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During a time of upswing, the sage uses the growing forces to improve self, making right choices to purge self of the inferior aspects of personality, and following the patterns of right thinking. The sage knows that at such a propitious time, good decisions make possible the achievement of great progress. |
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(Q) Are [heredity], environment and will equal factors in aiding or retarding the entity’s development? (A) Will is the greater factor, for it may overcome any or all of the others; provided that will is made one with the pattern, see? For, no influence of heredity, environment or whatnot, surpasses the will; else why would there have been that pattern shown in which the individual soul, no matter how far astray it may have gone, may enter with Him into the holy of holies? 5749-14 Then, there is the will of the creative forces and the purposes for which each soul or entity enters an experience. For He hath not willed that any soul should perish, but has with every temptation prepared a way, a means not only of escape but of turning that which may appear to be a physical conflict into greater channels for manifestation of the glorifying of the name of the Father, the Son—through the application of self in its relationships to its opportunities and conditions that present themselves in the experience of an entity. 1947-1 Then, when these are weighed, choose thou. For, as has ever been, there is no influence that may supersede the will of man; for such are the gifts unto the sons of men that they may make their souls such as to be the companionship with the All-Wise, All-Creative Forces, or separate from them. For, there is no impelling force other than that, "If ye will be my people, I will be your God." 440-16 For the will of each entity, of each soul, is that which individualizes it, that makes it aware of itself; and as to how this is used makes thee indeed a child of God. He hath not willed that ye should perish, that ye should want, that ye would not know Him. What have ye willed? What is thy way? What is thy desire? It becomes then so simple that the simplicity becomes the complexness of the daily life. 853-9 As to what an entity does concerning its environs or hereditary influence from the material viewpoint, this is governed by the action of the will (that active principle making for the individuality of an entity, from those atomic forces that may manifest in a material plane or in any sphere of material or matter existence). Thus is man endowed with the individual soul. Hence the will is an attribute of the soul, and the whole development of an entity. 274-1 | |
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