Functions of the Gods. 61 



God." The Zoroastrian tells us of the seven 

 Ameshaspendas who rule the world. The Chaldean 

 spoke of the seven great Gods. Five only are 

 working and two are concealed, for the universe is 

 in process of evolution and only five stages of it 

 have been reached. Therefore only with regard to 

 five can we definitely speak as to working. The 

 two concealed are beyond our knowing ; they are 

 related to future stages of the evolution of the 

 Kosmos. But the five we will now consider. Their 

 names in connection with their functions you know 

 well enough. They are connected with the tattvas 

 of which we were speaking yesterday the Lord of 

 A'kasha, Indra ; the Lord of Air, Vayu ; the Lord of 

 Fire, Agni; the Lord of Water, Varuna; the 

 Lord of Earth, sometimes called Kshiti (vari- 

 ous names are used for him) ; each of these 

 great Gods has what we may call one region 

 marked out for his working. The matter of that 

 region is the matter in which he works ; but in addi- 

 tion to that, each one is represented in the realms of 

 the others by a sub-division on which his impres- 

 sion is especially made. These are the great kosmic 

 planes that I have spoken of, marked off from 

 each other by the tattvas. But if we come down to 

 the physical plane, dealing only with Prithivi Tattva, 

 we shall then find that that is also seven-fold in di- 



