Course XXXVI - Teaching 11: Fatalism and Orientation

The Law of Consecutive Predestination causes a being to be born within the circle of a round and race to which he belongs endowed with certain qualities and deficiencies, which are characteristic of the same. But, within this circle, a being has his own magnetic field where he can act with freedom, and this magnetic field allows him a whole development of the Arbitrary Law of Possibilities. Despite any pathological, psychical and spiritual charge, which a being may take with himself from the hereafter, in him there is a wonderful spark that at every steps cries: “You are free; you are a part of the Divine Being; fight and you will overcome”
Tyranny, cowardice and passivity have been fostered in man by a depressive state caused by the belief in a destiny.
Other religions surrender to the arms of the Divine Will and no progress can they bring by their cowardice.
A fatalism that shouts, “It is written”, runs to a blind death and to a war that is taken as holy. Indifferent people look with disdain, without any compassion for human miseries, and apologize by saying they are the result of a destiny that gave rise to so frightening passivity and big decline in Eastern peoples.
A man needed to discover the reach of his possibilities, but by deepening even more the matter. So the positivist of the nineteenth-century emerges, the serious researcher that with slight on the past and its mysteries, disposes of any creed and habit, penetrates into matter and analyses it in depth, and demonstrates to the world the potentials of will and freewill of man.
Civilization remained on the same level for centuries; but in these last seventy years, the affirmation of the human power has produced in the world such a breakthrough that frightens to see it.
But a man who only trust in his free will and in his will, get the curse of what is unachievable that of the problem of life after death, and that of why the manifestations of Nature occur.
A true orientation is harmony between two great Laws: Cause and Effect, Freewill and Possibility.
The first of these Laws explains the origin of Being, the secret of life and what waits for him after death. The second Law puts a man on an almost Divine height, and puts on his hands the scepter of domination and power.