self-determination

• fallacy of

35:10.5Many of the La­non­an­dek Sons in the older sys­tems, how­ever, have es­tab­lished won­der­ful rec­ords of ser­vice, ad­min­is­tra­tion, and spir­i­tual achieve­ment. They are a no­ble, faith­ful, and loyal group, not­with­stand­ing their ten­dency to fall into er­ror through fal­la­cies of per­sonal lib­erty and fic­tions of self-de­ter­mi­na­tion.

• Lucifer advocated ascenders should enjoy liberty of

53:3.63. The at­tack upon the uni­ver­sal plan of as­cen­dant mor­tal train­ing. Lu­cifer main­tained that far too much time and en­ergy were ex­pended upon the scheme of so thor­oughly train­ing as­cend­ing mor­tals in the prin­ci­ples of uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion, prin­ci­ples which he al­leged were un­eth­i­cal and un­sound. He protested against the age­long pro­gram for prepar­ing the mor­tals of space for some un­known des­tiny and pointed to the pres­ence of the fi­nal­i­ter corps on Je­ru­sem as proof that these mor­tals had spent ages of prepa­ra­tion for some des­tiny of pure fic­tion. With de­ri­sion he pointed out that the fi­nal­i­ters had en­coun­tered a des­tiny no more glo­ri­ous than to be re­turned to hum­ble spheres sim­i­lar to those of their ori­gin. He in­ti­mated that they had been de­bauched by over­much dis­ci­pline and pro­longed train­ing, and that they were in re­al­ity traitors to their mor­tal fel­lows since they were now co-op­er­at­ing with the scheme of en­slav­ing all cre­ation to the fic­tions of a myth­i­cal eter­nal des­tiny for as­cend­ing mor­tals. He ad­vo­cated that as­cend­ers should en­joy the lib­erty of in­di­vid­ual self-de­ter­mi­na­tion. He chal­lenged and con­demned the en­tire plan of mor­tal as­cen­sion as spon­sored by the Par­a­dise Sons of God and sup­ported by the In­fi­nite Spirit.

• fallacy of

134:6.11Un­der global gov­ern­ment the na­tional groups will be af­forded a real op­por­tu­nity to re­al­ize and en­joy the per­sonal lib­er­ties of gen­uine democ­racy. The fal­lacy of self-de­ter­mi­na­tion will be ended. With global reg­u­la­tion of money and trade will come the new era of world-wide peace. Soon may a global lan­guage evolve, and there will be at least some hope of some­time hav­ing a global re­li­gion—or re­li­gions with a global view­point.