Is our fate determined?

about through skilfulness, through just and deliberated thoughts and deeds. A lot of thing can be improved in one’s life. One can also savour one’s fate in all its severities, it can even be aggravated through irrationality, through indignation, through discontentment and unteachability. One can extenuate or aggravate one’s predetermined fate oneself. But it has been determined that one has to deal with one’s fate. What we actually want to say to you is: Human beings are masters of their own destiny. They set and guide their own little ship. Life offers them so many opportunities to alleviate some of the harshness and severity of even the hardest fate that may have been instigated for them, namely through a god-pleasing life.” 20 Last but not least follows an account of a high-ranking spirit entity that was transmitted through a trance medium in Koblenz around 1920. Parson Johannes Greber refers to it in his book: “Job’s fate mentioned in the Bible is nothing else but a test because God wanted to find out how this just human being would deal with the severest of calamities…All the tests that God imposes on human beings would be akin to a comedy play, if God knew in advance how these tests would play out… That God most probably knows in lots of cases how the free will decisions of people will be, because he knows the deepest depths of his creatures, is clear. Spirit entities like me also have this knowledge to a high degree. Even you human beings are capable of predicting with relative certainty how others will behave or act in this or that a situation, if you know the character of your fellow men. All of this is however based on assumptions. But we are not dealing with this here, we are dealing with the infallible certainty of knowing in advance what a decision that depends on someone’s free will, will be. No spirit possesses this infallible knowledge. Not even God. This is why God didn’t know in advance whether some or a lot of the spirits he created would fall from grace (fall away from him) and naturally also not who amongst them would do so. He only knew the possibility of such a fall from grace, because the free will he endowed his creatures with left such a probability open. If God had known in advance - how you learn – that the creatures he called into being would fall from him by abusing their freedom, he would not have created them in the first place, he would only have created those that he knew in advance that they would stay true to him.” 21 Thus far the two accounts from “another” world in regards to the problem of one’s life’s fate, its influenceability and foreknowledge. It is left up to future research to verify or to refute these accounts. If they should be true, it is quite likely, well even understandable that the predictors of paranormal events can sometimes recognise, in a certain fashion, the life plan mapped out by superior powers. False prediction would find substantiation in this, namely that human beings have influenced or escaped this life plan through deliberate or careless actions. 22 2.6.2 Outlook An attempt was made in the preceding expositions to dissect a problem area, afflicted with great prejudices for most people, in a purely factual way. Our present state of knowledge was used in this process. Some people might not, or not immediately befriend the presented thought processes. It requires a lengthy period of accustoming oneself with this somewhat sober point of view to begin with. But the one or the other might have gained the impression that specifically physics, technology and parapsychology can make statements about this field of knowledge, something one always thought to be the prerogative of philosophy or theology. It is also very possible that the insights 20 In: Geistige Welt, 23. No: 11/1972, P. 83, Verlag Arthur Brunner, Zurich. 21 J. Greber , Der Verkehr mit der Geisterwelt, seine Gesetze und sein Zweck, Verlag J. Felsberg, New York 1937; Neuauflage 1970. 22 B. Rensch , Probleme der Willensfreiheit in biologischer and philosophische Sicht, in Hippokrates 1962, P. 1019-1032/