Karma

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

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scems here to be needed: how is the field to be provided for its energies? How are the conditioning instruments and the reacting circumstances to be found and adapted ?
We approach a region whereof little may be fitly said, in that it is the region of mighty spiritual Intelligences, whose nature is far beyond the scope of our very limited faculties, whose existence may indeed be known and whose workings may be traced, but towards whom we stand much in the position occupied by one of the least intelligent lower animals towards ourselves, in that it may know that we exist but can have no conception of the scope and workings of our consciousness. These -Great Ones are spoken of as the Lipika and the Four Mahārājahs. How little we can know of the Lipika may be seen from the following:
The Lipika, a description of whom is given in Commentary 6 of Stanza IV, are the Spirits of the Universe. . . . (They] belong to the most Occult portion of cosmogenesis, which cannot be given here. Whether the Adepts-even the highest-know this angelic order in the completeness of its tríple degrees, or only the lower one connected with the records of our world, is something which the writer is unprepared to say, and she would rather incline to the latter supposition. Of its highest grade one thing only is taught, the Lipika are connected with Karma-being its direct Recorders."
1 The Secret Doctrine, i, 153.