Experience Through Mistakes - Karma and Free Will

Message From Universal Link entitled "Karma and Free Will" 1967

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I have told you that Man belongs so high in the hierarchy that he has been created in the Image of God. In order to be given a Free Will one must have reached the Human level. Only then is the Consciousness so great as to understand Cause and Effect in connection with its own doings and actions in Life. Therefore the Law of Reincarnation is such - that every deed returns to its point of origin. Hereby The School of Life is brought about automatically. One harvests one's Experience through the Mistakes one makes. But I have also taught you that a man may free himself from his Karma within one single Life; but very, very few people, I have also told you, have been able to do this.

In order to free oneself of one's Karma one must - by one's own Free Will - accomplish a Spiritual study so extensive as to attain Full Understanding of Life and the Law of Life in one's consciousness. At the same time it is necessary also to make up for Deeds and Actions of the past where one has gone against The Law. The dividing line between the Free Will and the effects of the Law of Karma is practically invisible. Very few individuals, therefore, have found this dividing line and been able to cross it.

However, I have also taught you that as you have your Free Will, I have mine - and then we may see whose Will is the strongest. I have certain possibilities of guiding a man or a group of people, provided they are willing - by their own Free Will - to let themselves be guided and directed. We can give Intuitions. We can give them direct, or we can give them to others, thereby creating certain situations for the ones to be guided. But there must always be a free choice for everybody, a free choice between two Alternatives - whether they will one or the other. In this way I may teach humans about the Law of Life, and thereby they may get on along the Road of Life, provided they choose by their own Free Will to live in accordance with The Law, and not against The Law.

God is Merciful - and God is Loving; and I have taught you that God has placed Man in the School of Life in order that he should learn to follow and obey God's Law and God's Will - by his own Free Will (BG: Not by force. We have to want to do right). When a man commits an Act which he is consciously aware of as being a breach of The Law, it is serious business and the Act will return manifold as compared with what would be the case if he did not know his Act to be wrong. If, however, you commit an Act and then realise that it must have been a breach of the law because some fellow being has been done harm to, whether it be of the Plant, Animal or Human Kingdom, then it is quite another matter. As soon as you have become conscious that your Act was wrong, fully realize it and wish at the bottom of your heart never to do the same thing again - then this process was, in fact, the very purpose of the "schooling".

And God is Merciful and God is All-knowing, and God is more Magnanimous than people usually believe. About the situation in which Man finds himself to-day, I have said that if a man by his own Free Will - and truly and fully - will Realize and Accept and Acknowledge the name and existence of God, it is enough. But it has to be really meant - truly. And it is impossible to lie to us as to whether it is shallow talk or it is at the bottom of your heart that you wish to comply with God's law. But he who really means it shall have his Karma cancelled and be taken along into the World that will now be given to those who continue their lives on this [New] Earth. And I have said that if a man turns round, even in the very last second of this Age, he will be taken up. This is according to the principle of Grace: By His own Free Will, God then rehabilitates this man.

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For those who are not yet ready, there will always be an Outstretched Hand - right up until the very end.

All Love,

~~ G