Karma

Author(s): Annie Besant
Publisher: Theosophical Publishing House

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whereinto are poured—from the infinite wealth of the Universal Mind—the rich stores of all the Ideas that are to be bodied forth in a given cosmos; thereinto also enter the vibrations from the cosmos—from all the thoughts of all intelligences, from all the desires of all kāmic entities, from all the actions performed on every plane by all forms. All these make their respective impressions, the to us formless, but to lofty spiritual intelligences the formed, images of all happenings, and these ākāshic images—as we will henceforth call them-abide for evermore, and are the true karmic records, the Book of the Lipika,1 that may be read by any who possess the “opened eye of Dangma." 2 It is the reflection of these ākāshic images that may be thrown upon the screen of astral matter by the action of the trained attentionas a picture may be thrown on a screen from a slide in a magic-lantern-so that a scene from the past may be reproduced in all its living reality, correct in every detail of its far-off happening; for in the ākāshic records it exists, imprinted there once for all, and a fleeting living picture of any page of these records can be made at pleasure, dramatized on the astral
1 The Secret Doctrine, i, 157-159. * Ibid., stanza i, of the Book of Dzyan, and sec Conclusion.