Prison of the Ego, Freedom of the Soul

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Many of us feel imprisoned in behavioural patterns we can’t break free from.
We see time and again the way we deal with events, people and changes in our life are the same as always. As if we are type-cast by our personality and cannot find freedom of expression, let alone true freedom of being.
Often we project our perceived problems on to others, causing disharmony and negative life situations. Although these life experiences help us gain self-awareness, our natural egocentricity creates a prison-like reality for us. We become prisoners of our own ego.

Usually, we accept what our senses show us, what has known limitations and properties, what we can predict and experience. Indeed, all that is part of our natural world, and we wouldn’t want to reinforce the ego, or be bound by our continually changing emotions and thoughts.
So, how do we break free from the Prison of our Ego to find the Freedom of the Soul?

The School of the Golden Rosycross follows the Five-fold Gnostic Path where insight is the first step. This means that a certain amount of study is in order. The Seeker must learn the true nature of the world to which he or she has been bound for thousands upon thousands of years.
If our insight then is deep enough so that we recognize this longing that drives us to seek that which we do not have, then we eventually come to understand what the Masters throughout history have taught us: we must start this path in non-being, in creating the space within, through a life of non-reaction, emptying, silence.
This is an inner path of detachment from the delusions of this world, and more importantly, from the delusions of our own nature, our own self. As we have seen, it involves refraining from such behaviors as judging others, from criticism, and inwardly placing the ‘spiritual’ central to all our motivations. We must enter the path of self-effacement, self-sacrifice, where ‘doing unto others as you would have them do unto you’, is primary to fulfilling the desires of the self.

We must stop reacting to everything that moves within us, and in inner silence, observe ourselves objectively. We must find this stillness within our hearts, freed from the emotions of acting and reacting, of being for or against anything, of being swayed between the poles of positive and negative, and by not reacting, creating the inner space for the divine Light to find fertile ground within us.