Fate
<p>definition is found in Aphorism xvi. Know ye, that Fate is but the distorted image of Law, Order, and Sequence. The wise know that Fate, if existent, would be an exception to Law—a twin‑error to Chance. Law
there is; Order there is; Sequence there is—but Fate there is not. Fate, Destiny, and Predestination would imply the existence of
Decree and Foreknowledge in the Cosmic Mind. There is no such Decree; no such Foreknowledge. When the Cosmic Mind
“knows” a thing or event, it knows according to Law, and the knowing and the manifestation are simultaneous. Fate, Destiny, and Predestination, are but names for half‑truths—imperfect visions of Law, Order, and Sequence.</p>
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Back of the fundamental conception of Fate or Destiny one always finds the shadowy form of some Supernatural Being who decrees the Fate or Destiny.</p>
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dictionary definitions:
Fate: “The decree of God by which the course of events is fixed; a fixed destiny depending upon a superior cause, and
uncontrollable by man; appointed lot; doom; inevitable destiny; etc.”
Fatalism: “The doctrine that all things are ordered for men by the arbitrary decrees of God.…It is carried out to its most pitilessly logical extreme among the Mohammedans, where everything that can happen is ‘kismet’, or Fate.…in theology it has given birth to theories of Predestination.” (By some writers the term is used also as synonymous with “Determinism,” which is the scientific doctrine of causation, continuity, etc., from natural causes. This usage of the term is misleading, and is
historically incorrect.)</p>
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