mandag 3.september kl 21 - 22
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BOOK OF QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SILVER BIRCH
FREE WILL AND DEPENDENCE ON KARMA
The whole of life is regulated by natural laws. Nothing is left to freakishness, to miracles or to chance. All is cause and effect, sowing and reaping. Otherwise the universe would be chaotic. You have evidence of an infinite plan, of an infinite intelligence in the natural laws wherever you look.
It is to be seen in the sequence of the seasons, the movements of planets and galaxies, the ebb and flow of tides, the growth of a myriad forms of floral life, where natural law rules supreme. So there is a limit which the divine power has placed because nothing can occur beyond the framework of natural law. But there are laws within laws. There are not only physical laws, there are mental and spiritual ones.
It is part of the plan that you should have an element of free will, the power and ability to make choices in certain circumstances. Used for its best and highest, you can play your part in the spiritual unfoldment and evolution of the race, the world, the universe and the cosmos because your spirit is part of the Great Spirit.
You share in the divinity that is responsible for all that exists everywhere. You are the Great Spirit in microcosm. All that the Great Spirit has of that infinity you have and you will have infinity in which to unfold it.
You can wake up tomorrow morning at an hour earlier or an hour later, or you can stay in bed if you like. You can go for a walk or drive a car. You can lose your temper and hope to find it again. There is a variety of things you can do for which you have free will.
But you cannot stop the sun from shining, you cannot halt the tempest; these are beyond your power. Your free will is limited because your choice is restricted. There is another limitation placed on your free will. It is the mental and spiritual stage you have reached in your develoment. You are free to kill, but are limited by who you are at the time. Like many things in the universe you have a paradox. You have free will within limitations all the time.
Now I must go a stage further because you introduced the question of karma. This, too, is a very important consideration because many of those that have work to do in your world chose to do it beforehand. Though awareness may not come immediately, the choice imposes another restriction on free will.
