If a spirit abandons his ward and no longer watches over him he will never do him any harm, as good spirits never do harm to any one. They leave that to those who take their place and you then accuse fate of the misfortunes that overwhelm you, while in reality it is the results of your own wrongdoings and your own sad mistakes. Evil spirits unite to neutralize the action of the good ones, but the soul of the ward suffices to give back all the power to his spirit protector. When the one protected has a positive will for good it renders it easy to help him. In such a case he takes advantage of doing good while awaiting the return of his ward. Whenever your spirit protector allows you to wander into evil ways and wrong paths it is not because he is unable to cope with the bad spirits which mislead you, but because he does not choose to do so. He knows that you will become wiser and better through the trials that you will have brought upon yourself. Your spirit brother will assist you through great counsels and will suggest to your mind ideas and thoughts which are not always heeded, but this will be due to your own weakness, carelessness or pride, and this in itself gives great strength and power to bad spirits as their power over you comes solely from your not opposing sufficient resistance to their action and influence.

Again you may wonder if your spirit protector and counselor is constantly with you. There are, of course, circumstances under which the presence of your protector is not necessary. When once the human soul has reached a degree of development which enables him to guide himself, as the time comes when a scholar no longer needs a master or teacher, the soul has no longer need of his guardian angel, but this point or stage in your spiritual development is never reached upon the Earth Plane. The good spirits of the Astral Plane many times assist you when you have no knowledge of the same, and it is well that you have no knowledge of this, for if you count on their support you will not act of yourself, consequently your self action and soul cannot progress, for in order to convince each man to acquire personal experience, often at the expense of his own soul, he must exercise his soul powers, otherwise he would live like a child who is not allowed to walk alone. The action of the spirits who desire your welfare is always regulated in such a way as to let you use your own free will, for if you had no resiponsibility you would not advance on the road that is to lead you to a better spiritual existence.

Mankind not seeing his spiritual supporters puts forth his own strength, but his spiritual guides, however, watches over him and calls to him from time to time to bid him beware of approaching danger. Whenever your spirit protector succeeds in guiding you upon the right path, he thereby benefits you and also himself, as his work is a meritorious work which will be counted to him either for his advancement or his happiness. He rejoices when he sees his ward and care crowned with success, and triumphs as a teacher triumphs over the success of a student. If he has done everything for you that has depended on him and has not succeeded for you, you and not he will be held responsible. Spirit protectors always feel grieved at the errors made by mankind and pity him, but this has nothing of the anguish of earth life, because the spirit guide knows that there is a remedy for the evil and that what is not done to-day will be done in the future. If you desire to evoke your spirit guide give him any name you please, that is to say, any name that you feel would do for a superior spirit for whom you feel great veneration; your spirit guide will then always answer your appeal, for all good spirits are brothers and assist each other. There are many spirit guides who take well known names of persons.

These persons have been in sympathy with these spirits and in many cases come by their order, and if you desire them to take a name they will do so to inspire you with their confidence. A father or mother in spirit life cannot be the real spirit guardian of their child, for such guardianship possesses a certain degree of spirit elevation and the power granted by God. However, a parent who watches over his child may himself be assisted by a spirit of more elevated degree. A soul which has passed from the earth plane under favorable conditions can in a sense become a protector of those whom they left and that have survived them, but their power is more or less narrowed by their position and advancement. This, of course, does not always leave them free of liberty and action. Savages and men who are very low as regards their moral state have their protectors, for every man has a spirit who watches over him, but missions are always proportioned to their object. You would not give the professor of philosophy to a child who is learning its grammar. The advancement of the guardian spirit is always proportioned to that of the soul he protects.

While you yourself have a spirit of higher degree who watches over you, you may in turn become the protector of a sour who is lower than you, and the progress you help him make will contribute to your own advancement, for God does not demand of any soul or spirit more than is consistent to its nature and with the degree at which it has arrived. It would not be entirely correct to say that a good spirit and an evil one is attached to each individual for the purpose of exciting him to evil and thus furnishing him with the opportunity of struggling between good and evil. Nevertheless it is true the bad spirits do endeavor to draw you out of the right road whenever they find an opportunity of doing so, but when an evil spirit attaches himself to an individual he does so of his own accord, because he hopes to be able to influence him and cause him to not listen to good. In this case there is a struggle between the good and evil spirit, and the victory remains with the one whose influence the man has subjected himself to, or as written above, has attracted to him by his own condition of mind and soul, which must be either good or bad.

The Master Of Spiritism

His snowy hair and beard identified With purple robes and manner dignified, While inviting you, in a kindly voice, Come to India's teachings, to conquer, and rejoice.

- Dr. de Laurence.