Man of Light

The 4th and oddest type of masculinity, the Man of Light, yields:

the 7th archetype: The Prophet

Man is free by nature, he is created such. He can not be otherwise. Man chooses freely what the higher meaning of his life is, even if life seems to be only a struggle to escape from the labyrinth of conditional necessities. As a matter of fact, as a consequence of sin the circumstantial necessities can become so dominant that to live means to survive. But when man succeeds in going beyond them he is free to choose out of different options available to him.

Nevertheless one option he does not have: the choice not to choose at all. When he is able to choose freely, sooner or later he must choose. Man does not have the freedom of renouncing his freedom. Time counts and if man, created to choose and to act, does not choose or act, he chooses and acts against his Creator. Perfect indifference would imply a choice for indifference, so it simply can not exist. That’s why a particular mode of necessity appears here from the obligation to judge freely. In our human freedom  a necessity springs from non- necessity, and therefore it's supremely paradoxical.

When freedom instead of being something potential, a condition for acting, is considered to be something ultimate, like a completed and perfectly acquired realization, life soon becomes contradictory. It throws the soul in a dungeon of absurdity, which spiritually speaking is worse than any captivity of conditional necessity. Because not choosing is not an option to the will and represents an absurdity to the intelligence, the contradiction of indifference is not an objective and positive truth, but just the denial of a lie that is a pure product of thought. It is a truth, but without a real mediating force - at least at first sight.

Another way of looking at the same thing is considering what it means to emphasize our 'freedom' to search the truth. This may lead to promoting the freedom of choice between truth and lie. In fact, to search the truth we have no freedom, but a natural necessity. The truth itself is not a matter of freedom of choice, it's an absolute need. And the illusionary emphasis on the freedom to search the truth may not just lead to a choice for lie, but to a choice for absurdity and ultimately the complete destruction of the human nature.

As has been said, the necessary non-necessity implied in our freedom naturally should not have to be a mediating truth in our spiritual life. But it has to be so in moments, when thirst of truth has been extinguished and other modes of mediation are rejected. In those ultimate moments of man’s fallen condition, the readiness to receive mediation must be provoked or reawakened by a very particular mediation. This is represented by the archetype of the PROPHET.