Daily Meditation: Sunday, January 10, 2010

Freedom - can only be found at the peak, in God

01/10/2010

Freedom can only be understood when associated with the idea of hierarchy. If you find yourself on the bottom rung of the ladder, what freedom can you have? Are animals free? Are plants? Are stones?... Even among humans, few are free: they are driven, influenced by others, by humans or by entities from the invisible world, because inside themselves they are very base; they are not the ones who decide. To win our freedom, we must rise higher and higher, all the way to the Lord. By seeking to reach the peak we become free. In this sense, we can say that only the Lord is free. No other creature is free; even the archangels are immersed in the soul of the Lord and receive his influence. They are free by means of the Lord's freedom, but not free in relation to the Lord. Only the Lord is free, and to the extent that they draw close to the Lord creatures are free by means of his freedom, not otherwise.