Though they plot evil against you and devise wicked schemes, they cannot succeed

To study our heritage from the past is not simply a waste of time, because most of that heritage is still with us, if not in the political and social circles of life, at least in the internal subjective moods of our own existence.

  In the very early day, it became evident that the human being within serious difficulty trying to understand where he was, what he was, and why he was.  He looked around and when he saw a nature unfolding, but behind this nature as he saw it, there must be something else. But he had no way of really trying to discover what it was. He was bound within the small area of his own life existence. His life expectancy in those days was very little. It is sometimes estimated that the average human being in those um early cave periods life was probably about ten years. Maybe a few more. Many of them didn’t reach majority at all. It was a strange world with everything happening and no explanation for why it happened. Gradually, it became obvious that the human being had to have some type of internal existence, which would carry with it faith and hope in his material life, gradually we find the rise of various beliefs, some of the earliest sort of shamanistic the belief in spirits and ghosts, all these types of thing.

  All these believing came not from a carefully studied or plans exploration of nature. They came from a desperation of an individual or group of individuals struggling desperately for whole to escape from loneliness to no longer be an isolated creature in an unknown world. The human being was very much like a cast away on a desert island. Like Tom Hanks in the motion picture cast away. He had no resources available to him except what he could can try with his own ingenuity.

  As time went on, there was inevitably, a demand for some type of organized faith. Faith in reality is that we’re not visible. How was the primitive man going to analyze invisible realities? How is modern man going to analyze them? Actually, it all seems to have arisen and within the person himself, the desperate need resulted in a kind of solution, a solution that was sufficient for the moment and which it was always hoped would be improved and perfected in the course of time. This temporary solution is still the answer that we have to use. But with all our progress with all our skills with all our intellectualism, the individual is still lonely.

  He is still comparatively helpless in a world. Infinitely too great for him.

  Now he not only has to combat nature or adjust to its circumstances. But he must try to survive the complex situations set up by human nature in this little thing we call the earth. So altogether, our beginnings of our faith, hope, and love lie in the desperate need for something that was superior to self. Something that was stronger than we are. Some ever present help in time of trouble. Trouble is common help is scarce. The individual went through countless misery, and miss fortune. But there had to be some hope something to sustain the struggling creature in its long evolutionary path that came up shamanism , which we find among the American Indians.

  The medicine priest with the rattle and the spells and the incantations. Who have second site into mysteries. Who worked with the sake and gave hope of recovery, then in other parts of the world other types of gradually evolved. But these different forms had their foundation in the human demand for hope. The only way he could find hope apparently, was to a strange contrivance with familiar and apparently hopeless elements.

  The American Indian of the southwest, for instance, was very much concerned with creating charms various good luck symbols protective symbols. And yet he had no way of knowing really what would protect you where you would find anything that was sufficient? He made a move that has become universal. He said here is a pretty little pebble. Here is another pretty little pebble. These middle pedals and stoned and flowers are pretty, they’re nice, cute. But in themselves they can’t do any particular good to us. But now comes magic. If we took two of these objects and put them together and tied them with sinner and painted something on them, they suddenly became medicine.

  Magic would be stored upon a combination of factors where it was not regarded as existing in the separate elements themselves, as a result of this gradually dawned on the human being that almost any combination of circumstances, which he could contrive if brought together had a new meaning. A meaning that might contribute to his own survival.

  We know also that in most ancient peoples, there are always a class of medicine priests or spiritual priests that become perceived as leaders. These became the foster parents of humanity. The simple people depended upon these leaders for hope. And it became obvious that for some mysterious reason, these leaders produced remarkable results these people, these medicine priests apparently performed miraculous cures. And even today on some of the Indian reservations, white people in trouble sneak over the border and try to get an Indian medicine man to help them. They have more faith in him than they have in their own physician.

  Now these that the problems perhaps are well explained in the bible where we find that definite statement that faith has helped to make us hold, something to believe in something that has cold is a source of physical help. It helps us at the recovery cover from mental elements, from emotional stress, and from physical disease. Faith is a tremendously healing power. The only answer we have to the destructive boss of fear from faith came a great development, a beliefs and ideals. These were not all is provable or demonstrable, but that was not important. It wasn’t whether or not you could scientifically sustain them. The real answer was that people were accepted them believed in them. Deposited in them hope for the future.

  Faith in the power of something to protect as time went on and religions and philosophies became more complicated. It is inevitable that effort should be made to rationalize faith to bring it under the control of reason. It was a parent that at the mind supported the faith. It was stronger. So we have all kinds of philosophies, mysticism, mythologies, esoterrorism, and every type of intellectual interpretation of natural phenomena. We have it today. But today we are in a little difficult, knowing that faith basically is a very cornerstone of survival. We find that many forms of knowledge, particularly scientific knowledge, exist largely to destroy faith.

  They want to take away from us the belief in those very invisible principles upon which we have learned to depend for piece of soul and peace of mind and piece of heart. So in this confusion, a great many persons have lost their spiritual orientation. They have lost their ability to accept the fact that there is a universal good a universal reality that life is purposed that there are reasons for things. And as gradually, the sciences limit peoples perspective, and force the individual into a constant acceptance of material things as the only realities as this goes on, faith dims hope fades away. And the individual is reduced to a state from which he escaped ages ago by rising above the level of level of a materialistic primitive existence.

  Now, in the course of all this problem, certain facts of human life became increasingly obvious. And these facts of life perhaps somewhat summarized in our relationship with the mystery of death. It is as a problem that the primitive man never could understand. He tried to dramatize this mystery. He tried to glorify it. He a placed a treasury of art, beauty and wealth in the tombs of his king’s. He did everything to imagine the man after death lived in a beautiful land, but he had no way of proving it. He had no way of justifying it other than by faith.

  But this faith was is important. So desperately needed that gradually a new type of interpretation of life was built upon fate. Faith justified, not rationalized. It became obvious that they had to be some reason for existence. Materialism destroys that reason idealism supports that reason and faith lingers and clings desperately to support to something to make things better. Omar Khayyám summarizes it did in Quatrain 33  when he says, “Strange is it not that of the myriads few who before us passed the gates of darkness through, not one return to tell us of the way the to discover we must travel to.” This pessimism was something that sickened, pessimism is always a disease. It never a amounts to anything constructive, but pessimism is an inevitable result of a hard sharp look circumstances without inner enlightenment to sustain so the problem of building this inner light came become can become very important to all of us. In the course of time, the ancients developed a way of tying divinity closer to humanity. It was rather obvious to most people even when they were comparatively savage that no deity could listen to all the prayers of mankind. Could listen to the two or three million prayers that go up now every day to some gracious providence for help, for something to build hope upon. Something by which the individual escapes the isolation of his own insufficiency.

  So gradually the invisible world was organized, not by proof, but by necessity. This organization did however result in visualization, for the dreams of the individual had about the invisible world behind him and beyond him. Gradually came through in sleep patterns, reliving in ones dream of elaborate symbolism of inner survival. This is found in practically all the esoteric arts and sciences of antiquity that have descended to us.

They have developed symbolism of hope. Symbolism of survival, symbolism of transformation by which the suffering and ills of society can be transcended. And this particular phase of the subject, therefore, we have gradually enlarged the concept of God.

  We enlarged it in one way and reduced it in another. Certainly we do not have the thousands of deities that arose in oriental religions. We do have a realization that there has to be something between man and God between besides space. That this space, this interval of quality between our state and the divine state simply cannot be a vacuum. That in some mysterious way, the divine operate in the model existence. in order to operate, it must have some instruments of operation.

  We gradually developed in ancient times a belief in tutelary deity. Godlines of various kinds. Deities of agriculture. The Romans had Gods “ Panes & Penates “ that lived under this these kitchens floor to take care of food. The Egyptians had their deities like “duat” who plowed the fields of amenta after death. Everywhere there were Gods and spirits that came to help or to be present. Folklore is loaded with these concepts where they come from. They were not really simply projects of imagination. They were the visualizations a base of the realization of a need and an inner conviction that there must be somewhere something to meet that need.

  Now we’re talking about long ago, but we are not talking about things that no longer exist. The needs of our ancestors are still exactly the same as our own. We have made practically no progress in the area of the fulfillment of internal needs. We have gradually tried to assume that they did not exist. We have tried a limit existence to a single life. We have tried to assume that everything is accident and that all traits are hereditary. We do not have any solution to the great hunger of the human being for inner a strength, for the power to meet the pressures of a world, a world around him, constantly betraying the world within him.

  In this emergency we find therefore, in every major religion of the world, a development of intervening deities, beings of various qualities that existed between the final ultimate theology and the common mortal life of man. In Christian philosophy in religion these are generally being called angels or arch angles. They were messengers of the divine. This as messengers became very important. They brought the legends and mysteries of faith necessary to the fulfillment of spiritual realities. They are also arose the negative counterpart of these, for as the messengers came from above to bring light to man, so below human being rose to high degrees of spiritual development, and saints and heroes began to intercede for human beings before the throne of deity. So a network intercessions was created, a network of hope finally more or less justified by a network of speculations.

  Now, as time went on, these speculations became more and more firmly established in the human mind. Until in many instances, these are no longer speculations. They are now traditional facts that have come to us through the wisdom of our ancestors. Now maybe these facts are more factual that we like to realize. Because actually our best instrument to discover the facts of things must lie within ourselves. It is our own insight that is the nearest to truth that we can ever have. We can’t find this truth out in the desert somewhere unless it’s stimulates insight, unless something comes from within ourselves, the larger work cannot be perfected.

  In some cases, we have the rise of various orders of deities, such as those which we find among the American Indians again. And even now in their religious rights and rituals the catching has come from the mountains and the human being wearing a mask. And with certain ritualistic, accompaniments is considered to be a temporary God. This faith is still held firmly in the American southwest. It is held in Asia among the shamanism of Mongolia. It is still held in many parts of the east, even amount of highly civilized and highly skeptical peoples, the belief and realization of the mask colt is very strong and probably will be for a long time to come.

  I remember story told in the northern end of India where there was a group of Tibetan dancers came down to give a performance for the strange visitors from afar. The white man. Among the dancers was a little boy probably five or six years old. Everybody loved that little boy. A little “baby boy”. He was so charming and had such a quaint way of living in thinking and wore, the cutest clothes imaginable. He was like a doll to the most of the people who saw him who came from outside of India. Then came the time for the dance. A little boy put on a mask with the grimacing face on it to protect himself out with some regalia and started to join the dancers.

  In the course of the dance, this little fellow,  danced over towards the visitors the tourists. They are immediately scattered and hid. The moment the mask was on him. Those who I knew the little boy was still afraid of him. This is a subconscious situation that apparently we have not been able to cure even now. The masks appear in Egypt in the temple rituals. They appeared in the dramas of Greece. They appear the dances and mysteries of Tibet, Mongolia and Bhutan. They are still used in Japan and China. They have found among the Incas . They were a part of the regalia of the aspects and the people of central America, mask dancers and costume dances are still pound in many parts of Europe.

  The whole situation is that with the change of perspective that we have something that isn’t normal or common is introduced immediately, there are strange inner acceptances. Something happens. And the individual is no longer oriented to the materialism, which has gradually crept into his nature.

  Now in the course of this same procedure, we have had a great roaming around of the mind in folklore embolism, in symbolism in Alchemy in Kabbalah  and many of these things for where the individual using ordinary elements, play sing them in new combination, causes them to become revelation, of something superior or more important. Now in the midst of all of this, we come to the classic Greeks. And in the classic case of the most outstanding example of something is the spirit guide of Socrates. The Socrates had a spirit that was born with him according to his own statements.

  This period was called a diamond. Our demon comes from it, but it’s not there is a use that was made after it was assumed that all these pagan deities were devils. Actually the demon was not an evil spirit, but a friend, a guide and a counselor. And wherever Socrates was in danger or difficulty, his spirit came to him, the demon or guardian appeared. He writes about it, discusses it and tales of the examples of its presence.

  When however, the time came for Socrates to die. It was ordered that he take the hemlock and a die of it’s poisoning. He says that his spirit left in weeping the spirit was no longer with him. The study of the mysteries of the Egyptians and Chaldeans described in detail. These familiar spirits. Gradually we find more and more discussion of them. Paracelsus and many of the mystics of the middle ages recognized them. They were also recognized by the early church that there was something that came along and sort of protected and helped and guided and became an invisible parent to a visible orphan, not necessarily because he’s lost his family, but because he was an orphan as far as his inner life was concerned, he was as a child left without parent.

  He was alone in a world. he needed mothering. He needed someone to lean on. He needed something to strengthen and protecting in his efforts to live a good life. He need love. He needed hope. So out of this came the concept of the guardian angel. The guardian angel according to the stories about it that have come down to us came into birth with the person itself. The angel came and remained with the person throughout life. Then when the person died, the angel appeared to testify before the throne of deity of the virtues of the person the angel had protected through the years.

  This concept was never officially part of the catholic early christian church. But it was said to be of the mind of the church. That is it was accepted. It’s a feast day was set aside for it, and as early as in the fourth and fifth centuries, it was discussed by the early church theologians, the direct source of the concept may have been the various nymphs and spirits of the Greeks. Also the various guardian spirits and means are protected a of the Egyptian living and dead. The direct form of it seems to have originated in Chaldea or Babylon.

  But there is no religion in the world of any importance today that does not have angels. They have found on the Buddhist monuments and in the beautiful Buddhist paintings and in the various statuary. They are found in China in India and Burma. They were very important in Persian Persia. They occur frequently in the literature of the orthodox Jewish faith. They are part of the christian story. They find them arising wherever the human being has been in the urgent need of health. They are a very essential part of the basic philosophy of Islam. So everywhere there are all the beliefs in these beans. Beliefs that there are beings that can help and can stay with the individual throughout life.

  These invisible beings a sort of the guardians protect us. They are foster parents. They proved beyond all doubt that the human being is never left without guardianship and without love. These beings are a kind of mysterious benefactors sometimes they regarded as having come from some great heights beyond human understanding in the christian and Jewish concepts, the angels represented as winged. Because they are constantly able to travel inconceivable distances to fulfill the needs a mission. They are also bringers of annunciations. They are reveals of great spiritual happenings. They are the sources of visions and all kinds of spiritual experiences. The artist of the renaissance and earlier may have made some magnificent paintings and stained glass of the guardian angels and of the angels of the presence.

  The ancient countries believed that they had angels that guarded in their countries. It was long believed the Jewish people that Michael, the arch angel was the guardian of Israel. All these different beliefs finally came down to a problem of seeking some form of rational explanation for them to have a belief that goes all over the world, accepted by some of the world’s finest minds that is not terrible or demonstrable in terms of fact is always a difficult situation to face.

  And yet it has not interfered markedly with the belief in these beautiful beings who are the particular custodians of the divine love, sharing it with mortality and bringing it into the world. The Egyptians gave us some psychological clues to this situation. And also we can come down now to the physical problems of today. To see if we can understand the psychology behind this particular situation. Perhaps best expressed by what are the mystics of Europe, namely that where there is a great necessity that it must be fulfilled. It must occur if it is necessary, and where there is a great need for some form of spiritual security. It is certain that nature bestows it. The only thing is we are not quite white enough are not open enough to understand what is actually happening. But here today we are in a world of lonely people, people who are losing faith in themselves, losing faith in their society. Fear is becoming one of the most common of all emotions. We are more lonely perhaps than any time in the last two thousand years. But we remember the journey of man is described by Plutonis where he said “Life is a journey of the lonely, to that which is it alone.” I am always reminded of that more now than ever. 

  In other words, the individual goes to that, which is the final supreme end of all existence, Deity. Deity in a strange way is also alone, having nothing to depend upon except its own internal eternity in this the phase of the matter. It is natural and was natural throughout all the crowd crowded and the suffering periods of history for humanity to build some kind of an image of faith of hope of charity and to gradually lean more and more upon this without really knowing what it was all about.

And the proof of the existence of the guardian angel did come to a great many people. It came in strange ways. The fulfillment of prayer, the individual asking for help depending only upon the help of the invisible, received that help as a result, it seemed inevitable that all this faith was real that all these hopes and prayers and divine expectations were part of a divine plan and not a mirage arising in the human mind itself.

  Actually, there is no doubt in the world that the great benefit of the belief in the guardian angel was the fact that it strengthened character that it provided inducement for virtue that it made it easier to understand easier to bear burdens. And to realize that no matter what happens or how often it happens or where it happens. No one is ever alone. We are never less alone that went along according to one of the poets. This fact that we have not alone, perhaps changes the entire destiny of many individuals. They suddenly feel themselves to have a strength that is not their own.

  A strength that is supported by divine edict by a divine presence by something like an invisible mother of father that walks with them that stays with them all through life. This comes up also in Buddhism. Where the pilgrim going on is journey a pilgrimage from where he went from one shrine to another where the broad brims straw or bamboo hat, which are the words that he walks with another. The another being the Buddha. So this another that is stronger than we are. And yet is with us and is available to us night and day anytime anywhere became the basis of a great deal of mystical experience.

  Mystical experience gradually bestowed upon this conviction dream and vision likeness is individuals so are these periods. Paracelsus describes in detail in alchemic elementals. All the nature spirits and the gnomes and the underlings and the salamanders that ancient believed where the custodians of flowers and plants. The American Indian in the plains had his totems. He had an animal spirit that guided him. He had to go out and perform vigil and learn what animal was to protect him when he went individual and had a dream of an eagle, the eagle became his protector for the entire lifetime.

And he prayed to it and he recognized and he thought about it. He knew that the strength of the eagle was his as long as he kept the rules.

  Now this brings another interesting phase into the problem of the guardian angel, the effectiveness of this concept. This being that loved us, would help always if we deserve it! This put a moral factor into the situation which is perhaps a greater moral factor than any other that we have ever been able to conceive in the search for integrity. It is true that we believe in a large remote way that the good life is the life that needs to salvation. But this is a very big thing and we don’t understand too much about salvation either. But what we do realize or feel is that if there is something that is taking care of us, and loves us and will take care and protect us if we keep its laws, this is all right in our own hearts in our own houses in our homes everywhere where we go. There is an immediacy about it that seems to have a tremendous power of health. There’s another factor in the concept of the guardian angels. This angel knows everything that we do. Therefore, we may think we can hide, but we can’t we cannot perform in secret any act that the guardian angel doesn’t know about. sometimes children will actually ask the guardian angel to look the other way, but there’s no proof that it does. The idea, therefore, is that there is a companion sent from heaven who loves us who constantly guides us, helps to make difficult problems, more simple.

  When the time comes for us to leave this world, we will then find that this angel has stood for us in heaven and as witness star virtues before the throne of the almighty, we find in Matthew, for instance, Jesus makes reference to the angels. When he says that these angels that every child who comes into the world has an angel, and that when the time comes to that child to depart from this world, the angel into seeds before the throne of God.

  Therefore we have an actual reference to angel protectors and angels born with children. Actually in the words of Jesus, these things become very interesting and very important in a strange and mystical way. Now psychologists would explain it probably in the terms that we are now dealing largely with an aspect of our own subjective submerged elect that we are really thinking out into the open things that we have believed or experienced within ourselves. Science does notice, however, that is also the way we build great buildings, cathedrals churches, monuments, every advancement of knowledge has come from somewhere within and has become a protector for some weakness on the outside.

  That from the inner we seek protection for the outer. We also seek from the in a means of glorifying the higher. These trends and so forth finally emerged in the story of this mysterious being and the philosophy of science of it as it appears in its most complete form is that each person who comes into the world as an invisible spirit that comes with it, that this invisible spirit goes along through the years guardian guiding and leading taking on the responsibilities of parents when the child a person out grows his physical parents and it for some reason the physical parents are not available or not useful are not concerned.

  They guardian angel starts serving even at the time of birth itself. it never leaves during life. it remains to the very end and guides the individual into the world we are. In a sense the guardian angel becomes therefore also the angel of death, the power that leads the person into the other line and be stores piece upon it in transition if it’s moral character has been correct!

  Now it wasn’t long however, before the concept of the good guardian angel began to have other aspects. If this good spirit was always with us and was always working for us. Why do we do so many naughty things? Why doesn’t they guardian aid don’t keep us in virtue all our lives. this is a question that theology is never been able to solve in the problem of creation itself. But theology has always been confronted with the Christ and the Antichrist with the good of the bad in the doctrine of the guardian angel, it was assumed that actually there were two of these powers.

  One good as the Greeks pointed out that went with you to do all that was wonderful and beautiful. And one lurking that would take over if you were wicked and make life completely miserable for you. Now here we have the problem of Goethe’s Faust and Mephistopheles the spirit of evil or the spirit of evil or negation, which however was actually a spirit of retribution and by which we ultimately learned to our grow our old mistakes. But most medieval people are particularly in the periods, of magic sorcery and demonology were prevalent, believed that there were two of these beings, the good spirit they call the guardian angel and the bad spirit they call the guardian on the threshold and the guardian on the threshold was a mysterious monstrosity which each individual had to as rise above before we could pass to a better life beyond.  In other words, this was more or less and embodiment of karma the type of comma that the individual suffered from as a result of his own misdeeds. The guardian on the threshold was in control on command of the imperfect life. If it was bad enough to deserve such punishment, it was the one that took over and took the life back into the material existence again and started the comic cycle once more. But in the ancient Greek and Egyptian and greet mysteries, there were two guardians that the pillars of the temple one was a beautiful spirit. You very often in Christian art representatives holding an anchor and the other was the spirit of the guardian on the threshold, a more group of a gruesome type of thing and apart animal thing, which was there to test whether or not the individual was worthy to go on to a higher life.

  These became parts of symbolism spiritualism and ritualism. I found in many different beliefs over periods of time is now it must be fair to say however, that the would rather on the threshold was never as popular as the guardian angel. But it was something that also paid a party man’s moral life. Because if good protected him, evil dishonored him. The most important point was the death did not end either in some mysterious way. What we are survives life on this material planet. Therefore the idea that we could escape by becoming eternally unaware. If we were simply ceased to exist, was something that the ancient couldn’t contemplate without asking certain relevant questions.

  One was if it is possible, or if it is inevitable that we face. Then there is really no exist explanation for why we exist at all. There is no possible idea sensible to man that even in his own limited perspective, a contemplates that would put a situation such as we have here, and end it with the oblivion. We can’t imagine the long and painful years of living, the consecrations and dedication, the virtues and the vices the values and the mistakes that all ends in nothing. The human mind just couldn’t contemplate that. It required a scientific education to be an atheist, without that you just can’t make it. But if there is something beyond, then that something is we’re thinking about is also with us driving to understand in about these early seventeenth century we had the rise of a great question mysticism. And mysticism, which was gradually circularized but which began undoubtedly in the early church itself. In this mysticism their where contemplation and thoughts. We had experiences such as those of Emanuel Swedenborg. We had the rise of spiritualism in many forms and finally a spiritualism itself. All these things were men reaching for hope. During world war one a great many families were disrupted by the loss of a loved one, immediately there was a rise of interest in spiritualism, Arthur Conan Doyle spearheaded a revival of spiritualistic phenomena because of loss and pain, because of man trying to understand why the problems of sorrow should be brought to the earth by mans own conniving why he should make it for himself tragedy and involve others in it, the whole problem of the guardian angel. Finally, summarizes in man’s infinite need something to help this sadness this deprivation from which so many suffer this type of thing is especially noticeable probably in the older age groups. So many older people live alone. So many are disillusioned and bittered, many live with their griefs day and night. Others try to forget everything and always before them as a curtain, avail through which they must sometimes pass without something to help in this, it is inevitable that the human estate would not be glorified. But the answer does seem to be in the realization that there is something, there is something there to protect us.  Something they have for us to understand and to do something about, and a little by little it was introduced into the fact that in some way this guardian angel could communicate with us, communicate with us actually, even though we couldn’t see it, and to know very much about it. We felt it’s guiding influence. We felt that when we were in trouble, it sort of stood by and try to show us a way out. It was their in cases of temptation. It was there to wag its finger at us more or less reprovingly. It was there to remind you of what you were doing when you needed to stop and check the air in your tire on your way to Big D’s. To remind you. Warn you. Give you a choice. It is there when we use bad words, actually there was something that was another kind of parent, something that would correct are false. Protect our virtues and be there when most needed. We began to think about it a little bit and finally, we gave this thing a name. I think that probably this name problem is the key to the whole thing. We said that the guardian angel communicated with mankind through conscience that some mysterious way, conscience was a being an entity that entity was constantly there to help, that somewhere in our known nature there was a realization of good and evil that was superior to dogma theology. Somewhere in us there was something that said don’t do it on another occasion. You can’t say that it isn’t true. if you go against this garden angel, they said that it whipped, well conscience weeps because sometimes conscious we conscience weeps for a lifetime over one mistake.

We do not get over completely the evils that we commit or the problems that we cause for other people. We can’t hide it from the guardian angel! How could we hide it from our own conscience? Therefore, in many ways it would appear that the guardian angel is a symbol and an embodiment of the power of the human soul that in the soul is something that is born with us that with us all our lives that God grows up with us. And after death goes on to testify to us. This sort of made us a better sense with some of the more modern constructive psychotherapist that in a in a mysterious way there was something that there is something in each individual that is better than the rest of him.

  It is not fair just to simply call it God, it is too abstract. It is true that God be stored life, it is the final source of all. But the good lives seems to come to those who make certain additional contributions to their own salvation. The good life is for those whose in someway find a way of truth in the midst of all these difficulties. So the conscience becomes the symbol, as far as it says, in hamlet for conscience, does make cowards of us all. Every time we outraged conscience we suffer, every time we go against it, we regret it.

  Yet in many cases, contents is something we would love to forget. We wish we could go against it because it interferes with so many things that we want to do. But one of the things that it interferes with, we now realize more and more that the things that interferes with are things that we should not do that the idea that it is simply a disciplinarian for no good reason that it is a tyrant simply cannot be sustained. It is also true that conscience is forever growing in a mysterious way or peers to be, whether it is actually growing is not so certain perhaps it is manifesting itself a little more all the time.

  Because things that we might have done at one stage of life without feeling a bad conscience become the source of conscience regrets if we grow older and commit the same action. And if in any way, the conscience does get adversely used. Then we realize that there is a support in society for conscience. The conscience are tied into our legal codes and to are ethics, our morality, and all of our human relationships. It is tied into our sacraments and the qualifications of faith. It is bestowed in the problems of baptism. It is with us in the last moment of extreme function the conscience is right there. if we do really believe that it is there. And is our power of right and is our ever stress present strength in time of trouble. Then it becomes a very valuable and important part of ourselves. Also there seems to be some relationship between conscience now and conscience in the past. We seem to be born into this world on different degrees of conscience levels. Some have a highest standard of what is right than others. Some have one virtue of some have another virtue. And in religion particularly the education of these virtues can be largely sectarian some religion consider virtues other faith consider to be vices. So conscience is related intimately to our own needs, our own degrees of understanding our own insights into values. The immediate problems that we must face on our own social levels. So let us assume for a moment now that the conscience has becomes a the voice of the guardian angel. It certainly can well be considered as such because we know that these impulse is arise. We realized socially in other ways that when we go against them there is trouble.

Now if we go against them, this other little problem of the guardian on the threshold will come into focus. Once we begin to deceive or corrupt our integraties, it becomes easier and easier and false guidance comes to us a false guidance, which is largely the result of the pressure from the outside. So that we divide between the guardian angel and the guardian on the threshold in this way, that one the guardian angel represents the descent of spiritual grace. The other the guardian on the threshold is a false concept or false standard of integrity that is built upon the contamination by worldliness.

  So one is a contamination and the other is a regeneration. The contamination part becomes more and more common. But as we watch around as we see, that it is always a spirit of decline. It is always something that is destroying rather than helping. We realize how war destroys, how crime destroys. How degeneracy destroys. How drugs destroy. We know that the appetites to these things do not originate in God, nor do they originate in the good angel. Or the guardian angel. They are the testimonies of the external sensory perception in cases where the individual has never learned to control themselves.

  They represent the pressures of the animal instincts which still the alert within the human constitution in all of the sums up now, to the one general conclusion that at least in part, the guardian angel is a symbol of the human soul. The soul itself is that power of good, which determines our integrity, which guides us and leads us through the issues of life. The soul is something that we can all depend upon. We can depend upon it or all of the strength that is necessary to face the problems of each day. We are never without proper guidance. We are never without the ability to find the way to do things. Or the right things.

  Now the Egyptians here have a little classification that is rather intriguing, that in a sense that the human soul is really seven-fold. And the mortal the dweller on the threshold is also seven fold. In other words, the Egyptians believe that man himself had seven souls, and that after death six of these souls gradually die, but the seventh soul is eternal and goes on to the next embodiment and is reborn and continues to be the reborn guardian soul in the new life. These were the seven souls of good represent the seven cardinal virtues of the church. They represent the seven integrities that are regarded as the basis of the exact of acceptability in the site of God.

  Each of these has its own areas. And it becomes obvious that in the course of evolution, some of these virtues, either no longer our effective of a transformed in some way. The lower virtues they belong to the physical life of course are the ones that die first. Because we do not take them so far into the other life. We do not go against them, but we no longer need them. And finally, the radiance of the great soul principle itself, absorbs the seven degrees of its own nature, and becomes a shining mystery. A spiritual planetarium in which the seven stars of the ancients shine in the structure of the human soul.

The soul, therefore, has its controls, it’s divisions, and it’s sub divisions. And in some instances, the ancients believe that there are several guardian angels assigned to each person of various reasons. For example, supposing this person was decided and decided to recover a priest. The guardian angel would be therefore able to select a priestly guardian for that life, another one wish to be an artist and in addition to the denomination as it was called, there was especially angel appointed to perfect beauty in the life of their person, all beautiful and good things come from beings and not from circumstances or incidents, that which is as one ancient said that which is great enough and strong enough to bring a man to his knees and the presence of a great painting is not dead it is alive. Beauty is a living thing. Beauty is a part of the soul, all parts of the good in man our soul powers, and those that go against these sole powers, lose or a deficient, and gradually dropped back again to a comparatively animal level of existence. The soul, therefore, is the substance of the good, the beautiful and the aspiring, as said on more than one occasions before, when Stradivarius was asked how it happened to make violins. He replied God made Antonio to make violins. And in this concept of the guardian soul when the soul comes into life, it is supposed to have the power to select with any certain range what it will do with life after it gets it.

  It chooses its own career and faces the problems before they occur. if he decides like Stradivarius to make violins, a great art is to great musical muse a great musical sybil will come with him to guide him through it like years. Not only because if his need but this is a service performed by the guardian angels. Because in there coming and helping the individual to fulfill his own greatness or his own needs. They are also contributing to the glory of the world and all it is necessary for the perfection of human endeavors. Whoever the guardian angel was that watched over Michael Angelo served all mankind. But the ancients believe that definitely this was a spirit at this spirit would only come when truth prevails that it would only come and gave beauty when integrity was there, there is a story of a couple of art critics wondering to the looks on board gallery in Paris. They came upon the works of an artist, they studied them. They looked it over. finally, one of them said this is an exceptionally fine painting. the other one said, yes. It is his greatest work because he was in love when he did it. This was again the angel, because if the love was in pure form the angels they had to help all through the integrity of things or the stories of the guardian angels.

And at this principle, like all others is alive. It is not simply something that comes out of nothing. It is one of the divine births of God or you said in the agent Qabalah and in other words, that when God bond all things in its own likeness, it for many things in his likeness that are invisible because those parts of himself are invisible, but that everything in the world, whether it is visible or invisible has conscience as laws as principles. Sometimes these principles are revealed only by the stratification of a tree or the vision of a gem. Sometimes they are in the mother love of the tiger for each cubs. Whatever it is, but it is part of a universal process that over shadows the physical concerns of life.

  Now at this season of the year, we are coming towards a season, especially sacred to over a billion human beings. This season is one in which the concept of the guardian angel may be most interesting for nearly all was the annunciation was represented as would be stored or communicated by the Angel Gabriel. Actually the vision of what was to come. The divine message comes to us not from the outside, but through the inner part of our own nature, and the soul is definitely the link between the invisible causes of things and their available consequences. The soul if studied scientifically may be a problem in vibration.

  The vibrations of things tell us our virtues and our vices. Therefore, if a negative emotion or attitude arises damage is done in the magnetic fields of the human body. We are all living on vibration in one former another. We may call it energy we may call it vitality. But actually vibration is the source of our lives. It maintains everything that can possibly happen. Its rates change as we change. Vibration changes with every thought that comes into the mind. The study of the magnetic feels a bodies prove conclusively  that the moment and individual becomes selfish, the light around and changes and one who can see that light knows the selfishness has moved in. Now selfishness is toxic. All negative vibrations are toxic. Everything that we shouldn’t do and we insist on doing is a damage to the whole composite nature which we were endowed. Damage to the soul, damage to the enteral life.  Everywhere however where a noble are beautiful, thoughtful, kind, truthful we build our salvation and get closer to our guardian angel rather the the guardian on the threshold. Those vibration clears, and the lights brighten. The soft glows and continue. In a strange way, every cell and the human being feels better. It is better because the magnetic field is what wrapping it in light and not in darkness. It is the right of every creature in every being to improve for the sake of its own peace of mind, its own health, its own success in life.

  And the vibrations of the guardian angel as reach out into our physical existence also. They guardian angel makes us better to live with kinder in our works. It gives us they give us more patients understanding. They have visions of better things and we would normally contemplate and all through the years of life,  if we follow the foot steps of this spirit guide, so to say we will achieve a great deal more.

  The guardian angel is not a deceased relative. It is not a spiritualistic phenomena. It is not something that simply carries on from the other side he continuance of this material life. This is another type of spiritism entirely. They guardian angel is part of the cause of nature of existence. It is part of the infinite plan in which we live. And so if we can our news occasions understand this it may help us to also appreciate more completely. The wonderful season of Christmas in which we are now coming a Christmas which is being blurred and damaged, because we are not listening to the voices of conscience. We are not really trying to do what the guardian angel would have us do. 

  Now is a grave question as to whether the guardian angel is much interested and prosperity or as much interested in extravagant gift taking or making. It would not be this at all. The guardian angels reducing comes with thought with love miss insanity with devotion, with self sacrifice and causes greater than ourselves. The guardian angel doesn’t want us to give something we have. It wants us to give something we are it wants it to share a life with someone or with something to reach out and touch that which is in pain or sorrow and do something about it. To love them. The guardian angel becomes the spirit of charity, which is just one of its attributes and virtues which it represents, and everything that is beautiful, everything that is good. Finally, in its source becomes an aspect of this mysterious being this power of good that lives with us works with us. Suffers with us. There are all pictures and all symbols showing the guardian angel weeping because of the failure of the person to accept the challenge of integrity And other countries and other parts of the world have found different ways of representing these these powers. But in all in all there are not too much difference in them. They are impelling the person constantly to the accomplishment of something. It is the guardian angel and impelled some people to become members of the clergy.

  It is the guardian angel that makes some people be parents and good members of a family. It is the guardian angel also, that wants to see that the little one born into the world is born into a hand happy and loving family. It wants to have the parents in its presence from within themselves. The true father and mother will be the one whose impulses and urges are those of the guardian angels that they have except guidance and guardianship of a life, all these very sensitive gentle things belong to a way of life that is hard for us to understand it’s also very difficult for us not to assume that these things are and take or more abundant that they don’t exist anymore, that we’re not expected to do these kind of things they all belong to the past.

  Well there are a number of ways in which the past in a strange way was more beautiful than the present. Now we all know that in the great evolutionary course of things, the past was necessary, that we had to leave it behind. But there is no reason why any of us at any time should leave behind anything that is good, that was ever in the world. Leave behind anything that has loved us, watched over us, cared for us. Because all is good is locked within the concept of the guardian angel. It brings with us the wisdom of the past. It gives us the insights and the morality is in the integrities of long ago. It bestowed the impulses to dedications, to self-sacrifice and the dedications to sacrifice.

  It creates the people like Mohandas Gandhi. It also creates the Abraham Lincoln. These are people living by virtue of the soul within them. Each one has gradually revealed out of its own life the working of the guardian angel, and all guardian angels when they work transform people into guardians also. The guardian angel was the power that manifested itself in Lincoln when you became a guardian of a new way of life in this country, the guardian angel always works the service, for giving through the sharing through contributing various virtues. In the ancient times, the people like Pythagoras had their spirits.

  Pythagoras was regarded as an in body month of Apollo. It also had an attendant muse that was with him. Each of these people. And according the legends were guided by mysterious beings that accompanied them. It was our muse or it was maybe a guardian angel that appear two of the emperor Julian and told him to take the pulpit. The only rain for less than two years. But the angel told him that was his duty. Others have probably inspired men like Luther to retire into in banishment and bend his life translating the bible. But whatever there is a labor to be done. It is the progress of the soul in man that makes that labor possible.

  Growth comes from the soul, not from the mind all the body, and the growth that comes from the soul has always been regarded as the blessing of the guardian angel. So each person and his own way may have this wonderful being working for him and with him and by him in all of the works of life. We certainly realized that in a mysterious way in according to the early church or when the christian dispensation was fully established that it the gradually you served the powers of the guardian angel.

  One of the early church fathers said that in the guardian angel of the whole world is now the spirit of Jesus Christ that the guardian angel of all given their authority to him. But on the other hand, the church admits that he works through the guardian angels also. They bow before him. But they still do his work. So there was this belief in the church and it has continued to the present time. That man is never left without help, that even when things seem to be so bad, you do not know what to do next. Where tragedy seems to move in on every side, that there is not only help but insight, another virtue of the guardian angel is insight.

  Our tendency is to accept and reject without much consideration of thought. I think deeply about things. We do as we feel like doing. And we try to accept things as we be about them and not give much attention. But insight is the power of the individual, which when strengthened by faith in the presence of a guardian spirit in site is what the guardian angel tells us about the real reason for the things that happen. The guardian angel then gradually brings through conscience and through inner experience, the realization that everything that happens to the individual is important! Everything is that happens is a discipline of some kind! It is a kind of and initiation into the great mistresses of existence.

  Every sorrow is an opportunity to grow bigger. Every loss is a gain of some kind. Everything we have is a challenge for use. Everything we lose is something to give up with graciousness and kindness. Every fan is to be cultivated. Every enemy is to be reconverted into friendship. There is nothing that negative to be left unchanged. Nothing that is positive to be overlooked. This becomes perhaps the greatest of all christian disciplines. It becomes perhaps the fulfillment of the whole story that we recognize in the life of Christ. Christ represents to men many people, someone or some being from God who came to protect people to save humanity from the weakness of their own natures and this process of saving is not to be fulfilled or cannot be fulfilled unless the Christ in you performs the labor. And in a sense, the guardian angels are the aspects ministers of the Christ power in man. They follow the commandments of the new testament and of the last supper on the Sermon on the mount. For the guardian angel tells us to keep the rules. The guardian angel says forgive your enemy. Now we don’t have to forgive the enemy. We have the power of limited determinism as Thomas Aquinas called it. We don’t have to forgive the enemy. But if we do not to forgive the enemy, we have lost contact with truth. Something has lost in us. Something has been done that has defiled us. We have not fulfilled that which are highest spiritual dedication should make necessary. We have allowed personal things, animosities, antagonism, jealousies, revenge to take over all of which are abominations as they are called in the bible, therefore what we all are trying to do is to find the courage to follow conscience to follow the integrity of life and to go on according to the spirit of our faith, a spirit which depends for its perfection, it’s manifest and it’s fulfill and upon us. In that moment we say I can’t quite make it. I am not strong enough, there’s too much pressure against me. I’m just not big enough to do it. I’m not strong enough. I’m not wise enough. I haven’t enough insight to forgive this person who is injured me so long.

  I can’t get over the grief or the grudge or something of this nature, whether we are perfectly quiet under those conditions and thus let nature have its own way. The guardian angel will help. It will come in as the period of conscience. It will kind of reveal to us all of the elements and factors that are necessary to a proper adjustment. First, it will calm the antagonisms. It will help us to realize that these attitudes are not of god, but belong if there to anything to the anti God or Antichrist that there is nothing to be gained by perpetuating Evil.

  Then perhaps we will say to the contents but I I’d like to but I can’t forget I can never forget what has happened. And the guardian angels says, don’t forget. Understand. And if you do that, you will probably find that you can transform the injury into soul power and soul growth and when you do that, they got in angel will pat your lightly on the back and let you know that you have succeeded in something good. It’s kind of nice to think about the idea that there’s someone around that is on our side for almost anything. As long as we are on the side of truth, if we can meet on the side of the realities of life, there’s always something this with us. Something invisible. But something real. Perhaps we want to call it the higher part of our shelves. Perhaps we want to think of it only as the soul which we have received from God. Perhaps we’d like to think of as an elder brother somewhere, or a older sister is kind of watching over or a kind of spiritual parent who never fails. But whatever we want to consider it, that belief in a guardian angel as undoubtedly contributed a great deal to the moral growth of mankind, whether it is demonstrable or provable or not. It is a beautiful necessity. It is something we’re all better for believing. Whereas doubts and negative attitudes. You do nothing to help. They do not give us any further strength or insight with which to labor for the perfection of our society, or the advancement of our own ethics.

  It is there for a very good idea at this time to kind of try to make quaint to make an acquaintance of this character in yourself. Try to find the guardian angel. All you have to do to find it is to be quiet for a moment and think a beautiful thought and it is there. Just don’t give up the attitudes and belief of a being that is all love. And is with you always. And therefore is always available to express itself in your own love, all values that are right. And for all duties that need the doing.

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“Pandora”

Out of the mythology of the Greeks, to whom humanity is deeply indebted, there is a story. Like all stories of mythology, it begins with “once upon a time.” Exact dates are generally not given, but once upon a time, the gods on high Olympus desired to create something beyond their own divine membership. They gathered and took some clay. They molded this clay into the form of a beautiful woman, and having made the perfect statue, the gods decided to give it life. They endowed it with gifts, making it a living being.

Athena gave it wisdom, understanding, insight, and sympathy. Another god endowed it with courage. Another granted longevity. Many of the goddesses collaborated to create beautiful robes, garments, and flowered turbans for this new, wonderful creature. When their work was complete, there stood Pandora.

Pandora is an intriguing symbol. Most interpreters have failed to grasp its larger meaning, but as you hear the story, its significance becomes evident. Pandora personifies the planet Earth itself. Like the Earth, she began as clay, molded into the contours, forms, and styles we see today. This symbolism aligns with the creation myth found in Genesis 2:7, which states: “Then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.” Similarly, Pandora represents the beauty, wisdom, courage, understanding, and laws bestowed upon the Earth, making it a truly magnificent creation—just as the gods intended.

At this time, Zeus faced troubles, particularly with Prometheus, a Titan who was not only brave and strong but audacious. This Titan dared to steal the fire of heaven and, against Zeus’s will, gave it to mortals on Earth.

Now Prometheus had a brother, Epimetheus, who was also a radical thinker, albeit less farsighted. Epimetheus was deeply concerned with advancing the arts, crafts, and sciences that fire enabled. Zeus encouraged Pandora to marry this brave and heroic Titan, and they were wed in a grand ceremony orchestrated by the gods. As a wedding present, Zeus bestowed upon Pandora a box.

The nature of this box varies in different accounts. Some describe it as a cube, others as a vase or urn with a lid. Some say it resembled the shape of the Earth. Whatever its form, Zeus gave Pandora the box with a strict admonition: under no circumstances should she open it.

Now at this point, the stories would sound rather familiar, and nine people out of ten would guess that Pandora opened the box. But they are wrong. Pandora did not open the box. It was her husband! In that moment, he allowed all the ills and evils of mankind to escape from the box. Before he could replace the lid, everything had fled except for one thing: hope, which clung desperately to the inside of the box.

So here we have a problem that is very interesting. Here we have nature—the Earth—beautiful and wonderful, united in marriage to the ambitions of the human mind. That was the beginning of the big trouble. It was the big trouble because no sooner had the husband become aware of the facts of life and had seen the disasters flowing out of the box, he was impelled to do something about it. And nearly everything humanity has done about it since has been a mistake. It has only made things worse.

Every development, invention, art, and science has its box. It begins as a Pandora’s box, closed and full of potential, but as soon as the lid is lifted, trouble begins. Consider the automobile: it was a beautiful idea, sparing horses from overwork and revolutionizing transportation. Yet today we are plagued by environmental pollution, urban sprawl, and an over-reliance on fossil fuels. Airplanes, initially celebrated as miraculous, now serve as tools of war and environmental degradation. Even the computer, heralded as a modern marvel, has introduced over-reliance, ethical dilemmas, and emotional disconnection.

Humanity’s disregard for natural laws is evident everywhere. We deplete petroleum reserves, contaminate water, and pollute the air. Nature warns us through diminishing resources and escalating disasters, yet we ignore these signs. This story is echoed in modern allegories like the film Snowpiercer, where humanity survives aboard a perpetually moving train, exploiting its finite resources and ignoring the balance needed for survival.

The Earth, much like Pandora’s box, is a finite vessel. It began full of potential but becomes a source of misery when misused. Its limited resources demand respect and conservation. Humanity must abandon its relentless exploitation and instead honor the wisdom of the ancients, aligning actions with natural and divine laws.

Just as Pandora’s box held hope, so does our future. Hope is the spark that inspires change, urging us to restore balance and live harmoniously with nature. By heeding these lessons, we can ensure a brighter future for generations to come.

This Earth is like a kind of vessel, perhaps like Pandora’s box. If we use it wisely, it releases all kinds of potentials that help us grow in countless ways. But if abused and perverted, this same Earth can turn upon us as a very sad and angered victim of our intemperance. Behind humanity’s will lies the will of nature, and behind nature’s will lies the mind of God. Violation of these laws results in consequences, as nature punishes disobedience and divinity condemns selfishness.

Through history, humanity has been blind to these truths, indulging in short-term gains and ignoring the natural values of life. However, hope remains. We must nurture the emotional life of the planet, cultivate kindness, and align our ambitions with the greater good. By doing so, we fulfill the ancient lessons of Pandora’s tale, ensuring harmony with the natural and divine order of the world.

There is always something more to learn. Even for a master

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