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QUESTION No. 153.
Is it possible that astrology and palmistry can be true,
inasmuch as we could avert coming disaster by being fore-
ivarned in that manner? And would this not interfere
with our destiny?
Answer: The destiny which we generate under the law
of causation by our own acts may be divided into three
kinds. In the first place, there is the destiny which from
the very nature of the case we cannot expiate in the pres-
ent life; for instance, when a man commits murder,
whether he suffers the penalty for it here or not, the prison
life usually does not have the effect of making
him more
mellow and kind. Sometimes it does the reverse ; it makes
him bitter and turns his hand against all. Before nature
will be satisfied, he must learn that he may not deprive
a fellow being of his form ; he must learn to serve. Thus
the case is not satisfied until he has had the opportunity
at a future time to render service of importance to his pre-
vious victim.
A second kind of destiny we reap from day to day ; it is,
we might say, as a cash transaction, we pay as we go. If we
overeat, we have indigestion; if we go out without suffi-
cient clothing, we take cold, etc.
A third kind is called "ripe" or "mature" destiny. It
is the result of our actions in past lives or in our early
years,
which has matured into effect so far that it is em-
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