What is Freedom? The chants of the ageless hymn sung to the rhyme of clattering chains. The steps of the iron-clad feet on the road march to the blacksmith shop. The beats of the apprehensive heart on the verge of emission or release. Freedom is the path not the destination.

All men were created free to one purpose: to love. Love is built on the fundamental virtue of obedience. Obedience is a call to worship by participation in the divine creative work for the purpose of fruitfulness. If free works is the path, then it must lead to fruitfulness. And if fruitfulness abounds the destination then obvious is the reward of nourishment and Survival – a most fundamental need. Therefore, Freedom is the means not the end to satisfaction or fulfillment of needs.

What happens then when Freedom is considered the destination or the end in itself? When you possess that which you long for, when you glow with physical satisfaction and emotional well-being, what next do you do for yourself? Then you would realize that your journey to happiness has just begun and your supposed destination was just the starting point. Thence, there could be a turnaround of ideas or innovations that contradict the original concept; a loss of focus or realization of folly.

All men were born naked and free from all entanglements of life. And for all, the choice was mostly between the needs of Survival and Dignity: to remain free or become enslaved. Yet the ones who hide to cover their nakedness in cloth of Dignity and demand for Freedom would be the very ones who sought to uncover themselves in expression of the same Freedom. What contrast! The nascent culture of nudity would depict the graduation to nakedness; a return to the original state at birth or the Garden of Creation. What then is Freedom?

Freedom had remained the central theme of the centurial march for civilization. Despite being the keyword in the literary research for emancipation, the true meaning of Freedom seemed to be lost both in the scroll and soul of activism. There is retrogression in geometric proportion between its original context and modern application. The lot of Freedom has been clearly prescribed in a generation that had continually condemned its very personality to the accused box. Put succinctly, Freedom is on trial.

In defense of Freedom, the need is most imperative for either a reinstatement of the primordial expressions of the Creator or an outright redefinition in consideration of modernism. The contest could be between virtue and rationality. Thence, a voyage through the realm of true knowledge, for the author would demand sailing with the two wings of Revelation and Science. On board this ship, attempt would be made to recreate the freeman with the imaginative will; by arousing him in an arena of utmost need and absolute freedom.

Then, his prime attributes would be deducted by the relative analysis of his choices. In addition, his personality would be determined by the utilization of his tools; and his salvation professed by the propagation of his ministries. A word for the reader though: Fasten your seat belt. Free your mind. And prepare for a journey to self-renewal.

WHO AMONG THREE is the third of a twelve - volume book series on the theme of Freedom.

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