6. Fate

People talk about deserved and undeserved fate, about reward and punishment, retribution and karma.
 
All these are only partial designations of a Law inherent in Creation: The Law of Reciprocal Action!

A Law that has existed throughout Creation since the beginning, that has been inextricably woven into the great, never-ending evolution as a necessary part of Creation itself and of development. Like a giant system of the finest nerve threads, it holds and animates the mighty Universe and promotes constant movement, an eternal giving and taking!
 
Simple and straightforward, yet so aptly has the great bearer of Truth, Christ Jesus, already said: "What a man sows, that will he reap!"
 
These few words convey the image of activity and life in the whole of Creation so brilliantly that it could hardly be said any better. The meaning of the words is woven into existence. Unshakeable, untouchable, incorruptible in its continuing effect.
 
You can see it if you want to see it! Begin by making observation of your immediate surroundings. What you call the Laws of Nature are in fact the Divine Laws, the Will of the Creator. You will quickly recognize how ceaselessly they are in continuous activity; for if you sow wheat, you will not reap rye, and if you scatter rye, you cannot expect to harvest rice! This is so obvious to every person that they do not even think of the actual events taking place. As a result, they are completely unaware of the strict and great Law that lies behind it. And yet they stand before the solution to a puzzle that need not be a puzzle to them.
 
The same Law that you can observe here also operates with the same certainty and force in even the most delicate things that you can only see through magnifying glasses, and even further in the ethereal part of the whole Creation, which is by far the greater part. It is unalterable in every event, even in the most delicate development of your thoughts, which also have a certain materiality, since otherwise they would be incapable of producing any effect.
 
How could you imagine that it should be different precisely where you would like it to be different? Your doubts are in reality nothing more than expressed inner wishes!
 
It is no different than that every species produces its own kind, in all of your visible and invisible existence, regardless of the substance. Equally perpetual is growth and development, bearing fruit and producing the same kind. This process runs uniformly throughout everything, makes no distinctions, leaves no gaps, does not stop at any other part of Creation, but carries the effects through like an unbreakable thread, without stopping or breaking. Even if the majority of humanity, in its limitations and conceit, has separated themselves from the Universe, the Divine or Natural Laws have not ceased to regard them as belonging to it and to continue to work calmly and uniformly in an unchanging manner.
 
However, the Law of Reciprocal Action also dictates that man must reap everything he sows, that is, wherever he gives cause to an effect or outcome, he must also reap the consequences!
 
Man always has only the free decision, the free choice at the beginning of every matter, as to where the Omnipotent-Force flowing through him should be directed and in which direction. He must then bear consequences that arise from the Force that acts in the direction he has chosen. Nevertheless, many insist on the assertion that humans do not have free will if they are subject to fate!

This folly is meant solely for the purpose of self-anesthesia or a rumbling acquiescence to something unavoidable, a murmuring resignation, but mainly a self-excusing justification; for each of these effects that fall back upon him has had a beginning, and at this beginning lay the cause for the subsequent effect in a preceding free decision of man. This free decision has always preceded every reciprocal action, and therefore every fate! With a first volition, man has each time created something, brought something into being, in which he, sooner or later, has to live himself.

But when this occurs varies greatly. It can still happen in the same earth-life in which the first volition created the beginning; just as well, it can happen after shedding the coarse material body in the Ethereal World, or even later again in a coarse material body. The changes do not play a role in this; they do not free man from it. He continually carries the connecting threads with him until he is redeemed from them, that is, “loosed” through the finite effect that occurs through the Law of Reciprocal Action.
 
The Creator is bound to His own Creation, even if He has intended it for others!
 
So, if today a person come to a decision to do something evil to another person, whether in thought, word or deed, he has thereby “set something into the world”, regardless of whether it is generally visible or not, whether it is gross or ethereal matter; it has force and therefore life within it, which develops and acts in the intended direction.
 
How the effect is triggered in the one to whom it is directed depends entirely on the spiritual nature of the individual concerned, who may thereby suffer great or small, perhaps even changed from what was intended, or even no harm at all; for the spiritual state of the individual concerned is again solely decisive for him. Thus, no one is defencelessly exposed to such things.
 
The situation is different for the one who, through his decision and volition, is the cause of this movement, thus the producer. His production remains unconditionally connected to him and, after a short or long journey through the Universe, returns to him, strengthened, like a bee laden with the attraction of its own kind. The Law of Reciprocal Action comes into play here, in that every formation, in its movement through the Universe, attracts things of the same kind or is itself attracted by them, and their merger then forms a power source, which sends back the amplified power of the same kind, as if from a centre, to all those connected to the gathering place by their productions.
 
Through this intensification, there also occurs an ever-increasing densification, until finally a coarse-material precipitation arises from it, in which the former producer must now live out his life in the manner he deliberated at the time in order to finally be freed from it. This is the origin and the development of the much-feared and misunderstood fate! It is just, down to the smallest and finest gradation, because through the attraction of only similar species in the reflection, it can never bring about anything other than what was originally intended. Whether this is for a specific other or in general is irrelevant, because the same development naturally occurs even if a person do not necessarily direct his volition towards another person or several people, but lives in any kind of volition at all.

The nature of the wanting that he chooses is decisive for the fruits he must reap in the end. Thus, countless ethereal threads are attached to man, or he on them, all of which allow whatever he has once seriously willed to flow back to him. These currents produce a brew has a continuous powerful effect on the formation of character.
 
Thus, in the mighty machinery of the universe, there are many things that contribute to the “fate” of man, but there is nothing to which man has not first provided the cause.

He supplies the threads from which, in the tireless loom of existence, the cloak he must wear is woven.
 
Christ expressed the same thing clearly and sharply when He said, “What a man sows, he will reap.” He did not say, “He may reap,” but “he will reap.” This is the same as saying that he must reap what he sows.
 
How often do we hear otherwise very reasonable people say, “It is incomprehensible to me that God allows such things to happen!”
 
But what is incomprehensible is that humans can say such a thing. How small do they conceive God, according to this statement. They thereby prove that they think of Him as an “arbitrary God.”

But God does not intervene directly in all these small and great human concerns, wars, misery, and everything else that is earthly! From the beginning, He has woven His perfect Laws into Creation, which carry out their incorruptible work automatically, so that everything is fulfilled with hair’s breadth precision, unfolding eternally in the same way, whereby preferential treatment is as impossible as discrimination, and every injustice remains impossible. God therefore does not need to concern Himself particularly with this; His work is flawless.
 
The one major error made by so many people is that they judge only according to the World of Gross Matter and see themselves as the centre of it, as well as counting on one earth-life, when in reality they already have several earthly existences behind them. These, as well as the intervening periods in the Ethereal World, are regarded as a unified existence, through which the threads are tightly pulled without breaking, so that in the effects of a particular earthly existence, only a small part of these threads becomes visible. It is therefore a great mistake to believe that a completely new life begins with birth, that a child is therefore “innocent”, and that all events can only be calculated on the basis of the short earthly existence. If this were really the case, then, of course, with existing Justice, causes, effects and reactions would have to be confined to the span of one earth-life.

Turn away from this error. You will then quickly discover the logic and justice in all events, which is now so often missed!

Many are frightened by this and are afraid of what they still have to expect from the repercussions of the past according to these Laws.

But these are unnecessary worries for those who are serious about good will; for in the self-acting laws lies at the same time the sure guarantee of grace and forgiveness!

Quite apart from the fact that the firm establishment of good will immediately sets a limit to the point where the chain of bad repercussions must come to an end, another process of immense value comes into force. Through the constant good will in all thoughts and deeds, a constant reinforcement also flows retroactively from the same power source, so that the good becomes firmer and firmer in man himself, emerges from him and first shapes the ethereal environment accordingly, surrounding him like a protective shell, similar to the way the layer of air around the earth provides protection.
 
If evil repercussions from former times in their activation return to this person, they slide off the purity of his environment or shell and are thus deflected from him.
 
If they nevertheless penetrate this shell, the evil rays are either immediately dissolved or significantly weakened, whereby the harmful effect cannot take place at all, or only to a very minimal extent.
 
In addition, through the transformation that has taken place, the actual inner man, to whom the returning radiations are directed, has become much more refined and lighter through his constant striving for good will, so that he no longer faces the greater density of evil or lower currents in the same way. This is similar to wireless telegraphy, when the receiving apparatus is not tuned to the strength of the transmitting apparatus.
 
The natural consequence of this is that the denser currents, because they are different, cannot latch on, and so pass through harmlessly without effect.
 
So get to work without delay! The Creator has placed everything in your hands within Creation. Make use of the time! Every moment holds either ruin or gain for you!
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