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man gives to effects. They are very readily transferable and are transferred so constantly that no standard as to good, etc., has ever been found permanent among any people, and never one for the race. The only one ever held in theory is the one in all theologies, which is the belief that the Supreme Power can do no wrong. But this has rarely descended to practical application. Yet its evidences how dimly man has seen, but how truly lie has ever felt, the fact which science to-day demonstrates, that the Universe is one energy. Thus, in the New Philosophy, these terms mean nothing when applied to nature, but are significant when applied to man himself. They mean in him effects of the one Cause. They are names for his convenience alone. They mean nothing as to Cause itself.
Fate.
Man is thus his own Fate, inasmuch as he has power to choose, to use and to name, and, as fast as he learns his power, to control the manifestations of the One, he shall decide how and when this power shall in manifestation serve him. Thus, in future, man, instead of being slave, or creature, to an outside power as in all the past, shall BE that power, and manifest as he chooses; shall make all other manifestations obey him instead of obeying, as now. He shall no longer fear a god outside himself, but reverence himself as a manifestation of the Indivisible God. He shall not only choose how he shall himself manifest, but he shall decide how all other manifestations shall affect him, or whether they shall affect him at all. And he shall control all manifestations of a less pitch in vibration than his own, be they manifestations known as heat or human thought. He will, by choice, adapt manifestations to himself, or himself to vibrations, until he finds his ideal of happiness, or, what is the same, until every manifestation of the One gives him pleasure.
