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	<blockquote>Connected as the Lipika are with the destiny of every man and the birth of every child, whose life is already traced in the Astral Light—not fatalistically, but only because the future, like the PAST, is ever alive in the PRESENT—they may also be said to exercise an influence on the Science of Horoscopy. We must admit the truth of the latter whether we will or not. For, as observed by one of the modern adepts of Astrology, “Now that photography has revealed to us the chemical influence of the Sidereal system, by fixing on the sensitized plate of the apparatus milliards of stars and planets that had hitherto baffled the efforts of the most powerful telescopes to discover them, it becomes easier to understand how our solar system can, at the birth of a child, influence his brain—virgin of any impression—in a definite manner and according to the presence on the zenith of such or another zodiacal constellation.”<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 105.</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>Connected as the Lipika are with the destiny of every man and the birth of every child, whose life is already traced in the Astral Light—not fatalistically, but only because the future, like the PAST, is ever alive in the PRESENT—they may also be said to exercise an influence on the Science of Horoscopy. We must admit the truth of the latter whether we will or not. For, as observed by one of the modern adepts of Astrology, “Now that photography has revealed to us the chemical influence of the Sidereal system, by fixing on the sensitized plate of the apparatus milliards of stars and planets that had hitherto baffled the efforts of the most powerful telescopes to discover them, it becomes easier to understand how our solar system can, at the birth of a child, influence his brain—virgin of any impression—in a definite manner and according to the presence on the zenith of such or another zodiacal constellation.”<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 105.</ref></blockquote>

			==Further reading==
			*[https://www.theosophy.world/encyclopedia/lipikas Lipikas] in Theosophy World

	== Notes ==		== Notes ==

	<references/>		<references/>

	~~==Further reading==~~

	*[http://www.theosophy.ph/encyclo/index.php?title=Lipikas# Lipikas] at Theosopedia

	[[Category:Sanskrit terms]]		[[Category:Sanskrit terms]]

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	According to [[Annie Besant]] and [[C. W. Leadbeater]] the Lipikas and the Maharajas (or Devarajas) are different.		According to [[Annie Besant]] and [[C. W. Leadbeater]] the Lipikas and the Maharajas (or Devarajas) are different.

	<blockquote>The great karmic deities of the Kosmos (called in ''The Secret Doctrine'' the Lipika) weigh the deeds of each personality when the final separation of its principles takes place at the end of its astral life, and give as it were the mould of an etheric double exactly suitable to its karma for the man s next birth; but it is the Devarajas who, having command of the "elements" of which that etheric double must be composed, arrange their proportion so as to fulfil accurately the intention of the Lipika.~~<blockquote>~~		<blockquote>The great karmic deities of the Kosmos (called in ''The Secret Doctrine'' the Lipika) weigh the deeds of each personality when the final separation of its principles takes place at the end of its astral life, and give as it were the mould of an etheric double exactly suitable to its karma for the man s next birth; but it is the Devarajas who, having command of the "elements" of which that etheric double must be composed, arrange their proportion so as to fulfil accurately the intention of the Lipika.<ref>Charles Webster Leadbeater, ''The Astral Plane'', (Adyar, Madras: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1987), 123.</ref></blockquote>
	<ref>Charles Webster Leadbeater, ''The Astral Plane'', (Adyar, Madras: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1987), ~~???~~.</ref></blockquote>

	Annie Besant explains that once the Maharajahs receive this "mould" of the [[etheric double]] they chose for its composition the elements suited to the qualities that are to be expressed through it, so that the etheric double becomes a fitting karmic instrument for the [[Ego#Higher Ego\|reincarnating Ego]]. The Maharajahs will then guide it to the appropriate country, race, family, and social surroundings for the working out of the karma allotted to the particular life-spam in question. This constitutes what the Hindu calls the ''[[prarabdha karma]]''; i.e., the one that is to be worked out through the present incarnation.<ref>Annie Besant, ''Karma'' (Adyar, Madras: Theosophical Publishing House, 1975) 48-49.</ref>		Annie Besant explains that once the Maharajahs receive this "mould" of the [[etheric double]] they chose for its composition the elements suited to the qualities that are to be expressed through it, so that the etheric double becomes a fitting karmic instrument for the [[Ego#Higher Ego\|reincarnating Ego]]. The Maharajahs will then guide it to the appropriate country, race, family, and social surroundings for the working out of the karma allotted to the particular life-spam in question. This constitutes what the Hindu calls the ''[[prarabdha karma]]''; i.e., the one that is to be worked out through the present incarnation.<ref>Annie Besant, ''Karma'' (Adyar, Madras: Theosophical Publishing House, 1975) 48-49.</ref>

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	<blockquote>They are the protectors of mankind and also the Agents of Karma on Earth, whereas the Lipika are concerned with Humanity’s hereafter.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 126.</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>They are the protectors of mankind and also the Agents of Karma on Earth, whereas the Lipika are concerned with Humanity’s hereafter.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 126.</ref></blockquote>

	=== ~~Annie~~ Besant~~'s interpretation~~ ===		=== According to Besant and Leadbeater ===

	According to [[Annie Besant]] the Lipikas and the Maharajas are different. ~~For~~ the ~~process~~ of ~~incarnation~~, the ~~former only give~~ "the mould" of the [[etheric double]] ~~to the four Maharajahs, and then~~ they chose for its composition the elements suited to the qualities that are to be expressed through it, so that the etheric double becomes a fitting karmic instrument for the [[Ego#Higher Ego\|reincarnating Ego]]. The Maharajahs will then guide it to the appropriate country, race, family, and social surroundings for the working out of the karma allotted to the particular life-spam in question. This constitutes what the Hindu calls the ''[[prarabdha karma]]''; i.e., the one that is to be worked out through the present incarnation.<ref>Annie Besant, ''Karma'' (Adyar, Madras: Theosophical Publishing House, 1975) 48-49.</ref>		According to [[Annie Besant]] and [[C. W. Leadbeater]] the Lipikas and the Maharajas (or Devarajas) are different.

			<blockquote>The great karmic deities of the Kosmos (called in ''The Secret Doctrine'' the Lipika) weigh the deeds of each personality when the final separation of its principles takes place at the end of its astral life, and give as it were the mould of an etheric double exactly suitable to its karma for the man s next birth; but it is the Devarajas who, having command of the "elements" of which that etheric double must be composed, arrange their proportion so as to fulfil accurately the intention of the Lipika.<blockquote>
			<ref>Charles Webster Leadbeater, ''The Astral Plane'', (Adyar, Madras: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1987), ???.</ref></blockquote>

			Annie Besant explains that once the Maharajahs receive this "mould" of the [[etheric double]] they chose for its composition the elements suited to the qualities that are to be expressed through it, so that the etheric double becomes a fitting karmic instrument for the [[Ego#Higher Ego\|reincarnating Ego]]. The Maharajahs will then guide it to the appropriate country, race, family, and social surroundings for the working out of the karma allotted to the particular life-spam in question. This constitutes what the Hindu calls the ''[[prarabdha karma]]''; i.e., the one that is to be worked out through the present incarnation.<ref>Annie Besant, ''Karma'' (Adyar, Madras: Theosophical Publishing House, 1975) 48-49.</ref>

	== Lipikas and Astrology ==		== Lipikas and Astrology ==

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	<blockquote>The Lipika . . . are the Spirits of the Universe, whereas the Builders are only our own planetary deities. The former 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 triple 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 incline rather to the latter supposition. Of its highest grade one thing only is taught: the Lipika are connected with Karma—being its direct Recorders.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 128.</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>The Lipika . . . are the Spirits of the Universe, whereas the Builders are only our own planetary deities. The former 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 triple 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 incline rather to the latter supposition. Of its highest grade one thing only is taught: the Lipika are connected with Karma—being its direct Recorders.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 128.</ref></blockquote>

	~~They make~~ the ~~plan for the development of~~ the ~~cosmos accessible to~~ the ~~builders~~:		In a passage of the [[The Secret Doctrine (book)\|''The Secret Doctrine'']] Mme. Blavatsky describes them in a way that resembles the [[Primordial Seven]] who are the [[Seven Rays]]:

	<blockquote>As it is the Lipika who project into objectivity from the passive Universal Mind the ideal plan of the universe, upon which the “Builders” reconstruct the Kosmos after every Pralaya, it is they who stand parallel to the Seven Angels of the Presence, whom the Christians recognise in the Seven “Planetary Spirits” or the “Spirits of the Stars;” for thus it is they who are the direct amanuenses of the Eternal Ideation—or, as called by Plato, the “Divine Thought.”<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 103-104.</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>As it is the Lipika who project into objectivity from the passive Universal Mind the ideal plan of the universe, upon which the “Builders” reconstruct the Kosmos after every Pralaya, it is they who stand parallel to the Seven Angels of the Presence, whom the Christians recognise in the Seven “Planetary Spirits” or the “Spirits of the Stars;” for thus it is they who are the direct amanuenses of the Eternal Ideation—or, as called by Plato, the “Divine Thought.”<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 103-104.</ref></blockquote>

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	<blockquote>The Lipika are on the plane corresponding to the highest plane of our chain of globes.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Collected Writings'' vol. X (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1988), 406.</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>The Lipika are on the plane corresponding to the highest plane of our chain of globes.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Collected Writings'' vol. X (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1988), 406.</ref></blockquote>

	== ~~Lipikas and~~ Maharajas ==		== The four Maharajas ==

	The four Maharajas are the rulers of the cardinal points, and are also connected to [[karma]]:		The four Maharajas are the rulers of the cardinal points, and are also connected to [[karma]]:

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	== General description ==		== General description ==

	The Lipika are a hierarchy ~~present on different planes,~~ connected with the "recording" of [[karma]]. Mme. Blavatsky wrote:		The Lipika are a hierarchy connected with the "recording" of [[karma]]. Mme. Blavatsky wrote:

	<blockquote>The Lipi-ka, from the word lipi, “writing,” means literally the		<blockquote>The Lipi-ka, from the word lipi, “writing,” means literally the
	“Scribes.” Mystically, these Divine Beings are connected with Karma, the Law of Retribution, for they are the Recorders or Annalists who impress on the (to us) invisible tablets of the Astral Light, “the great picture-gallery of eternity”—a faithful record of every act, and even thought, of man, of all that was, is, or ever will be, in the phenomenal Universe. As said in “Isis,” this divine and unseen canvas is the BOOK OF LIFE.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 103-104.</ref></blockquote>		“Scribes.” Mystically, these Divine Beings are connected with Karma, the Law of Retribution, for they are the Recorders or Annalists who impress on the (to us) invisible tablets of the Astral Light, “the great picture-gallery of eternity”—a faithful record of every act, and even thought, of man, of all that was, is, or ever will be, in the phenomenal Universe. As said in “Isis,” this divine and unseen canvas is the BOOK OF LIFE.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 103-104.</ref></blockquote>

			As with all the hierarchies, there are different "degrees" of lipikas in the highest, intermediate, and lower worlds:

	<blockquote>The Lipika . . . are the Spirits of the Universe, whereas the Builders are only our own planetary deities. The former 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 triple 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 incline rather to the latter supposition. Of its highest grade one thing only is taught: the Lipika are connected with Karma—being its direct Recorders.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 128.</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>The Lipika . . . are the Spirits of the Universe, whereas the Builders are only our own planetary deities. The former 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 triple 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 incline rather to the latter supposition. Of its highest grade one thing only is taught: the Lipika are connected with Karma—being its direct Recorders.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 128.</ref></blockquote>

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	~~(In construction)~~		'''Lipika''' (devanāgarī: लिपिक) is a [[Sanskrit]] word that means "scribe". In [[Hinduism\|Hindu]] thought the lipikas (also referred to as the four Maharājas) are gods that regulate Karma. [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky\|Mme. Blavatsky]] defined them as follows:

	'''Lipika''' (devanāgarī: लिपिक) is a [[Sanskrit]] word that means "scribe". In [[Hinduism\|Hindu]] thought the lipikas (also referred to as the four Maharājas) are gods that regulate Karma.

	[[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky\|Mme. Blavatsky]] defined them as follows:

	<blockquote>Lipikas (Sk.). The celestial recorders, the “Scribes”, those who record every word and deed, said or done by man while on this earth. As Occultism teaches, they are the agents of KARMA-the retributive Law.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Theosophical Glossary'' (Krotona, CA: Theosophical Publishing House, 1973), 190.</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>Lipikas (Sk.). The celestial recorders, the “Scribes”, those who record every word and deed, said or done by man while on this earth. As Occultism teaches, they are the agents of KARMA-the retributive Law.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Theosophical Glossary'' (Krotona, CA: Theosophical Publishing House, 1973), 190.</ref></blockquote>

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	<blockquote>As it is the Lipika who project into objectivity from the passive Universal Mind the ideal plan of the universe, upon which the “Builders” reconstruct the Kosmos after every Pralaya, it is they who stand parallel to the Seven Angels of the Presence, whom the Christians recognise in the Seven “Planetary Spirits” or the “Spirits of the Stars;” for thus it is they who are the direct amanuenses of the Eternal Ideation—or, as called by Plato, the “Divine Thought.”<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 103-104.</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>As it is the Lipika who project into objectivity from the passive Universal Mind the ideal plan of the universe, upon which the “Builders” reconstruct the Kosmos after every Pralaya, it is they who stand parallel to the Seven Angels of the Presence, whom the Christians recognise in the Seven “Planetary Spirits” or the “Spirits of the Stars;” for thus it is they who are the direct amanuenses of the Eternal Ideation—or, as called by Plato, the “Divine Thought.”<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 103-104.</ref></blockquote>

			The Lipika "make an impassible barrier between the personal EGO and the impersonal SELF. . . . They circumscribe the manifested world of matter within the [[Ring Pass-Not\|RING “Pass-Not.”]]<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 129.</ref></blockquote>

	They are also connected to the close of the [[maha-manvantara]]:		They are also connected to the close of the [[maha-manvantara]]:
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	<blockquote>The Lipika proceed from Mahat and are called in the Kabala the four Recording Angels; in India, the four Maharajas, those who record every thought and deed of man; they are called by St. John in the Revelation, the Book of Life. They are directly connected with Karma and what the Christians call the Day of Judgment; in the East it was called the Day after Mahamanvantara, or the “Day-Be-With-Us.”<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Collected Writings'' vol. X (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1988), 405.</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>The Lipika proceed from Mahat and are called in the Kabala the four Recording Angels; in India, the four Maharajas, those who record every thought and deed of man; they are called by St. John in the Revelation, the Book of Life. They are directly connected with Karma and what the Christians call the Day of Judgment; in the East it was called the Day after Mahamanvantara, or the “Day-Be-With-Us.”<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Collected Writings'' vol. X (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1988), 405.</ref></blockquote>

	~~== The Second Seven ==~~		[[Stanzas of Dzyan#Stanza IV\|Stanza IV.6]] call the Lipikas "the second seven", that is, the hierarchy that emanates after the [[primordial seven]]:

	~~The~~ [[Stanzas of Dzyan]] call the Lipikas "the second seven", that is, the hierarchy that emanates after the [[primordial seven]]:

	<blockquote>Then the Second Seven, who are the Lipika, produced by the three (Word, Voice, and Spirit).<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 103.</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>Then the Second Seven, who are the Lipika, produced by the three (Word, Voice, and Spirit).<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 103.</ref></blockquote>
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	<blockquote>The Lipika are on the plane corresponding to the highest plane of our chain of globes.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Collected Writings'' vol. X (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1988), 406.</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>The Lipika are on the plane corresponding to the highest plane of our chain of globes.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Collected Writings'' vol. X (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1988), 406.</ref></blockquote>

	~~== The Ring Pass-Not ==~~



	== Lipikas and Maharajas ==		== Lipikas and Maharajas ==

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	The Lipika are a hierarchy present on different planes, connected with the "recording" of [[karma]]. Mme. Blavatsky wrote:		The Lipika are a hierarchy present on different planes, connected with the "recording" of [[karma]]. Mme. Blavatsky wrote:

	<blockquote>The Lipika . . . 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 triple 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 incline rather to the latter supposition. Of its highest grade one thing only is taught: the Lipika are connected with Karma—being its direct Recorders.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 128.</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>The Lipi-ka, from the word lipi, “writing,” means literally the
			“Scribes.” Mystically, these Divine Beings are connected with Karma, the Law of Retribution, for they are the Recorders or Annalists who impress on the (to us) invisible tablets of the Astral Light, “the great picture-gallery of eternity”—a faithful record of every act, and even thought, of man, of all that was, is, or ever will be, in the phenomenal Universe. As said in “Isis,” this divine and unseen canvas is the BOOK OF LIFE.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 103-104.</ref></blockquote>

			<blockquote>The Lipika . . . are the Spirits of the Universe, whereas the Builders are only our own planetary deities. The former 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 triple 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 incline rather to the latter supposition. Of its highest grade one thing only is taught: the Lipika are connected with Karma—being its direct Recorders.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 128.</ref></blockquote>

			They make the plan for the development of the cosmos accessible to the builders:

			<blockquote>As it is the Lipika who project into objectivity from the passive Universal Mind the ideal plan of the universe, upon which the “Builders” reconstruct the Kosmos after every Pralaya, it is they who stand parallel to the Seven Angels of the Presence, whom the Christians recognise in the Seven “Planetary Spirits” or the “Spirits of the Stars;” for thus it is they who are the direct amanuenses of the Eternal Ideation—or, as called by Plato, the “Divine Thought.”<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 103-104.</ref></blockquote>

	They are also connected to the close of the [[maha-manvantara]]:		They are also connected to the close of the [[maha-manvantara]]:
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	== The Second Seven ==		== The Second Seven ==

	~~<blockquote>THEN THE SECOND SEVEN, WHO ARE THE LIPIKA, PRODUCED BY THE THREE (Word, Voice, and Spirit).<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''~~The ~~Secret Doctrine'' vol. I~~, ~~(Wheaton~~, IL: ~~Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 103.</ref></blockquote>~~		The [[Stanzas of Dzyan]] call the Lipikas "the second seven", that is, the hierarchy that emanates after the [[primordial seven]]:

	<blockquote>~~The Lipi-ka, from~~ the ~~word lipi~~, ~~“writing,” means literally the~~		<blockquote>Then the Second Seven, who are the Lipika, produced by the three (Word, Voice, and Spirit).<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 103.</ref></blockquote>
	~~“Scribes.”* (* These~~ are the ~~four “Immortals” which are mentioned in Atharva Veda as the “Watchers” or Guardians of the four quarters of the sky) Mystically~~, ~~these Divine Beings are connected with Karma, the Law of Retribution, for they are the Recorders or Annalists who impress on~~ the (~~to us) invisible tablets of the Astral Light~~, ~~“the great picture-gallery of eternity”—a faithful record of every act~~, and even thought, of man, of all that was, is, or ever will be, in the phenomenal Universe. As said in “Isis,” this divine and unseen canvas is the BOOK OF LIFE. As it is the Lipika who project into objectivity from the passive Universal Mind the ideal plan of the universe, upon which the “Builders” reconstruct the Kosmos after every Pralaya, it is they who stand parallel to the Seven Angels of the Presence, whom the Christians recognise in the Seven “Planetary Spirits” or the “Spirits of the Stars;” for thus it is they who are the direct amanuenses of the Eternal Ideation—or, as called by Plato, the “Divine Thought.”<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 103~~-104~~.</ref></blockquote>
			The primordial seven being on the highest manifested plane (frequently referred to as the third), the lipika appear on the fourth plane, the highest of our [[Planetary Chain]]:

	<blockquote>~~Q. What relation have the Lipika to Mahat?~~		<blockquote>The Lipika are on the plane corresponding to the highest plane of our chain of globes.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Collected Writings'' vol. X (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1988), 406.</ref></blockquote>
	~~<br>~~
	~~A. They are a division, four taken from one of the Septenates that emanates from Mahat. Mahat corresponds with the Fire of Simon Magus, the secret and~~
	the manifested Divine Ideation, made to witness to itself in this objective Universe through the intelligent forms we see around us, in what is called creation. Like all other emanations, they are “Wheels within Wheels.” The Lipika are on the plane corresponding to the highest plane of our chain of globes.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Collected Writings'' vol. X (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1988), 406.</ref></blockquote>

	== The Ring Pass-Not ==		== The Ring Pass-Not ==