Theosophical astral cosmology
Four Devarajas
The four Devarajas govern earth, water, air, and fire in Leadbeater’s account. He explicitly separates this office from rule over the deva kingdom. He associates them with the cardinal points and assigns their elemental administration a role in karma and the preparation of the etheric double. Religious names and symbols are gathered into this comparative framework.
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Principal account
ReportedThe four Devarajas govern earth, water, air, and fire in Leadbeater’s account. He explicitly separates this office from rule over the deva kingdom.
Further detail
ReportedHe associates them with the cardinal points and assigns their elemental administration a role in karma and the preparation of the etheric double. Religious names and symbols are gathered into this comparative framework.
Context & interpretation
Leadbeater presents a Theosophical classification based on claimed occult investigation. Its planes, beings, and mechanisms belong to that historical esoteric system; the book’s assurance of reality is an authorial claim rather than independent scientific verification.
Original passages
Source 1
The Astral Plane
mention those wonderful and important beings, the four Devarajas. In this name the word deva must not, how ever, be taken in theOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Theosophical astral cosmology; active reader leaf 86
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- IMJ-0005-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0005-E001-P0086
- Original scan leaf
- 89
- Recorded leaf number
- 89
- Current Reader position
- 82
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- Matches the reviewed Reader
Source 2
The Astral Plane
are often spoken of as the Regents of the Earth, or Angels of the four cardinal points, and the Hindu books call them theOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Theosophical astral cosmology; active reader leaf 87
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0005-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0005-E001-P0087
- Original scan leaf
- 90
- Recorded leaf number
- 90
- Current Reader position
- 83
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader