This is not about religion. Religion, even the one I was raised and educated in many times supports the illusion and keep real souls in bondage. This is about real world experience.  There is always a claim of a Creator.  It is the basis of law. Guvments and financial systems use paper to claim ownership of the natural world and no one typically calls their bluff.  A Creator ( if only in principle not necessarily in a religious sense) that is separate and over the natural is a requirement for any true freedom.  Otherwise various forms of government will claim that position and it always leads to bondage.  Those artificial fictional wraith like entities are the Beast.  Your natural state is freedom.  It is not a dream or a wish.  But it is for the real people to make it happen.  The system/s will not do it for us because we are the ones who have created and give life to those systems. Let’s shake off the illusion and awaken to the Real world.  Blessings.