Is it good fortune or luck?

The soul is the arbiter of your destiny—

You have the shaping of your future in your own hands. 

The soul is the gift of the Almighty.

The term soul is used, as expressing the spirit that dwells in the spirit body. It is not the spirit body merely that constitutes spiritual being.

There is no such thing as destiny in the sense that any fixed rule of conduct is laid down for anyone.

Some think they are destined always to be unlucky, whilst others wonder at their friends' luck, which seems likewise a mark of destiny.

You ignore one important element in the way your affairs are shaped, the interference of spirits who ally themselves with those on earth.

God does not interfere with His own laws. He does not require special providences to produce special events. If spirits can, and do interfere in our affairs, not by controlling matter, but by controlling our spirits through our minds, such being the media by which alone they can reach our matter, there is, therefore, no difficulty in explaining why or how an event may happen amongst us, which at first glance seems such an extraordinary coincidence as to be little less than a providential interference.

Matter is usually controlled by spirit whether it be the Spirit of God breathing through Nature's laws—or the spirit of God in man.

If you take up a chair, it is matter controlled by the spirit within you, for the matter of your body is merely the agent of the spirit within. Hence if you hear of matter in the form of clothes, money and food being sent to someone in answer to his prayers, you have a case simply of matter controlled by spirits in the same sense that you have it when you move the chair.

The modus operandi is as follows—

The person praying simply calls to his aid spirits, that is, men and women who sympathise with his work, in short, he may be said to advertise for them. The difference between him and others who solicit their charitable contributions is that he advertises in the spiritual world and other men advertise in the natural world. In reality, it is nothing of the kind, it is an earnest appeal by spirit power to those whose necessities, as spirits seeking their own development, require that they should lend help of this kind. Hence you see it is a mutual benefit, not a one-sided one. 

It is more blessed to give than to receive is a saying whose meaning few understand as well as spirits do.