In their relation with human beings the hostile forces take a very wicked pleasure in testing them. For example, if you are not extremely strong and extremely sincere, and you tell yourself: "Oh, I am sure of my faith,"- this for instance among many other things – immediately something happens which is going to try to shake your faith completely. This is one… I suppose that is their diversion, their amusement.
How many times, you know, when someone boasts… it may be very childishly… but when someone boasts about something: "Oh, I am sure of that, I shall never make that mistake," immediately I see a hostile formation passing there, like that, and it enters by the little hole made by the boasting. It enters within, like that, and then penetrates, and so prepares everything for you to do exactly what you did not want to. But this is an amusement, it is certainly not to help you to progress. (Mother laughs) But if you know how to take it, it does help you to progress. You say: "Good, another time I will not boast."
