Participation of the otherworldly beings in fate ....

B.D. No. 1371 April 4th 1940

Only those who unhesitatingly abandon themselves to the guidance of the spirit beings looking after them will feel the power of these beings in manifold ways. It is a certain sympathy for the fate of each individual human being. In their love they endeavour to make people's earthly existence beautiful but they always have to submit to divine will and cannot change or improve fate on their own authority, for they always have to consider the human being's immature state of soul and their excessive love would be very little suited to deny earthly people what they long for. However, they always try to offer people a substitute for what divine wisdom denies them. This is now to be understood in such a way that the spiritually perfect indeed subordinates itself to the will of God, but takes the will of man into account insofar as that it gives him every conceivable help in earth existence, especially then when man devotedly submits to divine will. For now it is no longer a disadvantage for earthly life if he regocnizes that everything is divine providence and therefore must somehow be a blessing for the human being. (interruption)