The seven archangels may send other guardian angels to you from time to time.

Depending on your devotion and love and the number of assignments you give them, you may have dozens of guardian angels who answer your prayers and help loved ones.

Your Holy Christ Self, your chief guardian angel, is the one who directs them.

Our Christ Self is our Real Self. The fact that we have a Holy Christ Self is not merely a Christian concept.

Jeremiah prophesied the coming of the Real Self, whom he called The Lord Our Righteousness, a fitting name for the Holy Christ Self. Righteousness means the right use of God’s laws.

We need to be educated in God’s laws to be certain that everything we ask of our angels is lawful, and this is what our Christ Presence, our guardian angel, teaches us.

This Real Self is also known as the Higher Self or Higher Consciousness.

Your Holy Christ Self, the real you, is who you were when God created you and your twin flame out of his white-fire body, the original causal body—the Body of First Cause.*

*There is a causal body in the Great Central Sun, and there is an individual replica of that causal body above you surrounding your I AM Presence.

By and by, after aeons of experiencing perfection in this Great Causal Body of God, you elected by the exercise of free will to depart from that perfection and explore the denser spheres of the matter universe.

This is when you and your twin flame began to make karma, specifically negative karma. The law of karma then caused you to be tied to the realms of imperfection where you made that karma.

That is why we are all here and why we have only partial knowledge of who we are and where we have come from.

And that is why God has sent his angels to remind us, to quicken our ancient memory of who we are and where we came from.

We are wearing mortal bodies in place of the immortal bodies we once wore, and we are not face to face with our God.

We are human in so very many ways. But we are also divine, and it is the divinity in us that beholds God face to face.

The essence of our divinity, our Holy Christ Self, does see God, our Mighty I AM Presence, and does reflect that Divine Image back upon our souls so that we might daily start to put on, once again, the image and likeness of God in which we were originally made.

The Gospel of Matthew gives Jesus’ teaching on this angel beholding the face of the Father: “Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, that in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.”

Some early Christians, known as gnostics, had a unique belief about angels.

The gnostics were members of early Christian sects who believed that they possessed the secret, or mystical, teachings of Jesus and that this special knowledge was the means to salvation.

Some gnostic writings teach that the spiritual counterpart of the gnostic is an angel. In other words, they also called the Holy Christ Self an angel.

The goal of the gnostic is to become the bride of his angel. The gnostic teacher Heracleon calls this angelic counterpart the husband of the gnostic.

To the soul, who abides in the human body, the gnostics assigned the feminine gender and referred to the soul as she. And to the angel, or Holy Christ Self, they assigned the masculine gender.

In the mystical tradition of Catholicism, the soul is seeking to become the bride of Jesus Christ. Even some non-Catholics believe this.

Aimee Semple McPherson, the great Christian evangelist of the twentieth century, published a magazine called Bridal Call. She was always waiting for the Bridegroom to come and receive her soul.

So this concept of being the bride of Christ has figured for two thousand years in Christian thinking. In other traditions this bonding is called the alchemical marriage.

The ascended masters teach that our soul is intended to be wed, or bonded, to our own Holy Christ Self. We were bonded with him in the beginning, but we lost that bonding.

It is as though the Bridegroom had divorced us because we were no longer in the pure vibration of divine love.

We can regain this bonding by giving devotion to God and by expressing love in every possible circumstance, withstanding any temptation to anger.

By practicing the presence of Christ and by walking in his footsteps and striving daily to be bonded once again with our Lord, we seek to be restored to our First Estate, where we were when God created us.

Some of the world’s religions teach that God assigns each of us a guardian angel, whose job is to watch over and care for us.

The Hebrews and some early Christians also taught that nations had their own guardian angels. These angels, they believed, could guard the nation and plead for it when it was threatened by divine punishment.

Islam teaches that each person has four guardian angels who protect him against evil forces. Two angels guard a person during the day and two at night.

According to Islamic teaching, the guardian angel stationed to the right of a man writes down his good works immediately.

The angel at his left records his evil deeds a few hours after he commits them, first giving him some time to repent.

The Catholic Church teaches that each of the faithful has his own guardian angel.

They believe your guardian angel assists you in your spiritual, bodily and earthly affairs, as these pertain to your salvation. Catholic tradition explains the role of guardian angels as twofold.

First, they protect and direct man. Saint Basil said: “It is a teaching of Moses that every believer has an Angel to guide him as a teacher and a shepherd.”

Second, guardian angels act as intercessors. Catholics are encouraged to ask the angels to pray for them and to protect them.

If you were raised as a Catholic, you might remember this prayer:

Angel of God, my guardian dear,
To whom God’s love commits me here,
Ever this day, be at my side
To light and guard, to rule and guide. Amen.

Saint Bernard urged reverence for guardian angels:

Always remember that you are in the presence of your Guardian Angel…

If we truly love our Guardian Angel, we cannot fail to have boundless confidence in his powerful intercession with God and firm faith in his willingness to help us. This will inspire us frequently to invoke his aid and protection, especially in time of temptation and trial.

It will prompt us also to ask his counsel in the many problems which confront us, in matters both great and small. Many of the saints made it a practice never to undertake anything without first seeking advice of their Guardian Angel.

Indeed, our Holy Christ Self is our counselor and our adviser.

Walk and Talk with Your Guardian Angel

The third-century Church theologian Origen of Alexandria taught that the angel who attends you will withdraw if by disobedience you become unworthy.

Saint Jerome taught that you can drive away your guardian angel when you do not repent of your sins.

Saint Basil said: “Sin turns away angels as smoke turns away bees and a nasty stench puts to flight doves.”

It is not that God is punishing us or that our guardian angels would desert us.

It is that by our being out of alignment with God’s will we have put a great vibrational distance between ourselves and the angels.

Origen also cites the teaching given in early Christian texts that good and bad angels influence the thoughts and actions of men.

The Jewish philosopher Philo contends that within each soul there lives a good angel and a wicked angel.

The Shepherd of Hermas, a text held in high regard by early Christians, says:

There are two angels with man; one of righteousness, the other of iniquity….The angel of righteousness is mild and modest and gentle and quiet. When therefore, he gets into thy heart, immediately he talks with thee of righteousness, of modesty, of chastity, of bountifulness of forgiveness, of charity, and piety.

When all these things come into thy heart, know then that the angel of righteousness is with thee…. Hearken to this angel and to his works…. When anger overtakes thee, or bitterness, know that [the angel of iniquity] is in thee.

If you really want to walk and talk with your guardian angel, there is nothing to stop you.

No barrier will be set up by your angel. The only barrier is perhaps your shyness or fear or forgetfulness in speaking to God, confessing your sins, telling him you desire to do better and to live a life that fits you for your goal of union with him.

Starting a new life with not only your guardian angel but all the angels of heaven is just as easy as turning around and walking into a room. Remember that God made the angels to be our caregivers all the way Home.

Encounters with Guardian Angels

Elizabeth Clare Prophet writes: I received a letter from a woman telling me of a cherished experience of oneness with her Holy Christ Self.

She wrote:

In my thirty-eighth year, I had an amazing experience. I was sitting in my living room caring for our newest arrival, when suddenly a powerfully uplifting light and radiation began to fill my outer awareness.

It continued for several days. I praised and thanked God and asked to understand more perfectly this wonderful blessing.

After a few days of this, I suddenly realized that the vibration of this light was that of the Christ consciousness entering my being.

I called to my Christ Self and it intensified. I knew that I could now see and feel more clearly what the Christ flame really was and how to better call it forth minute by minute.

It became real for me in a much deeper way.

Before this point, I hadn’t consciously experienced the mantle of my Christ Self and did not know what it might feel like.

Now almost every waking moment I was concentrating on affirming the living Christ within me and calling forth my beloved Holy Christ Self….

I wanted that relationship that I believe many mystics of the Christian dispensation had with Jesus. Now a door is opening and I can see a real possibility of this within my own heart!

Another woman recounted an experience with her guardian angel and Archangel Michael:

I was about ten or eleven years old. It was a hot summer day and my father had just picked up my sister and me from our summer camp and we were driving home.

I was exhausted and sleepy—so sleepy that I thought it would be wonderful to lean my head up against the car door and fall asleep. As I was about to do this, a strange yet beautiful thing happened.

I heard a voice. I shall never forget that voice. It was a female voice—firm yet gentle, commanding yet soothing. The voice spoke to me and said: “No, do not lay down your head. Wait until you get home.”

I do not have the words to describe the beauty of this voice nor the depth of this being’s care for me. Such is an angel’s love. I instantly obeyed her command and raised myself to a more upright position.

Shortly thereafter—seconds or minutes—our car was hit broadside by another car and the side on which I was sitting was completely smashed in.

If I had laid my head down as I had intended, I might have incurred severe head injuries and perhaps died. My gratitude to God for the wondrous intercession and devotion of the angels of Light!

Your guardian angel knows you very well. The seven archangels will send other guardian angels to you if you need them, so by your devotions you may have more than one guardian angel who is taking care of you, your family and loved ones, your neighborhood, your town or city, your country and the world.

Prayer to Your Guardian Angel

One way to meet your guardian angel is by praying to him or her. We have a prayer for you in the exercises.

It is a vehicle you can use to express your devotion to God and your chief guardian angel, your Holy Christ Self. The words are a vessel into which you pour your love.

Let the words lead you to the restoration of the consciousness of God that you had in the beginning.

You can also use this prayer to direct your love to Chamuel and Charity, the archangels who are the guardians of your physical heart, your heart chakra, and of the threefold flame, the divine spark in your heart.

This flame is called “threefold” because it engenders the primary attributes of the Trinity—power, wisdom and love.

In giving this devotion, you have begun to reconnect with all the divine love you knew in the beginning with God and your twin flame.

Your Holy Christ Self as your chief guardian angel is not only the mediator of your soul’s union with God but is also the mediator of your soul’s union with your twin flame.