Page 110 - Spirit - A Journey Through Embodiment

And so the child adventures into its eight year. This child will
be presented with situations that will test its awareness of its
self. It will begin to experience the power of choice and the
power of discernment. These two powers will be coupled to
the power of responsibility. The power of responsibility at this
stage is not yet that recognised as the excuse “they are only a
child” tends to give a bit of leeway for the child to deflect any
repercussions to its choices.

As we have just said, the child has begun a new adventure.
This step forward, however, can generate difficulties within
the child's adult care givers. These adults would have
hopefully embraced their powers of choice and responsibility.
The difficulty is that many haven't as they have not been
raised in a spiritual ethos. At best it will have been a religious
ethos. Unfortunately religion does not empower free choice or
encourage true responsibility. Religion is a combination of
God’s law and man made laws. In religion man made laws
dominate God’s law. The differences between religions are
the differences in the man made laws. Every religion has a
history of persecution, either persecuting or being persecuted
or both. With regard to spirituality, the history is of
persecution only and being persecuted by religion at that. We
can see households that would be addressed as being strongly
religious, being strictly ruled by the rules of the church, no
matter which one. We also see in such households
unconscious cruelty being perpetrated against the spiritual
interests of each and every member, because of the man made
rules of the churches involved. Religion never accepts
responsibility for its teachings nor its actions, and always
suggests it is only carrying out the orders of its founding