SPIRIT GUIDES

We all have near and dear spirit friends who come to up, and as far as opportunity offers inspire and direct us. Often those whom we have not known on earth find that we are susceptible to their influence and form a companionship by which they more directly become connected with physical life. These are true guides, and may be obtained by honest desire for their presence, and making ourselves receptive to their influence. That there are guardian spirits or guides, in an arbitrary and fixed sense, assigned to every one, or to any one, is a false and harmful assertion.

One can have attendant spirits by making himself receptive to their influence, and he can have a choice by the direction he gives his spiritual life.

If he wants a guide to assist in the accumulation of wealth, let him turn his desires in that direction and they who wasted life in such pursuits will come to his call, and through him gratify their yet unsubdued avarice.

Do you want a guide in the ways of the appetites and passions? Ask and ye shall receive, and you will become the instrument of gratification, to be thrown aside at last as a withered husk.

Do you want a guide to lead up to the highlands of spiritual being? Earnestly set your house in order for the reception of a divine guest. Sweep from your door every trace of selfishness, envy, hate, lust desire, for if you would have the presence of an angel, be as near to the ideal angel as in your power. Yes, you can choose, but not by simply wishing. The guide who enters your door will be as your innermost spirit.