Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Harmonizing Evolutionary Convergence

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prī-

PIE base ‘to love’.

Apart from freedom and friendship, other derivatives denote ‘peace’, such as afraid and affray, from Vulgar Latin *exfridāre, from Latin ex ‘out of’, from PIE base *eghs ‘out’, and Frankish *frithu ‘peace’, from Proto-Germanic *frithuz ‘peace, consideration, forbearance’, root of German Freide ‘peace’, Swedish frid ‘Inner Peace’ and fred ‘lack of war’, and Middle English frith ‘peace’.

It is from this Proto-Germanic root that Frederick, Godfrey, Geoffrey, Siegfried, Winfred, and Friday are derived, from the day of Frigg ‘queen of heaven and goddess of married love’, the wife of Odin, the supreme god and creator, root of Wednesday.

It is interesting to note that while ‘friend’ and ‘I love’ have paired roots in Latin and Greek, as {amīcus, amō} and {philos, phileō}, respectively, a similar relationship in Old English has been lost. Around a thousand years ago, frēon meant ‘to love, like, honour, set free (from slavery or confinement)’ and frēond denoted ‘a friend’, literally ‘one who loves’.

[Pokorny *prāi-, prǝi-, prī-, ‘to like, feel well-disposed, friendly’, p. 844.]

friendship

From an etymological perspective, the most pertinent point is that friendship derives from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning ‘to love’, root of Swedish frid ‘Inner Peace’. So, we can live in friendship with our fellow human beings, without enemies or fiends, when we realize the Bliss of Nondual Wholeness, transcending the conflicts between opposites—opposing each other.

freedom

As we humans are interconnected with all others beings—never separate from the Divine for an instant—none of us has the free will to act as independent, autonomous beings. So, what does freedom mean?