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They are often spoken of as the Regents of the Earth, or Angels of the fourcardinal points, and the Hindu books call them the Chatur Maharajas, giving their names as Dhritarashtra, Virudhaka, Virupaksha, and Vaishravana. In the same books their elemental hosts are called Gandharvas, Kumbhandas, Nagas, and Yakshas, respectively, the poijits of the compass appropriated to each being in corresponding order east, south, west, and nbrtlt, and their symbolical colours, white, blue, red, and gold. They are mentioned in The Secret Doctrine as"winged globes and fiery wheels ” ; and in the Christian bible Ezekiel makes a very remarkable attempt at a description of them in' which very similar words are used. References to them are to be found in the symbology of every religion, and they have always been held in the highest reverence as the protectors of mankind.
It is they who are the agents of man’s kkrma during his life on earth, and they thus play an extremely important part in human destiny. 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 astfal-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,