From the book "Gods About Us", Max Rempel
Apart from the exclusively angelic properties of the Higher Self, it also has to engage in dirty work. It sends us trials. These trials can be rather unpleasant. How it can be that our soul can send us troubles is difficult to imagine. We are accustomed to the idea that troubles happen by the will of chance, or by the will of faceless fate, or from demons, or from an angered God, but that they should be sent by one's own soul, by the part of it called the higher self - this is unfamiliar.
How does it arrange troubles for itself?
Formerly God or the demons were occupied with this, but now it has to labor itself. What has changed? Naturally nothing has changed except the source of knowledge. The former worldview was composed for people of the third density and was adapted by people to suit human thinking. And this old-type thinking is characterized by two features:
First, everything divine was external with respect to the person, and second, the world was built hierarchically - the person in the middle and the Lord at the top.
This system worked rather well for many millennia. And so it would have continued to work, had humanity not found itself on the threshold of self-destruction, and had the time not come to pass into the fourth density. And here the hierarchical system turned out to be obsolete, and the voices from the higher densities began to set forth to us that same picture of the world, but now from the point of view of the higher densities.
And from their point of view it is evident that there is no fundamental difference between God and the Higher Self. And that one can say that it is God who sends troubles, but in essence God does nothing with his own hands, and in essence fate is in the charge of that part of the divine field which is closest to the person, and it is this part that is called the Higher Self.
This is the answer to the question of what the difference is.
But how, after all, does the soul manage to put spokes in its own wheels? The answer is that it knows better how to attain the set goal. It has to pass through trials and to gather energy-experience. And so it sets the person up for those trials which he himself would not have chosen for himself. To those for whom the analogy with computer games is closer, I offer the following analogy. The Higher Self is playing a game in which the main character is its incarnation. It has to attain the set task in order to pass to the next level. Yes, the higher self subjects its hero to difficulties, but at the same time it takes care of him, because without the hero one cannot rise to the new level. The analogy with the resource of health and lives also works well here.
And at the same time, remember that the Higher Self is in symbiosis with its incarnation-person. They have a common energetics and a common success. The main conclusion from this model is simple, and it radically eases life: it is time to stop worrying and start living! because trials are given to a person for the elevation of the soul, while worry and stress lower the level of the soul. It is very important to understand that the Higher Self has, in its resource, enough ways to help its charge. That trials are often given precisely for the passing of a new lesson, and not at all for the killing of the subordinate. As soon as the lesson turns out to have been passed, the problems resolve themselves. Therefore the conclusion is that one can and should overcome fear and concentrate on the main thing - on spiritual growth, on inner perfection. In the face of outer difficulties, first of all one must change oneself, and in the direction of nobility and spiritual elevation. This, of course, is not easy, especially because a person in modern society is accustomed to solving all problems by external means. Even for such a problem of the soul as sadness and depression, it is now customary to take antidepressants - something external. So a person avoids passing the lesson, and the trial is sent to him again and again. And in ever heavier and heavier forms. Therefore accept an important piece of advice: if you encounter a trial characteristic of you many times over, try to change not the outer world but your inner emotional reaction. Relate to the old trial in a new way, and you will be rid of it. As soon as you yourself change, the lesson will be credited, and you will, at last, be able to pass to the next lesson. Everything is so simple - life is a school, and it is easier to learn in it if you know by what rules it functions.