For good or ill each circumstance was brought about by the individual's own action in setting the sequence of events in motion, as the planting of seed in the early spring produced fair flowers in the summer--or the bruising of a limb produced pain.

And the motion must go on until the price had been paid or the pleasure obtained.

And, when long ago she had heard Cheiron and John Derringham having abstruse arguments upon Chance, she used silently to wonder how they could be so dull as not to understand there was no such thing really as Chance--if people were only enabled to see clearly enough.

If they could only trace events in their lives to their sources, they would find that they themselves had long ago--even perhaps in some former existence--put in motion the currents to draw the events to themselves.

What could be called "chance" in the matter was only another name for ignorance.
And, if people knew about these wonderful forces of nature, they could connect themselves with only the good ones, and protect themselves from the bad.