This three part series explores the historic cycles of humanity’s return to a just social order and the nature and role of Freedom in Integral Development through the lens of the mystic inner life. The first and second part in “Essays”
The Inner Life Compels the Work of Integral Development
Now in the image of God, we must next take on the likeness of God and our cares expand exponentially beyond our small scope of self, of family, of community, of nation–to that of all humanity. Beholding all creation from the vantage point of Freedom, we are urged to create. We begin to sense the requisite next action: to bring beauty and order to God’s creation in all its aspects, for every person, and in all creatures, in every system, in every sphere: Integral Development.
This new ultraconscious state is characterized by Absolute Freedom. Absolute Freedom is the consequence of achieving total equilibrium with the Source. It is the natural state that arises, as it is designed to arise, from the path that achieves perfect reflection of the Absolute. It is an emergent state of one who sees the face of God and still lives. It is the purpose of the vesica piscis: the place between from which new creation passes through, where spirit manifests into the physical realm. Behold the birth of the new man, birthing the Earth anew!
Vesica Piscis - Evangelistar von Speyer, um 1220 Manuscript in the Badische Landesbibliothek, Karlsruhe, Germany Cod. Bruchsal 1, Bl. 1v Shows Christ in vesica shape surrounded by the animal symbols of the four evangelists.
So, we see that Freedom is not our precedent state. It is not a civil liberty. It is not an unalienable right. Freedom cannot precede such equilibrium, it is not possible without achieving first Imago Dei. For any action taken before equilibrium is achieved will result in divergence and will eventually collapse under the weight of its own spotted and shadowed temporal density: an abomination worthy only to be cast into the abyss!
Rather, here is found Freedom: in the absolute stillness, just after the dance, where the Absolute collapses upon me, where we become one in perfect harmony. Freedom is here, where the space between us is no more; the vesica piscis becomes unmediated, veil rent, holy of holies quickening my every breath.
In sacred geometry, this state is referred to as the Vector Equilibrium.1 It is the instant before energy transforms into physical matter. It is the moment where a man stands before the vastness of all possibility, in perfect likeness of the Creator, and hears His command thunder over the Void: Create!
The Weight of Freedom
Such a man, having committed to the work of the inner life and having been made both humble and wise by this fearful work, cautiously responds: “What is your will? What will You have me to create?”
Then, such a man as this, looking upon the face of God, sees Him smile like the Cheshire Cat, and he sees Him throw His head back with a hearty laugh as He says in return: “What is your will? What will you have me to create?”
And such a man as this recalls the words of Christ the Redeemer to Peter’s wonder at how swiftly the barren fig tree withered under Jesus’ curse: “Have faith in God. For, I tell you a truth: whosoever says to the mountain: ‘Be removed and cast into the sea,’ and not doubt in his heart, but believes in those things which he says shall come to pass, he shall have whatsoever he says” (Mark 11: 21-23). This man remembers that he was already told that he would do great works, if he would find such an exalted faith not only in God the Father, but also in himself.
Absolute Freedom. The next step such a man as this takes is a step in the likeness of God. He creates, for he is free now to choose purely. Anywhere he chooses, freely, to place his foot will set the whole system, by divine design, into a physical manifestation of his will.
Such a man as this will feel the terrible weight of this step into the creative likeness of God. She will feel the immense heaviness of Freedom. She will hesitate and wonder if she is truly pure, if she is truly free from all impurity, from all selfishness, from all vanity–all multiplicity–from any and every desire that would cause her to diverge from the Divinity that loves her so, that she loves so. Such a man as this will feel inept. She will feel doubt. She will argue that she is not ready, not learned enough, not disciplined enough. And just as such a man as this is about to withdraw back to the safety of the chrysalis of the inner life, she will hear a shout that will reverberate against every cell of her living body which will shake every atom of the inner walls of her sanctuary: Create! God the Father allows no retreat at this point: Freedom. Creation, in perfect Freedom, was always the inevitable outcome of the inner life. There is no retreat–it is the last bit of himself that such a man as this must shed. As his quivering foot stretches out, hovering above the Void: he knows: Step he must! And he must step where no matter is yet manifested, for God urges him to create the very ground that he is commanded to step upon.
Such a man as this steps forth from the safety of the Vector Equilibrium into the vastness of the veritable Void. He steps no longer for himself, but for me, for you, for all God’s creation. He becomes co-creator–and thus begins the act of Integral Development; this is, the development of humankind and the entire realm of Earth–the renewed Earth, where, as it is in Heaven, it is on Earth. As it is above, so it becomes below. Spirit transmutes into matter. The Void, no longer empty and formless, is filled in and structured by such a man as this: the Man of Steel. Every which way he turns, considering every infinite possibility, he is free to create.
Here is our picture of Freedom. This is Freedom, not an unalienable right, but the resultant state of the divine order: the high achievement of the Master Builder, by the working out through the inner life, with fear and trembling, the salvation of one’s own soul. This is humanity’s inheritance: Freedom. It is our reflection of the divine–the Absolute–it is redeemed for us by Christ. It is what Jesus, the man, gave his Freedom in exchange for.
Therefore, let us seek this state. Let us come to this Freedom. Let us be holy as He is holy. Let us be one with Him as he is with the Father. Let us come to the very center of the radiating heart of Christ who laid down his every Freedom for us! To return us to our natural state of equilibrium with our Father, so that the resultant divinely ordered state of Imago Dei can arise: Freedom!
From this condition we will find our minds unclouded, our hearts enlightened, and we will be ready to meet Astraea on her return to Earth. We will be ready and free to (re)create a just human society, as Virgil prophesied in 40 BC: the great order of the ages is born afresh! A great cycle of ages is born anew! Returned to us, through the reclamation of our birthright, an age of justice and peace: manifested by our own divine free choice.
A Call to Integral Development
Let us, therefore, (re)build the Church: Heaven on Earth. Let us return to the point of divergence: where the twelve steel men gather around the sacred heart of Jesu–tessalting perfectly, one to the next. Each disciple reflecting purely that glorious toroidal light-force that emanates from the Son: the spotless Lamb of God.
Let us return to that place and take up again the task of Integral Development: His Kingdom on Earth which He has returned to establish in strength. His temple, for His namesake, is built within each pure heart, and our dance with Him within catalyzes the state of perfect Freedom, henceforth ever co-creating.
For Hobbes had it wrong: we are not corrupt and in need of an absolute monarch to keep us from evil that we are doomed to seek if left free.2 Such true Freedom does not lead to evil. Even God Omnipotent Himself does not seek to be our absolute monarch, but draws us, tenderly, to this terrifying, heavy Freedom.
And Locke3 had it wrong: Freedom is not a precondition, it is not an unalienable right–it does not exist before perfect equilibrium is achieved. It cannot be taken, and it cannot be granted. Freedom is the result of resonating with the highest frequency of the Absolute. I could not give you your Freedom, nor could I take it from you. Only you can achieve it, as appointed by your Creator.
And Rousseau, though in his sentiment was endearing, was imprecise when he said, “Man is born free and everywhere is in chains.”4 Though the adage has a kernel of truth: everywhere we are robbed of peace and justice and all systems aim to bring man into subjugation, but Freedom is not present at birth; it is not our natural state before civilization arose and confined Man. Freedom is a state achieved despite the chains of this world. Freedom is a state where death has no bite. Freedom is my life in you and your life in me. Freedom is where there is no longer any spot within me to which can cling any resentment, any greed, any lie, any debasement, any lust or envy. Freedom exists where no thief can rob, no rust can decay, and no chain can confine.
For the truly enlightened man, peering into the Source–the heart of Christ–no fear could prevent such Freedom to create God’s Kingdom on Earth. Let us gather then, let us pray: every one believing in God the Father, their self, and the Man of Steel found at their edge. For truly, Astraea is already among us, stirring in the ashes once again. Already she is standing in the gap as she has in every other era when mankind was poised between the final judgment and deliverance into a new era of his own creation.
Take courage, this is not our end. Yes, God the Father has drawn near to our wretched state, but have no fear, for the gap is filled–the hedge is built up5 by she who has come before in many different names, wearing many different faces. She has closed the gap–God’s wrath as the radiating unbearable blinding Sun–the face of the Absolute–is quenched.6 He comes not to collapse us into the heavy density of the singularity of our dark sins, but alas, our polarity has flipped. Such is the work of the inner life. We are no longer a dense, dark multiplicity of divergent singularities. Rather, we radiate now–the light of the Source–as suns.
We are as twelve merkabah7 suns gathered around the Bridegroom. And around these twelve another ring of pure hearts, and another and another. I feel the straight edges of my manifested light–my steel–tessellating against yours, I sense the curved porous petals of my spirit overlapping with yours: we are the indestructible, radiating, breathing flower of life. The Church is this: when I turn my gaze from Christ, I peer at the edges of my soul and find yet another vesica piscis! When I despair that I have reached the end of myself: alas, for joy, I discover that I have only touched the beginning of you! When at my root, the light brought forth my weakness, and I hung my head in shame, I looked up, and behold: the light reveals not my ruin, but the strength magnified at your crown: and I rejoice in you! For here, in these spaces shared between us, His Bride, the Church–made pure white–is prepared and poised to bring forth the life that we have co-created in the Christ-blood-drenched robes of our Freedom.
Lift your right hand, Man of Steel! Command the nations in perfect peace and justice. Take your step and show the nations where their Freedom truly lies–where it always has, that same place where Integral Development begins: at your Vector Equilibrium, which you sensed at the foot of the cross, and which you beheld as you peered into the burning sacred heart of Jesu! Jesu! Jesu! Now listen to his voice: Step! Let us create out of this void a Kingdom for His namesake, our Kingdom come! Amen!
Fuller, R. B., & Applewhite, E. J. (1975). Synergetics: Explorations in the geometry of thinking. Macmillan. ↩︎
Hobbes, T. (1996). Leviathan (R. Tuck, Ed.). Cambridge University Press. (Original work published 1651). ↩︎
Locke, J. (1988). Two treatises of government (P. Laslett, Ed.). Cambridge University Press. (Original work published 1689). ↩︎
Rousseau, J.-J. (2018). The social contract and other later political writings (V. Gourevitch, Ed. & Trans.; 2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. (Original work published 1762). ↩︎
See: Ezekiel 22. ↩︎
See: Psalm 106. ↩︎
See: Ezekiel 1. See also: Daniélou, J. (1964). The theology of Jewish Christianity (J. A. Baker, Trans.). Darton, Longman & Todd. ↩︎
How to cite this article
Sarah Pattison, PhD. (2026, July 31). The Weight of Freedom III part. The RIID Review. http://riidblog.org/post/31-07-2026/