Before I continue with how tyrants accomplish their deeds of tyranny, it seems appropriate to pause just a little longer to ponder what follows.
In exploring how tyranny manifests in our lives, we may at one point or another wonder what exactly makes someone vulnerable to tyranny. Why is it that some people live under tyranny while others don't? Besides the fact that someone could be born into a family where tyranny reigns, what makes someone susceptible to it?
For me, the answer was found through the exploration of the notion that a tyrant is an "autocratic oppressor" (refer to SP - 3). An autocratic oppressor could mean an oppressor who is autocratic, but also an oppressor who oppresses autocrats.
Autocracy / autocrat: [< self + rule]
- Self derived or independent power
- Absolute authority or rule
From this definition, I gather that an autocratic oppressor or tyrant rules, influences, and exercises over those with self derived power or those who "rule by one self". This of course seems to create a conundrum.
If a solution to tyranny is to claim one's own Sovereignty, how can claiming one's self derived power make one susceptible to tyranny?
In contemplation of this I asked Father for Spiritual Discernment to see through the deception and this is what I came to understand:
A person who has self derived power or who rules by one self is someone who has become disconnected from his Divine Nature and thus Father. He sees himself or that which he creates as the absolute authority or rule by which he should live. This is different than a Sovereign person whose Sovereignty comes from the very capacity of being in expression of his Divine Nature and of one a-chord with the Father. Such a seemingly 'irrelevant' detail by today's standards makes all the difference.
No longer of one a-chord with his Divine Nature, a person looses the capacity to discern Truth from deception and looses the capacity to be Spiritually Nourished. To deny one's Divine Nature and reject living Harmoniously with Universal Law in Universal Truth is to embrace the way of the unrighteous - unholy. It is either black or white. One is either stained or not. Whether one is stained just a little bit or a lot does not diminish the fact that one is stained. One can't live Freedom and Sovereign Expression when one denies his Self, the Truth of who he Is.
As one grows weaker and weaker, it becomes easier and easier for a tyrant to assert its influence. As one looses his capacity to Discern Truth from deception, one becomes more vulnerable to the deceptions and taxing schemes of tyranny until the day in which slave labor / poverty / famine indebtness is all that is left.
This is the story of every group of people or nation that has fought for its independence, only to establish its own rules separate from Universal Law. As history shows us (and we can attest to such reality this day by the conditions in which we live) such action is doomed to failure from its inception. (1)
This is why of a necessity, complete and total freedom from tyranny requires the return to one's Divine Nature in Father's Grace and under Universal Law. Once returned to the Truth of Love as Self, there is no room for the unrighteous - unholy. Their nightmare no longer influences / controls one's life. All that remains is Peace.
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(1) I realize that many will argue that these United States were founded under "god's laws" (one nation under one god or in god we trust), but one must sincerely question who this "god" is. From what I know of the Father and what He has shared with us, Father would not have anyone establish a nation through the mass murder and plundering of the land's resources and its People, neither would He Guide anyone into the creation of a nation that would use its "power" to begin a process of genocide, destruction, and enslavement.