Throughout history we come across very great spirits, initiates, who forgot their mission and strayed onto some other path

Some beings come down to the earth with a mission, but it may happen that they stray away from it and give in to certain temptations, until nothing remains in them to remind them of the promises they made. Throughout history we come across very great spirits, initiates, who forgot their mission and strayed onto some other path. It is one of the difficulties of spiritual life: are we able to remember, at least vaguely, the promise made before heaven, do everything possible to fulfil it and, at the same time, know how to detect those people and situations which could present any danger? For the most evolved beings also have all kinds of pitfalls placed along their path. Those who become sidetracked in this way can only suffer, for they venture into regions that are not for them. Others may feel fine there, and that is normal, for such regions correspond to their level of evolution. But those who were meant to live and work in higher regions, where nothing is lacking to allow them to fulfil their task, are haunted by terrible anguish.