Invisible Helpers

images she there makes of them is a great outpouring of spiritual force which flows down upon her offspring who are still struggling in this lower world. It surrounds them with living centers of beneficent energy, which may not inaptly be described as veritable guardian angels. An illustration of this will be found in the sixth of our Theosophical manuals, p. 38.

Not long ago, the little daughter of one of our English bishops was out walking with her mother in the town where they lived, and in running heedlessly across a street, the child was knocked down by the horses of a carriage that came quickly upon her around a corner. Seeing her among the horses' feet, the mother rushed forward, expecting to find her very badly injured, but she sprang up quite merrily, saying, "Oh, mamma, I am not at all hurt, for something all in white kept the horses from treading upon me and told me not to be afraid."

A case that occurred in Buckinghamshire, somewhere in the neighborhood of Burnham Beeches, is remarkable on account of the length of time through which the physical manifestation of the succoring agency seems to have maintained itself. It will have been seen that in the instances hitherto given, the intervention was a matter of but a few moments.