AC 5992
The angels, through whom the Lord leads and also protects a person, are near his head. It is their office to inspire charity and faith, and to observe in what direction the person's delights turn, and in so far as they can, without interfering with the person's freedom, moderate them and bend them to good.
Infernal spirits continually attack, and the angels protect; such is the order.
[3] Especially do the angels call forth the goods and truth that are with a person, and set them in opposition to the evils and falsities which the evil spirits excite. Thus the person is in the midst, and does not perceive either the evil or the good; and being in the midst, he is in freedom to turn himself either to the one or to the other. By such means do angels from the Lord lead and protect a person, and this every moment, and every moment of a moment; for if the angels were to break their care for a single moment, the person would be precipitated into evil from which he could never afterward be brought out. These things the angels do from the love they have from the Lord, for they perceive nothing more delightful and happy than to remove evils from a person, and lead him to heaven. Scarcely any person believes that the Lord takes such care of a person, and this continually from the first thread of his life to the last of it, and afterward to eternity.
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