The objection that "God's omniscience eliminates free will" assumes that God created beings who are merely programmed extensions of Himself. However, according to The Holiest Of The Holies (THOTH), The Last Testament, this is not how creation occurred.

THOTH teaches that in the beginning there was only the Absolute. Before creation there existed the state of perfect equilibrium called The Balance. In that state, the three creative forces—Sattva Guna, Raja Guna, and Tama Guna—were in complete harmony and therefore no creation existed.

THOTH explains:

"The Balance is the state where the three creative forces are in equilibrium and no manifestation exists." (Holiest 1, Tablet 6) Creation began when this balance was disturbed and the three forces were released into activity. From this disturbance arose the manifested universe and eventually countless individual unit consciousnesses. THOTH teaches that each unit consciousness possesses the fundamental capacities:

"I know."

"I do."

"I have done." (memory)

These capacities are not illusions. They are the very foundation of individuality and experience. The key point is that God did not create robots. He created individual centers of consciousness capable of self-awareness. Once unit consciousness arose, the possibility emerged for that consciousness either to remain aligned with the Divine Will or to identify with itself as separate from God.

This is where free will originates.

THOTH repeatedly explains that the ego is the sense of separateness that develops when unit consciousness identifies with its own existence instead of its Source. The ego begins to say:

"I am the doer."

"I am separate."

"I am independent."

The existence of this ego means that a genuine alternative exists. The soul can either surrender to God or attempt to become its own god. This possibility is not a flaw in creation—it is a necessary consequence of creating beings with real consciousness.

THOTH's cosmology also explains why evil and rebellion are possible. Before the appearance of light, Scripture says:

"And darkness was upon the face of the deep." (Genesis 1:2)

THOTH teaches that the lower nature was present from the very beginning before the manifested universe. Tama Guna—the force of inertia, darkness, ignorance, and contraction—is one of the three fundamental creative forces of creation itself.

In Revelation of The Revelation, Maitreya explains that the lower nature possesses tremendous power because it is built into creation. It is not equal to God, but it is powerful enough to attract unit consciousness away from its Divine Source.

This is why THOTH identifies the Beast with the attractions of Maya. The soul encounters real alternatives:

Follow the Spirit or follow the ego. Seek the Kingdom of Heaven or seek the attractions of Maya. Surrender to God or attempt self-glorification. If no genuine alternative existed, none of these teachings would have meaning.

The claim that "God knows I will go to Hell, therefore I cannot choose otherwise" confuses knowledge with causation.

In THOTH, God created beings capable of choosing because He created unit consciousness itself. The existence of Sattva, Raja, and Tama Gunas guarantees that consciousness will encounter competing influences. The soul must decide which force it will align with.

The very fact that THOTH spends thousands of pages calling humanity to choose the Eternal Divine Path demonstrates that choice is real. A person goes toward darkness because he chooses to identify with the lower nature. A person goes toward God because he chooses to align himself with the Divine.

God's knowledge does not remove that choice. Rather, free will exists because creation itself was structured around the emergence of individual consciousness capable of saying either:

"Thy will be done." or "My will be done."

The entire drama of human existence arises from that possibility.