OUR GUARDIAN HELPS US TO CARRY OUT THE DESTINY WE HAVE CHOSEN.

One can still understand thus why he says that our guardian helps us

to fulfil the destiny we have chosen. In fact, presiding over our

life, he does not permit us to descend very far below the condition we

have chosen. But that which then is active is the principle below the

guardian and which can neither transcend him, nor equal him; for he

could not become different from what he is.

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