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By self-enlightenment is Perfect Freedom found.
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“By self-enlightenment is Perfect Freedom found.”

James Allen

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All These Things Added
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1903
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Meaning of “By self-enlightenment is Perfect Freedom found.”

Allen connects freedom with understanding one’s own desires, emotions and thought patterns rather than treating liberty as purely external.

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All These Things Added (1903), Part II, “The Heavenly Life,” chapter “Perfect Freedom,” printed page 138 / Wikisource scan leaf 144. “By self-enlightenment is Perfect Freedom found” opens Allen’s argument that inward self-knowledge and self-mastery are prerequisites for the freedom he describes. The explicitly religious and moral framework is retained rather than converted into modern political, clinical or psychological guidance.

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