Freedom is a word that has great appeal and a variety of meanings. In early life it may mean escape from needed parental supervision. If willfully taken, such freedom could be a great detriment to a child. Later on it may have to do with the right to possess what one wants. One example after another might be given—each one having to do with unrestrained human will.
From the Christianly scientific point of view, freedom is a divine right. Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health (p. 227), "God made man free." The man of God's creating is free in Truth and Love. He is free to live a life of perpetual harmony and progress. He is free to inhabit the spiritual realm, in which good exists without an opposite and is therefore the only power, presence, and action.
This man is free from any taint of sin and from vulnerability to disease and death. This is, of course, the freedom to which every human being must aspire, a freedom which, while divinely given, must be humanly earned. What we have to part with in order to achieve such freedom is, primarily, the belief that we are mortal, the belief that we are free to sin, to act contrary to moral and spiritual law. God never gave us that freedom. If we assume that we have any right to such so-called freedom, we shall blind ourselves to the true nature of freedom and keep seeking it where it can never be found.
