Tytler Cycle Corollary

Know God and know Liberty. No God and know bondage

Steve Rossiter ——Bio and Archives--May 25, 2026

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When Tytler posed his thoughts concerning how human beings behave as cultures, he was looking at it from a mostly secularist perspective. I believe there is a parallel religious perspective that might be productive to consider, particularly from a Judeo-Christian perspective.

Bondage is the starting point used by Tytler. Every society and culture started in bondage to some other culture, society, or monarch. In some cases, as documented in the Bible, the Jews were in and out of bondage repeatedly throughout biblical times. Remembering that Christianity grew out of Judaism. So, the Jews’ bondage is an integral part of Christian history as well.

Over time, those in bondage turned to Spiritual Faith as a device to help tolerate their suffering while in bondage to whomever were their current masters. As discomfort and dissatisfaction with bondage grew, faith grew into even greater faith.

Once discomfort and dissatisfaction grew to intolerable levels, great faith turned into Great Courage. When........

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