Liber-Day Collection
“If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,
and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 8
“If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,
and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 8
liber - Latin for "book, single, free"
"If liberty is to be saved, it will not be by the doubters, the men of science, or the materialists; it will be by religious conviction, by the faith of individuals who believe that God wills man to be free but also pure; it will be by the seekers after holiness, by those old-fashioned pious persons who speak of immortality and eternal life, and prefer the soul to the whole world; it will be by the enfranchised children of the ancient faith of the human race." Henri-Frederic Amiel's Journal
The statue of liberty holds a book in one hand and a torchlight in the other to remind us that the path to liberty is rational ... it goes thru many words that unite us as fellow students of singular truth. Sages on pages thru ages tell us the stories of the long relationship between words, schools, truth and freedom. But, confused and jaded, we ask "What is truth?" ... and doubt that singular [much less rational and organic] truth exists even if it could somehow arise thru such a cacophonic babel of sounds.
And yet some of us rise above our fears and doubts to learn then teach that there IS something permanent and good behind our words. This revelation of truth is on-going ... unfolding over time ... as past becomes prologue to future ... and what has been learned becomes the foundation for what will be known. So we read and write books ... and start schools to learn and teach ... engaging and extending a great conversation ... in hopes of passing on what we have learned to others who will do the same.
The Liber-Day Collection houses and curates books from the personal libraries of men and women who have loved and sought liberty ... for themselves and their progeny ... thru knowledge of the truth ... by reading and writing ... to become part of the great conversation ... which, as Henri-Frederic Amiel says, recounts the "ancient faith of the human race" ... a belief that thru many words we become fellow students of the singular truth which unites and frees us ... and that this is the will of God for all his children.
Won't you join us in the work of maintaining this Legacy of Liberty thru Libraries for future generations?