A great article from Josephine Maccarthy.
Of course from a magical view,but who cares.. At least it's not the sugarcoated new age thing that promises you eternal love or this and that...
From my limited experience,i could say that the being kicks in when there is really a need,to balance things that are out of your reach....
https://josephinemccarthy.com/2014/03/08/magic-the-holy-guardian-angel/
This fits as well.. It's about angels and how they operate.
It is the description of the angeli card (tarot),yet the infos are precious,reflecting direct (in depth) experience with these beings.
The Divine servants (Josephine Maccarthy)
The Divine Servants are what some cultures would call angels. They are beings that are an expression of Divine Universal will, and their job is to maintain the order of fate, of Divine will, and its expression in the physical
world. For the magician, this card’s meaning is about angelic beings. I use the term Divine Servants for the card as the concept of angels has degenerated so much both in religion since around 300 BC, and as a consequence, in magic.
These beings are non-emotional, which means they are not vulnerable to the emotional manipulation of humans: their function is simply to ensure that something happens or does not happen. This can be very difficult for some people to understand if they have grown up in a Christianised culture where an angel is seen as someone who loves you no matter what. Tangling up emotion with necessary action is something that a magician needs to be very wary of, if it creeps into their narrative:
such misunderstanding can destroy what could be a strong working relationship with these beings.
The Divine Servants card is specific to the angelic beings that work within the patterns of fate and power, which today in magic we view as the ‘higher order’ of angels. These beings do not work closely with humans, nor do they present to us in any form we would recognize as the typical Christian angel with two white wings, a nice white frock, and a kindly face. Rather, these beings can be terrifying
to encounter; some can appear in vision to us in a vaguely human form, or in a form that is almost beyond our comprehension. They can sometimes appear as geometric shapes, or spinning wheels, or as structures. They are functional beings that do a specific job and are often unaware of us as individual human beings…just as we are often unaware of quite how many bugs we inadvertently crush as we walk through a forest.
The closer to humanity an angel is in its role or mode of action, the more
humanlike it can appear in a vision or dream. The further away from humanity it is, the more it takes on a strange and more complex appearance in vision. All of these
appearances are simple visual vocabularies that let we humans comprehend what we are looking at: we see an interface, not the actual being itself.
We magicians cross paths with these beings far more often than the average human would, and it is important for us to be able to recognize and work with
them, regardless of what we call them or how we label them.
A Divine Servant is a being that is involved in the upkeeping of creation, stasis,or destruction. It is not a being that relates to the natural features of the world(like a deity of the wind or a mountain); rather it is a being that interfaces between the Universal Divine powers of creation and destruction, and the physical world
of nature as well as the inner worlds. These beings are traditionally called servants,messengers, and thrones (upholders) because their actions uphold a fate pattern, and
because when necessary, they do indeed communicate with the living in order to ensure a fated event happens or does not happen, or that through their messages,humanity evolves or devolves according to the pattern being upheld.
They are powers that can ‘become’ part of a sacred or inner structure: thresholds,gates, doorways, doors, walls, and altars.
As a magician, your tradition or system will have some form of visual and ritual interface for working with these beings. However, just remember that the dogmatic
information around these beings (names,hours,functions,presentations, etc.) is often the result of generations of theory and dogma, not practice. A magician often has to unlearn a great deal before they can truly start to learn from direct experience.'''