PAIN, TOIL AND DEATH OR FATE, FREEDOM AND GRACE

PAIN; TOIL AND DEATH REPLACED FATE, FREEDOM AND GRACE

The course of human history has been determined by powers hidden from the purview of the average historian. What is generally conceived, as "history" is merely the exoteric (outside) expression of hidden forces. 

There are two streams running parallel to one another throughout history: the outwardly visible and the invisible. The first is the subject of the historian the second is the province of the initiate. Although the visible is commonly understood as history; hidden behind this outside history is the invisible stream that is the real true expression. 

It was this hidden stream, or rather, the forces behind it, that was concern of the Mystery Schools of Antiquity. These secrets where guarded with merciless zeal. The Schools of Mystery were only open to the select few.

The behind the allegory of the Adam and Eve story, described in the Book of Genesis, is the fate awaiting all men. That is the inescapable facts of created life that confronts all mankind: pain, toil, and death. The pain inherent in every birth, the toil required in every life in the face of a hostile world, and death to all created life. This conception of creation is not unique to the religion of the Old Testament but is also the foundation of much older religious systems.

THESE MUCH OLDER RELIGIOUS SYSTEMS talk about three "other" forces acting upon his inner and outer being. 

These are Fate, Freedom and Grace.