Not much is hidden from an angel, and if we are to grow as individuals, then it must be on a solid foundation of self-acceptance. Those people who are inspired to work with the angels are generally themselves reincarnates, who have had more than a passing relationship with the angelic realms in their own pasts. We are somewhat like the shock troops who have been chosen to introduce an entirely different way of looking at life to a very dense and materialistic world. It's perhaps easier for us to give credence to the more subtle worlds simply because we have some distant memory of them. However, to think that contact with angels is an automatic ticket to the good life is missing the point of the whole exercise.
Angels are by no means the syrupy, sentimentalized, little winged cherubs of Victorian iconography.
They are much more likely to guide the sincere aspirant into emotional quicksand of their unresolved desires and repressed fears. For example, soon after starting to work with the counsel of my own angels back in the early eighties, I found myself having to confront a fear which I had firmly repressed at my British public school. And it is, incidentally, just these sort of traumas that make communicating with telepathic intelligences so impossibly difficult. Had I not the inner resources to release the fear-trapped thoughtform, and the whole confrontation had ended in disaster, then I might well have been led to think that my angels may have had some very dubious motives indeed for guiding me into such a challenging situation. If you are one of those led to involve yourselves more closely with your companion angels, be aware that your illusions and your self-deceptions will come crashing down.