by S. Poulos
take cases like this into consideration, how can you say man has free will, and that is up to him to determine his future?"
"Man only sees the symptoms and not the causes for it. I tell you, there is absolutely no injustice in the happenings of the world. There is no intervention from the highest in order to direct where, when, and in what circumstances a man is going to be born. No... if that was the case, God would have nothing else to do but to direct daily where and when each of us would have to be born. No, God did something much simpler. God defined his laws, and gave man his free will in order to choose his life. Man determines his life by the choices he makes daily, hourly, and minute by minute; hence the proverb, as you sow, so shall you reap."
"You are telling me there is no injustice in some cases of where and when someone may be born?"
"There is nothing arbitrary to the circumstances of where and when we will be born. In order for someone to judge whether or not it is justified when and where someone is born, he'll have to travel back in time thousands of years, and follow that particular spirit from the time of his first wanderings, of his first incarnation on Earth. He'll have to follow the time he spends in the beyond, and to follow him on each incarnation consecutively. He will also need to be familiar with the natural laws that govern the world in order to give judgment. So name me a man who is in a position to do that."
"So you justify all this happening?"
"But can't you see? Man questions whether free will really exists. Nevertheless, man holds the future in his hands. He can turn things around, the same way as he did to bring him in to this point.
"Unfortunately, there is no time to waste anymore, for the time that has been allotted for man to wander upon this Earth is already here. There is not time for admonishing any more. Man now stands on a raft going with fantastic speed towards the deadly falls. He doesn't even have time to maneuver the raft to the side of the river. The only thing left for him is to jump, and swim against the currents to reach the banks of the river."
"I follow what you said about justice; everyone deserves what he gets, according to you. But how can some people get away with murder, while good people find themselves in dire situations without fault of their own?" an official of the Justice for Young Victims Association asked.
"I will state it again; there is nothing arbitrary in this world. As for the first case, when a crime is committed, the reaction of that particulate action is impossible to predict, but you can be sure it will come. It may happen here on Earth, it may happen in the beyond when the murderer passes over, or may even happen again here on Earth on his next reincarnations, but much sooner than usual with this pressure that force everything in to fructification know.
For the second case, he may be rewarded here on Earth, or in the beyond as in the first case, but he also could annul some karma that he was burdened with from his previous incarnations on Earth or from the beyond. The wheels of justice may turn in their own pace, but they surely do turn.
"Unable to see all the happenings, he assumes his fellow man gets away with impunity, or that he is treated by God unjustly."
"What is conscience? Some people seemed to lack of conscience, where others cannot sleep at night because of it," put in a psychoanalyst representing the Carl Jung School of Psychiatrists. "And what is your opinion of Carl Jung?"
"I would like to start with lack of conscience as you put it. There is no matter of lack of it, or some people have more than the others or some people born with it, or not etc. When it comes to spiritual matters, everyone inherits the same abilities, or the same strength of abilities. As time passes by, some people bury them, or are unable to use them, but they are always there. It is up to the individual to dig them out and how and when to use them. Conscience is none other than the voice, or the warnings that we feel deep inside us, given to us by our spiritual helpers. The spiritual alive ones can still hear them, and pending of how they reacted to this, they are either in peace, or they have restless nights."
"And who are these spiritual helpers?"
"As I have already stated these spiritual guides are spirits that have been here on Earth before. They have reincarnated perhaps several times, they have done their schooling here on Earth so to speak, and are a half step higher than us spiritually. In order for them to be able to guide us, there cannot be a big gap between us and them. If that was the case, they could not do it, for the connection would be missing. It would be like a broken telephone between us and them."
"Do we all have spiritual helpers?"
"Yes, everyone on this Earth has a spiritual guide. These guides have the same characteristics as us. This affinity derives from the fact that we both incline to the same propensities. The difference between them and us is that they have overcome this particular propensity; they overcome this obstacle, and are trying from the beyond to influence us to do the same.
"Let me give you an example. We take a gambler for instance. This spiritual guide when he was here on Earth, had a propensity for gambling, but with perseverance, and by occasionally a prayer for help, he managed to overcome his weakness. Now he tries to persuade the other gambler to do the same. He does this with the pure intension of helping the other one, and becomes happy when his warnings are heard and the gambler stops gambling, or is very sad when his admonitions are ignored."
"And what do these spiritual helpers gain with that?"
"By doing that the spiritual guide becomes stronger, and also clears some old debts that otherwise he would need another incarnation here on Earth to redeem. He doesn't know this; his intension is not for this, but only to serve."
"What about the case of someone without conscience?"
"In the case of a man without conscience, this individual does have a spiritual guide to help him. His spiritual guide is there always trying hard to be heard, and because he is unable to influence his charge, he is very sad. The reason is because the guided one became too sluggish, or too selfish, building a wall around him so nothing would be able to penetrate it; not even the admonishing of the spiritual guide. He became so selfish that the motto in his life is, as long as I am okay, or as long as I and my family are okay, I don't give a damn for the rest. As long as I have a good time in this life, doing what I like to do most, I don't give a damn for anybody else."
"What about Carl Jung?"
"He was a great psychiatrist with the true sense of the word, and with an open mind. He approached psychiatry in a holistic way taking into consideration not only the body, the brain, but also the soul, and the spirit of man. I wish I could say the same for the rest."
A numerologist stood up and said to the Teacher, "My question may sound very peculiar for many people in this hall, but to me is a question always in the back of my mind. I know the importance of the date we are born, but I also know the importance of the names we have been given. Yet the majority people in the world celebrate only the day they have been born, disregarding the importance of their names. Only in a few countries do people do this, and that is also disappearing rapidly. Can you please elaborate on this?"
"You are absolutely right emphasizing the importance of the day we born, and in celebrating also our names. The problem is if we are content with the life we live, in order to celebrate, and patting ourselves for how good students we have been. We must keep reminding ourselves that here on Earth, we are in a big important school. We should try to make the most of the opportunity given to us to incarnate on this Earth, to participate in this great school of life in order to mature. Would you celebrate yourself in the end of the year, knowing that you have done a lousy job? Would you celebrate if you failed to pass the exams, or overall, would you celebrate knowing that you didn't give the best of your ability? If you would not do it for the mundane intellectual education here on Earth, how would you do it for something that is so important to your whole existence?"
"I think I understand that in order for someone to go to heaven, first he has to be a good man, to do good things for his fellow man, an
d his environment, and secondly, to believe in God. What I don't understand is what happens in the case that the man is a good man, and does good for his fellow man, and his environment, but does not believe in life after death, or in God?" a nun from the order of Jesuits asked. "Can you tell us something about this case please? What does the future hold for a man like that?"
"Nobody can predict what the future holds for a man like that, or for any man for that matter, for a man through his will can change either for the better, or for the worse. So no one really can assume that he made it, for at the last moment, he may became slack, and eventually retrograde so much, with the possibility of not returning. In the other case a soul that looked as though as it was lost, can at the last moment turn around, with the possibility opening for him of better pastures."
"That is absolutely a question that I always also wanted answered. Is God not satisfied with someone to be a good man? He wants more than that?" someone intervened.
"We will take the case as it stands, that this man does not believe in life after death. We will assume that this man takes with him his beliefs to the beyond when he passes over. I have already stated that a man cannot help but create his environment minute by minute, whether he