The Mastery of Destiny
James Allen · 1909
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About the book
Allen's course in self-command: deeds harden into character, character into destiny, and the sequence can be worked backwards through will, concentration and meditation. The most systematic of his small books — ten chapters that are really ten practices.
Try the short course
Part 1 · You choose the cause, not the effect. The first six slides, free.
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You strain for something for years, a post, a person, a place to live, and it slips away at the last moment, while someone who barely tried walks straight into it. Sooner or later most people decide there is a Power above them that does not care what anyone deserves.
Allen opens with exactly that feeling, and he takes it seriously. People call it God, Providence, Fate. The Greek dramatists showed heroes running from a foretold doom and arriving at it by the very road they fled along. Omar Khayyam gave it the famous image: "The Moving Finger writes, and having writ, moves on." No piety, wit or tears will cancel half a line.
English common sense boiled it down to Man proposes, God disposes. Allen doesn't call this superstition. He calls it a long observation of real facts, and then asks what it is actually observing.
Inside the course
12 parts- Deeds, character, and destiny — the chain namedFree above
- The science of self-control
- Cause and effect in human conduct
- The training of the will
Questions
Is The Mastery of Destiny free to read in Astra Trainer?
Yes. The full book opens free in the app’s reader, in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Russian.
What is the short course?
12 short parts that walk through the book’s key ideas in slides, each with a quick quiz. The first six slides are free to try on this page.
Where do I get the app?
Astra Trainer is free on the App Store and Google Play. The Mastery of Destiny is waiting in the app’s library.
