The True Meaning of the Matrix Science, Religion, and Philosophy in the Matrix

Do you want to know what "The Matrix" movie is really about? Take the blue pill and the story ends. Take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland. And I will show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. To understand the ideas and philosophies embedded in the "Matrix" films, let's first hear from the actors and writers of this movie. Let's listen to what they think. Here is what Keanu Reeves, the actor who played the main role in this film, says. To meet Enzi Larevachevski, the screenwriters, and the

directors of the film called "The Matrix." I was excited about the upcoming conversation because they wrote something special before me, and I had not seen anything like it. I have always been a fan of science fiction. And that scenario they showed me, for some reason it reminded me of Gibson. You would say, I am a fan. But still it was Gibson, Philip K. Dick, Frank Miller, Anime, Kurosawa, Peking Opera, it was Nietzsche, it was Buddha, it was Christ, it was mythology, philosophy, technology. On

November 6, 1999, the Wachowski brothers also confirmed the presence of Christian references in this film in their chat. A participant in the conversation asks, your film contains a multitude of philosophical and philosophical references. Jewish, Christian, Egyptian, Arthurian, and Platonic references. And those are just the ones I noticed. Which ones were intended by the Wachowski brothers? All of them. Indeed, the film contains many biblical references. Many of them are on the surface. This i

ncludes the title and the names of the film's heroes. For example, the city where the people liberated from the matrix live is very aptly and not accidentally named Zion. The thing is, in religious tradition, Zion is a symbol of Jerusalem and generally all the inhabited lands. Especially for those Jews who were in the Babylonian captivity, and then in the diaspora in the Dispersion after 70 AD. There are indications of this in Psalm 136. There are such words. By the rivers of Babylon, there we s

at down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. The name of the battleship at the Nebuchadnezzar exit is also not coincidental. This name was carried by the Babylonian king, who incidentally took the Jews into captivity. This king is mentioned in the Book of Prophet Daniel. In connection with this, Morpheus' monologue upon seeing the hot ship becomes clear. And I saw a dream, and this dream slipped away from me. And I saw a dream. And this dream slipped away from me. This paraphrase of the words

at the Nebuchadnezzar exit from the second chapter. By the way, in this dream described in this chapter, it is said that at the Nebuchadnezzar exit, he saw a dream in which the destruction of all earthly kingdoms was shown, and that the kingdom of Christ, the kingdom of God, would come to replace them. By the way, in this dream described in this chapter, it is said that Nossar had a dream in which the collapse of all earthly kingdoms was shown, and it was shown that the kingdom of Christ, the k

ingdom of God, would come to replace them. Also interesting are the scenes from the movie, where a plaque is shown on the ship with the name of the ship and the date of its manufacture. On this plaque there is an inscription Mark 311. If we refer to the corresponding verse from the Gospel of Mark, we will read the following words: "And the unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down, and cried, You, Son of God." It is not difficult to guess that the prototype of Jesus Christ in the film is the

main character Neo, Thomas Anderson. By the way, his surname Anderson translates to "son of man." Jesus Christ often refers to himself in this way throughout the Gospel narrative, and in particular he refers to himself this way at the trial before the Sanhedrin, which is why they execute him. Why do they execute the living? It seems that "son of man," as many believe, is a reference to his humanity, to his human nature. But it is quite the opposite. The fact is that "son of man" is a reference

specifically to his divine nature. The divine figure seen by the prophet Daniel in Chapter 7 of the Book of Daniel is called "son of man." He saw God in the form of a son of man, who walked on the clouds, and all peoples worshipped him. And so, at the trial before the Sanhedrin, Jesus Christ seems to say, "I am God, worship me. I am that very God who appeared to the prophet of the Old Testament." I am the God who was the prophet in the Old Testament. I am the God who appeared to the prophet Dani

el, as you know from the 7th chapter of his prophetic book. I am the God whom all nations worship. Therefore, if you do not worship me now, you will worship later, as described by the prophet Daniel. Some in the film address me like this: "You are my savior, my personal Jesus Christ." Hallelujah, you saved me. You are my personal Jesus Christ. If they find out about this... Let's remember the key events in the life of Jesus Christ and try to find parallels in the movie "The Matrix". So, the key

events in the life of Jesus Christ were his Birth, Baptism, let's say, the miracles he performed during his earthly life. Betrayal, death, resurrection, and ascension to heaven. And indeed, we see all of this in "The Matrix". By the way, in the ancient church, the Birth and Baptism of Christ were celebrated on the same day. And it is still celebrated in the Armenian church. In the movie, this also happens on the same day. Neo undergoes baptism, or is born into a new life in a chamber where he is

surrounded by liquid. Some cords are detached from him, through which he was nourished, and he wakes up, born into a new, real life. We will talk about the miracles a little later. Betrayal is carried out by Cypher, who betrays Morpheus and Neo. Neo dies in room 303, which is a reference to the earthly age of Jesus Christ, 33 years. Then he resurrects. Who resurrects Neo? The three threads. Three threads in English translates to Trinity. Indeed, our Lord Jesus Christ did not rise by himself. Hi

s human nature did not rise by itself, but was raised by the divinity of the Son of God. But we know from Orthodox theology that divinity, the divine nature of the Son of God, the Father, and the Holy Spirit is one. They have one action and one will. They have one act and one will. Therefore, the truly human nature of Jesus Christ was resurrected by the entire Trinity. Such a Christian approach helps understand how Neo, being in the Matrix, stopped the hunters. Let's remember Christian theology

again. According to it, Jesus Christ was a perfect God who, remaining a perfect God - omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent - also became a man. Neo, while remaining a man, also becomes a program. Therefore, in the film, he reaches out his hand as a man, but as a program, he hacks into the hunters' software and destroys them. This has references to Orthodox theology. So when Morpheus speaks of Christ resurrecting, he tells his daughter and Aira that as a man, he took her hand and lifted her. But a

s God, he revived her, breathed new life into her. These two actions of Divine humanity are different, but in God's humanity, they are not separated from each other. Now, the endings. Perhaps not everyone understood it, but it's amazing. I remember when I first watched this film, I was amazed at how accurately, amazingly, and interestingly the victory of Christ over Hades and the Devil was portrayed. But this was already talked about in the 2000s by Andrey Kuraev. The thing is, after his musings

on humanity being a virus, Smith, ironically, becomes a virus himself. He becomes infected, so to speak, by the humanity he despises. At the end of the first film, Neo explodes Smith, invading his nature and destroying him. When Smith comes back to life, he is found infected with Neo's humanity, becoming like a virus that uncontrollably multiplies and replicates itself. He befriends the victim's hand to the program code as if it were a nature of sorts, and in the end, it is precisely this that

destroys him. At the end of the trilogy, Neo voluntarily gives up the resistance to the fight against the Matrix and allows it to merge with his mind. And during the final battle with Smith, Neo loses and leaves Smith alone with the Matrix hostile to him. Smith, thinking he is facing just a human, finds himself against the hostile Matrix and perishes. In computer language, Smith, by connecting to Neo, injects a virus into him, but through the same communication channel, receives a packet of anti

virus programs from the Matrix and perishes. In the language of hunters and fishermen, Smith swallows the bait and finds himself hooked by the Matrix. But this language, the language of hunters and fishermen, has long been used in Christian theology. Theologians say that God acted as a hunter of the devil or as a fisherman. He to a certain point. The fishing rod, the devil catches as bait human nature. The thing is, God concealed the mystery of His incarnation, the mystery of His humanity from b

oth angels and the devil. And when the devil thought he was dealing with a mere man, he found himself face to face with God. He took the bait of humanity and swallowed the very God who destroys him from within. This is beautifully articulated by John Chrysostom in his Easter sermon. He took on a body, yet touched God. He took on earth, yet found heaven in it. He took what could be seen, yet subjected himself to what was unexpected. Death, where is your sting, grave where is your victory. And aft

er all this, we see Christ crucified on a certain radiant, shining fiery cross. This also references the theology of light. The Holy Fathers, explaining the union of the two natures in Christ divine and human, say that just as a sword, when plunged into fire, remains steel, yet with the sword becomes fire, so too humanity in Christ was united with His divinity. A harmonious Christian image seems to emerge, but it's not that simple. Follow me, and I will show you the depths of the rabbit hole. As

we start to examine the plot of the matrix, we realize that it takes the biblical narrative and turns everything upside down. Good becomes evil, evil becomes good, God becomes Satan, and she becomes God. But let's start from the beginning. The philosophical plot of the matrix begins with the question, what is truth. And suddenly, it appears that a person's understanding of reality is based on their personal experience. And suddenly it turns out that a person's understanding of reality is based

on their personal experience. And this experience, in turn, is acquired exclusively through the sense organs, through the receptors, literally speaking. And as we know, this is a questionable and sometimes even false range of perception and a source of information. Plato once reflected on this idea in his allegory of the cave. From his point of view, the material world is a kind of illusion, a shadow on the wall of the cave, which those inside the cave look at without knowing what is beyond the

entrance to the cave, in the real world. They only see the shadows playing on the wall. In other words, the visible world is a shadow, an illusion of the matrix, from which one must learn and be liberated. It is not surprising that matrices have many neoplatonic and gnostic references given their foundation in such a Platonic idea. The Wachowskis expressed their love for gnostics in the same chat in '99. One of their beloved writers happens to be Philip K. Dick. By the way, who are the gnostics?

Gnostics are people who start from the viewpoint that the whole world is a kind of prison, a cell, from which one must break free. Indeed, this world is full of diseases, suffering, and even death. From the gnostic perspective, a benevolent god could not have created such an ugly world. Therefore, they interpret our sacred texts in this way, turning our good characters into evil ones and our sacred descriptions of events into the opposite. Therefore they look at our sacred descriptions in such

a way, and our good characters, sacred descriptions become evil, and evil becomes good. For them, for the Gnostics, the world created by God is the very Platonic cave from which one must be freed, from which one must escape as from some cell, from some prison. And the scene of liberation from this matrix, from this Platonic cave, is the scene where Morpheus offers Neo a choice of two pills: blue and red. You will wake up in your bed and believe that it was a dream. Take the red pill, you will en

ter the land of wonders. I will show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. And what associations should arise here for a Christian? What? The scene from the Bible reminds us of this picture from the matrix. Exactly. The scene of the Fall, where the Serpent tempts Eve and offers her some knowledge of good and evil. And Adam, where Eve chooses, prefers ignorance over knowledge of good and evil. More precisely, not the knowledge of good and evil itself, but the temptation that the Serpent offers them.

Because the Serpent has nothing to offer Adam and Eve. He deceives them. And Adam and Eve fall for this deception. As a result of all this, due to the lack of rest, Adam and Eve find themselves expelled and sent to the cursed land. In the aggressive conditions of the movie, the same thing happens as with a person who has come out of the matrix, awakened, and finds themselves in a place that is not at all like paradise. Zion, located at the center of the Earth, rather resembles the Christian hel

l. It is interesting that the same scene with Nebuchadnezzar appears in the second film as well. It is interesting that the same scene with the Oracle appears in the second film. Instead of pills, Neo is offered to choose one of the doors, one of which also symbolizes the forbidden fruit. As the Architect says, if he chooses this forbidden door, behind which is Trinity's salvation, then humanity will perish. Neo chooses the forbidden fruit, just like Adam chooses the forbidden fruit, after which

death enters the human race, and a terrible judgment must follow. It turns out that Morpheus, as the liberator of Zion from the Garden of Eden, is depicted as a positive hero in the film, while God is portrayed as a negative character. Who then represents God in the film? In the first film, the role of God, the Trinity, the Gnostic Demiurge, is portrayed by three agents. They represent the Trinity, and we see in the film how they possess common knowledge, common will, unified action, like the C

hristian Trinity. They can continue each other's sentences, simultaneously raising their guns. Nothing can be entrusted to humans. And, by the way, the embodiment of one of them, Agent Smith, when he transitions from the world of the Matrix to the world of humans, vividly illustrates the dogma of god in the flesh. In other words, in the first movie, the trinity of god is symbolized by the three agents. And Smith - the son of God, the son of man, who incarnated and became human later in the movie

. It's not hard to guess that in the second Matrix, the role of the transcendent god, as the first father, is assumed by the Architect. Who are you? I am the chief architect. I created the matrix. And here we are, meeting. Through its monologues, Sneu reveals to him a shocking truth. He says that this matrix is not the first one; there have already been five versions of the matrix, and this is the sixth. There is also some symbolism here, as if the six days of creation. The first matrix was like

paradise, but people couldn't live there because there was no freedom of choice. But the architect creates a new matrix, in which a pifia appears. He creates a pifia that controls this system from within and creates an illusion of choice for people. So people have the choice to stay in the matrix or to exit it. But then he reveals to me an even more shocking truth. It turns out that those who exit the matrix are not completely free either; they are also controlled by the matrix. And when their

numbers increase to a dangerous level for the existence of the matrix, a squad of killer robots is sent to Zion to destroy this humanity. The role of the chosen one in this system is to control this situation, so that this cyclical process can repeat and evolve. Thus, the movie leads us to the idea that in the matrix there exists a system of total control through the architect or the pifia. The role of the architect here is to create a kind of perfect matrix, and the role of the pifia is to cont

rol human consciousness from within and create the illusion of choice for people. All of this is necessary so that humanity and machines can coexist together. In fact, she says that she is only interested in the future, and believe me, she says, we will reach and live to see that future, only by uniting people and machines. Actually, she says that she is only interested in the future, and believe me, she says, we will only reach and live until that future by uniting people and machines. It turns

out that the Oracle is not a prophecy at all, she exerts a significant influence on humanity from within the matrix. Remember, when she first appears, she predicts to Neo that he will break the vase. But then she says, think about it, I think you are more interested in whether you would have broken the vase if I hadn't told you about it. In other words, she influences him in such a way that he breaks the vase. And without worrying about the vase. What vase? She said, don't worry. She plants the

idea in Morpheus' mind that he must find the chosen one. And thus, through Morpheus, she gains a grip on influencing Neo. She tells Trinity, predicts to Trinity, that she will fall in love with the chosen one. And thus, she gains a grip on influencing Neo even through Trinity. The ruler predicted to me that I must fall in love. And my beloved chosen one. Therefore, it is not surprising that in the scene with two doors, Neo chooses not to save humanity, but to save Trinity. The Oracle had been p

reparing him for this and implanting this idea in him. When Neo talked to her about his dreams where he sees something horrible happening to Trinity, she asks, "Have you seen her die?" "No, I haven't." "Why not?" "Because maybe there are two outcomes. So she is preparing him to choose not the salvation of humanity, but the salvation of Trinity. Because any story can have two endings." "So I have to choose to live or die?" "No. As I said, the choice has already been made. You just have to realize

it." It is also worth noting that the Oracle does not hide from Agent Smith and willingly gives him her omnipotence, which greatly alarms Smith, and rightfully so. In chess, this move is called a gambit - giving up something small to win the game. The Oracle willingly gives her omnipotence to Smith, who then takes over the entire Matrix. But Neo ends up having an ace up his sleeve. Because now he can offer himself in the Matrix as some kind of antivirus against Smith. Thus, while the Oracle see

ms to disappear for a while, she continues to control the situation, continues to control the Matrix. This is acknowledged by the Architect at the end of the trilogy when he says that it was the Oracle who started the dangerous game that ultimately led to the creation of the seventh - in a sense, the perfect, flawless Matrix. This also holds a certain symbolism. This also has a certain symbolism. Because the seventh day of creation is the day of the celebration of the Lord God, and the creation

of the beautiful world by Him. "You have gotten into a very dangerous game. Any change is a risk." The dialectical principles, as one of the plot lines of the film, are confirmed by both the director and the screenwriter, Vachovsky. We wrote it as a very elegant construction, dialectical in nature, and it was in harmony with the ideas of the birth of life and death. Thesis, antithesis, synthesis and all that. And we wanted the story to be a triptych, for specific reasons. You know, some stories

are simply long, and that is why they are broken down, for the better. He is you. Your opposite, your antipode. The result of an equation that sought independent resolution. God himself created Satan in order to give humanity a push towards further development in accordance with dialectical laws. And humanity, which was in paradise, like in a cradle in a state of infancy, in a state of action, thanks to Satan, according to the idea of this film, received a push towards further development and tr

ansition to a new perfect state in the Kingdom of Heaven. So it turns out that this film, all of Christianity, all sacred scripture, turns everything upside down. It turns out to be a blasphemous and satanic film. But it's not that simple. Follow me and I will show you the depths of rabbit hole. It turns out, the most important film about the exploration of consciousness and freedom. This is what the Brothers Vachovsky themselves say. Their quotes are cited by film critic Richard Corliss in Time

magazine in the year 99. It is a story about consciousness, about a child's perception of the adult world. The Matrix - it's a story about the birth and evolution of consciousness. It all starts with madness, and then everything begins to make sense. In a big interview with Ken Wilber in 2004, the Vachovsky Brothers also confirm this idea that the film is about exploring consciousness. It's like we're telling the audience at what stage of development we are. I mean, the Matrix is an exploration

of consciousness. In order to fully understand the conclusions reached by the authors of the film, it is necessary to refer to the book that they had the actors read before the start of filming. One of the mandatory books was the introduction to evolutionary psychology Introducing Evolutionary Psychology. The introduction to evolutionary psychology was such a mandatory book. Larry Andy told me, "We would like you to play Thomas Anderson." I had to read a book by Baudrillard, "The Unmanageable,"

which talks about systems, evolution, robots, and another book - "Evolutionary Psychology." I read three books before starting to read the screenplay. In turn, this book references William Hamilton's hypothesis that we are subconsciously controlled by certain genes, selfish genes. And to a book by Richard Dawkins, who popularized this idea of selfish genes. It is not surprising that in 2004 a book by Glen Yeffeth appears. Take the red pill "Science, Philosophy, and Religion in the Matrix". And

in this book, it is said that the film is primarily based on the ideas of evolutionary psychology that we are governed by selfish genes. Here are some quotes from this book: "Our masters use the grass world to keep us in slavery. Our masters are selfish genes." Or here is another quote: "In the Matrix, rebels are outraged by their slave dependence on artificial intelligence. But at the same time, they apparently agree to be enslaved by their genes and emotions, through which genes control their

behavior." As we can see, this imported book also refers to the terminology of Richard Dawkins on selfish genes. And many who have read Dawkins' work agree that a human is just a machine controlled by genes. We come back to the Gnosticism belief that the human body is a prison. Thus, it turns out that "The Matrix" is a Gnostic film, which on one hand is based on traditional Gnosticism, and on the other hand on modern scientific Gnosticism in the form of biological determinism, which also conside

rs the body a prison from which one must be freed. And the conclusion of all this is that, according to the authors of the film, by escaping from one matrix, a person falls back into another matrix, and the limitation of their freedom is their body. Neo must embark on this journey where he is told what to do, what to believe. Everything turns out to be an illusion, a certain construction, and then a new construction is superimposed on the previous one. Everything turns out to be an illusion, a c

ertain construction, and then a new construction is imposed on the previous one. You are chosen, blah-blah, faith, prophecy, pife. And now this new matrix is overlaid on the previous one. He's like "yes, this is great, this is cool, I can fly, I have reached enlightenment." But then this enlightenment turns out to be false in the second matrix. It's all a huge lie. Everything ends like that, oh, that.. This is all a big lie. And this is the third matrix about it. So, in order to answer the quest

ion of whether I have any kind of freedom, according to the logic of the film's authors, we need to turn to the philosophical systems they used during the filming of the movie. Firstly, this includes dialectics, and secondly, evolutionary psychology. So, let's see if there is freedom according to these systems. For Hegel, freedom is a conscious necessity. Man is not free, but he has the ability to realize this freedom. However, biological determinisms completely deny any freedom even at the leve

l of consciousness. So, Smith is infected by this lack of freedom, this corporeality from him. He does not want to be weak. And he will most likely become partially human. Partially become real. That is why, at the end of the trilogy, during the decisive battle, Smith can already be seen on his face that he understands that when he copies himself outside, he will perish. But he can no longer refrain from doing so, because he is already like a machine. He has been infected with physicality from h

im, infected with this selfish genome, and he is no longer free. And despite understanding that he will perish, he still does it. Don't approach me! What are you afraid of? Bochyo also seems to reject freedom in his interview, interpreting the scene with two doors from a deterministic perspective, where Neo makes a choice. In the first film, there is a certain choice between the red and blue pills, but in the second series, we come to the same paradigm. There are two doors. This is the same as r

ed and blue pills. The essence is in getting to the point where instead of being in front of the doors, it is a potion. The choice itself is an illusion. And now comes the most interesting, the most intriguing moment. Is the movie about us being just machines and devoid of any freedom at all? It's not quite like that. Undoubtedly, our freedom is severely limited and largely illusory, but it still exists in some sense. And the author of the bestseller "The Selfish Gene," Richard Dawkins, acknowle

dges the existence of such freedom in humans. Quote. We are even capable of intentionally cultivating and nurturing pure selfless altruism. Something that has no place in nature. Something that has never existed in the world throughout its history. We are built as gene machines and returned as meme machines. Memes are something akin to genes, but in culture, the means through which culture is transmitted. But we have the power to resist our creators. We are the only creatures on Earth capable of

standing against the tyranny of selfish replicators. It turns out that in the finale of the third movie, the authors show us true freedom in the form of pure selfless altruism, which the main character Neo embodies. Richard Dawkins speaks of this freedom. And on the other hand, they also show freedom in the form of Neo's liberation from the attack on his body. What does Gnosticism tell us? Neo has freed himself from everything. Even from his attachment to the dearest Trinity, symbolically shown

as her death. And now he is free. Now he is conscious, meaning he freely and altruistically sacrifices himself. He is not troubled by anything in his paradise, he is not even afraid of death. Because he understands that this is his role. Because he understands that this is his role. He abides in the radiance of glory, he is free. The music accompanying the decisive battle also testifies to such a meaning. In the Panishad Neodemerung, the following words are translated: When the great existence

is realized both as the highest and as the lowest, then the bonds of the heart are broken, all doubts dispelled, and karma destroyed. The authors of the film recognize his liberation at the end of the trilogy. And stepping beyond his material self, which he was limited to at that moment. It is much more important to us than any religious images. But why was Neo freed, and Smith was not? The reason is that Smith was infected by Neo not with freedom but with corporeality. He is now a virus. Right

now I am here because of you. Mr. Anderson, you are guilty of me no longer being a part of the system. We are not here because we are free, we are here because we have been deprived of freedom. Stupidly not noticing the purpose of our existence. Therefore, he cannot find freedom. Quite the opposite, speaking the language of agnosticism, he, as a pneumatic, is a spiritual person. He has a spark of spirituality that cannot be contaminated, and thanks to which he can find and does find freedom at t

he end of the movie. If by the end of the first movie he is only chosen within the matrix, by the end of the trilogy he finds complete freedom. He becomes chosen in the full sense of the word. By the way, the idea of pure selfless altruism is, in general, a scientific theme from evolutionary psychology. But it shows that a human differs from an animal and actually expresses a religious idea that a human is not from the world, but above it. It turns out that a human can only find long-lasting fre

edom through belief in religion. It was precisely through the idea of pure selfless altruism that Immanuel Kant first showed the presence of freedom in a human, then showed the impossibility of freedom and the human being fitting within the framework of this deterministic world, and then he convinced himself and showed the existence of God. So, immersing ourselves deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole to the next and next level, we first found ourselves at the Christian level, then at the anti-

Christian Gnostic level, then at the Gnostic-evolutionary-psychological level, and finally, we descended to the very bottom of the rabbit hole. And there, we found a chest with treasure. And there we found a chest with a treasure. And this treasure is the question of our freedom. So, this film is about the constant search for personal freedom. This is acknowledged by Ivachevsky in his interview. Larry Ivachevsky says, the basic concept of the matrix is that there is a reality beyond ours. And on

ly the evolution of consciousness can lead a person to this other reality. Most people accept others' decisions instead of thinking for themselves. Only a few thinking individuals question every form of matrix, every system of thought, whether political, religious, or philosophical. Ivachevsky voices his thoughts and experiences through which they saw the matrix, i.e. the prison in their own body. And one day the authors decide to express their protest to their body, the social machine, society,

and even God with their matrix trilogy. This explains the fact that the trilogy is overflowing with gnostic images and ideas, as well as reflections on biological determinism, which like Gnosticism acknowledges that the body is just a prison. And then this protest is expressed with the beginning of hormonal tropism. Two pills worn out is nothing but hormones, with which the Ivachevskys change their sex. And it turns out that by liberating their true selves from dictates and prohibitions, the Iv

achevskys find themselves in a new matrix, conditioning their body on hormonal medications. So the freedom that the main character of the work achieves turns out to be inaccessible to the Ivachevsky brothers themselves, not to mention true freedom. Because true freedom does not lie in having a choice. A truly free person no longer chooses between good and evil. A truly free persons no longer chooses between good and evil. They are rooted in good. Genuine freedom is absolute love, it is willingne

ss to sacrifice oneself to the last drop of blood. It is this kind of love, this kind of freedom that our Lord Jesus Christ showed us.