Why do we suffer? Is it God's fault?

Unknowingly, you walk amid a crowd of angels who are anxiously waiting to impart a thought that may be to your and their advantage.

You have on this material plane angelic guides—or influences, usually called guardian angels. They are drawn hither through sympathy and love, for the purpose of benefiting and assisting you in passing through the various changes and experiences of this material life. 

Without their assistance—without their guardian care, we would indeed be isolated. They impart strength, giving the magnetic power from the spiritual source, which, interblending with their faculties usually called impressions, aid them in accomplishing designs and objects for the material benefit of the human race.

There are two classes or kinds of influences usually attracted to mortals. The one being cultivated ethereally, the other materially. The one divinely inspired with spiritual power, the other materially endowed with material power. The one divinely endowed can assist the material one, as well as yourself. The individual being the mentor or medium conveys the assistance or impressions imparted by the superior one to the material one.

The material influence remains with you as a protection amid physical surroundings, against accidents—calamities of any character or kind to mortals constantly standing in danger through which many escape not knowing how—always attended with a fright to the individual, which is the electric positive charge imparted to the body by this influence.

The intellectually endowed influence works for the mental unfoldment, bringing the spirit into such a condition that it can work out objects, machinery of various kinds, designs that may impart profit to others, works of art that benefit the human family, progressive intellectual ideas that unfold the spiritual nature of man, spiritualising the body, causing it to interblend with the purer moral conditions in the human system. 

Having the guardian guidance of these two opposite powers, you will readily understand why you can assist the one at the time you are being assisted yourself. 

The superior power working on your faculties mentally gives the more material power conditions to develop his own in spirit. His material pursuits toward your benefit are complied with through a law of spiritual development. He, in his undeveloped state, works out a material mission to your benefit as well as his own. He receives only a portion, as a benefit of what you receive.

If you are crude material, only inclined to the crude material, you cannot be benefitted much by the intellectual influence. It depends upon the organisation of the individual. If the organisation is devoid of sensual passions, not given to excessive use of stimulants or abuse of sexuality, of an even balanced temperament, the intellectual force can work to your benefit and to the benefit of the undeveloped influence. 

But where those passions are developed and the individual gives more attention to material things in adhering to the corrupt surroundings of material conditions, he gives the undeveloped influence all the power, stimulating his passions through yours, never feeling satiated (satisfied) with what you receive, ofttimes waiting in the dead hour of night, goading on to crime and the gratification of sensual desires. 

The mortal then is under the complete control of the undeveloped. 

He has made the conditions, having sown the seed, he will reap the harvest. The pure and divine influence must then withdraw, the will of the mortal holding him in abeyance—he cannot approach through the impure magnetism to impart assistance.

The aura of the individual co-blending with that of the undeveloped becomes material, murky and offensive. 

And not until he feels through a natural desire the necessity of working out of this condition can he again be benefitted by the pure. 

The benefit can come only by being brought in contact with purer magnetism on the material plane and through material assistance. 

The germ of his spiritual nature retains the good as well as the evil. When brought in contact with a mediumistic individual, the mediumistic individual can impart to him psychological conditions through which the superior influence can reach him again who impressing him with remorse, rousing the sympathetic nature within him, he will feel the reproach of this influence, which causes deep regret. 

Never too late to reform. 

This regret unfolds the superior nature of the spirit—gives him an insight into all the errors of the past, making them repulsive to his spiritual nature, which is divine.

The evil part of the spiritual nature is material. Thus good and evil lie embedded within the nature of every individual. And it lies within the individual's character, which germ to develop. 

If the organisation is so formed that material desires are more sought for, the evil germ will be developed and overbalance the divine or spiritual, literally destroying the conditions for its unfoldment. Many there are who pass away in that sadly undeveloped state, giving the evil germ of their nature all the conditions for its purely material growth. The divine intellectual still remains, but not having had proper conditions (on account of its imperfect organisation) to develop itself, it enters spirit life with heavier burdens, consequently it remains inactive. The crude material, which it has developed for itself is consumed by the elements—the intellectual force remains to seek another material body—to live another physical life. If the material body or physical organisation is so organised that the purer spiritual perceptions and desires can work through, it will be assisted by the divine influence—having opportunities more in harmony with itself, it is benefitted working out material desires, which adds largely to the growth of the spirit in identity and individuality.

This power depends largely upon the matrons of this life. 

Mothers give the organisation, the physical body—God or Nature gives the spiritual body.

Mortals should comprehend that they are creators. 

They create material bodies, which are the tenements of the spirit. God creates perfectly. He gives the germ of life, which is Divine intelligence. Man creates imperfectly—the majority adhering too much to sensuality, he consumes the nerve power of his system, destroying with disease the life fluid, which is essential in developing organic life. It is high time that mortals should make this a study—most of them living disappointed lives. 

No matter what their surroundings may be the spirit in its tenement feels its inability, its incapacity to work out its experiences—feels the regret being unable to act and pursue that course,  which it was predestined to pursue before its incarnation.

Who then is to blame—God or man? 

Man and woman should learn that they must be one, working out to effect in harmony and love by observing the causes and material effects, positive and negative, in perfecting the human race—by perfecting the organisation of every child they bring into existence. 

If man and woman would study this law, working to benefit each other, they will become as one, the same as God and Nature. Father God the positive force, Mother Nature the negative power. Without Mother Nature, the creative positive could accomplish nothing. 

The positive electric force interblends with the negative magnetic power, giving the conditions to develop and produce every substance that lives upon this globe, from the mineral to the vegetable, from the vegetable to the animal, from the animal to man—the highest. 

You must remember that all must pass through changes—minerals existing many million years before vegetation, vegetation existing millions of years before animals, man existed not so many years after the development of animal life.

—B. H. in Spirit