harmed. (L1)

Man himself is born with all the potential to make a beautiful life for himself but he, himself, by indulging his selfish desires and hatreds, creates a prison of misery for himself from which there was no escape until such times as he realises the TRUTH OF EXISTENCE. (L1)

All the problems of harsh existence lay within the thought processes of man himself! (L1)