The Anubistic Fate
The Enlightened Arta recently asked the Prophet what he thought of "Fate"...
by The Prophet — 2026-01-15
1 Magic, fate and destiny are often lumped together.
2 As anyone tortured by Latin at school knows only too well, “Fate” in its earliest ancient sense stands for the word of the gods.
3 Fate was the absolutely unchangeable human condition.
4 However random it might look to mortal eyes, fate was in fact absolutely predetermined.
5 Plenty of science-fiction films have been built on this principle: however hard you struggle to change the future, what is meant to happen to you will happen.
6 The earliest ancient idea of “fate” was later replaced by the Roman idea of “destiny”.
7 (Homo faber fortunae suae: man is the maker of his own fortune.)
8 Man is indeed subject to a “destiny”, but destiny is no longer inescapable, though it may be “foreseeable”, because it depends on the human's own way of “being”.
9 Later, with the arrival of “providence” and “determinism”, the philosophical debate became vastly more complicated, a religious-philosophical mishmash calling for long and pointless analysis.
10 Pointless because, weighed up properly, every one of these theories always ends up serving to reduce the human to a tamed creature.
11 Luckily the Anubist has no divine plan to put up with: his god is busy elsewhere.
12 Coming to the Prophet's rescue, as happens more and more often lately, are the (South) Koreans, with the series “The King: Eternal Monarch.”
King: Uncle, do you believe in fate?
13 Uncle (a doctor): It's a complicated idea for a man of science.
14 King: It isn't something clear.
15 People usually brush it aside and defy it openly.
16 Should I stand against it?
17 Uncle: You never know what may happen in life, but if there is a place you want to reach, even at the risk of your own life, then that is fate at work.
18 The steps each of us decides to take, putting a whole existence at stake, are a sign of its hand.
19 The Prophet was deeply enlightened by this definition, a lofty religious-philosophical-artistic blend that pairs its philosophical content with poetry of the very highest order.
20 Feel freely, desire, and live intensely; only then can you be the maker of your own fortune.
21 The Prophet wishes the adept the commitment to carry some “weight” in his own destiny, since he himself is the maker of his own “being and becoming”.