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Certain mystical philosophers have personified Destiny, and from this point of view each man's personal destiny is his archetype or "other self"--his "angel"--with whom he must be reunited if he is to rise above his fragmentary identity as a worldling and become whole, as he is (and always has been) in the mind of God.

Gai Eaton (1985). “Islam and the Destiny of Man”, p.60, SUNY Press
Certain mystical philosophers have personified Destiny, and from this point of view each man's personal destiny is his archetype or other self--his angel--with whom he must be reunited if he is to rise above his