Course XXXI - Teaching 11: The Law of Analogical Contrariety

God, in se, is cause with no cause, Unknowable.
God, as Creator, is the Divine Trinity, unknowable as to His causes, but accessible as to His effects. God-Creator possesses the Unique Idea and the knowledge about the purpose of the Universal Creation pre-exists in His Divine Intelligence. He is beginning and end, cause and effect, and the Pure Act of the Creation is totally contained in His Cosmic Mind.
No shadow darkening His Creational Thought can exist in the Divine Mind; so, God establishes the successive order and His unique purpose since the beginning.
If God establishes the alternatives and end of the Universe since a beginning, then a being would not be subject to his freewill; he would be subject just to a Law of Predestination. But such predestination would be a determined and invariable act, without analogical compounds, and in opposition to the Divine Perfection, which appears in the Universe through manifold and different expressions, seemingly contradictory, but looking for harmony in variability.
Predestination is Law of Consecutive Predestination: a harmonious total of composed powers, all of them different, entirely dual, but that substantially emanate from a being that is Unique and Simple. This Law is not an absolute determinism, but the arrangement of the whole Creation as to its end; it is the progressive and harmonious achievement of the Divine evolution Plan.
The Divine will is the only law predestinating beings, but consecutively, orderly, harmoniously and even freely. All is contained in this Divine Law that arranges it with supreme prevision according to the proposed end.
From this viewpoint, there is no causality or event by chance, or freewill; there is just a relationship of secondary causes derived from a unique cause.
But a being is truly free, divinely free.
The Arbitrary Law of Possibilities is as real and extant as the First Law. But the human mind –so complex, so limited and so darkened by varied and false concepts– can understand such truth just by analogy.
The Law of Analogical Contrariety explains it.
If a being is like God, but not God Himself, he possesses a field of freedom, which is not limitless but limited.
A man cannot become an angel, a star or a stone by an act of his will and suddenly; but in the human field, and even in the magnetic field related to his individual idiosyncrasy, he can use his natural elements to determine their real end, not their illusory end.
In this sense, a man is not against the Divine Predestination, but assists it with his freewill. He is a composed element looking for a simple element.
Certain different chances can be noticed in beings of coincident evolution and similarity, but this disparity is indispensable and harmonious, because only confirms that the Divine Manifestation is not based on a unique form but on manifold forms that are similar among them but not equal; an equal unity exists only in the very root of the Creation.
For instance; two beings with the same evolution are born at the same hour, in the same place and under the same conditions; but between them there is always a fraction X that makes the difference. By the Law of expansive Numerical Creation, this difference leads these beings to different fields of activity throughout the time.