What is true of spirits as of bodies?

What is true of spirits as of bodies?

We have all our guides. These angels, unknown and unseen, prompt us to all good actions and dissuade us from evil. They are with us in thought and we often receive their warnings as if they were the promptings of our own spirit. So they are, but the spirit, which prompts is quite outside our own conscious self. 

The guardian angel is indeed a kind of other self―a higher, purer, and more developed section of your own personality. This is perhaps a little difficult to understand, but it is true. 

There are as well as good, evil angels who are with us no less constantly, and they are also sometimes visible as angels of darkness when we come across. They are with us always and we are with them in the spirit world when we leave our body. 

We are always swaying hither and thither towards our good and evil guides. We call them impulses, wayward longings, aspirations coming we know not where or whence. 

The soul in the body hears but dimly and does not see at all the innumerable influences with which it is surrounded.

The first and most startling thing you have to learn is that your senses, materials senses, are not so much to help you to see and hear, as to bar you off from seeing or hearing. 

We are on earth as it were with blinkers on. We must not see or hear or know much that surrounds us. The physical consciousness needs for its development the temporary seclusion of life from the realities of the world of spirit into which it is ushered at death. Hence when we close our eyes in the sleep of death, it is more of a laying down of the blinkers that limited and confirmed our vision than almost anything else. We then can see what were the sources of these vague impressions, intuitions and aspirations, both up and down. We were in the midst of these beings always, but we mistook them for part of ourselves. They are distinct, although united, for no one can live to himself alone.

We are all members one of another, and this is as true of spirits as of bodies. These evil agencies exist.