Self-determination is one of the most important virtues that we can understand. It’s our God-Self determining who and what we are under the rule of the Almighty Father-Mother God. This is not a rule that is a mandate, meaning that we have no free will. We do have free will, yet there are laws of the cosmos that are at play, that are active, including the law of cause and effect. We know that what we sow, we reap; what we put out returns to us; what goes around comes around.

We follow the golden rule and abide by cosmic law, the Law of the One, and understand our eternal nature as sovereign sons and daughters of God created in God’s image and likeness, vouchsafed with free will in order to pursue our oneness with God—evolve and return to God through the initiatic path—and to pursue divine joy: life, liberty and happiness. This happiness is not the temporal happiness or joys of life. It’s the permanent happiness of being in God’s eternal Presence, one with God in the light of the I AM THAT I AM.

If we are divinely fixated on our Presence, in a positive way—divinely fixated on God—then God will guide us through and help us navigate through all of what is transpiring with great joy.