"The idea of predestination has haunted and confused Man ever since He became aware of the pattern of time. Fear has prompted the idea that all facets of existence may be predetermined and fixed in such a way that no choice or action on the part of the individual can avoid the experience intended to take place. This misconception has caused great confusion and anxiety to millions of human beings."
"The truth of the matter is that many external circumstances and event-patterns are, indeed, arranged and 'predestined', in a manner of speaking (by The Guides or Higher Self), but that the internal reaction of the individual to such events is entirely free. The response of each human being to the pattern of events impressed upon his life from the outside is free to such an extent that no psychic gift nor any spirit or entity viewing from a Higher Plane of being can possibly say with certainty what the response will be."
"The external events are prearranged to a large extent in order to confront each human being with a choice of internal response. Through the requirement to choose in this way, it is hoped that the individual will learn to choose the right and more spiritual response and that, through such tests, he will develope a habit of goodness which will lead to overall improvement in the spiritual sense."
"At the end of the life when the soul passes to new and different realms of learning and experience, it cannot take with it the things of the 'real' world. The money, the fame, the power that might have been wielded in the world -- these things are left behind. But each individual does take with him the results of the choices and responses that he has made to the pattern of events in the life just completed."
"Thus, in the sense of the permanent benefits to be derived from each life by the soul, the determining factor is the completely free and uninhibited choice of the soul itself."
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