Axiom

Freedom / Slavery

 Humanity has strived for freedom throughout

history. But what freedom really is and what it

means is harder to agree upon.

 First and foremost, it is important to find out

if you are talking about FREEDOM FROM or FREEDOM TO.

 In the English language, there are two different

words for this. Freedom is Freedom from and Liberty

is Freedom to.

 The Indo-European root word for the English words

are: Freedom comes from the Indo-European root

word pri- meaning to love. While the root word

for Liberty is leudh²- which means to mount up, grow.

 But there is still more confusion when the word

Freedom is to be interpreted. The opposite of

freedom is slavery or entrapment. Speaking as

Socrates we will distinguish between three

different ways of looking at Slavery.

1. Simple slavery means that the one who is

enslaved is aware that he is enslaved and

therefore has an opportunity to do something

about it.

2. Double slavery means that the one who is

enslaved is unaware that he is enslaved and

therefore does not understand that he is

enslaved. But those who suffer from double

slavery can be made to realize that they are

enslaved if someone makes them realize that

they are actually enslaved.

3. You suffer from triple slavery if you are

convinced that you are free when you are

actually enslaved. Those who suffer from

triple slavery cannot be made to realize that

they are enslaved and is therefore helplessly

stuck in a situation as slaves.

 With insights about these variously difficult

forms of slavery and knowledge of the condition

of mankind, one can conclude that the eternal

spiritual being who is stuck in being human

and having no reality that the true self is

an eternal spiritual being, suffers from

threefold slavery.

 The small number of individuals who, on the

other hand, either realize that they are trapped

in a human beingness or are able to realize

this with the help of Socratic dialogues, can

be helped.

 It is possible for these few individuals to

start to act to free themselves from the swamp

of ignorance they are stuck in.

 But it's not easy!

Todde

Thursday, July 25, 2019