Once a friendship is genuinely established, can it ever be truly lost? Seems the only chance of that is one party goes down the path of deep depravity and loses their very soul to oblivion. How important are “old friends” in helping to rescue lost souls and even fallen angelics?

This is another deep insight and deep truth about the way of things. In actuality, all of you are deep friends of us, being parts of us to begin with. We always know where our parts are and what they are doing, so we are, in that sense, partners with you whether you are aware of it or not. When your channel speaks of partnering with Creator, it is about you developing an opening awareness, understanding, and acceptance of us, not the other way around. We are already onboard in loving you, cherishing you, fully accepting you because we understand you completely. We created you to be who you are and no matter what state of being you are in at the moment, including the most depraved and seemingly reprehensible villains among you, as being a momentary distortion of thinking and not a damnable crime deserving of punishment and banishment. We have created circumstances allowing you to be in harm's way. Many have been harmed and suffering as a consequence. We are not happy about that, but see its value in doing the experiment because the rewards will be vastly greater than the inconveniences and even tremendous suffering this might involve along the way. The cordings are ever-present and many times will help save the day when a human being is teetering on the edge and in danger of a severe downward spiral into oblivion. We have rescued many from that fate by offering a lifeline and we are acting as a friend in doing so, no different really than you might reach out to a friend who has lost their way, perhaps ending up homeless, living as a bum on the street, unwashed, unloved, and unwanted. The love created in that old friendship you once had can be resurrected and become a bridge of upliftment for the one who suffers and is struggling so in isolation. In that respect, you are carrying out divine business to reach out to them and honor that old friendship with loving kindness to help raise them up once again and save them from their distorted thinking that traps them in their current fate. Many hit bottom and when they pass from physical life and return to spirit form, continue to struggle. In the rules of engagement with humanity, we will reach out to them but cannot rescue them unilaterally even though we are quite able to do so. Until they return home, they are in charge of their lives still and it remains human business to see to. Those who become earthbound spirits are truly in a dark place and endangered because they have cut themselves off from an awareness and belief in the divine and will be unseen to those humans still in the living. So that is simply a lowered state of existence they have suffered already and, in effect, promoted in not taking some action to save themselves. Like us, you can be a change agent on behalf of a fellow human in this predicament in requesting divine assistance to rescue a lost soul human spirit from being trapped in the darkness and be more active in returning them to the light by first carrying out healing; if you request this to be done to raise the individual's vibration, that will allow them to cooperate finally with the light callers and make their way home—that is the piece missing, that you have a huge responsibility on your own shoulders, as a human being, to govern your own life. This is the part missing in the teaching of religion. Religion has been corrupted to make you believe it is all about us and your worship of us, your obedience to us, your pleasing and satisfying us, when what is truly needed is for you to do all those things for yourselves because it is you who are in danger, you who are at risk, you who are in a diminished form and vulnerable to losing your way and never recovering. Many, many times someone who becomes trapped on their way back to the light after their passing receive assistance from loved ones still in the living who pray for them, whose thoughts reach out wanting their upliftment and happiness. Even when fearing the worst, praying for a departed loved one can be a tremendous gift; it can be the one catalyst needed for divine healing to be sent to their loved one. This shows the power humans have no matter their own opinion of themselves—which has been corrupted and distorted. You have more power than you know; the greatest source of power you have is your ability to call on us to assist you and to assist others in need at your request. The fallen angelics are the truest test of your divinity—they are its opposite. For you to rescue them is, in a way, the greatest act of divinity you can carry out. What greater demonstration of love can there be than to give it freely to one who would be your enemy and destroy you if they could? All that represents, when you strip away the human-level reaction to such extreme negativity, is a love deficit. In a sense, it is no different than having an automobile that runs out of gas and becomes more an obstacle than an asset. You can summon hatred and abandon it or even smash it to pieces, but what good does that do when the alternative is simply adding the right fuel, and that will bring the automobile back to life where it can once again be a meaningful part of things and an asset, and a joy to have in sharing your environment? Even the worst of the demonic spirits were angels once and are divine in their makeup, but suffering a love deficit and have become its opposite. That is a problem that can be solved and you can solve it; it is a test of you and a challenge, both—what will you do about this?