' The First is Fate '...

What a higher power has decreed must come to pass.

But what a man has made for himself he can modify or unmake.

The first is fate, the second destiny.

The one comes from outside his personal ego, the other from his own faults.

The evolutionary will of his soul is part of the nature of things but the consequences of his own actions remain, however slightly, within his own control.





-- Notebooks Category 9: From Birth to Rebirth > Chapter 3: Laws and Patterns of Experience > # 3
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