Tuesday, February 26, 2019

LOVE AND FREEDOM


Christopher,

You propose the following equation, "Freedom is a state of existence while love is an expression of that state". Because of my great respect for your default almost an excellent ability to articulate your thoughts, exhibited in many comments on posts in this blog, I find the equation tantalizing. You suggested that I wait for you to unpack it in a forthcoming book; however, because I am tantalized, I could not wait, but set out to unpack it. Accordingly, I next stated the results, and will then note questions suggested by the result.

Heavenly Parent stimulates one’s heart (and, I believe that He does it continually), which is the impulse to give love to the greatest effect imaginable. There are in innumerable actions that may result from this stimulus, so that one’s “state of existence” (I prefer the term, ‘condition’) is freedom. Any so resultant action is an action of love; hence the equation. In the more detail, the stimulus immediately prompts the desire to so give love, and this emotion is then channeled by the action upon his of one’s intellect, which evokes one’s knowledge (one’s reservoir of memories, one’s understanding of present circumstances, and one’s understanding of laws) and engages in the process of reasoning upon it. The result is the will to a specific action. In the determination of the scope of love to be given, whether to part(s) of oneself or part(s) of the imagined whole, evil forces seek to intervene, tempting one to narrower scope. That is, if one’s condition has been established as a result of a sin.

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