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Very definite and very efficient guardian angels have sometimes been supplied in this way, though it iv probably very rarely that karma permits such a decided interference in a person's life as that would be. 'in such a case, however, as that of a pupil of the Adepts, who might have in the course of his work fof them to run the risk of attack from forces with which his unaided strength would be entirely insufficient to cope, guardians of this description have been given, and have fully proved their sleepless vigilance and their tremendous power.
By some of the more advanced processes of black magic, also, artificial elementals of great power may be called into existence, and much evil has been worked in various ways by such entities. But it is true of them, as of the previous class, that if they are aimed at a person whom by reason of his purity of character they are unable to influence, they react with terrible force upon their creator; so that the mediaeval story of the magician being torn to pieces by the fiends he himself had raised is no t mere fable, but may well have an awful foundation in fact.