“Although human actions are free, they are nonetheless included in the cosmic plan.”
This profound message, transmitted through medyumic sessions to humanity, resolves with extraordinary simplicity one of the deepest dilemmas in the history of philosophy, religion, and metapsychic teaching. On one side stands the human being — autonomous, accountable, the maker of decisions. On the other stands the immense cosmic plan, governed by flawless laws and inviolable order. These two are not adversaries. The relationship between free will and the cosmic plan is one of mathematical, breathtaking harmony. Let us explore this great truth in the light of metapsychic research, spiritual teachings, and ancient wisdom.
The Most Fundamental Truth of Being Human: The Freedom to Choose
To grasp the order of the universe and the human place within its impeccable functioning, we must first ground the concept of “freedom” properly. The teacher Ergün Arıkdal, in his work Existential Principles, offers a luminous explanation. According to Arıkdal, the very source of multiplicity, diversity, and evolution in the manifest world lies in the immovable principle of The Freedom to Choose, present in the essence of every being. The Creator did not bring beings into existence as robots dragged along against their will or as automatons devoid of intention. The human being makes decisions according to the needs of personal evolution and is left entirely free within the conditions of time and space.
Similarly, Bedri Ruhselman, in Mukadderat ve İcabat, examines this divine freedom and divine justice. He emphasizes that God created all beings as free, never permitting them to be forcibly moved by other wills. The human being is an immortal being who chooses his role on the universal stage and decides, by his own free will, the trials he must face on the path of evolution.
The Limits of Freedom and the Laws of Divine Will
The thought of an absolutely free human raises a question: would such limitless freedom not produce cosmic chaos? At precisely this delicate point, the cosmic plan — the laws of divine will — enters the picture. The spiritual transmissions of Silver Birch, in Wisdom from the Beyond, contain a luminous warning: the free will granted to humanity is not boundless or aimless. It is freedom within the limits drawn by cosmic and natural laws. Human beings are sent into the world with the capacity to choose; but all they can do is hasten or slow the unerring functioning of natural laws through their own steps. No human can change, break, or block the laws governing the universe.
As the academic studies on Bedri Ruhselman’s metaphysical views make clear, however free human will may be, it can never overcome divine Will. This is the essential balance of free will and the cosmic plan. All beings, in their willed actions, must yield to these cosmic laws — which are themselves expressions of the divine intent.
Universal Causation and the Mechanism of Conscience
According to ancient metapsychic teachings, this world is a demanding school where the soul incarnates, exercises its free will, and matures. In Positive Living, Ergün Arıkdal explores the rules of this school in depth. There is no external, vengeful authority that judges the human for actions — and no need for one. Through countless incarnations, the human being learns by living the consequences of his own freely chosen acts. The pains and trials encountered are not heavenly punishments but the natural reaping of seeds the soul has freely sown. This is the most natural reflection of the universal Law of Causation — the silent grammar of free will and the cosmic plan.
At this point, the greatest inner compass guiding the human being is conscience. Dr. Karl Nowotny, in Messages from a Doctor in the Spiritual World, emphasizes that self-judgment and the development of consciousness are the most fundamental principles of free individual development. The universe expects the human being, without external pressure, to find truth by listening solely to the inner voice of conscience.
The True Meaning of Fate and Our Life Plan
One of humanity’s most persistent errors is the belief that fate is a rigid script written in advance and imposed from outside. Spiritual sources reject this fatalist illusion. Dolores Cannon, in Beyond Death, drawing on her deep regression research, explains that fate, in truth, belongs to us. The destiny we live is not dictated by some authority commanding our every move from above, but is designed by our own higher self. Before incarnating, beings choose, in the spiritual planning phase, the experiences they will undergo for their own development.
In the same way, Bedri Ruhselman, in Mukadderat ve İcabat, explains that the human being is not condemned to an unchanging destiny written from eternity. With the counsel of higher helping beings, the soul itself imagines a life plan to complete its missing aspects, and incarnates accordingly. The cosmic plan respects this self-prepared life plan and creates the décor — the events and encounters — that will serve it. Within this design, free will and the cosmic plan dance as a single act of love.
Free Will and the Cosmic Plan: The Harmony of Opposites
Why do the choices of billions of free wills, often pulling in opposite directions, not collapse the cosmic order? In Existential Principles, Ergün Arıkdal answers with the Principle of Existential Will-Alignment. Because all beings carry the same divine principles in their essence, their journeys within the universe unfold in absolute equilibrium. Wills can never truly cancel one another. A negative impact unconsciously created by one being is instantly compensated within the immense system, transformed into a form that serves the great balance. The cosmic plan is so flexible and noble that even a being’s selfish rebellion is woven, on the great loom of Universal Will, into a stitch that ultimately serves the evolution of the Whole.
From Mechanism to Consciousness: Conscious Participation in the Plan
The ultimate aim of all this esoteric and spiritual knowledge is to free the human being from living as a leaf scattered by every wind of event within the cosmic plan. Maurice Nicoll, in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, develops in detail how the sleeping mechanical human is subject to outer influences — to the Law of Accident. According to this teaching, when the human works sincerely upon himself, masters his self, and develops consciousness, he passes to the Law of Fate, and ultimately to the Law of Will, which is total spiritual freedom. As awareness expands, the human ceases to be a plaything of planetary influences and consciously joins his free will to the cosmic plan — and discovers that free will and the cosmic plan were never opposites, but two breaths of one Being.
White Eagle’s transmissions in Angels of Light and Darkness emphasize the same: the human must turn toward inner being and learn, with loving discernment, to live in harmony with the divine Law. The one who surrenders himself in love to the Order of the Creator finds true freedom and unshakable peace at precisely that point.
Awakening: The True Meaning of Free Will and the Cosmic Plan
The truth that “human actions, though free, are included in the cosmic plan” is no ordinary philosophical aphorism. It is a cosmic call to awakening, announcing the human’s glorious role in the universe. The deep vision offered by ancient teachings and spiritual sources shows clearly: we are neither leaves scattered by blind chance, nor prisoners of a merciless destiny. As Bedri Ruhselman underscores in Mukadderat ve İcabat, we are immortal beings who design our own spiritual fate, who reap with the unerring justice of the universe the seeds we sow on earth, and who walk toward eternity, ripened by experience.
As Ergün Arıkdal makes clear in Existential Principles and Positive Living, the absolute freedom to choose given to the human being never causes chaos or disharmony in the cosmos. Every free act is integrated by the unerring laws of Divine Will into the merciful weave of the perfect cosmic plan. A being’s selfish step, his rebellion, even his deepest error, is in time transformed on the cosmic loom into an element of balance serving the evolution of the Whole. As White Eagle reminds us tenderly, when a person awakens to the divine light within, he is freed from the toy-tugging of outer forces and limiting laws and enters into an unshakable harmony with the universe’s highest laws.
In the end, every step we take in this demanding training-ground called Earth is our own creation; yet the magnificent road on which those steps walk, and the final destination toward which they lead, belong to the perfect harmony of the Whole — to the great cosmic plan. True freedom is not aimlessly remaining outside this great plan; it is surrendering with love to that perfect order and consciously uniting with Divine Law. The moment a human being offers his unique will, as a conscious instrument of evolution, to universal love and the cosmic plan, he illumines not only his own darkness but adds his most magnificent and eternal note to the resplendent symphony of all existence.
References
- Ergün Arıkdal, Existential Principles (Varlıksal İlkeler), EARAE.
- Ergün Arıkdal, Positive Living (Pozitif Yaşam), Enstitü Yayınları, Istanbul, 2025.
- Ergün Arıkdal, Knowing Oneself: The Key to Freedom, Enstitü Yayınları, Istanbul, 2023.
- Bedri Ruhselman, Mukadderat ve İcabat, Gayret Kitabevi, Istanbul, 1953.
- Silver Birch, Wisdom from the Beyond (Silver Birch II).
- Dolores Cannon, Beyond Death.
- Karl Nowotny, Messages from a Doctor in the Spiritual World, Ruh ve Madde Yayınları, Istanbul, 1997.
- Maurice Nicoll, Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, Ruh ve Madde Yayınları, Istanbul, 2008–2012.
- White Eagle, Angels of Light and Darkness, Ruh ve Madde Yayınları, Istanbul.