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(During break a discussion of fate and predestination.)
Some evening I would like our Lady from Florence to talk to me about predestination.
[... 4 paragraphs ...]
This particular individual was quite aware of what would occur, on what you would call an unconscious basis. He was not predestined to die. He chose both the time, in your terms, and the method for reasons of his own.
[... 1 paragraph ...]
It was not predestined, he chose. No one chose for him.
[... 3 paragraphs ...]
He knew in his mind that he was ready to go on to other spheres of activity. Subconsciously, or unconsciously then, he looked about for the means and chose those immediately available. This particular individual, three days earlier, had made the plan. There was no predestination involved. Because a tree branch falls this does not mean that it was destined to fall in either the particular manner of its fall nor in the timing of the fall. There is a great difference between free choice and predestination.
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