In Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Yoda says to Luke Skywalker, “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” What is Creator’s perspective?

This is a good illustration of why important divine principles are touched on again and again in popular culture with a depth of meaning and importance going far beyond their appearance in a fictional concoction done as entertainment, ostensibly. So you are quite correct about the fact that this entire series of productions in the Star Wars genre is here for a purpose, was divinely inspired, and divinely guided to reveal great truths about the meaning of life and the pursuit of victory for the light, for the forces of good against the forces of evil, that it is not a historical tale or a fictional future scenario that could never come to pass, but a time-honored struggle engaged in again and again at all levels of society by human beings wanting to serve the cause of the divine and being opposed by interlopers corrupting them and many around them, tempting them with evil choices and designs. The greatest risk a human being can experience, setting them up for such outside corruption, is to be in a state of fear. The caution you quoted underrepresents the true dynamics and the dual mechanism in which it can undermine a human being and ultimately lead to their destruction. The depiction of fear as a corruption leading to anger and hatred deserves some further analysis. It is a quite human reaction when one is threatened, to become angry because they are being treated so unfairly as to put them in danger in some way, whether it is a physical assault that is looming or perhaps an attack on their reputation that could harm them materially in remaining an effective functioning member of a group or organization, a place of employment, and so forth. But the transition from righteous anger to hatred is going back down a slippery slope leading to further disempowerment, because it takes someone away from divine alignment in doing that, and will result in a weakening as well. If one turns into a perpetrator in response to an act of evil done against them, one is being lowered to the same level and the end result is they are no better than their aggressor who has wronged them. This is the problem in fighting fire with fire, responding in an overemotional way, which is often a consequence of feeling powerless and becomes the only weapon one can turn to in such situations, when there is a lack of belief and personal wherewithal, or a lack of resources to engage with others, to have strength in numbers or other strategies that could help to gain the upper hand without resorting to overstepping moral and ethical boundaries. The second mechanism making fear such a personal danger, to put one's future at risk, is that in a state of fear, you become disconnected from the divine because of the low state of vibration it creates within. It is actually a state of being that is incompatible with divine love because fear is a shrinking back, a shrinking away from love in fullest expression, and a disempowerment of major proportions. The application of love to someone in a state of fear cannot happen because the two are incompatible, so there must be a more indirect approach taken by the divine in wanting to help someone in that state of being. Being fearful may not weaken belief in the divine in all cases, but it greatly erodes belief in the self because someone in a state of terror becomes completely disempowered, so really, that extreme fear is a diagnostic indicator that one has become truly helpless, and the divine is then blocked from assisting because we cannot override a human choice to be diminished and to be powerless if that is what you choose to be. Even as a default mode from something forced on you of evil origins, it will not matter if you are deserving and innocent, what matters is the energy you are holding and how we can interact, what we can offer in the way of help and assistance, at least in a timely way. Helping someone overcome a state of helplessness can be a long-term major project in and of itself and is one of the greatest barriers to getting swift and timely divine assistance, when one might be in peril and time is of the essence.