The Guardian proclaims his significance somewhat in the following words: ‘Hitherto, Powers invisible to thyself, watched over thee. They saw to it, that in the course of thy life, each one of thy good actions brought its reward, and each one of thine evil actions was attended by its evil results. Thanks to their influence, thy character formed itself out of thy life’s experiences and thy thoughts. They were the instruments of thy fate. They ordained the measure of joy and pain allotted to thee in thine incarnations, according to thy conduct in lives gone by. They ruled over thee as the all-embracing law of Karma. These Powers will now partly release thee from their constraining influence; and it now devolves on thee to accomplish for thyself a part of the work which they have hitherto performed on thy behalf. Fate struck thee many a hard blow in the past. Thou didst not know the reason. Each was the consequence of a harmful action in a life gone by. Thou didst find joy and gladness, and thou didst take them as they came. They, too, were the fruits of earlier deeds. Thy character shows many a beautiful side, and many an ugly flaw. Thou hast thyself to thank for both, for they are the result of thy previous experiences and thoughts. These were, till now, unknown to thee, their effects alone being made manifest. They, however, the Karmic Powers, beheld all thy deeds in former lives, and all thy most secret thoughts and feelings, and determined accordingly thy present self and thy present mode of life. But now all the good and evil sides of thy bygone lives shall be revealed to thee. Till now, they were interwoven with thine own being; they were in thee and thou couldst not see them, even as thou canst not see with physical eyes thine own brain. But now they become released from thee; they detach themselves from thy personality. They assume an independent form which thou canst behold even as thou seest the stones and plants of the outer world. And … I am that very Being who shaped my body out of thy good and evil achievements. My spectral form is woven out of thine own life’s account book. Till now thou hast borne me invisibly within thyself, and it was well for thee that this should be; for the wisdom of thy destiny, though concealed from thee, could thus work within thee, so that the hideous stains upon my form should be blotted out. Now that I have come forth from within thee, that concealed wisdom, too, has departed from thee.