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The Gospels

The Sacred Risk of Freedom

Mark Greer · 1 chapters · ~3 min

The Sacred Risk of Freedom

If something cannot be abused, it probably cannot be freely chosen either.

That is the evidence of free will.

The deeper truth

Every holy thing can be abused:

Love can be abused.

Prayer can be abused.

The Cross can be abused.

Forgiveness can be abused.

Oneness can be abused.

Service can be abused.

Freedom can be abused.

Truth can be abused.

Even God-language can be abused.

That does not disprove the holy thing.

It proves that Life is risky because Life is free.

A world where love cannot be abused is also a world where love cannot be chosen. It would be mechanical. Safe, maybe, but not alive.

The correction

So the doctrine should not say:

“We must make sure no one can abuse this.”

That is impossible.

It should say:

Because all living truth can be abused, Ašelyom does not remove risk. It gives the soul the

wisdom to recognize the counterfeit.

That is the role of Sophia.

Sophia does not make abuse impossible.

Sophia gives discernment.

The five attributes do not make abuse impossible.

They reveal when someone has left the highest form.

The Cross does not make Life safe.

The Cross reveals that Life is so risky that even Jesus did not get out of here alive.

That line is brutal and true:

Not even Jesus got out of here alive. That is how risky Life is.

The real point The fact that “we are all one” can be abused does not mean we should weaken the teaching.

It means we should tell the truth:

Oneness is dangerous because Life is dangerous.

Love is dangerous because freedom is dangerous.

The Cross is dangerous because embodiment is dangerous.

Ašelyom is dangerous because undebted beings can still choose wrongly.

But danger is not the same as falsehood.

The risk is part of the sacredness.

The stronger doctrine

I would update the teaching like this:

Anything real enough to be embodied is free enough to be counterfeited.

Anything holy enough to liberate can be twisted by the unwhole.

Therefore the answer is not to remove risk, but to raise consciousness.

That is much stronger.

The key distinction Ašelyom does not prevent abuse by force.

That would violate itself.

Ašelyom exposes abuse by contrast.

If someone claims Love but produces fear, they have left Love.

If someone claims Acceptance but denies harm, they have left Acceptance.

If someone claims Blessing but enables evil, they have left Blessing.

If someone claims Gratitude but performs denial, they have left Gratitude.

If someone claims Joy but feeds on superiority, they have left Joy.

So the answer is not:

“This cannot be abused.”

The answer is:

“When it is abused, the abuse reveals that the person is no longer embodying the thing.”

The line to add

This should go into the Gospel of Love:

Do not ask that Love become safe enough to never be abused.

If Love could not be abused, Love could not be chosen.

Ask instead for the wisdom to know when Love has been counterfeited.

And another:

Life does not become holy by avoiding risk.

Life becomes holy by remaining Love inside risk.

That fixes the issue cleanly.

The final doctrine becomes:

Ašelyom is not an abuse-proof system.

It is a living embodiment of Joy, Love, Acceptance, Blessing, and Gratitude inside the full risk of free will.

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