True Freedom

"And ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free." -- The Bible; John 8:32

Did you you ever think about the meaning of freedom in the world we know? It's always freedom from... from some person, place, or condition. It is predicated on the absence of the offending limitation. But as long as you have to avoid some aspect of life in order to be free, you are not really free! You are always moving away from the offending person, place, or condition. Keeping your distance from what seems to limit you becomes the goal. How is that freedom?

Jeshua ben Joseph told us that only Truth offers real freedom. True freedom, as described in Scripture and by many Awakened Beings, is not an avoidance mechanism. True freedom is all-encompassing, and is experienced even in the presence of our most limiting experiences when the Truth of Being One with God is accepted and known. True freedom is this Awareness of Oneness that includes all there is, the Allness and Goodness of God.

What limits to freedom exist in perfect Oneness? What limits to freedom can be imagined in the Allness of God? Jeshua ben Joseph also said, "Be ye therefore perfect, as your Father in Heaven is perfect." And A Course in Miracles says, "I am as God created me." We are, now and always, the perfect, radiant extensions of a Perfect Being... holy sons of a wholly loving God. What appears to limit and imprison, to withhold and to suffer, are mental misperceptions of the Truth of our Spiritual Reality, the nightmares of the imagined separated self.

We can never be separate or cut off from what has no beginning and no end. We can never be less than free in what has no boundaries. As my friend David Patton once reminded me, when I was being particularly judgemental: "The Goddess has no edges." There is nothing excluded, nothing lost, nothing limited, nothing imprisoned or held back in the infinite Love of our Father/Mother God/Goddess.

True Freedom is not freedom from anything at all. True Freedom is the all-encompassing Reality of God. True freedom is the Truth that, when consciously known, is freedom indeed. The Grace of God, our True Self, without price and without end.

"The Will of God is One, and All there Is. This is your heritage." -- A Course in Miracles; Manual for Teachers, 20, 6:9-10