What About Free Will?
How Much Freedom Do We Really Have?
Part Two
Everybody’s spiritual development eventually reaches the point when it dawns on us that free will, supposedly humankind’s most precious gift on the earthly plane, does by no means indicate that human beings enjoy unrestricted freedom, as some like to think. The more deeply I look into the matter, the clearer it comes to me that spiritually none of us has a great deal of freedom. And that applies as much to our world’s troublemakers and scaremongers, who are our younger and spiritually less experienced siblings in the great family of humankind, as well as all more highly evolved spirit/souls in our midst.
Every one of us is like a dog who is taken for a walk on a very long lead. We and our Karma are on one of its ends and the other rests safely in the hands of God and the Angels and Masters of the Christ Circle, the throne of God. They are the executors of the Divine great evolutionary plan for the whole of Creation, therefore also every one of us, our world and everything that shares it with us. They are responsible for every level of our development. And what happens to us in every new lifetime is determined by the Karma we ourselves created, earlier in this one and in the course of all previous ones.
The only freedom we truly have, at any given time, is deciding how to react to the situations that arise from the entries in our spiritual ledger, either on the credit or the debit side. Our choices reveal to the wise ones in charge of us, on our world’s inner spiritual background, the state of our spiritual maturity. Their world is humankind’s true home from which we emerge at the beginning of each new lifetime and return to when it has run its course. Nobody is ever forced to apply for another earthly lifetime, even though taking part in the lessons of this school is compulsory. But this only continues until we have reached the end of its curriculum and earthly life cannot teach us any more.
Programmed into every Divine spark is the urge to keep on growing and evolving and yearning for the exploration of ever higher levels of life. That’s why, during our spirit/soul’s periods of recovering from the stresses and strains of earthly life in the spirit realm, when we have rested enough there comes the realisation that, if we ever wish to finish with taking part in earthly life, there is nothing for it but applying for another lifetime on that plane.
The Roman philosopher Cicero, 106-43 BC, struck the following warning note: ‘To be free, people must be enbonded to the law.’ Cicero seems to have had earthly laws in mind, but his words of wisdom apply just as much and even more to the Universal laws. The only true freedom that’s available to us earthlings is of the spiritual kind and that can only come about through conducting our earthly existence in keeping with the Divine Universal laws. The law of cause and effect ensures that none of us can ever get truly lost or stranded in the vastness of space and Eternity. For a while, it seems that the Universal laws are creating something like a cage for us earthlings. But in truth they provide the structure and framework in which all life, including ours, will forever be securely anchored in the knowledge that God and the Angels are as much part of us as we are part of them, and that their loving support will always be showing us the way.
Once we are conducting our lives in harmony with the Universal laws’ demands, there is no way we can go wrong. And even the last ones of our fears and anxieties are going to gradually fade away, when we find out that the intuitively received advice of our inner guidance, the wise one or living God within. That’s the only teacher or guru who is utterly trustworthy and reliable. Connecting with it and learning to trust it is the ultimate purpose of our earthly education and its final lesson.
From that point onwards, we shall forever feel safe in the knowledge that we are guided and protected by groups of spirit guides and helpers who are serving the Angels and Masters around the throne of God, the Christ Circle. And wherever our evolutionary pathway may still want to take us, onto ever higher and holier levels of experience, we shall have no problems following their invitation when it comes. Forever we shall be resting safely in the knowledge that our inner guidance really does know the way of all things and has the answers to all our questions and that, with the help and will of God and the Angels, mountains of unfaith can be moved and all conditions healed – including our world’s present state.
And that’s how, all along, the Universe has wanted to place the key to genuine freedom into the hands of those whose choices reveal that they are ready to receive this gift. All we have to do is lead a good life, be honest and truthful in all our encounters and at any time give of our best. In that case, the Universal laws, in due course when the last one of our karmic debts has been redeemed, nothing but more of what we are sending into our world can find its way back to us.
Therefore, if someone does them a nasty turn, instead of seeking vengeance and creating more difficult Karma for themselves, wise ones choose to send such people some kind, loving and forgiving thoughts, for they clearly do not know what they are doing to themselves and what, in due course, is bound to find its way back to them. The wise ones are doing this because they know that making such choices is the only true freedom human beings will ever have whilst taking part in earthly life.
They are aware that our world’s outer plane is quite different from its inner spiritual counterpart, that on that level there is no separation between anything, everything is for real and there is no secrecy. Our two worlds are merely separated from each other by a thin veil of consciousness. Whatever happens in both worlds is clearly visible to everybody on the inner plane. And even what we earthlings like to think of as our most secret thoughts, they are as if we were shouting them from the rooftops in the spirit’s realm.
Updated January 2021
Recommended Reading:
• ‘The Road To Bethlehem & No Room At The Inn’
The above is a chapter from ‘Astrology On The Healing Journey’.
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