I have told you the contradiction, now I will tell you the truth of each principle. There are four great powers that govern the world, Kadr and Kaza, Jelal and Jemal.

Kaza is the power that governs the whole. The king governs the whole country, but power is given to viceroys, and governors. The governor governs a whole province, but power is given to a commissioner. The commissioner governs his district, he knows more about its affairs than the governor knows, and the governor does not interfere in his district.
Each human being is given a power. This is Kadr. Just as the mother allows the child to go as far as the end of the room, but no further. From here as far as the end of the room, let it destroy as much as it pleases, but no more than that.

There is a Hindustani saying: "We see a wicked person very happy and we may think, Has God forgotten him?" No, but his jar is not yet full. When it is overfilled it will overflow and bring destruction to himself and those about him. Sometimes a very good person is very unhappy in life. But when the jar of his good actions is overfull, it overflows and brings happiness to him and to those about him. We have some power, but our action is so limited, our power of seeing is so limited. We are very small.
The forces of jelal and jemal are the creative and the responsive force. We are sometimes creative and sometimes we are responsive. The jelal is creative and the jemal is responsive. The singer is creative and the one who hears and enjoys is responsive. All our troubles are owing to our lack of the creative or the responsive power. If we are in a situation which is difficult for us, which is hard, which we dislike, this is owing to our lack of creative power to make another situation for ourselves. When the situation, the opportunity, would benefit us and help us, and we are not benefitted, it is owing to our lack of response. Everything in the world is creative or responsive. The benefactor is creative, and he who is benefitted is responsive.

But I would say, however interesting, however attractive these things are, the name of God is much greater. Without the study of the name of God they are nothing. This is the only thing that is great, the only thing beautiful, the only thing of value, the only thing worthwhile.

Q. What quality or power in the planets gives to each its peculiar influence?
A. The soul before coming on earth passes through the sun, the moon and the planets. As there is only one sun and one moon, each soul passes through sun and moon. There are many planets, and each soul passes through one planet, not through all. This gives to the soul an affinity with a certain planet, and by this affinity the planet has its influence upon the soul, the individual.

There are of course, in man's life, many other circumstances and influences, besides that of the planets, and the other influences, man's will, also may be stronger than the planet. The soul on its return journey has also to pass through the planet, the sun and moon.