Fate

The creative forces that are generated in man,

and the cosmic forces that work through man

are fundamental cause of fate.

When we analyze fate,

we find that it has four distinct parts,

each of which comes from its own individual cause.

The first is the creations of nature 

that man has voluntarily entered into;

the second is the creations of the race 

that man as an individual has accepted as his own;

the third is the creations of certain individuals 

to which man has closely related himself;

and the fourth is the creations of the individual himself.

What comes to us comes
because we ourselves have at some previous time sent the invitation.

Everything that happens to a man is the result
of something that he has done or fails to do.
But since both actions and inactions
come from corresponding states of mind
he can make almost anything happen that he likes
when he learns to regulate his thinking.

Man is as he thinks,

and his thoughts are patterned after predominating mental images,

whether those images are patterned after the predominating mental images,

whether those images are impressions suggested from without,

or impression formed by the ego acting from within.

When man permits his thoughts and desires 

to be formed in the likeness of impressions received from without,

he will be more or less controlled by environment

and he will be in the hands of fate,

He will be, consequently, a reflection of the world in which he lives.

He will think, speak and act  as that world may suggest;

he will float with the stream of that world wherever that stream may flow;

he will not be an original character, but an automaton.

Fate is the result of man's being and doing;

a direct effect of the life and the works of the individual.

The fate of each individual person

is the direct and indirect result of what that person is and does.

Fate is created by the powers in man;

therefore, in order to master fate,

man must acquire control over the creative forces in his being.

Since fate is created and not controlled,

all the elements of fate will have to be constantly re-created.

Anyone who wishes to change his fate can do so

by imaging upon his mind a different fate,

and by keeping that image so constantly before mind

that every thought becomes the likeness of the new fate.

When we can create any fate that we may desire,

we have mastered fate; but not until then.

When he transforms every impression received from without into an original idea 

and incorporates that idea into a new mental image,

he uses environment as a servant, 

thereby placing fate in his own hands. 

My life is in my own hands,
and what my future is to be,
I, myself, have the power to determine.