Page "Risto Ryti" Paragraph 34

Ryti did, according to some of his friends and acquaintances, strongly believe in fate.

After a dinner in the 1930s at the home of a friend, Alvar Renqvist, in Helsinki, Ryti told the other guests, according to Heikki A. Reenpää, Alvar Renqvist's grandson: " In my life, fate has been the ruling force.

If it had not been benevolent, I would not sit here now.

" One of Finland's most famous clairvoyants, Aino Kassinen, recalled in her memoirs that she met Ryti in the 1930s in Helsinki, and got the understanding that Ryti strongly believed in people's being guided by the higher divine powers, and that he strongly believed in God, and had studied theosophy and anthroposophy.

Ryti's wife Gerda was a much more active spiritualist and theosophist than Ryti himself ; she even claimed to have a spirit guide.