Motive Revealed

How can you detect what someone's motive is and what it imports? Consider this: every undertaking is an expenditure of personal power for the sake of acquiring more power.

Use this litmus test which infallibly reveals the motive of the doer. As the doer gets underway, carrying out his action, is he seeking to gather power to himself while depriving others of their liberty? If he so plots, then he is an evil person, whose machinations are to gather dark power to himself.

If he seeks to expand his power trove, but not by enslaving others, then his power-acquisition is innocuous or benevolent. As he individuates, he expands his personal power allotment, and extends the kingdom of God, but the liberty of others remains unaffected and untouched by his efforts. This power-gathering process is a wholesome gathering of power to himself.