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Freedom, Liberty and Liberalism - (5158)

This post takes a short look at freedom.


We first think that freedom is to do whatever we want whenever we want. 


It's good to try that and then realise that yes we can do whatever we do whenever we want but there are consequences to reckon with.


You then realise that we are subjected to laws and breaking those laws puts us into a situation where some of our freedom is taken away. 


So then doing whatever you want and whenever is not really freedom if its end in having our freedom taken away. 


We then come to learn that a realer freedom that does not result in our freedom being taken away is to do what we want and when we want within an order. A combination of the: two freedom and order is the real liberty.


Liberalism is a liberty gone wrong, a liberty that forgets about an order of things.



Plus we also know that freedom is realer when there is freedom inside of ourselves. To have the internal freedom to not do what we want and to do what we want is a higher degree of freedom. 


Freedom depends on our level of the Being and our state of consciousness.


The only who is truly free is the Absolute. That is those Gods dwelling in the non-existence within the Absolute.


For us to do the will of our Inner God (Being) becomes freedom. To do the will of our Inner Being we must have internal freedom.


As we do the will of our Inner Being we draw closer to It who is the one who is truly free.


To do the opposite of the will of the Being brings us consequences that limit more and more our freedom.


In unity with our Being there is freedom and in separation from our Being there is not freedom but the generation of many factors which condition and limit our freedom, which is not freedom.


End (5158).

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