The Chains We Choose
The Chains We
Choose
August 18, 2025
Story # 36
Written by Bill Pautler
Again, the specter raised a cry, and
shook his chain,
and wrung his shadowy hands.
“You are fettered,” said Scrooge,
trembling. “Tell me why?”
“I wear the chain I forged in
life,” replied the Ghost.
“I made it link by link, and yard
by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it...”
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
We all carry chains, though they are seldom
visible. Not forged of iron, but of fears, attachments, judgments, and the
choices we make against our own soul. Each link is small, almost unnoticeable —
a single compromise, a moment of forgetting our Divinity. Yet over time, they
grow heavy. The miracle is that the same hands that fastened them hold the
key to release.
Our
religions have fed us bad programming
Our
religions often feed us bad programing. They often reinforce fear, judgement
and punishment, instead of personal responsibility and freedom. As a Catholic growing up, I was taught about
original sin. The concept that our souls
come into this world tainted and we must earn our salvation. Our reward would be heaven and our failure
being either hell or some type of purgatory.
Christianity
has been around for over 2000 years. And
its original goal was to codify Jesus’s teachings. But all prophets embody their teachings. Prophets are their teachings. Religion is
man’s way of trying to build a set of rules around a deep and wise
philosophy. A deep and wise philosophy
is hard to codify. We can embody it, but
it is hard to build into a religious structure. And these religious structures are built and
perpetuated by imperfect men that have ego, fear, greed and often desire power. So, those characteristics creep in and become
inherent even in a well-meant religious structure.
This is not
a condemnation of religion, but with clarity we should look at what we have
been taught and how we choose to participate.
Religion in its highest form can point us to God and in its lowest form
is misleading and misdirects us. It may
be time to look at the false chains we have agreed to.
So, what if?
So, what if
the Divine created each of us as a soul, an individuation of Itself. A soul “...purposely created...to become a
companion with the Creator.” (1) A
soul created out of God, in God’s image, to be a companion with the All in Her
universe, Her uni-verse, Her one-song.
Not about fear, not about worship, but to be one with, to create with in
harmony and goodness.
And as a
soul learning how to co-create with God “...it would only be through a thought
process of personal experiences-–one choice leading to another, and then
another and then another—that God’s companions could gain their own
individuality, truly being a part of Him and yet individuals
in their own right. Once they have discovered their individuality they
would once again return in consciousness to be His companions and cocreators.” (2)
And
therefore, we would have to have freewill.
We would have the freedom every single day, as a soul in this physical
world to act freely. But each and every decision we would make either is life
bringing, non-life bringing or neutral toward the ultimate fulfillment of our
souls return to God Consciousness, where we will be Her companions and
cocreators of the Uni-Verse, the One-Song for all
of eternity.
Personal
responsibility and freedom
Jesus’s name,
in his day, would have been Yeshua. Yeshua
means salvation. And salvation means “deliverance
from harm, ruin or loss”.
What if Yeshua
didn’t come to die for our sins? What if he came to show us ‘the way’ to deliver
us from harm, ruin and loss. To show us how
to be delivered from our fears, attachments, judgments, and the choices we make against our own
soul.
What if Yeshua, over the course of many
lifetimes, perfected His Christ Consciousness, which was an individuated
Consciousness of his own, yet was still in perfect alignment with God
Consciousness? And therefore, was able to
cocreate in perfect alignment with God?
And he came to show us ‘the way’ to use his Christ Consciousness to
break the distorted patterns we have adopted in this realm. So, we can become perfect
individuated Co-Creators. Beings
perfectly aligned with Goodness and Wholiness.
What if Yeshua’s message of love, forgiveness
and deliverance was about teaching us to break the chains we form for ourselves?
Just like in The Christmas Carol story. What if we actively choose to wear the
chains we forge in life? We make them
link by link and yard by yard and decision by decision. And we wear them of our own free will?
The word
‘live’ means something that is life giving. ‘Live” spelled backwards is ‘evil’. Every choice we make is either toward ‘live’ or ‘evil’. Life
giving or life taking. Notice the Devil
tarot card. Notice that the word Devil
contains the word ‘evil’. Notice that
the male and female are chained to the pedestal. The pedestal represents materialism and
earthly desires. Notice the chains
around the neck are loose, symbolizing the self-imposed nature of our
choices. Choices that keep us from
being liberated. Choices that keep
us chained to our smallness.
My final point.
Divinity lives inside us. Yeshua called us ‘friends’ not ‘slaves’. As
friends of God, our goal should be to become Gods. Because gods act out of their own
selfishness and pettiness, but Gods act out of their perfect alignment with the
All. We are individualized, yet fully
connected, conscious co-creators with the One.
With awareness let’s look at the chains
we have created for ourselves. And with
awareness watch them melt away!
Let’s adopt Christ Consciousness! Let’s liberate ourselves, so we will never
know fear.
Realizing this fantastic adventure we
are on. An adventure where we leave the
Bliss to ultimately become a new, individuated form of the Bliss.
Go be your best god. So, we can become Gods and manifest in beauty,
balance and symmetry into the One Song.
Go create a conscious life, making each
decision choosing life not death,
without succumbing to the world; living
in limitation, chains and fear. That is
beneath our calling and our power.
Liberation is our true inheritance,
claimed through daily decisions to love.
Live a SageLife.
Be a SAGE!
SAGE --- Spiritual
Awareness Growth &
Enlightenment
Namaste Bill
Footnotes:
(1) Edgar Cayce on the Akashic Records by Kevin J. Todeschi,
page 5
(2) Edgar Cayce on the Akashic Records by Kevin J. Todeschi,
page 5
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