Theosophical astral cosmology
Guardian Angels
Leadbeater proposes that sustained loving thoughts can form a protective elemental around another person. A mother’s concern supplies his central example of a guardian maintained through affection. He does not attribute every guardian account to that mechanism: some are explained as help from living or departed people, and occasional others as devas. The term therefore describes a function rather than one class of being.
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Principal account
ReportedLeadbeater proposes that sustained loving thoughts can form a protective elemental around another person. A mother’s concern supplies his central example of a guardian maintained through affection.
Further detail
ReportedHe does not attribute every guardian account to that mechanism: some are explained as help from living or departed people, and occasional others as devas. The term therefore describes a function rather than one class of being.
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
and prayers have formed themselves into an angel guardian for the child, and except in the almost impossible case that the child had in him noOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Theosophical astral cosmology; active reader leaf 93
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- Edition
- IMJ-0005-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0005-E001-P0093
- Original scan leaf
- 96
- Recorded leaf number
- 96
- Current Reader position
- 89
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Source 2
The Astral Plane
All the stories of the intervention of guardian angelsOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Theosophical astral cosmology; active reader leaf 94
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0005-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0005-E001-P0094
- Original scan leaf
- 97
- Recorded leaf number
- 97
- Current Reader position
- 90
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader