Karma

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

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They are the “ Second Seven", and they keep the astral records, filled with the ākāshic images before spoken of. They are connected
With the destiny of every man, and the birth of every child."
They give “the mould of the Etheric Double", 3 which will serve as the type of the physical body suited for the expression of the mental and passional faculties evolved by the Ego that is to dwell therein, and They give it to “The Four "—to the Mahārājahs, · Who
Are the protectors of mankind and also the agents of Karma on Earth.
Of these H. P. Blavatsky, writes further, quoting the Fifth Stanza of the Book of Dzyan:
Four “ Winged Wheels at each corner. .. for the Four Holy Ones and Their Armies (Hosts).” These are the “Four Mahārājahs,” or Great Kings of the Dhyān Chohans, the Devas, Who preside over each of the four cardinal points. ... These Beings are also connected with Karma as the latter needs physical and material agents to carry out its decrees.
Receiving the mould-once more the “ privation of matter”—from the Lipika, the Mahārājahs choose
1 Ante, p. 25. : The Secret Doctrine, i, 131. • Ante, p. 35. *The Secret Doctrine, i, 151. Ibid., i, 147.
nd Their Arings of the Dhyinal points.
is physical