"have felt Anubis, Athena, Thor, Odin and Bast all occasionally try to break my pride and even test me by trying to break my will,"(LeaLynne)

I don't really relate to the word slave, I am more drawn to' servant' as serving others including higher deities and within that serving oneself and the highest good, however I understand when you say that you feel that you were affected to the point you felt "broken"... but I look at it in a way that the old you has to be somehow transformed somewhat like the whole phoenix metaphor for a new and better you to result.
does that make any sense?
that's what I felt happened to me anyway.