An Elder is someone who takes your soul, your will into his soul and in to his will. Having chosen an Elder, you renounce your will and give it to him under total obedience and with total self renunciation. A man who dooms himself in to this trial, this terrible school of life, does so voluntarily, in the hope that after the long trial he will achieve self conquest, self mastery to such a degree that he will, finally, through a whole life's obedience, attain to perfect freedom. That is, freedom from himself- and avoid the lot of those who live their whole lives without finding themselves in themselves.
It is also true, perhaps, that this tested and already thousand year old instrument for the moral regeneration of man from slavery to freedom and to moral perfection may turn into a double edged weapon, which may lead a person not so humility and ultimate self control but, on the contrary, to the most satanic pride- that is, to fetters and not freedom."
So true.




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