Liberdade

VI. 8. 15
(Armstrong Selection and Translation)

[We know that the One is altogether outside the realm of chance because we are aware of something in ourselves which transcends chance by the power of Its light; and when we attain to that and become it and put away all else we are more than free, more than masters of ourselves.]

When we say that He does not receive anything into Himself and that nothing else receives Him, in this way too we are putting Him outside the class of beings which are what they are by chance, not only by setting Him alone and pure of everything, but for another reason: we may possibly ourselves perceive in ourselves a nature of this kind, which has none of the other things which are attached to us and by reason of which we are subject to the accidents of chance. Everything else which we have is in servitude, and exposed to chance, and came to us by chance. By this alone we have effective power over ourselves and independence, by the act of a light which is like the Good, and good itself, greater than the activity of Noûs, which it transcends in its own right. When we ascend to this and become this alone and put away everything else, what can we say about it except that we are more than free, more than independent? Who then could bind us to chance or hazard or accident, when we have come to be the true Life, or to be in It, the Life which has nothing else but is Itself alone?

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