7811. From all this it may be recognized that their angels who station themselves by a person's head exercise a kind of judicial power over him; for the angels permit, moderate, prevent, and exert an influence. But I was allowed to tell them that they should not think they were the judges, but that the Lord alone is Judge, and that everything they order and command those spirits, the chastisers and the instructors, flows into them from Him, yet seems to come from themselves.