CHAPTER V FREEDOM

" If the Son ihall make yoa Iree, ye thall te free indaed."

ARGUMEKT

The désire for Freedom is the ietermining farce in history, and the inner meaning of human striving. What is Freedom ? Carpenier defines it in terms of the inner life, and his treatment has considérable affinity with that of Henri Bergson. It is an inward potentiality which is realized only when we act in such a way as to express and incarnate our Self as a whole, The movement to Freedom is inward, and is associated wUh a detachment from external 06jects ; through this indifférence we enter into mastery. To die to the more external Self is to find the more inward Self, union with which is realized as harmony and créative Power. This disentanglement does not, as in Buddhism, look towards escape from the world, but towards mastery over it, and therefore enjoyment of it.

The finding and establishment of this inward centre are mediated through Expérience, chiefly through the expériences of Pain, Love, and Moral Effort.

IT is possible from one point of view to r^ard the individual, the narrower commuiiity in which he is first consdous of membership, and the wider organisai of humanity, as three