posted December 10, 2003 08:16 PM         

In the previous post, an attempt was made to help each of us realize that belief and perception are inconsequential to Truth. Truth is supreme. In an attempt to bring one such Truth to light, this next post will discuss the reality of fate.

There are many that would say that there is no such thing as fate. To some extent this might seem true, until you consider this: all things must eventually return to their source.

This is a common Truth that is universal. Any or all of us could try to argue against that fact until we are blue in the face and it will not make one whit of difference. It is true.

The water that comes from the ocean, returns to the sea, eventually. The molten rock which is thrust up as a mighty mountain, will eventually crumble and return, piece by piece to its source. The Earth, if our scientists are to be believed, will one day be engulfed by the Sun, and the Sun will eventually return to the center of the galaxy which spawned it, our lovely Milky Way. Every living thing on Earth returns to the Earth from whence it came, ashes to ashes...dust to dust.

This is the nature of fate, of the unswerving Truth that is fate. You, I, and everything around us, although we are in a constant state of change, arise from and return to our source.

The point of this isn't to rehash some pantheist, paganist, naturist doctrine, but rather to bring to our common attention the fact that freewill is NOT a right. It is a privilege and a gift.

You, like everything around you, are FATED to return to your source, but UNLIKE everything else, YOU have a choice. That is not your RIGHT, that is your privilege. That is not something that you just should GET because you are human, that is something that you are OFFERED as an alternative to the downward return path that everything else takes to return to its source. You are offered a second alternative..you have the opportunity to return to your source either the old fashioned way, backwards, downwards, round trip..OR:

You can return to your source in a forward direction, upwards, along a Path offered just for you. But its NOT a free ride.

What you are entitled to is a period of time to be, and then a return back to where you came from.

What you are offered as an alternative is a choice: either be of use, or don't.

Be of use? What ever does that mean? Well it's pretty simple, but it's very difficult.

Whether or not you choose to take advantage of this special offer (available for a limited time only..your lifetime), remember this..you have been given life..sentient human life.

You have been given a life that you may choose to live in ANY way that you wish to. You are WAAAY up on most everything else in the universe, because most everything in the universe doesn't have a choice, most everything in the universe does what it does..you do what you CHOOSE to do. If anything, you are the one who should owe something here, but just so that you know, you don't.

Now about that choice. If you're going to make a choice, you may as well know the nature of your existence and what your purpose is, so that you can choose to be useful or to do something else with this precious opportunity called life that you've been given.

How you answer this question decides whether you meet the same fate as everything else in the universe, a return trip back..or whether you get the special Wonka Golden ticket...a return trip forward...what IS the nature of human freewill?

This information is part of a four part series. The four posts are titled: